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The poetics
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)
Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, c. 335 BCE (BC)) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(An Electronic Classics Series, 2013)
Like much of James Joyce's work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a fictional re-creation of the Irish writer's own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel's young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold ...
Lord of the flies
(Penguin, 1954)
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can ...
Arms and the man
(The electronic classic series, 2002)
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative ...
Selected Poems
(The World's Poetry Archive, 2004)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952—the author's choice of the ninety poems he felt would best represent his work up to that time—and it was published by New Directions in 1953 as The Collected Poems of ...
The Importance of Being Earnest: a trivial comedy for seroius people
(An Electronic Classics Series Publication, 2012)
Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 2012. ...
The tragical history of Dr Faustus
(The electronic classic series, 1998)
Christopher Marlowe was an English poet, dramatist and translator in the Elizabethan period. Faust is the famous story of a man selling his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level man's decay from ...
Leaves of grass
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass,[1] revising it in ...
One hundred years of solitude
(Harper & Row, 1967)
One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One Hundred ...
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
(An Electronic Classics Series, 2012)
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person ...