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    • Virgil's Iliad: an essay on epic narrative 

      Gransden, K. W. (Cambridge University, 1984)
      This is a book about Virgil's Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil's use of Homer's Iliad. The author's main purpose is to try to re-establish the value and importance of books ...

    • Volpone; Or, The Fox 

      Jonson, Ben (Dramatis Personae, 2014)
      Volpone is a greedy Venetian nobleman who has no relative to inherit his wealth. Pretending to be on his death bed several people trying to win Volpone’s favor.

    • Walt Whitman's "song of myself ": a mosaic of interpretations 

      Miller, Edwin Haviland (University of lowa press, 1989)
      Song of Myself by Walt Whitman is one of the must read Walt Whitman poems. There were a few editions of Song of Myself, as Whitman revised this poem throughout his lifetime.

    • War and peace 

      Tolstoy, Leo (thewritedirection.net, 2004)
      War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered as Tolstoy's finest ...

    • The way of the world 

      Congreve, William (Dover Publications, 1994)
      One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, ...

    • William Blake poems 

      Blake, William (PoemHunter.com- The world's poetry archive, 2004)
      William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age His prophetic ...

    • The works of John Donne: with an introduction and bibliography 

      Donne, John (Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1994)
      Donne's works are also witty, employing paradoxes, puns, and subtle yet remarkable analogies. His pieces are often ironic and cynical, especially regarding love and human motives. Common subjects of Donne's poems are, death ...

    • Writing Matters 

      Kristine, Brown; Hood, Susan (Cambridge University, 1989)
      Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed ...

    • Wuthering Heights 

      Bronte, Emily (Planet PDF, 1801)
      Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale ...

    • Wuthering heights 

      Bronte, Emily (thewritedirection.net, 2004)
      Many people, generally those who have never read the book, consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward, if intense, love story — Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is ...

    • শ্রীকান্ত (Sreekanto) 

      চট্টোপাধ্যায়, শরৎচন্দ্র (মাটিগন্ধা, 2016)
      শ্রীকান্ত শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের চারখন্ডে সমাপ্ত একখানা আত্মজীবনীমূলক উপন্যাস। ভ্রমণ-কাহিনীর লক্ষণাক্রান্ত এ উপন্যাসটির প্রথম খন্ড প্রকাশিত হয় ১৯১৭ সালে এবং শেষখন্ড ১৯৩৩ সালে। খন্ডগুলি কতক বিচ্ছিন্ন কাহিনীর সমষ্টি, ...

    • সাজাহান 

      রায়, দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল (বিশ্বসাহিত্য কেন্দ্র, 2011)
      দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল রায়ের সার্থক নাটক বলা যেতে পারে। কেননা নাটকের ভাষা ও সংলাপ সহজবোধ্য এবং সুস্পষ্ট। কোনরূপ জটিলতা দেখা যায় না। পুত্রস্নেহ ও আহত সম্রাটের গর্বের দ্বন্দ সংলাপে সুস্পষ্টভাবে ধরা পড়ে। সুতারাং, বলা যেতে পারে যারা ...