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JAMES CANTON, CONSULTANT EDITOR Our consultant and coauthor James Canton is a lecturer in literature at the University of Essex, ...

ROBIN LAXBY A freelance editor and writer, Robin Laxby has a degree in English from Oxford University, England, and has worked a ...

10 INTRODUCTION HEROES AND LEGENDS 3000 BCE–1300 CE 20 Only the gods dwell forever in sunlight The Epic of Gilgamesh 21 To nouri ...

94 I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good family Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 96 If this is the best of al ...

185 In Sweden all we do is to celebrate jubilees The Red Room, August Strindberg 186 She is written in a foreign tongue The Port ...

263 It is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima 26 ...

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S torytelling is as old as humanity itself. The tradition of capturing the events and beliefs of communities reaches back to a t ...

reexamines the ideology and power structures that underpin the selections of previous generations, and questions why certain oth ...

the stories of early histories, and have influenced writing for centuries. The form of literature that became Greek drama used a ...

fiction has diversified into multiple genres and subgenres, which today include everything from dystopian novels to fictional au ...

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S ystems of writing were first used as a means of recording administrative and commercial transactions. Gradually, these systems ...