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A Calendar for "Northanger Abbey"
This analysis of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" examines the function of time in the plot using an day-by-day calendar to summarize the events of the story. Includes a bibliography.
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Austen.com: "Mansfield Park" Text, Intro, & Resources
Access the complete text of Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park." The text is divided into chapters with a short description alongside each to help you jump to particular sections of the story more easily. Also includes an introduction...
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O. Henry: The Green Door, Lesson and Activities
This set of lessons and activities includes brief biography of the writer, synopsis, pre-story and other exercises and discussion questions, and a follow up. The plans are downloadable in .pdf or .doc format.
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O.henry: The Last Leaf Lesson and Activities
The ELLSA site offers this very complete set of lessons about The Last Leaf, focusing on setting, but including vocabulary and other elements.
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The Power of Passion: Tales of Thwarted Desire
This critical essay looks at a number of Hawthorne's characters and works. Includes a bibliography.
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Poetry Lovers' Page: Rudyard Kipling
An alphabetical listing of all of Rudyard Kipling's (1865-1936 CE) poems. Included in the list is a link to biographical information.
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On the Life of Thomas Cole
For a firsthand look at Bryant's work look no further. This site is "A funeral oration delivered before the National Academy of Design, New York, May 4, 1848 by William Cullen Bryant."
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Astoria by Washington Irving
This resource provides online text, including the author's introduction, for "Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains" by Washington Irving. It also provides a link to a publication history for this work.
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The Kipling Society: Some Kipling Poems
This site from The Kipling Society provides full texts of almost 40 of Kipling's poems.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study Webtext: "Bartleby the Scrivener"
Annotated version of the story offers notes and questions to facilitate active reading.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: The Children's Hour
Full text of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) poem "The Children's Hour." Includes notes.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: My Lost Youth
Full text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)"My Lost Youth." Includes note on poem.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Wreck of the Hesperus
Full text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) classic 1840 poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus." With notes.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: On the Death of Anne Bronte
This site contains the full text of "On the Death of Anne Bronte," Charlotte Bronte's elegy to her sister.
University of Toronto (Canada)
Selected Poetry of the Venerable Bede
Link from here to Bede's Death Song, in original and modern language. Also includes a biographical overview.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Poetry of Jonathan Swift
Full text, from the University of Toronto, of nine of Swift's most famous poems, including "Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers."
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This site provides several selections from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese."
University of Maryland
Mary Shelley: The Last Man
This is the full text of Mary Shelley's futurist novel The Last Man. Set in the twenty-first century, the novel revolves around six characters whose lives, over time and continents, are among the supposedly final generation of humans on...
University of Maryland
Mary Shelley's Short Fiction
This index page links to the full text of four Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly short stories, including "The False Rhyme," "Ferdinando Eboli," "The Mourner," and "The Mortal Immortal."
University of Maryland
Rome in the First and the Nineteenth Centuries
Full text of an 1824 essay attributed to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "Rome in the First and the Nineteenth Centuries."
University of Maryland
Excerpts From Mary Shelley's Letters
Excerpts from four different letters written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
University of Maryland
"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Text of "The Mortal Immortal" written by Mary Shelley.
University of Maryland
"The Last Man": Apocalypse Without Millennium
A critical look at Mary Shelly's "The Last Man" and the idea (widely used in writing of that time) of the last man on earth.
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E Server: The Thoreau Reader: Text of "Life Without Principle"
A complete online text from The Thoreau Reader of Henry David Thoreau's (1817-1862 CE) essay "Life Without Principle," as well as quotes about the essay's impact.