The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 2: Jonathan Swift to George Orwell

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This compact anthology the second volume in Margaret L. King's masterful introduction to the Western literary tradition offers, in whole or in part, eighty key literary works of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

The texts provided here represent an unusually broad array of languages and traditions, ranging across a variety of genres such as verse, drama, philosophy, short- and long-form fiction, and non-fiction (including autobiography, speech, journalism, and essay).

This second volume shares with the first a focus on works by women; numerous texts by Latin American writers are included here as well. King's clear, engaging introductions and notes support an informed reading of the texts while extending students knowledge of particular authors and problems of interest.
The Western Literary Tradition's modest length and cost allow for the use of full-length worksmany of which are available in Hackett Publishings own well-regarded and inexpensive translations and editionsalongside the anthology without adding undue cost to a students total textbook fees.

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Margaret L. King is Professor of History Emerita, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation module of Oxford Bibliographies Online, and co-editor of the text series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.