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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
- Literature Periods Movements. Literary History
Literature History Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th century He wrote intensely detailed histories of American and English literature, covering the periods up until what were his modern times We have collected those works below
- 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
- Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire - online literature
Francois Marie Arouet was born in Paris, France, on 21 November 1694, the youngest son born to notary François Arouet (1650-1722) As was his father's wishes to follow in his footsteps and enter the legal profession via a classical education, he entered the Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Grand in 1704 For the next seven years, while under the guidance of Jesuit priests, Voltaire's rebellious and
- George Eliot - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss.
Her keen intellect, years of religious study, knowledge of languages and literature, and work in translations proved invaluable to Chapman and the Review She was given wide-ranging editorial control and flexed her might as a writer in the non-fiction vein, her articles published anonymously
- Booth Tarkington - online literature
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), American playwright and author, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and again in 1922 for Alice Adams (1921), later adapted to the screen starring Katherine Hepburn Exploring the realms of middle-class, middle-America, romantic illusions and the power and corruption of wealth, Tarkington became a leading voice of his
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Search eText, Read Online, Study . . .
Don Quixote has inspired many artists in different fields It is considered mainly to be a comedy However, woven into the tale is a lot of Spain's history Don Quixote's name even penned a type of psychosis In fact, anyone who has had experience with the mentally ill may find it difficult to regard Don Quixote as a comedy After all, he was not totally harmless "A man attacked a driver
- 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
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