This book can help you read, write about, and love literature. You'll find wonderful stories, poems, and plays spanning time periods, cultures, and voices, including works by some of today's best writers. And you will find plenty of instruction to help you read literature closely and work with it in your own writing. Spend time with the fiction, poetry, and drama in this book - and carefully practice the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills vou need in order to succeed both inside and out of the classroom.