Classic selections you rely on and exciting new selections you’ll want to try out.
• Includes a core of the most popular, class-tested essays, stories, poems, and plays
• Features a carefully chosen, highly praised array of recent works by some of today’s liveliest and most innovative writers
• Many selections unique to this database
• An evolving and expanding database
Flexible customizing options to suit your teaching preferences.
• Browse by theme, genre, rhetorical approach, chronology, and author to find the best-fit selection
• Add and publish your own materials easily
• Choose from a variety of colorful and elegant covers for your book
• Title your own custom book
• Package your custom book with a Bedford/St. Martin’s textbook or trade book from Bedford/St. Martin’s sister companies (including Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; Henry Holt; Picador; and St. Martin’s Press)
Easy to use
• Simple, user-friendly interface, with a logical, intuitive navigation system
• Selections available in one database and presented on one screen — no complicated switching back and forth among multiple screens
• Previews of most selections available right on the page where you’re building your table of contents
• "Time out" function — save what you’ve done and return to it at your convenience
The quality service you expect from Bedford/St. Martin’s
• Rapid response to inquiries and database submissions — usually within 24 hours
• Unique access to experienced in-house editors whom you can consult about selections and course design