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The odyssey
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western ... -
The iliad
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of ... -
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored ... -
A collection of poems
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The poet/critic Randall Jarrell often praised Frost's poetry and wrote, "Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century. Frost's virtues are extraordinary. No ... -
Madame bovary
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Madame Bovary takes place in provincial northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy. The story begins and ends with Charles Bovary, a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. As the novel opens, ... -
The great gatsby
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily ... -
Poems
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in Missouri on September 26, 1888. He lived in St. Louis during the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard University. In 1910, he left the United States for the Sorbonne, having ... -
Crime and punishment
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. ... -
Poetry
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, ... -
Poems
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy ... -
The divine comedy
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the per-eminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world ... -
The heart of darkness.
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness retells the story of Marlow's job as an ivory transporter down the Congo. Through his journey, Marlow develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, and ... -
Poetry
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. Active in the wake of the ... -
The canterbury tales
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of over 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The ... -
Bacon's essays
(Charles scribner's sons, 2014)Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of ... -
The stranger
(Vintage Books, 1942)The Outsider or The Stranger (French: L’Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. The titular character is Meursault, an indifferent Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the ... -
Wuthering heights
(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 ... -
Songs of innocence and songs of experience
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he ... -
Beowulf
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Beowulf (/ˈbeɪ.ɵwʊlf/; in Old English [ˈbeːo̯wʊlf] or [ˈbeːəwʊlf]) is the conventional title of an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most ... -
Pride and prejudice
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage ...
