The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, now in its second edition, is a dynamic and diversified anthology for college students enrolled in literature and composition courses. It contains fiction, poetry, and drama of American and international appeal. Designed with an eye to both the uniqueness and the universality of outstanding literature, this text offers a unified, multicultural approach to meaning, form, technique, and values in fiction, poetry, and drama. If literature, as Paul Valéry declared, is "the art of playing on the minds of others," then what we have attempted to create in this anthology is an appreciation of the strategies and themes by which first-rate authors capture and engage the imagination, intellect, and emotions of a broad range of readers.