About this book

An authoritative bestseller for over fifty years, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective introduction to literature for today's students. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as "Is some literature better?" and "How can it be evaluated?" A remarkable selection of classic, modern, and contemporary readings serves to illustrate the elements of literature and ensure broad appeal to students of diverse backgrounds and interests.

Subjects

  • animal trapping
  • anthologies
  • aufgabensammlung
  • big game sport
  • collections
  • cossacks
  • deaf-mutes
  • fiction
  • history & criticism
  • human hunting
  • hunting
  • hunting dogs
  • hunting stories
  • interpretation
  • islands
  • jaguars
  • juvenile fiction
  • juvenile works
  • knouts
  • literatur
  • literature
  • littérature
  • snow leopards
  • survival of the fittest
  • trapping pits
  • travel fiction