title: COMPACT Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (with 2016 MLA Update Card) (The Kirszner/Mandell Literature Series)
author: Laurie G. Kirszner
description: Laurie G. Kirszner is a best-selling author who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written best sellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any literature anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from developmental to literature.
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  _• Contents •_
  
  
  [Cover](../Text/cover.html)
  
  
  [About the Book](../Text/about_book.html)
  
  
  [About the Author](../Text/about_author.html)
  
  
  [Also By Stephen Jay Gould](../Text/also_by.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](../Text/title.html)
  
  
  [List of Illustrations](../Text/illustration.html)
  
  
  [Dedication](../Text/dedication.html)
  
  
  [A Baseball Primer for British Readers](../Text/fm001.html)
  
  
  [A Modest Proposal](../Text/fm002.html)
  
  
  [PART ONE  
   **How Shall We Read and Spot a Trend?**](../Text/part001.html)
  
  
  [1. Huxley’s Chessboard](../Text/chapter001.html)
  
  
  [2. Darwin Amidst the Spin Doctors](../Text/chapter002.html)
  
  
  [Biting the Fourth Freudian Bullet](../Text/chapter002.html#ch02-sec1)
  
  
  [Can We Finally Complete Darwin’s
  Revolution?](../Text/chapter002.html#ch02-sec2)
  
  
  [3. Different Parsings, Different Images of Trends](../Text/chapter003.html)
  
  
  [Fallacies in the Reading and Identification of
  Trends](../Text/chapter003.html#c03-sec1)
  
  
  [Variation as Universal Reality](../Text/