Most people like the Dummit & Foote book; it tends to be loaded with examples rather than a lot of dense symbolic arguments: http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Alg

Most people like the Dummit & Foote book; it tends to be loaded with examples rather than a lot of dense symbolic arguments: http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-Edition-David-Dummit/dp/0471433349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370551192&sr=8-1&keywords=dummit+and+foote http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-Edition-David-Dummit/... When I learned it, though, it was from this Dover book, which is more affordable: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Abstract-Algebra-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486647250/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1370551228&sr=8-10&keywords=abstract+algebra http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Abstract-Algebra-Dover-Mathem...