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Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes Have a
- Charles Dickens - online-literature. com
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English Victorian era author wrote numerous highly acclaimed novels including his most autobiographical David Copperfield (1848-1850); “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been
- William Shakespeare - online literature
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), `The Bard of Avon', English poet and playwright wrote the famous 154 Sonnets and numerous highly successful oft quoted dramatic works including the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet; "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it
- The Beat Generation - Literature Periods Movements
The publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1956 marks a turning point in the history of Beat literature, not to mention American literature in general The long-form poem is intended to be read aloud, almost chanted, a sort of return to an oral tradition that had been neglected in literature for a long time The content of the poem raised eyebrows, and sparked an obscenity trial which
- Difference between oral literature and written literature . . . - Answers
Oral literature has influenced written literature by serving as a foundation for storytelling techniques, narrative structures, and themes that writers draw inspiration from
- Edgar Allan Poe - online-literature. com
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American poet, critic, short story writer, and author of such macabre works as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840); I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows - upon a few rank sedges - and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees - with
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky - online literature
White Nights (1848) A sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer FIRST NIGHT It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky That is a youthful question too, dear reader, very youthful, but
- William Butler Yeats - online-literature. com
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet wrote The Celtic Twilight (1893); Paddy Flynn is dead; He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer
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