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The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn..Mark
Twain
The
Aeneid Vergil.
Agamemnon..Aeschylus
The
Age of Feudalism Cummings
Ajax..Sophocles
All's
Well That Ends Well..Shakespeare
The
Analects..Confucius
An
American Tragedy..Dreiser
Animal
Farm..Orwell
Annabel
Lee..Poe
Antigone..Sophocles
Antony
and Cleopatra..Shakespeare
Apology
(The Trial of Socrates)..Plato
As
You Like It..Shakespeare
The
Atheist's Mass..Honoré
de Balzac
Babbitt..Sinclair
Lewis
Because
I Could Not Stop for Death..Emily
Dickinson
The
Beggar..Chekhov
The
Bells..Poe
Beowulf..Unknown
Christian Poet
Berenice..Poe
The
Black Cat..Poe
Bleak
House..Dickens
Break,
Break, Break..Tennyson
Candide..Voltaire
The
Canterbury Tales..Chaucer
The
Cask of Amontillado..Poe
Castles
and Kings Cummings
The
Catcher in the Rye..J.D. Salinger
Civil
Disobedience..Thoreau
The
Cloak (The Overcoat)..Nicholay
Gogol
The
Clouds..Aristophanes
The
Comedy of Errors..Shakespeare
Confucius..Study
Guide
The
Conqueror Worm..Poe
Coriolanus..Shakespeare
Crime
and Punishment..Dostoevsky
The
Crucible..Arthur Miller
Cymbeline..Shakespeare
Daisy
Miller..Henry James
David
Copperfield..Dickens
Death,
Be Not Proud..John Donne
Death
of a Salesman..Arthur Miller
A
Descent Into the Maelström..Poe
The
Divine Comedy..Dante
A
Doll's House..Ibsen
Do
Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night..Dylan
Thomas
Don
Quixote de La Mancha..Cervantes
Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde..Stevenson
Dover
Beach..Matthew Arnold
A
Dream Within a Dream..Poe
Drink
to Me Only With Thine Eyes (To Celia).Philostratus
/Ben Jonson
Echo
and Narcissus..Ovid
Edward
III..Shakespeare
Eldorado..Poe
Electra..Sophocles
Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard..Thomas
Gray
The
Emperor of Ice Cream..Wallace Stevens
Enemy
of the People..Ibsen
Eumenides..Aeschylus
Everyday
Expressions From Shakespeare
Everyman..Anonymous
Expostulation
and Reply..Wordsworth
The
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar..Poe
The
Fall of the House of Usher..Poe
Fathers
and Sons..Turgenev
Fascinating
Facts About Shakespeare
Faust..Goethe
Feudalism..Cummings
Figures
of Speech
Flowering
Judas..Katherine Anne Porter
Folio
and Quarto Texts of Shakespeare
Four
Periods of Shakespeare
Frankenstein..Mary
Shelley
Gawain
and the Green Knight..Unknown Author
The
Garden Party Katherine
Mansfield
The
Gift of the Magi O.
Henry
Globe
Theatre of Shakespeare
Globe
Theatre: Special Effects
The
Grapes of Wrath..John Steinbeck
Grass..Carl
Sandburg
Greek
Drama Glossary..Cummings
Greek
Theater (Structure)..Cummings
The
Great Gatsby..Fitzgerald
Gulliver's
Travels..Swift
Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark..Shakespeare
Harlem
(A Dream Deferred)..Langston Hughes
The
Haunted Palace..Poe
Heart
of Darkness..Conrad
Hedda
Gabler..Ibsen
Henry
IV Part I..Shakespeare
Henry
IV Part II..Shakespeare
Henry
V..Shakespeare
Henry
VI Part I..Shakespeare
Henry
VI Part II..Shakespeare
Henry
VI Part III..Shakespeare
Hills
Like White Elephants..Hemingway
Homer:
Biography..Cummings
Homer,
The Odyssey..Homer
Homer,
The Iliad..Homer
Huckleberry
Finn..Mark Twain
The
Iceman Cometh..Eugene O'Neill
The
Iliad..Homer
The
Imp of the Perverse..Poe
Inferno..Dante
Israfel..Poe
Ivanhoe..Scott
Jane
Eyre..Charlotte Brontë
Julius
Caesar..Shakespeare
Kidnapped..Robert
Louis Stevenson
King
John..Shakespeare
King
Lear..Shakespeare
The
Lake Isle of Innisfree..William Butler
Yeats
Lenore..Poe
Literary
Terms..Cummings
The
Libation Bearers (Choephori)..Aeschylus
Ligeia..Poe
Long
Day's Journey Into Night..Eugene O'Neill
The
Lord of the Flies..Golding
The
Lottery..Shirley Jackson
The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock..T.S.
Eliot
Love's
Labour's Lost..Shakespeare
Lover's
Complaint..Shakespeare
Lysistrata..Aristophanes
Macbeth..Shakespeare
Machiavelli's
Philosophy..Machiavelli |
Madame
Bovary..Flaubert
The
Masque of the Red Death..Poe
Measure
for Measure..Shakespeare
Medea..Euripides
Medicine
in Shakespeare's Plays .Cummings
The
Merchant of Venice..Shakespeare
The
Merry Wives of Windsor..Shakespeare
Meter
in Poetry and Verse: Iambic, Trochaic, etc.
Metzengerstein..Poe
A
Midsummer Night's Dream..Shakespeare
Miss
Julie..Strindberg
Moby
Dick..Melville
A
Modest Proposal..Swift
Morella..Poe
The
Most Dangerous Game..Richard Connell
Much
Ado About Nothing..Shakespeare
The
Murders in the Rue Morgue..Poe
My
Last Duchess..Robert Browning
Narcissus
and Echo..Ovid
The
Necklace..Guy de Maupassant
Nicholas
Nickleby..Dickens
An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge..Ambrose
Bierce
Ode
on a Grecian Urn..Keats
The
Odyssey..Homer
Oedipus
at Colonus..Sophocles
Oedipus
the King..Sophocles
Oedipus:
the Theban Plays..Sophocles
The
Old Man and the Sea..Hemingway
Opera
Summaries..Information Provided by
OperaGlass
The
Oresteia..Aeschylus
Othello..Shakespeare
Our
Town..Thornton Wilder
The
Outcasts of Poker Flat.Bret Harte
The
Overcoat (The Cloak)..Nicholay
Gogol
Ozymandias..Percy
Bysshe Shelley
Pamela..Samuel
Richardson
Paradise
Lost..John Milton
Paradiso..Dante
The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love..Marlowe
Pericles,
Prince of Tyre..Shakespeare
Phaedra
(Phèdre) .Jean Baptiste Racine
Philoctetes..Sophocles
The
Phoenix and the Turtle..Shakespeare
The
Picture of Dorian Gray..Wilde
The
Pit and the Pendulum..Poe
The
Playboy of the Western World..Synge
The
Premature Burial..Poe
The
Prince..Machiavelli
Prometheus
Bound..Aeschylus
Purgatorio..Dante
The
Purloined Letter..Poe
Pygmalion..Ovid
Pyramus
and Thisbe..Ovid
The
Queen of Spades..Pushkin
Quotations
for All Occasions..Shakespeare
A
Raisin in the Sun..Lorraine Hansberry
The
Rape of Lucrece..Shakespeare
The
Rape of the Lock..Alexander Pope
The
Raven..Poe
The
Red Badge of Courage..Stephen Crane
Richard
Cory..Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard
II..Shakespeare
Richard
III..Shakespeare
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner..Coleridge
Rip
Van Winkle..Washington Irving
Robinson
Crusoe..Daniel Defoe
Romeo
and Juliet..Shakespeare
Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám..FitzGerald,
Khayyám
The
Scarlet Letter..Hawthorne
Self-Reliance..Emerson
Shakespeare's
Manuscripts: Preparation..Cummings
Shakespeare's
Pronouns..Cummings
Shakespeare's
Stage Directions..Glossary
Shakespeare
Study Guide..Cummings
She
Stoops to Conquer..Goldsmith
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight..Unknown
Author
Sir
Thomas More..Shakespeare and Others
The
Sleeper..Poe
The
Sniper..Liam O'Flaherty
Socrates..Cummings
Sonnet
22..Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet
43..Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets..Shakespeare
Sophocles..Cummings
The
Sound and the Fury..Faulkner
Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening..Robert
Frost
The
Story of an Hour..Kate Chopin
The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde..Stevenson
A
Streetcar Named Desire..Tennesee Williams
Success
Is Counted Sweetest..Emily Dickinson
Tartuffe..Molière
The
Taming of the Shrew..Shakespeare
The
Tell-Tale Heart..Poe
The
Tempest..Shakespeare
Tess
of the d'Urbervilles..Thomas Hardy
The
Tiger.William Blake
Timon
of Athens..Shakespeare
Titus
Andronicus..Shakespeare
To
Celia.Philostratus and Ben Jonson
To
Althea, From Prison..Richard Lovelace
To
an Athlete Dying Young..A.E. Housman
To
Helen..Poe
To
His Coy Mistress..Andrew Marvell
To
a Mouse..Robert Burns
Trachiniae..Sophocles
Trackers..Sophocles
The
Trial..Kafka
The
Trial of Socrates..Plato
Troilus
and Cressida..Shakespeare
The
Turn of the Screw..Henry Hames
Twelfth
Night..Shakespeare
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona..Shakespeare
The
Two Noble Kinsmen..Shakespeare
Ulalume..Poe
Ulysses..James
Joyce
Uncle
Tom's Cabin..Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle
Vanya..Chekhov
A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning..John
Donne
Venus
and Adonis..Shakespeare
Waiting
for Godot..Samuel Beckett
War
and Peace..Tolstoy
We
Wear the Mask..Paul Laurence Dunbar
The
Winter's Tale..Shakespeare
Women
of Trachis..Sophocles
The
World Is Too Much With Us..Wordsworth
Young
Goodman Brown..Hawthorne
Wuthering
Heights..Emily Brontë |
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J. Cummings, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA. Cummings, 66, a freelance
writer and former college English instructor,
began his career as a public-school teacher in Muncy, Pennsylvania, in
1964 and taught English in Elmira, N.Y., from 1965 to 1968. In 1968, he
joined Grit Publishing Company in Williamsport, Pa., starting as a reporter
and eventually becoming managing editor. In 1984, he became a freelance
writer, specializing in feature writing and medical writing. In 1988, he
became an adjunct college English instructor in Williamsport while also
continuing his freelance writing. He has written five books and has compiled
numerous definitions for a medical dictionary. Over the years, he has written
more than 2,500 published articles on a variety of topics and has interviewed
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