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Featured Article: Richard II
Richard II is a five-act history play by the English dramatist William Shakespeare. See more »
1984
1984 is a famous novel of social criticism written by the English author George Orwell and published in 1949.
See more »Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss
Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss is a lyric by the Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe.
See more »All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well is a five-act play by the English dramatist William Shakespeare.
See more »Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon ANG gloh SAK suhn, Chronicle, is the first great work of English prose and the most important source for English history from about 800 to 1066.
See more »Anthem for Doomed Youth
Anthem for Doomed Youth is a poem from World War I (1914-1918) by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier and poet.
See more »Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a five-act tragedy by the English dramatist William Shakespeare.
See more »As You Like It
As You Like It is a five-act comedy by the English dramatist William Shakespeare.
See more »Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge is a historical novel set in the 1700's by the English author Charles Dickens.
See more »Beowulf
Beowulf, BAY uh wulf, is an epic poem that is considered the first great work of English literature.
See more »Bleak House
Bleak House is a novel of social criticism by the English author Charles Dickens that is considered to be one of his greatest novels.
See more »Blimp, Colonel
Blimp, Colonel, was a character created by English cartoonist Sir David Low after World War I (1914-1918).
See more »Bond, James
Bond, James, is a fictional English secret agent created by the British novelist Ian Fleming.
See more »Brave New World
Brave New World is a famous satirical science-fiction novel by the English author Aldous Huxley.
See more »Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales is a group of stories by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
See more »Christmas Carol, A
Christmas Carol, A, a story by the English author Charles Dickens, is the best-known and most popular Christmas story in English literature.
See more »Comedy of Errors, The
Comedy of Errors, The, is a comedy by the English dramatist William Shakespeare.
See more »Coriolanus
Coriolanus is a five-act tragedy by the English dramatist William Shakespeare.
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