Anthologies

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20th Century American Short Stories Volume 1

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This is an anthology of stories which represent the cultural and ethnic diversity of twentieth century America. Most of the stories are fairly short (from 500 to 6,000 words) and range from the humorous to the deadly serious. They raise accessible questions of general interest: relations in the family and between the sexes, traditions that are being eroded, clashes of culture that are not always acknowledged by those who experience them.

Unabridged stories by a wide variety of American voices: Sandra Cisneros, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, James Thurber, William Saroyan, John Collier, Hisaye Yamamoto, Jesse Stuart, William Carlos Williams, Shirley Jackson, Pam Houston and Arthur C. Clarke.

·  Stories from the 1930s to the 1990s.

·  Pre-reading support: Introduction (presents the author in the context of his/her time) and glossary ("Uncommon Words or Meanings")

·  Post-reading support: Understanding the Story (questions requiring synthesis and analysis — encourage careful reading and introduce students to the use of literary terms), Developing a Way with Words (a closer look at stylistic aspects of the story) and Making Connections (a wide range of activities: discussion, creative suggestions, comparisons, writing etc.)

(158 pages) Level: C/1.g etc.

9780838448519

20th Century American Short Stories Volume 2

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This is an anthology of stories which represent the cultural and ethnic diversity of twentieth century America. Most of the stories are fairly short and range from the humorous to the deadly serious. They raise accessible questions of general interest: relations in the family and between the sexes, traditions that are being eroded, clashes of culture that are not always acknowledged by those who experience them. The stories in this volume are slightly longer and more complex in structure and vocabulary than the stories in Volume 1.

A further wide variety of American voices: Ernest Hemingway, Toshio Mori, John Updike, Leslie Marmon Silko, Danny Santiago, Judy Troy, Carson McCullers, Lucy Honig, W.D.Wetherell, Andrea Lee, Mark Steven Hess and Donald Hall.

·  Stories from the 1920s to the 1990s.

·  Pre-reading support: Introduction (presents the author in the context of his/her time) and glossary ("Uncommon Words or Meanings")

·  Post-reading support: Understanding the Story (questions requiring synthesis and analysis — encourage careful reading and introduce students to the use of literary terms), Developing a Way with Words (a closer look at stylistic aspects of the story) and Making Connections (a wide range of activities: discussion, creative suggestions, comparisons, writing etc.)

(204 pages) Level: B/2.g etc.

9780553277456

50 Great Short Stories

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50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection of the world’s finest short fiction. A great range of authors are represented: Hawthorne, Poe, H.G.Wells, Henry James, Conrad, Edith Wharton, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Steinbeck, Katherine Mansfield, Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Thomas Wolfe, Shirley Jackson, Saroyan, Frank O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have a quality which places them among the masterpieces of world fiction. Editor: Milton Crane. (571 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/Seminariet etc.

9781855682535

All Our Yesterdays

An Anthology of Childhood Memories

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This is a unique collection of childhood memories from across the decades. The selection ranges from medieval times to the present day, and from famous figures to moving reminiscences from ordinary people with a powerful tale to tell. It covers earliest memories of infancy and growing up, the powerful influence of family ties, first friends and first love, schooldays and holidays, first steps into the adult world — everything about those early years which shape who we are and what we became. Editor: Gervase Phinn (former teacher and school inspector). Hardback. (160 pages)

9780415360937

American Culture: An Anthology

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American Culture: An Anthology brings together primary texts from 1600 to the present day to provide a comprehensive introduction to American culture. The 130 texts are taken from sources such as political addresses, articles, interviews, oral histories, songs and advertisements. The documents throughout the volume are quite short, typically three or four pages and are organized into 13 sections. Each section is organized chronologically and begins with a 2-3 page introduction of relevant issues and debates. A highly recommended title! The book provides:

  • texts that introduce aspects of American society in an historical perspective
  • primary sources and images that can be used as the basis for illustration, analysis and discussion
  • linking texts which stress themes rather than offering a simple chronological survey.

    Contents: Introduction 1. American Indians 2. Immigration 3. African Americans 4. Women's Studies 5. Govermnent and Politics 6. Economy, Enterprise, Class 7. Geography, Regions and the Environment 8. Art, Film, Music and Popular Culture 9. Religion 10. Education 11. Language and the Media 12. Foreign Affairs 13. Ideology: Dominant Beliefs and Values

    The editors are experienced in the study and teaching of American Studies at Norwegian universities: Professor Anders Breidlid, Professor Fredrik Chr. Brøgger, Professor Oyvind T. Gulliksen and Professor Torbjorn Sirevag. (434 pages)

    Level:  A/A great resource for gymnasium English teachers/Linjefag and post-gymnnasium levels

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    American Ways

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    An Introduction to American Culture.
    New edition: Readings and facts, figures and events have been updated. The discussion of American Values has been completely re-written in the light of the challenges posed by September 11. Web-based activities have been added.
    A 296-page collection of original texts explaining American values, attitudes and cultural patterns. The book shows how religion, the frontier and a heritage of abundant resources helped shape American values, and how these values are reflected in business, government, race relations, education and the family today. Major emphasis on America’s multi-cultural diversity and new lifestyles. Each text is followed up by good activities to bring out cross-cultural comparisons and stimulate discussion, and exercises in vocabulary (especially standard academic vocabulary) — as well as a list of recommended films and internet activities for further study.
    Contents: Understanding the Culture of the United States — Traditional American Values and Beliefs — The American Religious heritage — The Frontier Heritage — The Heritage of Abundance — The World of American Business — Government and Politics in the USA — Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the United States — Education in the United States — How American Spend Their Leisure Time — The American Family — American Values at the Crossroads
    Level: A-B/Linjefag

    9780131924185

    American Ways – Teacher's Resource Manual

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    New edition. Includes:
  • A detailed discussion of what culture is and suggestions for opening cross-cultural dialogues in the classroom
  • Instructions on how to use the textbook exercises in the classroom
  • Expansion activities that go beyond the textbook
  • Over 50 photocopiable masters
  • Answer key
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    AQA Anthology

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    An imaginative anthology that contains:
  • 2 clusters of 8 poems from “Different Cultures”: by Grace Nichols, Edward Brathwaite, Chinua Achebe, Moniza Alvi and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
  • 4 sections with 8 poems by 4 poets: Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage.
  • A “Pre-1914” Poetry Bank: poems by Yeats, Blake, Hardy, Tennyson etc.
  • A section of short stories by Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath (“Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit”), Michèle Roberts, Joyce Cary, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Swift and Leslie Norris
    Level: B/A
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    AQA English GCSE Specification A: Teachers' Book

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    A really useful resource book to accompany the AQA anthology. Model answers, resources for differentiation, photocopiable materials etc.
    9781845963880

    Auld Reekie

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    Now in a cheaper paperback edition:
    Making a trip to Edinburgh? This wonderful collection of stories, articles, memoirs, letters, poems and tales about Edinburgh past and present will prove invaluable:
    For centuries Edinburgh, ‘the most beautiful city in Europe’ according to John Betjeman, has inspired affection and admiration from both natives and visitors alike. This absorbing anthology spans five hundred years of the city's history from the Battle of Flodden to the novels of lan Rankin, with famous names such as Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside less familiar ones such as the Chinese writer Chiang Yee. This book is a great tribute to a city now in the full flood of a social, political and cultural renaissance. Editor: Ralph Lownie. (335 pages)

    Contents: Introduction — First Impressions — Places — People — Visitors — Everyday Life In Adversity And Joy — Pillars of the City — A Final Tribute.

    9780547350639

    Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

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    A collection of the best and brightest writers on science and nature. The essays include Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science; Could Time End?; The Brain that Changed Everything ... and many more. Editor: Mary Roach. (384 pages)
    Level: HTX/2nd and 3rd Year of Gymnasium

    9780547242163

    Best American Short Stories 2011

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    This year’s collection is edited by the novelist Geraldine Brooks. (384 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium/HF etc.

    Contents include: Carol Oates: ID; George Saunders: Escape from Spiderland; Bret Anthony Johnston: Soldier of Fortune; Megan Mayhew Bergman: Housewifely Arts; Nathan Englander: Free Fruit for Young Widows; Rebecca Makai: Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart; Allegra Goodman: La Vita Nuova; Sam Lypsyte: The Dungeon Master; Stephen Millhauser: Phantoms etc.

    9780814796283

    Best of Times, Worst of Times

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    Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age

    Late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has been called The New Gilded Age, a phrase that embodies glitz and glamour but also suggests the greed, corruption, and inequalities just below the surface. Picking out both the bright and dark sides, Best of Times, Worst of Times, published in 2011, features short stories by such renowned writers as Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tobias Wolff, Charles Bukowski, Louise Erdrich and many others. Commenting on and making sense of what is going on in America today, fractured as it is by two wars, the aftermath of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, these stories speak to some of the most important issues confronting America today, from race relations, immigration, and social class to gender issues, Iraq, and imperialism. These powerful stories provide the perfect mirror with which to examine the real state of the US. Themes covered: All in the Family, Shifting Identities, Locations and Dislocations, Across Divides and Workdays and Nightshifts. Editors: Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi. (384 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium/HF etc.

    9780300154108

    Best Technology Writing 2009

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    A great collection of essays from print and online publications:

    Is Google Making Us Stupid?: Nicholas Carr worries about Google; Isle of Plenty: Robert McKie tells how Samsø has cut its carbon footprint; I ♥ Novels: Dana Goodyear chronicles the rise of the cellphone novel, Why I Blog: Andrew Sullivan explains the rewards of blogging; Rich Man's Burden: Dalton Conley laments the sprawling nature of work in the information age; Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus: Clay Shirky marvels at the 'cognitive surplus' unleashed by the decline of the TV sitcom ... and many others.

    This new generation of technology journalism is intensely focused on the present and deeply immersed in the fascinating complexity of digital life. Editor: Steven Johnson. (222 pages)
    Level: Gym. A/HTX

    9780300165586

    Best Technology Writing 2010

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    Another great collection of essays from print and online publications:

    This time there are 23 essays dealing with subjects such as the Internet, Facebook, pharmaceuticals, the publishing industry, handwriting, the environment, video games, and breastfeeding! It includes works previously published in Time, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and published on Wired.com, shirky.com and Twitter.

    Kevin Kelly’s essay, Technophilia, maintains that “technology does not want to remain utilitarian. It wants to become art, to be beautiful, and ‘useless’”. He points out that people are “eager to love technology” and it will be easier to love technology in the future because “machines will win our hearts with every step they take in evolution”.

    David Carr’s essay The Rise and Fall of Media suggests that the Internet is not (as so many claim) killing the publishing world as we know it. His point is that bright young things in the New York publishing industry — with access to unparalleled amounts of information and audience content from the social media — see themselves as pioneers of a fresh new wave of publishing.

    Clay Shirkey’s article Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, on the other hand, makes the point: “Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”

    Plugged In, Tad Friend's profile of electric-car developer Elon Musk's efforts to head off environmental catastrophe, is not the only essay that reveals how many aspects of human experience have not been transformed by digital technology.

    Editor: Julian Dibbell. (336 pages)
    Level: Gym. A/HTX

    0451527828

    Black Voices

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    Poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. A comprehensive collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. Work by: Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroi Jones, W.E.B. Du Bois and many others (720 pages)
    Level: (C)/B/A

    9781409117377

    Book Lovers' Appreciation Society

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    A very popular new collection of 35 stories written primarily (but not exclusively) for and by women:
    There are tales of love, friendship, passion and betrayal from some of the top names in fiction. A woman plans not only what she wants to wear to a school reunion, but who she wants to be ... A couple hope to start a new life in Spain but each of them completely misunderstands what the other one wants ... A girl whose brother falls in love with a beautiful male impersonator ... A woman haunted by ghosts from her past ... A newly divorced mother taking her teenage daughter to Crete for a holiday, longing to be young again, until she remembers how awful it is to be 17.
    There are stories by Maeve Binchy, Jane Fallon, Adriana Trigiani, Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Fine, Nicci French, Rosie Thomas, Joanna Trollope, Mark Mills, Kath Lette, Victoria Hislop, Wendy Holden and many others.
    Level: Gymnasiet

    1571316531

    California Coast – A Literary Field Guide

    “Stories from where we live”

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    From an unusual series of US regional anthologies. Aimed at elementary and middle-school students in America and focused on the natural history of coastal California, this anthology includes poetry, excerpts from biographies, and essays, as well as stories from contemporary and historical sources. Loosely organized by subject (Adventures, Great Places, Reapers and Sowers, and Wild Lives), the selections feature the animal and plant life, the climate, the landscape and the history and myths of the region. Readers learn of Wells Fargo stagecoach “whips”, surfers who brave the sharks in the Red Triangle, and the "Pigeon Express" that carried mail to the Channel Islands in the days before radio. They meet a band of gold miners and a Native American woman who survived alone on an island for eighteen years. Some of the pieces are gems. Appendixes include maps, a description of the climate, an outline of basic habitats, a brief register of animals and plants, a selective list of parks and preserves, a map indicating selections by region, and a short bibliography. (232 pages)
    Level: C/B/Linjefag

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    Charles Dickens Selection

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    18 extracts from his novels (The Poorhouse – Oliver Twist; Mr Wackford Squeers: Headmaster of Dotheboys Hall – Nicholas Nickleby etc.), a whole short sory and some of his non-fiction. Hardback (194 pages)
    Level: mostly B
    9780451532138

    Classic Slave Narratives

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    Four stories by people who survived Slavery in the Americas: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (a native African's tale of transportation across the Atlantic in a slave ship); The History of Mary Prince (the life of a slave woman on the Caribbean islands), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (born to a slave mother and a white father, describes his quest for literacy), and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (a look into the sexual pathology of slave-owning society). (672 pages)
    Level: (B)/A

    9781840220520

    Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

    *NEW IN DECEMBER 2011*

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    Poe was a prolific writer of journalism, poetry, short stories, criticism and an experimenter with fictional genres, including the detective novel which he virtually invented with the publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue. During his life his personal situation was desperate: poverty, illness, drink, physical decline and an untimely deathat the age of 40. He was a great influence on modern French literature, also on Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle and Jules Verne and many others. Here is a complete collection of his stories and poems. (800 pages)
    LeveL: Gymnasium etc.
    1853268976

    Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

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    Now in a larger format. Great for the money. You get Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, nonsense verse, puzzles etc. Pæn udgave med letlæselig typografi.

    9780486292823

    English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology

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    A selection of 123 poems by the six great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Editor: Stanley Appelbaum. (240 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

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    Essential Hemingway

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    A major one-volume Ernest Hemingway collection at a reasonable price: Fiesta, long extracts from A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell Tolls, twenty-five complete short stories and the Epilogue to Death in the Afternoon. (461 pages)

    9780521730853

    Exits and entrances (Cambridge Collections)

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    A varied collection of plays, television and film scripts. They are arranged in four themed sections: Identity, Turning points, Deception and Laughter. The collection includes extracts from Henry V, The Elephant Man, Blackadder, Doctor Who, A Raisin in the Sun, The Alchemist, The Wind in the Willows, The Alchemist and Fawlty Towers. Editor: John O'Connor. (288 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, including the beginning


    Actvities:     For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

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    9780521732420

    Exits and entrances CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    9780571230457

    Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2006-7

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    This collection features unpublished authors as well as established names — such as Joseph O'Connor, Sebastian Barry, John Banville and Mary Leland. It is both a celebration of the Irish short story which is deeply rooted in Ireland's literary heritage and a signpost into the future in the form of a new generation of Irish writers emerging in a modern globalised Ireland. 24 stories. Edited by the poet David Marcus. (312 pages)
    Level: A/B
    0571179010

    Faber Book of Science

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    An anthology that plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of accounts by scientists themselves – astronomers, physicists, biologists, chemists, psychologists – who talk about their moments of breakthrough: the discovery of the secret of malaria; the first electric-light bulb; the construction of the world's first atomic pile. The book shows how science has changed art: how Newton's "Optics" flooded 18th-century poetry with colour; how the vastness of geological time terrified Tennyson and the Victorians; and how modernist writers struggled to adapt to Einstein's relativity. The classic science-writers are included – Darwin, Huxley etc. So too are today's experts and representatives of the late-20th-century genre of popular-science writing. (528 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet/HTX/Projects/Library/Depot

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    Fields of Vision Volume 1

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    The first volume of this user-friendly anthology that introduces your students to the appreciation of English literature and literary genres through a balanced selection of authors and texts.
    The book begins with an Introduction to Literary Appreciation (What is Poetry? – What is Drama? – What is Fiction?) This introduces students to the terms and concepts of each genre.

    This volume covers the fiction and poetry from the following periods:
    From the Origins to the Middle Ages; The Renaissance (including Shakespeare); The Puritan, Restoration and Augustan Ages; The Romantic Age. It consists of extracts from novels and plays — stories and a major selection of poetry. The use of extracts makes it possible to give your pupils an unrivalled background insight into periods and genres that no other current anthology can provide — and which will stand them in good stead when studying longer works or taking part in cross-curricular activities. Illustrated throughout. Clear layout to help your pupils find their way around.

    • Introduction to the literature, ideas, and historical and social background of each period
    • Each text is accompanied by:
        An English glossary
        Questions for comprehension and analysis
        A “Writer's Gallery” (Life and Works)
        A “Writer's Workshop” that takes up points such as Plot, Allegory, Literal and Symbolic Meaning etc.
    • Lots of thematic links to works of art, musical lyrics and other cross-curricular material of the periods
    • Authors covered include: Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare (extracts from 4 plays + a selection of sonnets), Donne, Milton, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Scott, Poe etc. etc.

    Make sure that you have a look at this anthology. (278 pages/large format)
    Level: A/B OBS! Opfylder kravene til tekstperspektivering “i forhold til samfundsmæssige kulturelle, historiske [og litteraturhistoriske] sammenhænge” samt kendskab til “væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie” og “tekstanalytiske begreber”.

    (Handling charge: kr. 8,00 because of the weight of this book — reduceres ved større bestillinger.)

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    Fields of Vision Volume 2

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    This user-friendly anthology introduces your students to the appreciation of English literature and literary genres through a balanced selection of authors and texts. It covers the fiction and poetry of: The Victorian Age; Early Twentieth Century & Modernism; The Contemporary Age. The fiction in this anthology, is mostly extracts from novels and plays, but this technique makes it possible to give your pupils an unrivalled background insight into periods and genres that no other current anthology can provide — and which will stand them in good stead when studying longer works or taking part in cross-curricular activities. Illustrated throughout. Clear layout to help your pupils find their way around.

    • Introduction to the literature, ideas,  and historical and social background of each period
    • Each text is accompanied by:
        An English glossary
        Questions for comprehension and analysis
        A “Writer's Gallery” (Life and Works)
        A “Writer's Workshop” that takes up points such as Plot, Allegory, Literal and Symbolic Meaning etc.
    • Lots of thematic links to works of art, musical lyrics and other cross-curricular material of the periods
    • Authors covered include: Dickens, the Brontes, Stevenson, Wilde, Twain, Tennyson, Browning, E. Dickinson, Wells, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Orwell, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Frost, Miller, Greene, Ian McEwan, Roddy Doyle, Toni Morrison, Gordimer, Lessing, Ondaatje, Atwood, Rushdie, Larkin, Heaney, Plath, Pinter, Bennet etc.

    Warmly recommended. (278 pages/large format)
    Level: A/B OBS!! Opfylder kravene til tekstperspektivering “i forhold til samfundsmæssige kulturelle, historiske [og litteraturhistoriske] sammenhænge” samt kendskab til “væsentlige strømninger i britisk og amerikansk litteraturhistorie”.

    (Handling charge: kr. 8,00 because of the weight of this book — reduceres ved større bestillinger.)

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    Fields of Vision Teacher's Book

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    Filmography. Literature Resources on the Internet. Answer Key. Seen and Unseen Text Analyses ... and much more.

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    Fields of Vision Audio (MP3)

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    The Fields of Vision audio files are now available in MP3 format. They are FREE! Put this item in your shopping basket and send it to us. We will mail you a link to a download page where you can download the files. Once you have the files you can distribute them to your students for use on their computers, iPods etc.

    9780143102441

    FIRST PROOF: Penguin Book of New Writing from India 3

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    A great selection of new Indian poetry, fiction and non-fiction and an extract from a graphic novel. Contributions from relatively new authors as well as established names. Contributors to this volume include Sankar Sridhar, Neel Kamal Puri, Kishore Valicha, Nirupama Dutt, Ashok Malik, Jahnavi Barua, Shakti Bhatt, Parismita Singh, Avijit Ghosh and Temsula Ao. (248 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

    9780393328028

    Flash Fiction Forward — 80 very short stories

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    This is a follow-up to the first “Flash Fiction” anthology of over a decade ago that made “flash” part of the vocabulary of modern literature. In this collection, the editors again tackle the problem: How short can a story be and still truly be a story? The editors have put together an anthology of many memorable and moving American flash stories from the last decade. There are stories from some of the best and most popular fiction writers of our time, including Ron Carlson, Robert Coover, Dave Eggers, Amy Hempel, A. M. Homes, Rick Moody, Grace Paley, John Updike and Paul Theroux. There are stories about loss, death, loneliness, desire, power and much more; there is serious realism and outlandish surrelaism. Major themes are compressed into 750 words — often with great poetic impact. Editors: James Thomas and Robert Shapard (237 pages)
    Level: C-A

    9781406318302

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    Stories Celebrating Human Rights

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    To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International have created a short-story collection for young adults, celebrating what it means to be free. Hosting a variety of talented children's authors from all around the globe, the anthology embraces such themes as asylum, law, education and faith. (300 pages)
    Level: C/D/9.-10.kl./1.g/1.HF etc.

    Authors include: David Almond, Ibtisam Barakat, Malorie Blackman, Theresa Breslin, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Ursula Dubosarsky, Jamila Gavin, Patricia McCormick, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Sarah Mussi, Meja Mwangi and Rita Williams-Garcia.

    9780141034119

    From There to Here

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    Sixteeen true tales of immigration to Britain:
     In February 2007 people from many different backgrounds were asked to send in their true personal accounts of immigration to Britain. The range of entries was overwhelming. Six judges — including Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty and the novelist Kate Mosse — selected the most illuminating and powerful entries which are now published in this book. In these pages you'll discover sixteen very different voices and points of view. Each account shows a new side to the most complicated journey of all: finding a place to call home. The sixteen writers from sixteen countries are refugees, economic migrants and second-generation Brits. The stories tell of narrow escapes from repressive regimes, the search for a better life in the developed world, the connections and fissures between cultures, and the strain that migration can place on communities, families and the dignity of the individual. (249 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium
    9780143114734

    Gods and Soldiers

    The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

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    Gods and Soldiers captures the remarkable renaissance in African writing today:

    With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. It features recent short stories, novel extracts and some nonfiction by 30 authors. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of new African writing. Each piece finds a human story to illuminate the continent's history of plight and promise, for instance Helon Habila's breathtaking tale of a political prisoner forced to write poems for the prison superintendent's girlfriend ... or a scene from Ngugi wa Thong'o's novel Wizard of the Crow depicting an Orwellian celebration for an unnamed ruler. Editor: Rob Spillman. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. (336 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

    9780857382467

    Great Modern Poets (w. CD)

    “An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry since 1900”

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    New cheaper edition, now with audio CD:

    The Great Modern Poets is a great introduction to the twentieth and twenty-first century poets of the English-speaking world and their best poetry. The work of each poet is accompanied by a concise text that provides thematic insight, critical observations, and a biographical/historical context for their work. A beautifully produced, large-format hardback with excellent typography. A resource for the teacher — and a source of inspiration that invites readers to dip into it and reacquaint themselves with the work of our finest poets. Glossary of poetry terms. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Hardback. Editor: Michael Schmidt

    Level: Gymnasiet/Library/Depot

    1571316450

    Great North American Prairie – A Literary Field Guide

     “Stories from where we live”

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    From an unusual series of US regional anthologies. Aimed at elementary and middle-school students in America, the stories, poems, journal entries, and essays in this anthology reflect life on the prairies of the U.S and Canada and the natural heritage of the prairies themselves. The selections, both historical and contemporary, are a mixture of fiction and information, and reflect the ethnic diversity of the inhabitants. This book includes songs and narratives of Plains Indians, tales of 19th-century settlers, and contemporary stories and poems. There are familiar authors such as Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, and Louise Erdich, as well as lesser-known writers. Appendixes include maps of the region, a detailed discussion of various kinds of prairies, listings of flora and fauna, an index sorted by state or province, listings of parks and preserves, and bibliographies. (262 pages)
    Level: C/B/Linjefag

    9780486287768

    Great Short Stories by American Women

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    A collection of 13 classic stories which includes Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat, The Storm by Kate Chopin, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton’s The Angel at the Grave, and many others. Editor: Candace Ward. (192 pages)
    Level: 2nd/3rd Year of Gymnasium

    0451527445

    Haves and Have-Nots

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    30 stories about money and class in America. What happens: when the Have-nots pursue the American Dream? - when the rich meet the poor? - when people get so mired in poverty that the American Dream is meaningless? Stories by: Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Raymond Carver, Jack London, Alice Walker, John Cheever, Katherine Anne Porter etc. (480 pages)
    Level: (C)/B/A

    9780571215652

    Here to Eternity

    An Anthology of Poetry

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    This could be the only poetry anthology you need for your teaching! Poet Laureate Andrew Motion brings together a wide range of poems, exemplifying his belief that, if we let it, poetry has a unique power to enrich our lives as it diversifies them. The poems are arranged in a series of ten themes: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each section is distinct but seeks out resemblances and echoes elsewhere. From Wallace Stevens to Stevie Smith, Joseph Brodsky, to Jo Shapcott, Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, Ben Jonson to Benjamin Zephaniah, this anthology provides the perfect introduction for new students of English poetry and offers surprising connections and revelations to more experienced readers. Editor: Andrew Motion. (432 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium etc.

    9781844677443

    I'm With the Bears

    Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

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    The magnitude of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to mankind's unwitting creation of a tough new planet. From T.C.Boyle's account of early eco-activists, to David Mitchell's vision of a near future where civilization dwindles as oil sells for $800 a barrel — these stories blend speculative and literary fiction and range across time. The aim is to make the danger posed by climate change as accessible to the imagination as subjects more common to the best of contemporary fiction. Other authors include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Lydia Millet. Royalties from I'm With the Bears will go to 350.org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Editor: Mark Martin. (200 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium etc.

    9780521703239

    Ideas, insights and arguments (Cambridge Collections)

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    A non-fiction collection:
    This anthology is collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative — they can also be entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: The world around us; The world of work; Science; Parents and children; and Human rights and wrongs. The collection includes texts by Fergal Keane, Brian Keenan, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Libby Purves, Lynne Truss and many others. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Editor: Michael Marland. (246 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning
    9780521703246

    Ideas, insights and arguments CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents:     a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides good insights into a range of non-fiction texts. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    9780521703192

    In the mix (Cambridge Collections)

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    A collection of writing from around the world:
    This anthology is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from a host of countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan and Rwanda. The texts can be inspirational, thought-provoking and shocking, and help us understand who we are and where we come from in today's global community. There are four themed sections: People and relationships; Violence, war and death; Personal freedom and Cultural traditions. There are texts by Simon Armitage, Zlata Filipovi , Nadine Gordimer, Roger McGough, Beverley Naidoo, Grace Nichols and many others. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Editor: Esther Menon. (237 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning
    9780521703208

    In the mix CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents:     a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM reflects and celebrates the way in which stories from other cultures can enrich our lives. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    9780199549825

    Irish Writing

    An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939

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    This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. It covers 150 years, from the writings of Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to those of Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Louis MacNeice, and it shows how these writings continually challenge and renew the ways in which Ireland is imagined and defined. The anthology includes a wide-ranging selection of fiction, poetry, and drama. Three plays by W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge are printed in their entirety, along with the opening episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The volume also includes letters, speeches, songs, memoirs, essays, and travel writings, many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere. Editor: Stephen Regan. (624 pages) Level: Gymnasiet / Library / Depot
    • Features essays, speeches, and memoirs as well as fiction, poems, plays, and stories.
    • Charts the emergence of a distinctive Irish literature.
    • Explores the concept of national identity and cultural nationalism.
    • Notes offer guidance on cultural, historical, and political issues.
    • Writers' biographies with lots of additional information.
    9780771095627

    Journey Prize 23

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    The Best of Canada's New Writers

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    Ten of the best short stories published in Canada in the last year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers. Among the stories this year: A trio of strangers keeps vigil in a hospital waiting room for a man who has miraculously survived a fall from twenty-four storeys – A glamorous party provides the backdrop for a comic but uncomfortable monologue by a wannabe poet desperate to impress – Over the course of a single day, the eldest son of a cattle farmer must contend with new rites and old burdens, in an elemental story of fathers and sons – When a disgruntled employee decides to take measures into her own hands, she is unprepared for the consequences. Editors: Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Sarah Selecky. (176 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet etc.
    9781840465679

    Life and Death

    A Collection of Classic Poetry and Prose

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    Life and death have been the preoccupation of our greatest writers, whether mourning a tragic loss of seizing the moment to live life to its full. Editor: Kate Agnew. (208 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd Year of Gymnasium etc.

    Contents include: poems by Matthew Arnold, William Cowper, Byron, Donne, Robert Frost and Keats — extracts from Wuthering Heights, The Divine Comedy and The Pilgrim's Progress.

    9781569245767

    Life-Changing Stories of Coming of Age

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    This collection contains extracts from novels and autobiographies and one complete story. They all deal with the confusion, pain and joy involved in discovering the possibilities of life.The authors are: Jill Ker Conway (The Road from Coorain), Mary Karr (The Liars' Club), John Gardner (Grendel), Walter White (A Man Called White), Lynda Barry (The Good Times are Killing Me), Garrison Keillor (Don: The Story of a Young Person), Andrei Makine (Once Upon the River Love), Spalding Gray (Sex and Death to the Age of 14), Russell Baker (Growing Up), James Joyce (Araby), Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Albert Murray (Train Whistle Guitar), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg Ohio).  Editor: Thomas Dyja. (295 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet
    9780205686117

    Literature (Interactive Edition)

    An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing

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    Literature, Interactive Edition comes with a one-year subscription to MyLiteratureLab, Longman's multimedia website (can be renewed for $10). MyLiteratureLab icons are found in the margins of the text along with a list of media resources at the front of the anthology. Resources include audio lectures, video, critical essays and much more.

    Literature, Interactive Edition is more than an anthology — it is a bank of resources with a balance of classic works and contemporary and some non-Western authors. There are 64 short stories, 500 poems, and 16 plays, a broad selection of critical writings on — and by — the authors, and practical guides to reading and writing on literature. This is a massive resource which takes a little time to get to know ... but it is well worth it!!

    Great Critical Casebooks: Literary texts with essays by the author on writing and themselves; and writings by critics on the texts and the author. Examples: Three Stories in Depth (stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper) and Alice Walker) — Flannery O‘Connor (three stories) — Two Critical Casebooks (poetry by Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes) — Shakespeare (Othello, Hamlet; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

    Fiction: Lots of short stories! Introductions to Types of Short Fiction, Plot, The Short Story. There are sections where students can work with Point of View, Character, Setting, Theme, Symbol etc. There is a section on reading Long Stories and Novels — and one with Latin American Fiction (in English).

    Poetry: Hundreds of poems! Introductions to various types of poetry (Lyric Poetry, Narrative Poetry etc.). Students can concentrate on various aspects of poetry (with introductions and examples): Voice, Words, Imagery, Figures of Speech, Song, Sound, Rhythm, Symbol etc. There is a section of Latin American poetry (in Spanish and English).

    Drama: This books gives the student introductions to Theatrical Conventions and Elements of a Play; checklists for Thinking/Writing about a Play; introductions to Tragedy, Comedy, Realism, Naturalism and 5 other schools of modern drama . And, of course, several whole plays.

    Critical Approaches to Literature: A short introduction to the 10 major schools (Formalist Criticism, Historical Criticism, Psychological Criticism etc.) accompanied by examples of the work of critics from that school.

    Writing: Good guides — Writing About A Story; Writing About A Play; Writing About A Poem.

    “Her er bogen!” JFN Anglo Files

    Level: Gymnasiet A etc.

    View TABLE OF CONTENTS (PDF)

    9780521747646

    Living planet (Cambridge Collections)

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    This collection explores life on earth and our place within it. It celebrates the diversity of our environment, and reflects on how our planet is changing and what we can do to protect it. The texts include a range of non-fiction and fiction extracts, short stories and poetry, and are arranged in four themed sections: Wild things, Water worlds, Nature's power and Future planet. The collection include texts by David Attenborough, Sujata Bhatt, John Clare, Susan Cooper, Roger Deakin and Michael Morpurgo. Editor: Mary Green. (240 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning


    Actvities:     For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    View Sample Pages   View Contents

    9780521747677

    Living planet CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of the life of an 'outsider'. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    Featuring a wealth of printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets) and a variety of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). Accompanying the pupil anthology, this CD-ROM is for use both with an interactive whiteboard and on individual computers.

    9780946745234

    Migration Stories

    *NEW IN FEBRUARY 2012*

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    16 stories by accomplished writers, weave a picture of contemporary migration to the UK. Armed conflict, natural disasters and global economic imabalances have had their impact on every nation of the world, including Britain. This anthology gives fictional voice to UK migrants of both recent times and the more distant past. These are stories that startle, inform and engage ... that get right under the skin. These are stories that are rarely heard, whether they are set inside a grotty bedsit, a container making its way to the UK, or a dance class offering an outlet to a person cut off from their family ties. They are shocking and matter of fact at the same time, but they also tell us of the capacity to survive and fight for better things to come. Editors: Muli Amaye, Martin de Mello, Corinne Fowler. (182 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet etc.

    Videos with readings

    9780571255276

    New Irish Short Stories (Faber 2011)

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    New Irish Short Stories showcases a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Ireland’s current financial problems form a background to many of the stories, but the influence of the old masters of the Irish short story is still very much there. It features among many others, William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller, Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Colm Toibin and Kevin Barry, and it shows the Irish short story to be a vibrant and thriving form. Editor: Joseph O'Connor. (432 pages)
    Level: Gymnasium/HF etc.

    1571316434

    North Atlantic Coast – A Literary Field Guide

    “Stories from where we live”

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    From an unusual series of US regional anthologies. Aimed at elementary and middle-school students in America and focused on the natural history of the North Atlantic Coast (Newfoundland to Delaware), this anthology consists of regional experiences passed on through stories, poems, and excerpts from journals and memoirs. (267 pages)
    Level: C/B/Linjefag
    9780521703253

    Outsiders (Cambridge Collections)

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    A collection of fiction and non-fiction:
    This anthology is a collection of newspaper articles, poems, short stories and extracts from novels exploring the theme of ousiders — people who have experiences that set them apart from those around them. There are four themed sections: Fictional outsiders; Heroes and heroines; Moving places, moving lives and Feeling different. There are texts by Mark Haddon, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Michael Morpurgo, Gervase Phinn, Benjamin Zephaniah and many others. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Editor: Roy Blatchford. (272 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning
    9780521703260

    Outsiders CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents:     a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of the life of an 'outsider'. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    9780199216819

    Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

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    Now in a cheaper paperback edition:
    Selected by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing celebrates the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience — revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. The collection captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists — all of whom convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science. (296 pages)
    Level: 2nd and 3rd year of the Gymnasium/HTX

    Contents: PART I: What Scientists Study; PART II: Who Scientists Are; PART III: What Scientists Think; PART IV: What Scientists Delight In. 
    • Includes extracts from the works of J.B.S. Haldane, Stephen Jay Gould, Albert Einstein, D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, C.P. Snow, James Watson, Martin Rees, Steve Pinker, Jared Diamond, and Erwin Schrodinger among others.
    9780143039914

    Portable Edgar Allan Poe

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    The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings. The 29 Tales are divided into Predicaments, Bereavements, Atagonisms,  Mysteries and Grotesqueries. They include The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the world's first detective story. The 21 Poems include The Raven, The Bells and Annabel Lee. In addition, this volume has selections of Letters, Critical Principles (On the Design of Fiction, The Poetic Principle etc.) and Observations (American Literary Independence, Reason and Government etc.). (628 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet
    0140150021

    Portable Steinbeck

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    Contains 9 complete stories, The whole of “Of Mice and Men” and “The Red Pony” travel writings, and Iong excerpts from “The Grapes of Wrath” “Tortilla Flat” and “In Dubious Battle” Introduction, Biographical Notes, Chronology etc. (692 pages)
    9781906994006

    Roads Ahead

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    In this collection of 22 stories Catherine O’Flynn presents exciting new voices from the next generation of English writers ... young talents like Chris Killen and Richard Milward and new discoveries like Michelle Singh and Luke Brown. Iain Grant’s Six of the Best shifts the perspective on a pupil encountering his old teacher. Rodge Glass’s I know my Team unsentimentally captures the uneasiness between a daughter and the father she reluctantly visits in a nursing home. In Anietie Isong's Devotion a Nigerian mother has to prostitute herself to secure the release of her rebel son. Violence is a recurrent theme: in the grotesque murder of Michelle's Singh's Shooters; in David Savill's tale Table Rock Lake of a black man and his white lover who is a soldier in Iraq; and in Richard Milward's doomed female narrator of Venus in Firs. Daisy Cains's Never said a Word is a subtle story of a childish encounter with charming IRA bombers. Dea Brovig's tragic-comic Ania's Wake has an old man at his wife's funeral. (271 pages)
    Level: Stories for use from the beginning of the Gymnasium
    9781840224078

    Short Stories from the 19th Century

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    Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a collection of classic stories, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.L. Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, H.G.Wells and many others. Editor: David Stuart Davies. (240 pages)
    Level: 2nd/3rd Year of Gymnasium

    9780451529640

    Signet Book of Short Plays

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    A new collection: 12 short plays by some of the best American playwrights. The plays range chronologically from 1931 to 2002. This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theatre includes works from Kia Corthron, Daisy Foote, Horton Foote, Susan Glaspell, Greg Gunning, David Ives, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. (384 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet

    0451523954

    Southern Short Stories

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    33 stories (half by women and one third by blacks) reflecting the diversity of Southern life and short fiction. Stories by: Edgar Allen Poe, Kate Chopin, Alice Walker, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker etc. (528 pages)
    Level: (C)/B/A
    9780521727914

    Stories of Ourselves

    The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Stories in English

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    Stories of Ourselves is a “set text” for Cambridge International Examinations. The anthology contains stories by writers from many different countries and cultures. The classics are represented alongside new voices from around the world. The stories have been chosen for their wide appeal and accessibility. This collection includes stories by Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Janet Frame, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Annie Proulx and many others. (450 Pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet/HF etc.

    9780312542887

    Story and Its Writer (with CD-Rom)

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    NEW cheaper 8th editiion:
    The Story and Its Writer (edited by Ann Charters) is America's most comprehensive, diverse — and bestselling — college anthology of the short fiction of the world. It is notable for its student appeal as well as its quality and range. Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also knows that writers, not critics, have the most interesting things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. So, to complement these stories, she includes a selection of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of the short story. Most of the stories are accompanied by one or more commentaries — writen by the writers themselves or other writers. Before each story, there is a small biography of the writer (about 3/4 of a page), often informing the reader about the origin of the story that follows. The 8th edition has increased emphasis on short, short fiction and graphic storytelling. (This is the “Compact” Edition: 1163 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet A/Linjefag

    The Stories: There are 85 stories by 76 writers varying from classic fiction by William Faulkner and Kate Chopin to acclaimed contemporary work by Daniyal Mueenuddin and Marjane Satrapi. There are 25 new stories in this edition.

    Authors include: Chinua Achebe, Sherman Alexie, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Russell Banks, Ann Beattie, Alison Bechdel, Aimee Bender, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Lan Samantha Chang, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Junot Díaz, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nadine Gordimer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Amy Hempel, A. M. Homes, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gish Jen, Sarah Orne Jewett, A Edward P. Jones, James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bobbie Ann Mason, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Cynthia Ozick, ZZ Packer, Grace Paley, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Annie Proulx, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Leslie Marmon Silko, Helen Simpson, Art Spiegelman, Amy Tan, John Updike, Helena Maria Viramontes, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Eudora Welty, Tobias Wolff, Richard Wright.

    “Casebooks”: Multiple commentaries by and about the featured writer enable in-depth study Raymond Carver (essays by and about Raymond Carver); Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”; Flannery O'Connor (essays by and about Flannery O'Connor); Graphic Storytelling.

    Appendices: Reading Short Stories, The Elements of Fiction, A Brief History of the Short Story, Writing About Short Stories, Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives, Glossary of Literary Terms, Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories.

    CD-Rom: Interactive Tutorials; Multimedia & Document Library; Research & Dcumentation Guide.

    9780553818826

    Sun Book of Short Stories

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    To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, "The Sun" ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers. There was a remarkable response, with hilarious, moving and powerful stories pouring in. The Sun Book of Short Stories contains a selection of the winning entries. Short and highly accessible stories. (95 pages)
    Level: C

    9780679772828

    Take Ten: new 10-minute plays

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    An anthology of 32 “ten minute” short plays by some of America’s hottest drama writers. They include: Christopher Durang, John Guare, David Ives, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Jane Martin, Joe Pintauro and August Wilson. It is rare to find so many short complete scenes by such high quality authors. Editors: Eric Lane and Nina Shengold. (360 pages)
    Level: All levels of the gymnasium

    0571214630

    True Tales of American Life

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    180 short tales of American Life collected by Paul Auster and National Public Radio from NPR's listeners. A unique collection of tales of Death, Dreams, War, Families etc. by men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life — and a great resource for the teacher. (480 pages)
    Level: All levels of the gymnasium

    9780521703215

    Turning the corner (Cambridge Collections)

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    A collection of post-millennium short stories:
    This anthology is a collection of post-millennium short stories exploring a sense of awakening or of reaching a turning point. There are five themed sections: Colliding worlds; Growing up; Meetings with death; Home and school and The world of adults. There are stories by Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay, Matthew Kneale, Helen Simpson, Colm Toibin, Rose Tremain and many others.Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents.  Editor: David A. Hill.  (232 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    9780521703222

    Turning the corner CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM explores the sense of reawakening in post-millenium short stories. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    9780552556002

    Unheard Voices

    An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

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    A collection of stories, poems and first-hand recollections about slavery:
    In March 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery, as it was known then, was abolished, and slavery still continues today in different ways, but it was a big step forward towards the emancipation of a people. This book draws together some of the finest of today's writers and poets. Their short stories and poems sit alongside first-hand accounts of slavery from freed slaves, making a collection that remembers and commemorates one of the most brutal and long-lasting inflictions of misery that human beings have inflicted upon other human beings. Editor: Malories Blackman. (272 pages)

    9780521730839

    Urban voices (Cambridge Collections)

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    A collection of texts that explores the excitement, tensions and injustices of urban life. A variety of texts — including extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories — make up each of the five themed sections: Five cities; This landscape, These people, Penthouse and pavement; Gangs, groups, friends, foes and Hear me speak. The collection include texts by Bill Bryson, Jeanette Winterson, Beverley Naidoo, Jon McGregor and Robert Harris. Editor: Mike Gould. (240 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning


    Actvities:     For each text: Before you read; What's it about?; Thinking about the text?; Introduction; Further Reading; English glosses. For each section: Compare and contrast. Notes on authors.

    View Sample Pages   View Contents

    9780521732376

    Urban voices CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

    9780521703178

    Victorian literature (Cambridge Collections)

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    A collection of fiction and non-fiction:
    This anthology is a collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories, providing an accessible view of the Victorian age. There are four themed sections: Adventures, Childhood, Urbanisation and Relationships. There are texts by Mrs Beeton, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry Mayhew, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Jules Verne and many others. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Editor: Linda Marland. (264 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    9780521703185

    Victorian literature CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents:     a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of life in this fascinating age. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    9781840465709

    War and Peace

    A Collection of Classic Poetry and Prose

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    Here are poets and writers who came face to face with the terror, the triumph, and the pity of war. This is a collection of easily accessible yet highly moving poems and prose passages selected from sources ranging from the Bible to the poets of World War I, including some of the best-loved pieces of American literature. Themed sections such as Friends and Enemies, Leaders and Leadership, Wartime, Death or Glory?, Remembrance, and Peace. Editor: Kate Agnew. (176 pages)
    Level: A/B / Mostly 2nd + 3rd Year of Gymnasium etc.

    Contents include: poems by Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Hardy, Blake, Browning, Tennyson, Tacitus, Marvell and Milton — extracts from Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice and the Bible.

    9781840226089

    Whisperer in Darkness

    Stories by H.P.Lovecraft

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    Millennia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last.
    This collection brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P.Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness. (384 pages)

    9780521703154

    Who we are (Cambridge Collections)

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    A citizenship collection:
    This anthology is a mix of fiction, poetry, articles and autobiography exploring what it is to be human and examining the challenges we face as global citizens. It revolves around themes such as identity, rights, responsibilities and tradition. There are five themed sections: Growing pains; Letting go; Facing the world; Britain in the past and The world about us. There are texts by Maya Angelou, Arthur C. Clarke, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, Roger McGough and many others. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Editor: Geoff Barton.  (230 pages)
    Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

    9780521703161

    Who we are CD-Rom (Cambridge Collections)

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    Contents:     a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM provides an accessible view of what it is to be human and the challenges we face as global citizens. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.
    0521377951

    Working with Short Stories

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    A collection of high quality and teachable short stories by some of the finest modern writers, such as: Bradbury, Dahl, Cheever, MacLaverty, Greene, Sillitoe, Weldon and Gordimer. What really makes this anthology stand out is the wide range of assignments that follow each story: Close study of the text, close study of the main characters, organising material for an essay, roleplay, letter writing, newspaper reports and many others. (252 pages)
    Level: C

    043510604X

    Working with the Anthology for AQA

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    This resource supports the texts in the AQA English anthology with glossaries, notes, background information, stepped activities, exam practice materials etc.
    Level: B/A

     

    9780230202085

    World of Difference

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    This is an international selection of 15 short stories by major modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of difference, each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. Biographical introduction to each story. Editor: Lynn Prescott. (296 pages)
    Level: 2nd year of Gymnasium/B

    Contents: The Ultimate Safari (Nadine Gordimer); In Cuba I was a German Shepherd (Ana Menéndez); The Joy Luck Club (extract) (Amy Tan); What Do You Do in San Francisco? (Raymond Carver); Mr Sumarsono (Roxana Robinson); The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud); The End of the World (Mavis Gallant); The Distant Past (WilliamTrevor); American Dreams (Peter Carey); Bella Makes Life (Lorna Goodison); Martha, Martha (Zadie Smith); Pit Strike (AllanSillitoe); Storm Petrel (Romesh Gunesekera); Squatter (Rohinton Mistry); One Out of Many (V.S.Naipaul).

    9781598530216

    Writing New York

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    A literary anthology:
    This widely acclaimed multi-genre anthology presents an unprecedented portrait of New York as seen through the eyes of over a hundred writers from Washington Irving, the first New York author to establish an international reputation, to such contemporary voices as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Hijuelos, Louis Auchincloss, Colson Whitehead, Vijay Sishadri and Don DeLillo. Residents and tourists, novelists and poets, architects and politicians, social reformers and sports writers, naturalists and humorists take on the challenge of capturing New York's enduring spirit, its public spectacle, its gossip, its hard-luck stories, its tragedies and disasters. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Contents. (1049 pages)
    Level: Gymnasiet