The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as it is in its landforms, yet what has come to stand for ‘Western’ writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. This authoritative anthology assembled poems, essays, stories, and excepts–by Ken Kesey, Raymond Carver, Larry McMurtry, Ivan Doig, and many others–which transcend the myth and explore the vast range of Wetsern experience..
Category: General
Complete Poems
Osip Mandelshtam
Studies in Classic American Literature
The Portable Renaissance Reader
The Portable Oscar Wilde
The Portable Stephen Crane
The Portable Medieval Reader
The Portable Milton
The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformations, he conceived his work as a form of prayer, written in the service of the supreme being..
The Portable Cervantes
Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam’s acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two’ Exemplary Novels, ‘ Rinconete and Cortadillo and Man of Glass; and’ Foot in the Stirrup, ‘ Cervante’s extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of Persiles and Sigismunda..