"Algebra" fulfills a definite need to provide a self-contained, one volume, graduate level algebra text that is readable by the average graduate student and flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of instructors and course contents. It contains an unusually large number of illustrative exercises.
Thomas W. Hungerford
Adjoint functor Coproduct Galois theory algebra field finite group homomorphism linear algebra matrices semigroup transformation
From the book reviews:
“This is a text for a first-year graduate course in abstract algebra. It covers all the standard topics and has more than enough material for a year course.” (Allen Stenger, MAA Reviews, September, 2014)
Thomas W. Hungerford
Algebra
"An excellent text from which to teach the beginning graduate survey course in algebra and I would recommend it to anyone considering a text for such a course."—LINEAR AND MULTILINEAR ALGEBRA