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Across cultures : universal themes in literature / William Smalzer, Phyllis L. Lim.
LIBRA PE1128 .S5815 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smalzer, William, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
- English language.
- English literature.
- Readers.
- Genre:
- Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass., U.S.A. : Heinle & Heinle, ©1994.
- Contents:
- Beginnings: learning about life. Thank you m'am / Langston Hughes ; My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke ; Eleven / Sandra Cisneros ; The Adrian Mole diaries (excerpts) / Sue Townsend
- My Oedipus complex / Frank O'Conner
- Love: winning and losing. Your children are not your children / Khalil Gibran ; Marriage is a private affair / Chinua Achebe ; A deux / William Wood ; A winter's tale / D.H. Lawrence ; Music I heard / Conrad Aiken ; María Concepción / Katherine Anne Porter
- Misunderstandings: between people, generations and cultures. On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth ; A beacon in the night / Morris Lurie ; In the shadow of war ; Ben Okri ; A horse and two goats / R.K. Narayan
- The individual: values and integrity. We alone / Alice Walker ; The problem of old Harjo / John M. Oskison ; No witchcraft for sale / Doris Lessing ; The elevator / Bernard Malamud ; The antheap / Doris Lessing.
- ISBN:
- 0838439861
- 9780838439869
- 0838439950
- 9780838439951
- 0838439918
- 9780838439913
- OCLC:
- 28424036
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