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À
la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)..Marcel
Proust
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn..Mark
Twain
The
Aeneid Virgil
(Vergil)........................
Agamemnon..Aeschylus
The
Age of Feudalism..Cummings
After
Blenheim..Robert Southey
Ajax..Sophocles
L'Albatros
(The Albatross)..Baudelaire
All's
Well That Ends Well..Shakespeare
Alone..Edgar
Allan Poe
The
Analects..Confucius
An
American Tragedy..Dreiser
Animal
Farm..Orwell
Annabel
Lee..Poe
Anthem
for Doomed Youth..Wilfred Owen
Antigone..Sophocles..
Antony
and Cleopatra..Shakespeare
Apology
(The Trial of Socrates)..Plato
Araby..James
Joyce
Ars
Poetica..Archibald MacLeish
Astrophel
and Stella..Sir Philip Sidney
As
You Like It..Shakespeare
The
Assignation..Poe
The
Atheist's Mass..Honoré
de Balzac
Ballad
of the Dead Ladies..Rossetti's
Translation of Villon Poem
Ballade
des dames du temps jadis..François
Villon
Babbitt..Sinclair
Lewis
Bartleby
the Scrivener..Herman Melville
The
Battle of Blenheim..Robert Southey
Because
I Could Not Stop for Death..Emily
Dickinson
The
Beggar..Chekhov
The
Bells..Poe
Bells
for John Whiteside's Daughter..John
Crowe Ransom
Beloved..Toni
Morrison
Beowulf..Unknown
Christian Poet
Berenice..Poe
Billy
Budd..Melville
The
Black Cat..Poe
The
Blessed Damozel..Rossetti
Bleak
House..Dickens
Brahma..Emerson
Break,
Break, Break..Tennyson
Bridal
Ballad..Poe
By
the Waters of Babylon..Stephen Vincent
Benét
The
Call of the Wild..Jack London
Candide..Voltaire
The
Canterbury Tales..Chaucer
Cargoes..John
Masefield
The
Cask of Amontillado..Poe
Castles
and Kings Cummings
The
Catcher in the Rye..J.D. Salinger
The
Cherry Orchard..Chekhov
Cherry-Ripe
(There Is a Garden in Her Face)..Thomas
Campion
The
Cid (Le Cid)..Pierre Corneille
The
City in the Sea..Poe
Civil
Disobedience..Thoreau
The
Cloak (The Overcoat)..Nicholay
Gogol
The
Clouds..Aristophanes
The
Coliseum..Poe
The
Comedy of Errors..Shakespeare
Composed
Upon Westminster Bridge..Wordsworth
Confucius..Study
Guide
The
Conqueror Worm..Poe
Corinna's
Going a-Maying..Robert Herrick
Coriolanus..Shakespeare
Crime
and Punishment..Dostoevsky
Cross..Langston
Hughes
The
Crucible..Arthur Miller
Le
Cygnet (The Swan)..Charles Baudelaire
Cymbeline..Shakespeare
Cyrano
de Bergerac..Edmond Rostand
Daisy
Miller..Henry James
The
Darkling Thrush..Thomas Hardy
David
Copperfield..Dickens..
Death,
Be Not Proud..John Donne
Death
of a Salesman..Arthur Miller
Delight
in Disorder..Robert Herrick
A
Descent Into the Maelström..Poe
Désirée's
Baby..Kate Chopin
Dirge
in the Woods..George Meredith
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
Dreamers..Siegfried
Sassoon
Drink
to Me Only With Thine Eyes (To Celia).Philostratus/Ben
Jonson
Dulce
et Decorum Est..Wilfred Owen
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
Epic
of Gilgamesh
Ethan
Brand..Hawthorne
Eulalie..Poe
Eumenides..Aeschylus
Eveline..James
Joyce
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
A
Farewell to Arms..George Peele
Fathers
and Sons..Turgenev
Fascinating
Facts About Shakespeare
Faust..Goethe
Feudalism..Cummings
Figures
of Speech
Fire
and Ice..Robert Frost
Flowering
Judas..Katherine Anne Porter
Folio
and Quarto Texts of Shakespeare
Four
Periods of Shakespeare
Frankenstein..Mary
Shelley..
From
the Flats..Sidney Lanier
Gather
Ye Rosebuds..Robert Herrick
Gawain
and the Green Knight..Unknown Author
The
Garden Party..Katherine Mansfield
Gettysburg
Address..Abraham Lincoln
The
Gift of the Magi..O. Henry
The
Gilded Six-Bits..Zora Neale Hurston
The
Gilgamesh Epic
The
Glass Menagerie..Tennesse Williams
Globe
Theatre of Shakespeare
Globe
Theatre: Special Effects
The
Gold-Bug..Poe
Go,
Lovely Rose..Edmund Waller
A
Good Man Is Hard to Find..Flannery
O'Connor
The
Grapes of Wrath..John Steinbeck
Grass..Carl
Sandburg
Great
Expectations..Dickens
The
Great Gatsby..Fitzgerald
Greek
Drama Glossary..Cummings
Greek
Theater (Structure)..Cummings
The
Guest..Albert Camus
Gulliver's
Travels..Swift.........................
Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark..Shakespeare
Hands..Sherwood
Anderson
Harlem
(A Dream Deferred)..Langston Hughes
The
Haunted Palace..Poe
Heart
of Darkness..Joseph 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
The
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling..Henry
Fielding
Homer:
Biography..Cummings
Homer,
The Odyssey..Homer
Homer,
The Iliad..Homer
The
Horse Dealder's Daughter..D.H. Lawrence
The
Hound of Heaven..Francis Thompson
Huckleberry
Finn..Mark Twain
The
Hunger Artist..Franz Kafka
The
Hypochondriac..Molière
The
Iceman Cometh..Eugene O'Neill
The
Iliad..Homer
I'm
Nobody! Who Are You?..Emily Dickinson
Il
Penseroso..John Milton
The
Imaginary Invalid..Molière
Imitation..Poe
The
Imp of the Perverse..Poe
Inferno..Dante
In
Flanders Fields..John McCrae
Intimations
of Immortality..Wordsworth
Invictus..William
Ernest Henley
Israfel..Poe
Ivanhoe..Scott
I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud..Wordsworth
Jane
Eyre..Charlotte Brontë
The
Japanese Quince..John Galsworthy
The
Jew of Malta..Christopher Marlowe
The
Jilting of Granny Weatherall..Katherine
Anne Porter
Julius
Caesar..Shakespeare
Kidnapped..Robert
Louis Stevenson
The
Killers..Hemingway
King
John..Shakespeare
King
Lear..Shakespeare
Kubla
Khan..Coleridge
L'Allegro..John
Milton
La
Belle Dame Sans Merci..John Keats
The
Lady of Shalott..Tennyson
The
Lagoon..Joseph Conrad
The
Lake Isle of Innisfree..William Butler
Yeats
Lenore..Poe
L'hôte..Albert
Camus
Libation
Bearers..Aeschylus
Light
Shining Out of Darkness..William
Cowper
The
Lily and the Rose..William
Cowper
The
Listeners..Walter de la Mare
Literary
Terms..Cummings
The
Libation Bearers (Choephori)..Aeschylus
Ligeia..Poe
Locksley
Hall..Tennyson
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
Loveliest
of Trees..A.E. Housman
Love's
Labour's Lost..Shakespeare
A
Lover's Complaint..Shakespeare
Lui?..Guy
de Maupassant
Lysistrata..Aristophanes
Macbeth..Shakespeare
Mac
Flecknoe..Dryden
Machiavelli's
Philosophy..Machiavelli
Madame
Bovary..Flaubert
The
Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg..Mark
Twain
The
Man Who Was Almost a Man..Richard
Wright |
Ms.
(Manuscript) Found in a Bottle..Poe
The
Maypole of Merry Mount..Hawthorne
The
Masque of the Red Death..Poe
Measure
for Measure..Shakespeare
Medea..Euripides
Medicine
in Shakespeare's Plays .Cummings
Mending
Wall..Robert Frost
The
Merchant of Venice..Shakespeare
The
Merry Wives of Windsor..Shakespeare
The
Metamorphosis..Franz Kafka
Meter
in Poetry and Verse: Iambic, Trochaic, etc.
Metzengerstein..Poe
A
Midsummer Night's Dream..Shakespeare
Miniver
Cheevy..Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mirror..Sylvia
Plath
The
Misanthrope..Molière
The
Miser..Molière
Miss
Julie..Strindberg
Mr.
Flood's Party..Edwin Arlington Robinson
Moby
Dick..Herman Melville........................
A
Modest Proposal..Swift
The
Monkey's Paw..W. W. Jabobs
Morella..Poe
The
Most Dangerous Game..Richard Connell
Much
Ado About Nothing..Shakespeare
The
Murders in the Rue Morgue..Poe
My
Kinsman, Major Molineux..Hawthorne
My
Last Duchess..Robert Browning
Narcissus
and Echo..Ovid
Nathan
the Wise (Nathan der Weise)..Gotthold
Ephraim Lessing
The
Necklace..Guy de Maupassant
The
Negro Speaks of Rivers..Langston Hughes
Nicholas
Nickleby..Dickens..
A
Noiseless Patient Spider..Walt Whitman
Notes
From the Underground..Dostoevsky
November
(Alternate Title: No!)..Thomas Hood
An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge..Ambrose
Bierce
Ode
on a Distant Prospect of Eton College..Thomas
Gray
Ode
on a Grecian Urn..John Keats
Ode
on Indolence..John Keats
Ode
on Melancholy..John Keats
Ode
to a Nightingale..John Keats
Ode
to Psyche..John Keats
Ode
to the West Wind..Shelley
The
Odyssey..Homer
Oedipus
at Colonus..Sophocles..
Oedipus
the King..Sophocles..
Oedipus:
the Theban Plays..Sophocles..
The
Old Man and the Sea..Hemingway
Olympian
1..Pindar
On
His Blindness..John Milton
One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich..Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
The
Open Boat..Stephen Crane
Opera
Summaries..Information Provided by
OperaGlass
The
Oresteia..Aeschylus
Othello..Shakespeare
Our
Town..Thornton Wilder
The
Outcasts of Poker Flat.Bret Harte
The
Oval Portrait..Poe
The
Overcoat (The Cloak)..Nicholay
Gogol
Ozymandias..Percy
Bysshe Shelley
Pamela..Samuel
Richardson
Paradise
Lost..John Milton
Paradiso..Dante
A
Passage to India..E. M. Forster
The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love..Christopher
Marlowe
Paul's
Case..Willa Cather
Peace..George
Herbert
Pericles,
Prince of Tyre..Shakespeare
Phaedra
(Phèdre) .Jean Baptiste Racine
Philoctetes..Sophocles
The
Philosophy of Composition..Poe
The
Phoenix and the Turtle..Shakespeare
The
Picture of Dorian Gray..Wilde
Pied
Beauty..Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pippa
Passes (Song From)..Robert Browning
The
Pit and the Pendulum..Poe
The
Playboy of the Western World..Synge
Porphyria's
Lover..Robert Browning
The
Premature Burial..Poe
Pride
and Prejudice..Jane Austen
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 (annotated)..Alexander
Pope
Rappaccini's
Daughter..Hawthorne
The
Raven..Poe
The
Red Badge of Courage..Stephen Crane
Red,
Red Rose..Robert Burns
A
Remembrance of Things Past..Marcel
Proust
Remords
Posthume (The Remorse of the Dead)..Baudelaire
The
Revolt of 'Mother'..Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman
Richard
Cory..Edwin Arlington Robinson..........
Richard
II..Shakespeare
Richard
III..Shakespeare
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner..Coleridge
Rip
Van Winkle..Washington Irving
The
Road Not Taken..Robert
Frost
Robinson
Crusoe..Daniel Defoe
The
Rocking-Horse Winner..D. H. Lawrence
Roman
Fever..Edith Wharton
Romeo
and Juliet..Shakespeare
Root
Cellar..Theodore Roethke
A
Rose for Emily..William Faulkner
Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám..FitzGerald,
Khayyám
Sailing
to Byzantium..William Butler Yeats
Sanatorium..W.
Somerset Maugham
The
Scarlet Letter..Hawthorne
The
School for Scandal..Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
Sea
Fever..John Masefield
The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty..James
Thurber
Self-Reliance..Emerson
Shakespeare's
Manuscripts: Preparation..Cummings
Shakespeare's
Pronouns..Cummings
Shakespeare's
Stage Directions..Glossary
Shakespeare
Study Guide..Cummings
She
Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways..Wordsworth
She
Stoops to Conquer..Goldsmith
She
Walks in Beauty..Byron
Shooting
an Elephant..Orwell
Siddhartha..Hermann
Hesse
Signs
and Symbols..Vladimir Nabokov
Silas
Marner..George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Silent
Snow, Secret Snow..Conrad Aiken
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight..Unknown
Author
Sir
Thomas More..Shakespeare and Others
The
Sleeper..Poe
The
Sniper..Liam O'Flaherty
Socrates..Cummings
Soliloquy
of the Spanish Cloister..Robert Browning
The
Song of the Shirt..Thomas Hood
Sonnet
22..Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet
43..Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets..Shakespeare
Sophocles..Cummings
The
Sound and the Fury..Faulkner
Spoon
River Anthology..Edgar Lee Masters
Spring..Thomas
Carew
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
The
Sun Also Rises..Hemingway
Sweeney
Among the Nightingales..T.S. Eliot
The
Swimmer..John Cheever
Sympathy..("I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings") Paul Laurence Dunbar
Tartuffe..Molière
The
Taming of the Shrew..Shakespeare
Tears,
Idle Tears..Tennyson
The
Tell-Tale Heart..Poe
The
Tempest..Shakespeare
The
Terror..Guy de Maupassant
Tess
of the d'Urbervilles..Thomas Hardy
The
Tiger.William Blake......................
Those
Winter Sundays.Robert Hayden
Timon
of Athens..Shakespeare
Titus
Andronicus..Shakespeare
To
Althea, From Prison..Richard Lovelace
To
an Athlete Dying Young..A.E. Housman
To
Autumn..John Keats
To
Celia.Philostratus and Ben Jonson
To
Helen..Poe
To
His Coy Mistress..Andrew Marvell
To
Kill a Mockingbird.Harper Lee
To
Lucasta, going to Wars..Richard Lovelace
To
a Mouse..Robert Burns
To
a Skylark..Shelley
To
the Virgins, to Make Much of Time..Robert
Herrick
To
a Waterfowl..William Cullen Bryant
Tom
Jones..Henry Fielding
Trachiniae..Sophocles
Trackers..Sophocles
The
Trial..Kafka
The
Trial of Socrates..Plato
Trifles..Susan
Glaspell
Troilus
and Cressida..Shakespeare
The
Turn of the Screw..Henry James
Twelfth
Night..Shakespeare
Twenty-Six
Men and a Girl..Maxim Gorky
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona..Shakespeare
The
Two Noble Kinsmen..Shakespeare
Ulalume..Poe
Ulysses..James
Joyce
Ulysses
and the Siren..Samuel Daniel
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
Walden..Thoreau
War
and Peace..Tolstoy
The
Way of the World..William Congreve
We
Wear the Mask..Paul Laurence Dunbar
When
I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer..Walt
Whitman
When
Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd..Walt
Whitman
Where
Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go?..Arthur
Hugh Clough
Whoso
List to Hunt..Thomas Wyatt
Why
So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?..Sir
John Suckling
The
Wild Duck..Ibsen
William
Wilson..Poe
The
Winter's Tale..Shakespeare
Women
of Trachis..Sophocles
The
World Is Too Much With Us..Wordsworth
A
Worn Path..Eudora Welty
The
Yellow Wallpaper..Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
Young
Goodman Brown..Hawthorne
Waltzing
Matilda..A. B. (Banjo) Patterson
Wuthering
Heights..Emily Brontë |
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