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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
Alcestis..Euripides
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
The
Awakening..Kate Chopin
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
Birthmark..Hawthorne
The
Black Cat..Poe
The Blessed
Damozel..Rossetti
Bleak House..Dickens
Brahma..Emerson
Break,
Break, Break..Tennyson
Bridal
Ballad..Poe
The Bridge
of San Luis Rey..Thornton Wilder
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
A
Clean, Well-Lighted Place..Hemingway
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..
The Dead Man
Walking..Thomas
Hardy
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.
Heidegger's Experiment..Hawthorne
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
Ethan
Frome..Edith
Wharton
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
The Frogs..Aristophanes
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
The
Great Stone Face..Hawthorne
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
A
Haunted House..Virginia
Woolf
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
Hungry Stones..Rabindranath Tagore
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
Iphigenia at
Aulis..Euripides
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
Lotus-Eaters..Tennyson
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
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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
The
Minister's Black Veil..Hawthorne
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
The Moth..Walter de la Mare
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
An Old Woman
of the Roads..Pádraic
Colum
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
The Persians..Aeschylus
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
Safe in Their
Alabaster Chambers..Emily Dickinson
Sailing to
Byzantium..William
Butler Yeats
Sanatorium..W. Somerset Maugham
The Scarlet
Letter..Hawthorne
The
School for Scandal..Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
The Sea
Gull..Chekhov
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
Six
Characters in Search of an Author..Luigi
Pirandello
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
Tennessee's
Partner..Bret
Harte
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
Trojan Women..Euripides
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
The
Unknown Citizen..W. H. Auden
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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