LibGuides: English Literature and Writing Guide: Books in Wahlstrom's Collection

Books in the Wahlstrom Library Collection for Students of English

Below is a selection of literature and literary/cultural criticism available for checkout at Wahlstrom Library. You can use the self-checkout scanner on the 3rd floor of Wahlstrom, or you can bring your books to the 1st floor main desk, or you place a hold on items from the collection and pick them up at the main desk.

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 1998

ISBN: 0452280621

Publication Date: 1998-10-01

At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved. Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and lets us all see the enduring promise of hope that lies in anyone's future.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015

ISBN: 9780812993547

Publication Date: 2015-07-14

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Maureen Howard (Foreword by)
Call Number: PR6045.O72 M5 1981

ISBN: 0151628602

Publication Date: 1981-11-01
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches (LOA #2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Call Number: PS1853 1982

ISBN: 0940450038

Publication Date: 1982-05-06

An authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Alexander W. Allison; Herbert Barrows (Editor); Caesar R. Blake (Editor); Arthur J. Carr (Editor); Arthur M. Eastman (Editor); Hubert M. English (Editor)
Call Number: PR1174 .N6 1983

ISBN: 0393952428

Publication Date: 1983-09-01

A chronologically arranged anthology of British and American poetry from Chaucer on.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature by Martin Puchner (General Editor); Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Editor); Wiebke Denecke (Editor); Vinay Dharwadker (Editor); Barbara Fuchs (Editor); Caroline Levine (Editor); Pericles Lewis (Editor); Emily Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: PN6014 .N66 2018

ISBN: 9780393602814

Publication Date: 2018-06-11

The Fourth Edition of the anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works.
The Norton Field Guide to Writing, with Readings and Handbook by Richard Bullock; Maureen Daly Goggin; Francine Weinberg
Call Number: PE1408 .B883825 2013

ISBN: 9780393919592

Publication Date: 2013-02-01

Designed for easy reference -- with menus, directories, and a combined glossary/index. The Third Edition has new chapters on academic writing, choosing genres, writing online, and choosing media, as well as new attention to multimodal writing.
Price of ticket C by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552.A45 P7 1985

ISBN: 0312643063

Publication Date: 1985-09-15

This collection brings together every important piece of nonfiction written by the eminent writer between 1948 and 1985--including The Fire Next Time and The Devil Finds Work.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Anna Quindlen (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR4034 .P7 1995b

ISBN: 0679601686

Publication Date: 1995-11-21

Introduction by Anna Quindlen. One of the best-loved novels, set in Regency England.
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: PS3561.I496 P76 2000

ISBN: 0060199652

Publication Date: 2000-10-17

National Bestseller Prodigal Summer is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Call Number: CT275.K5764 A33

ISBN: 0394400674

Publication Date: 1976-08-12

"'No name woman' originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the January 1975 issue of Viva"--T.p. verso.
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature by Randall Stevenson (Editor); Dermot Cavanagh (Editor); Alan Gillis (Editor); Michelle Keown (Editor); James Loxley (Editor)
Call Number: PR33 .E35 2010, 1

ISBN: 9780748640256

Publication Date: 2010-04-13

What does university study of English Literature involve today? How should students read literary texts? The texts discussed in the book generally appear in the Norton Anthology of English Literature