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A brief history of English literature A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A confederacy of dunces A Doll’s House A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A Passage to India A Room of One’s Own A Rose for Emily A Worn Path Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov Aeneid Aeschylus African American Literature African American writers From 1773 to the 1930 Agatha Christie Agatha Christie novel Alberta by Tania Cox Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley The Novel of Ideas Aleksandr Pushkin Alexandre Dumas Alice Walker Allegory Allen Ginsberg American Authors American Literary Environmentalism American literature American Literature 1865-1914 American Literature and British literature American Literature after 1900 American Literature major movements and terms American Literature Review American Literature to 1700 American modernist literature American Pastoral by Philip Roth Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad Amy Tan An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde An Outpost of Progress by Joseph Conrad Anglophone Literature Animal Farm by George Orwell Anna Karenina by Lav Nikolaevich Tolstoy Anne Bradstreet Annie Dillard Antigone Antigone key literary elements Anton Chekhov Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara Aristotle Aristotle The Poetics Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Hailey Artwork in Origin As i lay dying by William Faulkner Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald Ballroom Bonanza Boccaccio Giovanni writer Ben Jonson Benjamin Franklin Bilby Moon Bilingual poetry Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Bleak House by Charles Dickens Bloomsbury Walk Bobbie Dazzler Book of Amos Book of Job Book of Proverbs Book of Urizen Bowling for Columbine Bram Stoker Brave New World Topics of Discussion Brothers Grimm Cinderella Brothers Grimm King Grisly-Beard Brothers Grimm The Frog Prince Candide by Voltaire Carl Yung Cat by Mike Dumbleton Celebrating Women Writers Characteristics of American Romanticism Charles Baudelaire Charles Darwin Charles Dickens Charles Dickens and David Copperfield Charlotte Bronte Childhood in Novels by Charles Dickens Children’s Books About Plants, Trees City Shower Clerks Clive Staples Lewis Clive Staples Lewis questions Coleridge Colonial Literature Common Errors in English Connie Willis Contemporary Catalan literature Contemporary Fantasy Literature Contemporary Literary Theory Contemporary Russian Literature Crocodile River by Diana Lawrenson Daniel Defoe Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri Hell Dante Alighieri Inferno Dante and the Poetics of Revelation David Copperfield by Charles Dickens David John Lodge Dickens and Coincidence Dickens novels Don Quixote Dracula by Bram Stoker Dracula novel Edward Taylor Emily Dickinson English Baroque Literature English literature English literature and Feminisms Erich Auerbach Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Soldier’s Home Essay Eudora Welty Euripides European Literature E.M. Forster A Passage to India Fahrenheit 451 A Novel By Ray Bradbury Famous French Romantic Sayings Fantasy Novels Faust Legends Female writers in the literary critics Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Franz Kafka Frederick Douglass Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Schiller From Romantic Movement to Postmodern Style Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Novel Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot Gabriel Garcia Marquez Geoffrey Chaucer George Eliot George Gordon Byron Good poems Great Expectation Charles Dickens Greek Drama Greek literature ancient Greek Mythology and Literature Gulliver's travels Gustave Flaubert Guy de Maupassant Hamlet Hamlet Act I Hamlet and His Problems Hamlet in the Life and Work of Italo Svevo Hanif Kureishi and Postcolonial Literature Hansel and Gretel Harper Lee Harriet Beecher Stowe Harry Potter How to Read Literature Like a Professor Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Hemingway's Short Stories Henrik Ibsen Henry David Thoreau Henry Fielding Hermann Hesse Herman Melville Herman Melville Moby-Dick Honoré de Balzac House on the lagoon by Rosario Ferre Howard Phillips Lovecraft Ideology and the Children’s Book Iliad by Homer In Search for Lost Time Marcel Proust In the lake of the woods Tim O'Brien Influence of puritanism on early american literature Italo Svevo Introduction to the Novel Irvine Welsh Isabel Allende Isaac Asimov Jean Paul Sartre James Joyce Jane Austen Jane Austen life Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Jewish women writers Joanne Kathleen Rowling Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life and works John Keats John Steinbeck Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift works Jorge Luis Borges Joseph Conrad Journey to the Center of the Earth Joyce Carol Oates Jules Verne Julian Barnes Kafka notes Kafka's mythology Kate Chopin Keats John Knut Hamsun Kurt Vonnegut Langdon in the Langdon Series Langston Hughes Legendary heroes Leo Tolstoy novels Leonardo da Vinci Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Letters from an American farmer Linguistics terms Liquidation Imre Kertesz Literary Commentary Literary Periods of British and American Literature Literary Theory Literary terms Literature and Film as Modern Mythology Literature and philosophy Literature of the Norman Period Madame Bovary Mann Thomas Mapping Literary Britain Marcel Proust Mary Poppins Mary Shelley Frankenstein Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar Middle english literature Miguel de Cervantes Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Misery by Stephen King Modern British Women Writers Molière Monica Dickens Montague Rhodes James Ghost Stories Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Narrative Techniques in the British and American Novel Narrative Techniques in the British and American Novel National Stereotypes and Literature Nathaniel Hawthorne Native American Creation Stories Nikolai Gogol Nineteenth Century British Literature Northanger Abbey Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Novelist Novels and authors Novels are born of disillusionment Oedipus at Colonus Oedipus rex pre-reading and background Oedipus the King Odyssey by Homer Of Mice and Men Old and Middle English Literature Old English Anglo Saxon Era Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Orlando by Virginia Woolf Oroonoko Orwell Chronology Oscar Wilde Ovid Metamorphoses Patriotic Writings Percy Bysshe Shelley Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac Piglet and Granny Piglet and Mama Plato’s Republic Plato’s Republic Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Poetic structure of the literary work Poetry Poetry of outstanding English authors Poetry war Poets Modern Postmodern Polish Feminism Postcolonial Literatures and Theory Postcolonial novelist V. 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Naipaul Postmodernism Primo Levi Publius Ovidius Naso Puritanism and American Literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Rapunzel Realism revisited Redefining the Term Hero Renaissance Literature Renaissance writers Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption River Thieves by Michael Crummey Roald Dahl Robert Frost Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe Roman Jakobson Romanticism and Revolution Romanticism literature Romanticism Preface to Lyrical Ballads Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rumpelstiltskin Russian Literature Sailing to Byzantium Samsara Dog Samuel Beckett Samuel Richardson Saved Scandinavian Novels Scottish women writers Seadragon sea by Margaret Spurling Sebastian Faulks Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Silence in postcolonial literary Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sirens of Titan Slaughterhouse Five Son Jara Sophocles or Sofokles Soren [Søren] Kierkegaard Southeast Asian Novels Squeak Street Stories Series by Emily Rodda Stendhal Stephen King Structuralism Swann’s way by Marcel Proust Sylvia Plath Tale of Genji Tennessee Williams The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study guide The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The age of innocence Edith Wharton The American Renaissance The apple tree by John Galsworthy The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe The Black Musketeer The Black Tulip The Boston Tea Party By Thom Hartmann The boy in the striped pyjamas The Butler The Call of the Wild by Jack London The Canterbury Tales The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe The Cyclops by Euripides The Citadel AJ Cronin The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Country of the Blind The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button By F Scott Fitzgerald The End of Something Ernest Hemingway The Darkling Thrush The Decameron The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri The Dunciad The Education of Henry Adams The Epic of Gilgamesh The Fall by Simon Mawer The folded leaf by William Maxwell The Forsyte Saga The Fugitive by Marcel Proust The Giaour The girl in the flammable skirt by aimee bender The Gothic Novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby study guide The House of Atreus The Hemingway Code Hero The Hobbit by Tolkien The Hobbit Novel Study Guide The Hollow Men The Hound of the Baskervilles The Illiad and The Odyssey The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The Inferno Dante Alighieri The intentional fallacy The Killers by Ernest Hemingway The Legend of Romulus and Remus The Leopard The life and opinions of tristram shandy gentleman The Life and Times of John Steinbeck The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien The Lost World The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann The Magic of Storytelling The Man He Killed The Man of Property The marble faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Minister’s Black Veil The Odyssey, Books 1-8 The old man and the sea The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Prince by Niccolo Machivelli The professor's house Willa Cather The Rape of the Lock The return of the native The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood The Sandbox The Satire of Jonathan Swift The Second Coming The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad's The secret of Tolkien's Rings The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter study guide The Silmarillion by Tolkien The Smallest Bilby and the Midnight Star The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway The Sound and the Fury The Speech of Miss Polly Baker The Story of an Hour The Story of the Bad Little Boy The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Stranger by Albert Camus The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe The Time Machine The Trial by Franz Kafka The Unknown Citizen The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler The White Man's Burden The World Beneath the Books The 100 greatest novels Things Fall Apart This boy’s life by Tobias Wolff This Side of Paradise Thomas Gray Thomas Hardy Thomas Mann Thomas Stearns Eliot novels Thomas Stearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Through the Dark Eyes of Literature To be or not to be Hamlet’s Dilemma To my Dear and Loving Husband Tom Tom by Rosemary Sullivan Troilus and Criseyde Twentieth century literature in Britain Ulysses by James Joyce Using Quotations and Citing Sources Vampire Literature Gothic novel Vampires Evolution Victor Hugo Victorian crime novels Victorian and Victorianism Victorian Literature and the Reception of Greece and Rome Victorian novel features Virgil Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf A Haunted House Virginia Woolf Between the Acts Virginia Woolf Books Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens Virginia Woolf Novels Virginia Woolf opening space Virginia Woolf The Common Reader Virginia Woolf The Waves Virginia Woolf’s Technique of Novel Writing Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Vladimir Propp Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Voltaire Waiting For Godot Walker Percy and Southern Literature Walt Whitman Walter Scott War and Peace by Tolstoy Washington Irving West Side Story Western Literature What Do You Know About Jack London Why Harper Lee Never Wrote Another Novel William Blake William Butler Yeats William Faulkner William Faulkner novels William Shakespeare William Shakespeare his life William Shakespeare King Lear William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet William Wordsworth Wind, Sand and Stars Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Woman’s World Women Creative Writers Women in India Women in Love D. H. Lawrence Women’s literature in Kenya Women Writers and Gender Women writers in German in the post-1945 period You and Me Our Place Yuri Karlovich Olesha 100 Years of Solitude 1984 by George Orwell 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne