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The Odyssey by Homer. Search eText, Read Online, Study, Discuss.
2011年5月19日 · The Odyssey 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 canon, and is the second--the Iliad being the first--extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th century BC ...
Edgar Allan Poe - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read …
He has been the subject of numerous biographers and has significantly influenced many other authors even into the 21st Century. Edgar Poe was born on 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actors Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins (1787-1811) and David Poe (1784-1810). He had a brother named William Henry (1807-1831) and sister Rosalie ...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Search eText, Read Online, …
Great Expectations is a dramatic novel; we are prepared for this by the drama of the opening chapter. Charles Dickens uses an advanced language that plants a clear insight of the setting, the character profiles, and the novels' historic aspects. Pip, the main character of this novel is orphaned from the start.
Joseph Conrad - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online.
Józef Teodor Conrad Korzeniowski was born on 3 December 1857 in the Russian occupied city of Berdyczów, Ukraine. He was the only child born to Evelina Bobrowska (1832–1865) and Apollo Korzeniowski, (1820–1869) patriot, writer, and translator of such authors’ works as Victor Hugo ’s and William Shakespeare ’s. Joseph would also read ...
Leo Tolstoy - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online.
Almost one hundred years after his death, in January of 2007, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878) and War and Peace were placed on Time magazine’s ten greatest novels of all time, first and third place respectively. Childhood: days of idyll, Moscow and Kazan University. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on 28 August 1828 into a long line of ...
Charles Dickens - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read …
Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on 7 February, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (now the Dickens Birthplace Museum) the son of Elizabeth née Barrow (1789-1863) and John Dickens (c.1785-1851) a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. John was a congenial man, hospitable and generous to a fault which caused him financial difficulties ...
P. G. Wodehouse - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read …
Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English playwright and author created the fictional characters Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves, starring in such works as The Inimitable Jeeves (1923), Carry On Jeeves (1925), Right Ho Jeeves (1934), Thank You, Jeeves (1934), Ring For Jeeves (1953), How Right You Are Jeeves (1960), and My Man Jeeves (1919 ...
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Search eText, Read Online, Study, …
2017年1月6日 · Moby Dick is now considered one of the greatest novels in the English language and has secured Melville's place among America's greatest writers. Written in 1851, it is the story of Ishmael’s whaling voyage. It contains many examples of alliteration, allusion, similes, and metaphors; it also presents an ironic argument against ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - online literature
2008年9月11日 · The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived. I have read many funny stories but this is a special one yet. It inspires that impulsion to not stop reading until the very end. You will be wowed after getting through less than a quarter of the chapters.