Literature of the Western World

Download or read book Literature of the Western World written by Brian Wilkie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey allows readers to choose among the most important canonical and less-familiar books of the Western literary tradition in Europe and the Americas. Uses the best translations of foreign-language material, and, when appropriate, presents more than one book by each author. It provides extensive analytic and explanatory apparatus, including detailed historical and biographical notes and introductions to six literary periods.