The Longman anthology of British literature. Volume 2C The twentieth century

Synopsis

* 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: From The Congo Diary. Sir Henry Morton Stanley: From Address 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 from My 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. Wilfred Owen. Anthem for Doomed Youth. Strange Meeting. Disabled. Dulce et Decorum Est. Isaac Rosenberg. Break of Day in the Trenches. Dead Man's Dump. David Jones. From In Parenthesis. * Cicely Hamilton. Non-Combatant. * May Wedderburn Cannan. Lamplight. * Rouen. * Pauline Barrington. ‘Education.’ * Helen Dircks. After Bourlon Wood. * Alys Fane Trotter. The Hospital Visitor. * Teresa Hooley. A War Film. Speeches on Irish Independence. Charles Stuart Parnell. At Limerick. <