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Preface
[edit]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.
Anthologies
[edit]Norton
[edit]- 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
[edit]- The Annals of America
- Great Books of the Western World
Viking
[edit]- The Portable Renaissance Reader
- The Portable Medieval Reader
Library of America
[edit]- The Debate on the Constitution
- Jefferson
Individual focus
[edit]- Clarence Darrow: Verdicts Out of Court
- A Maimonides Reader
- Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
Others
[edit]- 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
With notable images
[edit]Tufte
[edit]- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Envisioning Information
Others
[edit]- Fritz Kahn
- Graphic Design: A New History
- The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
- A World History of Photography
Others
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book
- My Book House (series)