Now Read On brings together literature in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance. It contains approximately eighty texts and extracts from countries and continents including:
- Africa
- Australia
- Great Britain
- India
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Singapore
Designed as a course for both native and non-native English speakers on how to read literature, this anthology begins with shorter starter texts and questions and develops in complexity as the reader progresses through the book. Now Read On provides the user with
- hands-on experience working with a plurality of texts from around the world
- questions, exercises, pointers, and commentary, accompanying all the passages of literature, and providing the student with the tools and confidence to critically evaluate any text
- An understanding of the major genres - poetry, short stories, drama, and novels.