All minds quote.
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. It is a thematic anthology interweaving literary texts that demonstrate interrelationships of life experience as expressed in both sacred and secular myths, parables, folktales, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The anthology is aimed primarily at students in the freshman and sophomore English sequences. Selections are drawn from many civilizations and cultures so that we provide a solid core of world literature from the ninth century B.C.E. to the present. We hope that this anthology becomes a catalyst for critical thinking and writing, as well as a source of multicultural literacy.