Prentice Hall Literature -- The British Tradition, volume two

Grant P. Wiggins is the author behind the Prentice Hall Literature series. His work focuses on making classic and contemporary literature accessible to students.

Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women.

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her novel [Wuthering Heights][1], a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Brontë sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. She published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell. ([Source][2].) [1]: http://upstream.openlibrary.org/works/OL10427528W/Wuthering_Heights [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bronte

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medic...