Wilbur Lang Schramm (1907–1987)

This was a school book from the middle of the last century. I can just imagine some young version of myself sitting in a classroom waiting to be called on to read the next page out loud. I don’t think I would have appreciated it the way I just did reading these fantastic short stories. Kipling’s The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney was a wonderful tale, but even more wonderful were the images and the dialogue. Who would think that a story titled, The Dill Pickle, by Katherine Mansfield show more would have anything to do with love or be so filled with emotions? Jack London’s, All Gold Canyon, brings out the sweat from the burning sun as well as from the impending doom. Of course, all of the choices are classic examples of writers at the top of their form. Go back to school and learn a thing or two. show less

I was on the textbook committee, and I loved this book. When they sent an extra teacher's edition as a sample, I kept it.

high schoold jr. year text, very useful still to day. Frost, Sandburg, Eliot, Ewards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God), etc.

I saved this because I remember reading some of the texts in this series as a child, though I am not sure I read this one