Literature

The complete English Literature transparency program series includes English Literature of the 17th Century, English Literature of the 18th Century...

Since the dawn of literature, no writer has matched the combination of dramatic genius and popular appeal that we find in William Shakespeare. This...

To many, Robert Frost might come across as a lyricist of nature, a 20th century James Russell Lowell. His stubborn traditional form, however, often...

The novels of John Steinbeck form an epic to the American loser, and the saga of Steinbeck’s losers is a chronicle of exile and hardship. Out of th...

In the long story that is English literature there is no one quite like Charles Dickens, and his appeal to readers remains as strong today as it wa...

The complete American Literature transparency program series includes American Literature From 1620 to 1820, American Literature From 1820 to 1865,...

The literature of the United States following World War II was, in many ways, a product of that war, mirroring a fact that the war had so clearly e...

This program offers 50 activities designed to reinforce student understanding of terms like plot, conflict, character, flashback, foreshadowing, po...

Walt Whitman was the first American to take the common experience of man as the very source of high poetry. His masterpiece Leaves of Grass is mor...

This program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...

“Show me a hero,” Scott Fitzgerald once said, “and I’ll write you a tragedy.” And while Fitzgerald’s life was as heroic as any he ever created for ...

Four hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of drama and movement, full of stalking ghosts and fencing matches, pirate ships and dark castles. Despite this cons...

This presentation of the life and works of George Orwell offers a portrait of a political writer whose major themes are man and his state, surely a...

When The Great Gatsby appeared in 1925, it was hailed by T.S. Eliot as the first step forward in American fiction since Henry James, and the interv...

Geoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part ...

In this program, students will review twelve individual lessons on the basic terms in literature including plot, setting, theme, character, conflic...

Here we explain the most common literary terms encountered in typical units of poetry, short story, novel, and drama. Terms for poetry classes incl...

The seventeenth century in England was an age of political, religious, and intellectual upheaval. This program examines this era and captures the s...

Often when we hear the word “Victorian,” the images that come to mind are those of obsessive propriety, prudery, hypocrisy. But if we take a closer...

William Wordsworth is the greatest figure of the Romantic Age in English literature, and ranks with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as one of the ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn symbolizes the conscience of the Soviet Union, and his literature presents the inhumanity of any society that fails to value...

Jane Austen is one of the few writers that is a favorite of both literary scholars and the reading public, and her six novels rank among the classi...

Guy DeMaupassant fashioned many unforgettable stories and characters and, for himself, a place in history as the father of the modern short story. ...

For Algerian-born Albert Camus, World War II raised ethical doubts and questions about the “dilemma of existence itself.” In his plays, essays, and...

The comic realism of Mark Twain might be the most representative note in America‰۪s literary tradition, and that it is streaked with hopelessness a...

Each of the three sections is accompanied by a comprehensive glossary and an illustrated timeline. Users can print some of Twain‰۪s best-loved work...

Each of the three sections is accompanied by a comprehensive glossary and an illustrated timeline. Users can print some of Twain‰۪s best-loved work...

Each of the three sections is accompanied by a comprehensive glossary and an illustrated timeline. Users can print some of Twain‰۪s best-loved work...

The Life of Henry David Thoreau - The author of Walden and an essay on Civil Disobedience is today regarded as the spokesperson of people everywher...

Featuring Sir Derek Jacobi, Tony Award Winner & Veteran of the London Stage. Who was the man who wrote these plays and poems? Was the author a...

Each of the sections is accompanied by a glossary and an illustrated timeline. Users can print some of Poe‰۪s best work, and test their knowledge. ...

Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as America‰۪s first great literary critic, its first real literary critic, its first literary influence in Europe, a su...

Each of the sections is accompanied by a glossary and an illustrated timeline. Users can print some of Poe‰۪s best work, and test their knowledge. ...

Each of the sections is accompanied by a glossary and an illustrated timeline. Users can print some of Poe‰۪s best work, and test their knowled...