User:Shells-shells/Collections

Preface
Some works are created to be collections of other works; anthologies and commonplace books are typical examples of this genre. The works they contain generally possess some special interest or exemplify a high standard, and are usually edited and annotated carefully. This page will list some such collections and the titles of the works they contain.

Norton

 * The Norton Anthology of World Literature
 * The Norton Anthology of American Literature
 * /The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism/
 * The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Britannica

 * The Annals of America
 * Great Books of the Western World

Viking

 * The Portable Renaissance Reader
 * /The Portable Medieval Reader/

Library of America

 * The Debate on the Constitution
 * Jefferson

Individual focus

 * Clarence Darrow: Verdicts Out of Court
 * A Maimonides Reader
 * Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer

Others

 * The Great Books
 * The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
 * The New Treasure Chest: An Anthology of Reflective Prose
 * The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
 * Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology
 * The American Spirit
 * The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
 * Seventeenth Century Prose and Poetry
 * Eighteenth-Century English Literature
 * Tudor Poetry and Prose
 * Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies
 * The Heart of Chinese Poetry
 * Sources of Chinese Tradition
 * Western Heritage: A Reader
 * The Ancient Near East
 * The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems In Translation
 * The Best Poems of the English Language
 * Hesitant Wolf & Scrupulous Fox: Fables Selected from World Literature
 * A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
 * Good Poems
 * A Treasury of Great Poems
 * The Treasury of American Poetry
 * The World of Mathematics
 * The World of Physics
 * A Source Book of Greek Science
 * As the Romans Did
 * The Oxford Book of Essays
 * /50 Great Short Stories/

Tufte

 * The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
 * Envisioning Information

Others

 * Fritz Kahn
 * Graphic Design: A New History
 * The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
 * A World History of Photography

Others

 * Masterpieces of Christian Literature in Summary Form
 * Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
 * /Lapham's Quarterly/
 * Hodgepodge
 * An Editor's Treasury
 * The UNIX System User's Manual

Public domain

 * Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book
 * My Book House (series)