With selections ranging from the most popular traditional and contemporary authors at home, to masterpieces of world literature, LEGACIES: FICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, NONFICTION, 5th Edition, encourages students to question, observe, probe, connect, and critique. The text involves students in complex and exciting "legacies of human thought" -- literary and cultural traditions from 500 B.C. to the first decades of the 21st century. Designed for the Literature for Composition course, this is the only thematically arranged anthology to examine works of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction together in thematic clusters that "Cross the Genres.
