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Pearson Education Canada Presents Portable. Affordable. Readable. Canadian! Literature: A Pocket Anthology Fiction: A Pocket Anthology R.S. Gwynn/Wanda Campbell R.S. Gwynn/Wanda Campbell 0-321-17052-0, 1420 pages, $53.95 0-321-17051-2, 450 pages, $30.95 Available December 15, 2003 Available December 1, 2003 Poetry: A Pocket Anthology Drama: A Pocket Anthology R.S. Gwynn/Wanda Campbell R.S. Gwynn/Wanda Campbell 0-321-17053-9, 442 pages, $32.95 0-321-17050-4, 536 pages, $37.95 Available December 1, 2003 Available December 1, 2003 The following is a table of contents for Literature: A Pocket Anthology, Canadian Edition, by R.S. Gwynn and Wanda Campbell. The genre splits are made up of the same selections, and their respective “Writing About…” sections. Table of Contents Introduction to Literature Ernest Hemingway, Hills Alice Walker, Everyday Use Southern First Nations, Introduction to Fiction Like White Elephants Ama Ata Aidoo, The Traditional Orature, Fragment of a Song Introduction to Poetry Jorge Luis Borges, The Message Gospel According to Anonymous, Western Wind Introduction to Drama Thomas King, A Coyote Mark Columbus Story Anonymous, Sir Patrick Writing About Literature Sinclair Ross, The Painted Michel Tremblay, The Spens Door Thimble Sir Thomas Wyatt, They Fiction John Cheever, Reunion Flee From Me Nathaniel Hawthorne, M. NourbeSe Philip, Burn Birthmark Ralph Ellison, A Party Sugar Queen Elizabeth I, When I Down at the Square Was Fair and Young Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall Guy Vanderhaeghe, The of the House of Usher Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Jimi Hendrix Experience Edmund Spenser, Amoretti: Very Old Man With Rohinton Mistry, The Sonnet 75 Guy de Maupassant, Enormous Wings Walter Schnaffs’ Squatter William Shakespeare, Adventure Timothy Findley, Stones Lise Bissonnette, Dresses Sonnet 18 Kate Chopin, The Story of Chinua Achebe, Dead Amy Tan, Two Kinds William Shakespeare, Men’s Path Sonnet 30 an Hour Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Susan Frances Harrison, Alice Munro, Boys and William Shakespeare, Girls Louise Erdich, The Red Sonnet 73 The Idyl of the Island Convertible Anton Chekov, An Donald Bartheleme, The William Shakespeare, Glass Mountain Lorrie Moore, How to Sonnet 130 Upheaval Talk to Your Mother Stephen Leacock, The Carol Shields, Invention (Notes) John Donne, Flea, The Marine Excursion of the Alistair MacLeod, The Michael Winter, Archibald John Donne, Holy Sonnet Knights of Pythias Boat the Arctic 10 Willa Cather, Paul’s Case Joanna Russ, Mr. Wilde’s Lynn Coady, Big Dog Rage John Donne, Holy James Joyce, Eveline Second Chance Sonnet 14 Virginia Woolf, The Raymond Carver, Popular Poetry John Donne, A Valediction: Fascination of the Pool Mechanics Inuit Traditional Song, Forbidding Mourning Katherine Mansfield, Miss Margaret Atwood, Happy Magic Words/Aua to Mary Wroth, In this Brill Endings Lighten Heavy Loads Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn George Herbert, Easter Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pauline Johnson, The Idlers Dorothy Parker, Résumé Wings Ozymandias Archibald Lampman, The e.e. cummings, pity this John Milton, How Soon John Keats, La Belle Dame City of the End of Things busy monster,manunkind Hath Time sans Merci Duncan Campbell Scott, e.e. cummings, [l (a] John Milton, When I John Keats, Ode on a The Forsaken F.R. Scott, WLMK Consider How My Light Grecian Urn William Butler Yeats, Leda Is Spent A.J.M. Smith, The Lonely Susanna Moodie, Brian the and the Swan Land Anne Bradstreet, The Still Hunter William Butler Yeats, Author to Her Book Langston Hughes, Theme Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sailing to Byzantium for English B Richard Lovelace, To Sonnets from the William Butler Yeats, The Lucasta, Going to the Portuguese, 43 Earle Birney, El Greco: Second Coming Espolio Wars Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sophia Almon Hensley, Pablo Neruda, In Praise of Andrew Marvell, To His To George Sand: A Courage Coy Mistress Recognition Ironing Edwin Arlington Robinson, W.H. Auden, Musee des Margaret Cavendish, Edgar Allan Poe, The Richard Cory Nature’s Cook Raven Beaux Arts Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Theodore Roethke, My John Dryden, Epigram on Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen Wear the Mask Milton Papa’s Waltz Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Robert Frost, Design Aphra Behn, Love Armed Eagle AM. Klein, Portrait of the Robert Frost, Stopping by Poet as Landscape Anne Finch, Adam Posed Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Woods on a Snowy Ulysses Dorothy Livesay, The Jonathan Swift, A Evening Three Emilys Description of a City Robert Browning, My Last Katherine Hale, Nearing Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Shower Duchess Quebec Elizabeth Bishop, One Art Henry Kelsey, Now Reader Emily Bronte, Ah Why Emile Nelligan, Evening Read because the dazzling Bells Allen Curnow, Landfall in Alexander Pope, Essay on sun… Unknown Seas New Wallace Stevens, Anecdote Zealand Criticism, An (selection) Alexander McLachlan, We of the Jar Live in a Rickety House May Sarton, A Guest Thomas Gray, Elegy Wallace Stevens, Motive for Written in a Country Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Metaphor Irving Layton, The Fertile Churchyard Patient Spider Muck E.J. 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    THE STORY SO FAR: English Canadian fiction in the twenty-first century Gary Draper October 7: ENDURANCE Some of the best Canadian fiction of the twenty-first century has been produced by writers who made their names in the twentieth. ~Richard Wright. Clara Callan (2001) ~Alice Munro. Too Much Happiness (2009) ~Michael Ondaatje. Cat’s Table (2011) October 14: OTHER TIMES Historical fiction has many pleasures, from telling new things about past times to applying old templates to current issues. ~Guy Vanderhaghe. The Last Crossing (2002) ~Joseph Boyden. Three-Day Road (2006) ~Margaret Sweatman. The Players (2009) October 21: OTHER PLACES Unsurprisingly, in this nation of immigrants, much of the best writing in Canada is set far from our native shores. ~Lewis deSoto. A Blade of Grass (2004) ~Helen Humphreys. Coventry (2008) ~Alison Pick. Far To Go (2010) October 28: REGION Ours is a land—and a culture—of great diversity; much of our best writing has a strongly regional flavour. We’ll look at three from Newfoundland. ~Jessica Grant. Come Thou Tortoise (2009) ~Michael Crummey. Galore (2011) ~Lisa Moore. Caught (2013) November 4: VOICE One of the joys of reading fiction is the opportunity to hear a variety of voices, and hear voice put to a variety of uses. ~Yann Martel. The Life of Pi (2001) ~Lori Lansens. The Girls (2006) ~Anita Rau Badami. Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2007) November 11: FORM When we say the word “fiction,” we often mean “novel,” but the short story form has its own special pleasures. ~John Gould. Kilter (2003) ~Tamas Dobozy.