The Free Press-Collier-Macmillan Limited

Foreworda volume of the kind presented here, narrowly focused on the connection of education in modern society with the economy and the class structure, is perhaps liable to be misunderstood. As the authors of the Crowther Report aptly say, children are "individual human beings and the primary...

Foreword Our main goal in editing this anthology was to produce three volumes of manageable size that would (especially when supplemented by paperback editions of novels and plays) enable students to gain a sense of the variety and shape of American hterature. We also wanted to avoid burdening...