Longman Anthology of British Literature The Twentieth Century

* denotes selection is new to this edition. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Joseph Conrad. Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus". Heart of Darkness. "Heart of Darkness" and Its Time. Joseph Conrad:FromThe Congo Diary. Sir Henry Morton Stanley:FromAddress to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. * Responses. * Chinua Achebe:An Image of Africa. Gang of Four:We Live As We Dream, Alone. Bernard Shaw. Preface: A Professor of Phonetics. Pygmalion. * Response. * Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe:Scene fromMy Fair Lady. Letters. To Francis Collison (20 August 1903). To The Times (30 October 1906). Thomas Hardy. Hap. Neutral Tones. Wessex Heights. The Darkling Thrush. On the Departure Platform. The Convergence of the Twain. At Castle Boterel. Channel Firing. In Time of "The Breaking of Nations". I Looked Up from My Writing. "And There Was a Great Calm". Logs on the Hearth. The Photograph. The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House. Afterwards. Epitaph. Perspectives: The Great War: Confronting the Modern. Blast.Vorticist Manifesto. Rebecca West. Indissoluble Matrimony. Rupert Brooke.The Great Lover. The Soldier. Sigfried Sassoon.Glory of Women. "They." The Rear-Guard. Everyone Sang. [read more]