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Proof-Reading Created: Monday, May 14, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
George L. Milller writes about proof-reading... Read an overview of the traditional/historical process of proofreading.
Pirate Hunter Created: Friday, October 03, 2003 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Pirates appear in some of our greatest adventure literature, with Robert Louis Stevenson and others helping us to imagine the pirate life... In this new book, Richard Zacks explores the pirate life...
Benjamin Franklin Biography Created: Monday, August 09, 2010 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
D.H. Lawrence writes about Benjamin Franklin in Studies in Classic American Literature.
Galley Created: Saturday, May 26, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
What is a galley? Why is it important? How would you define it?
Bibliomania Created: Sunday, April 22, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
What is Bibliomania? Why is it important?
50 Years of Hawthorne - Part 2 Created: Sunday, May 20, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Henry A. Beers writes about the fame of Nathaniel Hawthorne, how he fits into American literature, etc.
50 Years of Hawthorne - Part 1 Created: Sunday, May 20, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Henry A. Beers writes about Nathaniel Hawthorne, his idealism-come-to-life in fictional form.
Charles Dickens Biography Created: Sunday, December 04, 2011 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Charles Dickens is one of the most famous writers in English literature. Here's a biography.
'The Scarlet Pimpernel' Questions for Study and Discussion Created: Thursday, October 27, 2011 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
The Scarlet Pimpernel is an famous adventure novel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Here are a few questions for study and discussion.
One Dickens of a Time Created: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Charles Dickens is recognized as one of the greatest writers of the Victorian period, but he didn't have a wonderful life. His experience in the Blacking Factory as a boy, his family's imprisonment...
'A Tale of Two Cities' Questions for Study and Discussion Created: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities is an famous work of Victorian literature. Here are a few questions for study and discussion.
'A Tale of Two Cities' Quotes Created: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities is a dense classic, often studied in classrooms. Charles Dickens published the work late in his career as a popular novelist in Victorian England. The backdrop of the work is t...
Literary Classics: Who is Failing? Created: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Recently, a number of schools in the United Kingdom refused to stock English literary classics in their libraries on the grounds that their pupils have no taste for such books and most of them find...
Charles Dickens Quotes Created: Friday, February 10, 2006 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Charles Dickens came from a life of poverty and deprivation, but he drew from many of his earliest experiences to create some of the most memorable characters of all time. Now, Dickens is still con...
One Dickens of a Time Created: Thursday, February 19, 2004 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Charles Dickens is recognized as one of the greatest writers of the Victorian period, but his life was far from ideal. His experience in the Blacking Factory as a boy, his family's imprisonment in ...
'A Tale of Two Cities' Review - Charles Dickens Created: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens' 16th novel, epitomizes the author’s popular appeal. It’s a tale of chaos, espionage and adventure set in London and Paris prior to, and during, th...
'Our Mutual Friend' Review Created: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Are generations of high school students wrong in thinking that Charles Dickens is one of the most boring writers ever to write what in many cases amounts to soap operas for money? Read more about O...
'Gulliver's Travels' Review Created: Monday, May 21, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
There are few great satirists who manage to judge their work so finely that it can be considered both a rip-roaring, fantastical adventure story suitable for children and adults alike, as well as a...
'Look Back in Anger' Review Created: Saturday, June 30, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
When it first appeared on the London state in 1956, Look Back in Anger completely revolutionized British theatre.
'The Glass Menagerie' Review Created: Saturday, March 24, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
The Glass Menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams more sedate plays, but what it lacks in the southern fire and passion of A Streetcar Named Desire and A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it more than makes up...
Tennessee Williams: Plays Created: Saturday, March 26, 2005 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
In this two-volume collection of the plays by Tennessee Williams, you'll read how
Plays by Tennessee Williams Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Tennessee Williams was one of the leading American dramatists of the 20th century, famous for works like The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and other works. Discover the works of Tennes...
Books About Tennessee Williams Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Tennessee Williams was an award-winning playwright. Williams also produced film scripts, short stories, novels, and verse, though he is most well-known for the innovations that he brought to theatr...
'Candide' Review Created: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Wenkai Tay writes that
Candide Created: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
In his review, Duchan Caudill says,
Candide Created: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Wenkai Tay writes that
50 Years of Hawthorne - Part 3 Created: Sunday, May 20, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a realist? Or something else? How does Rappacini's Daughter figure in?
Famous Fictional Heroines Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
In exploring the world of literature, these heroines come immediately to mind: Edna Pontellier, Madame Bovary, Moll Flanders, Anna Karenin, Lily Bart, Jane Eyre, Hester Prynne, Elizabeth Bennet, Da...
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Created: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Read Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). After an initial period of anonymity during his so-called solitary years from 1825 to 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne achieved an unf...
Nathaniel Hawthorne Created: Sunday, February 04, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Speaking in absolutes is never a safe habit, but it is especially unsafe when you are a teenager. In high school, I broke rank with my favorite teacher, Diane Woodbury, and decided that I hated Nat...
1 - The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Created: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Read The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
'The Scarlet Letter' Quotes Created: Saturday, January 06, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 21, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter, his famous tale of adultery and alienation, in 1850. The novel has become a popular (and sometimes controversial) focus of literary study in American l...

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