Gateway to the Great Books  is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins.
The set includes selections - short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works - by more than one hundred authors.

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. The short stories collected in the volume are evocative of Bukowski at his best, when he was one of the premier short story writers still at the top of his talent.

This guide is for those who workout and for those who don't, but know that they should. If you already workout but have difficulty finding time to keep a regular workout schedule, if you are interested in getting a better workout in a shorter time, or if you want to begin working out but never seem to find the time, this book provides solutions. It contains expert advice from workout specialists for building a short program that works for you.

Step up to IELTS is a short preparation course for students at an intermediate to upper intermediate level. It offers essential skills and language practice for both the academic and general training modules of the IELTS exam by introducing IELTS type tasks with short practice activities, and familiarising students with every part of the test with regular practice sections.

Short Stories for Students is designed to provide readers with information and discussion about a wide range of important contemporary and historical works of short fiction, and it does that job very well. However, I want to use this guest foreword to address a question that it does not take up. It is a fundamental question that is often ignored in high school and college English classes as well as research texts, and one that causes frustration among students at all levels, namely why study literature at all?