This book is great! I was required to have this book for an English course and ended up really loving the literature that it consisted of. I enjoyed the course that I took and the literature that I was required to read for every class. This book exposed everything from short stories to poems and some very interesting material. Many of the readings were considered as gothic or sublime, so it was very interesting to analyze into further detail. With so many different analyzations of each story, it was fun to look at the different points of views and come up with your own meanings to the stories. I really enjoyed being able to go into each story or poem and put my own twist onto what I thought was going on and the true meaning behind it. This book is not only great because of the diverse readings, but also in the way that analyzing each story took everything to a whole new level. I definitely recommend this book to anyone and suggest that each reading be analyzed into greater depth because every story has potential to be what you want it to be. I learned so much throughout the course of this book and really took interest into analyzations and my own opinion on each story.