Titles in the 50th Anniversary Series are by both classic and modern authors from around the world. Each of the eight anthologies focuses on a theme of enduring human significance and includes five or six prose selections, poetry, and questions for two novels. (Novels are not included in the anthologies, but the recommended editions are widely available.)
CONTENTS:
"The Highest Good," by Aristotle, A River Sutra (selection) by Gita Mehta, "The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol," by John Berger, "Happiness," by Mary Lavin, "Endless Mountains," by Reynolds Price, "As You Like It," by William Shakespeare, poems by Emily Dickinson, as well as discussion questions for Middlemarch by George Eliot and An Imaginary Life by David Malouf.
Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.