Welcome to CustomLiterature.com!  Here you have access to all the resources you need to create a customized literature anthology that meets your course needs precisely:

  • Find out about our database offerings for Introduction to Literature and American Literature courses
  • Search, view and select readings with our online multivariant BookBuild - click here for a demo
  • Include apparatus, your own material, or 3rd party readings
  • Choose your sequence, cover, and title page information
  • Discover how to complement your custom reader with our companion web resources - click here for a tour
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This program includes more than 650 literature selections by more than 375 authors. You can find all of your favorites plus many authors and selections not often found in other anthologies. And with more than 40 selections of theory and criticism, we can help introduce your students to literary studies. Whether you're teaching a three-genre Introduction to Literature survey or a genre-specific course, this program has what you need:

  • High quality editorial support and vision
  • Brief Biographical Headnotes for each author
  • End-of-selection questions for each selection
  • Instructional Chapters and Glossaries
  • Suggested Tables of Contents for survey and other courses
  • Student and Instructor Companion Websites
  • Online BookBuilding

This program features a varied list of authors of classic and contemporary pieces of American literature. The more than 1800 selections include essays, letters, plays, poems, short stories, and standard excerpts from major works. The 2005 edition features expanded offerings of travel literature, African-American writing, women writers, and Native American authors. Features include:

  • High quality editorial support and vision
  • Thorough Biographical Headnotes for each author
  • Period and Thematic Introductions
  • Period and Thematic Anchor Volume suggested TOCs
  • Online BookBuilding
Once you've designed your book (20% of which can be your own material or come from other sources), you can request an evaluation copy, which we'll send to you within 10 days to review. Your Introduction to Literature reader will be published in only 4-6 weeks from the time we receive your bookstore's order (8-10 weeks for readers with outside material).

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