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  • Homer (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 ...
  • Sophocles (Chelsea House Publishers, 2007)
    My introduction emphasizes the guiltlessness of Oedipus and, by Sophoclean extension, of most of us. Thomas De Quincey said that the true answer to the riddle of the sphinx was not Man, but Oedipus himself.
  • Sophocles (An Electronic Classic Series Publication, 1912)
    Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by F. Storr; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press ...
  • Sophocles (thewritedirection.net, 2004)
    Oedipus (US /ˈɛdɨpəs/ or UK /ˈiːdɨpəs/; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill ...
  • Ashcroft, Bill (CONTINUUM, 2001)
    The central strategy in transformations of colonial culture is the seizing of self-representation. Underlying all economic, political and social resistance is the struggle over representation
  • Marquez, Grabriel Garcia (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 ...
  • Othello 
    Shakespeare, William (thewritedirection.net, 2004)
    The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, ...
  • Vanspanckeren, Kathryn (The United States Department of State, 1994)
    A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s
  • Malmkjær, Kirsten; Windle, Kevin (2001)
    The study of translation is a well-established field of scholarly activity. The discipline has taken its position in academia as a subject of serious research and study. This article is a reference work and practical guide ...
  • Eastwood, John (Oxford University Press, 1999)
    This text gives clear explanations of English grammar with exercises on the facing page which provide practice in form and use. The revised edition provides additional grammar topics and expanded treatment of others, more ...
  • Milton, John (thewritedirection.net, 2004)
    Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in ...
  • Milton, John (thewritedirection.net, 2004)
    Paradise Regained is the idea of reversals. As implied by its title, Milton sets out to reverse the "loss" of Paradise. Thus, antonyms are often found next to each other, reinforcing the idea that everything that was lost ...
  • Forster, E. M. (Book Rags', 2007)
    Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In ...
  • Warburton, Nigel (Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 1992)
    This is a notoriously difficult question. One of the easiest ways of answering it is to say that philosophy is what philosophers do, and then point to the writings of Plato
  • Bunyan, John (Grand Rapids, 1853)
    Often rated as important as the Bible as a Christian document, this famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against ...
  • Poems 
    Dickinson, Emily (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 ...
  • Poems 
    Eliot, T. S. (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 ...
  • Poems 
    Frost, Robert (The World's poetry archive, 2004)
    A proven bestseller time and time again, Robert Frost's Poems contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are "Birches," "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy ...
  • Poems 
    Donne, John (PoemHunter.Com - The World's Poetry Archive, 2004)
    The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The ...
  • Aristotle (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 ...

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