Literary Periods & History Timeline Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods & movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history. To learn more …

Modernism The Modernist Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. In broad terms, the period was …

The Enlightenment The Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason, was a confluence of ideas and activities that took place throughout the eighteenth century in Western …

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American poet, critic, short story writer, and author of such macabre works as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840); I looked upon the scene before me …

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations A Collection of over 8000 Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.

The key to reading the story is to see all the dramatic action as occurring in Gabriel's head. Identify the conflicts in Gabriel as Gretta goes to sleep, then read the story's last 5 paragraphs …

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Eveline SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. …

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the …