Published in 1926 after World War I, this novel looks at the the aimlessness of the lost generation. This site offers interesting insights into the characters, their concerns, the themes in the novel, and important quotations.

Web English Teacher site provides a variety of resources to assist in the teaching of William Golding's works.

Delve into this resource featuring links to biographical information, and lesson plans for some of Louis Sachar's work.

Check out this informative site featuring an analysis of Shakespeare. The objective of this activity is for students to analyze a sonnet and present their findings via slide show. This lesson integrates technology into the curriculum.

Discover a world beyond "The Glass Menagerie," when you visit this site featuring links to lesson plans for this work. This site also features links to information on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.

The Milwaukee Public Museum provides this introduction to the Native American oral tradition and oral literature of the Great Lakes region. Describes common themes and characters, including trickster characters and windingo (ice...

Biographical information and details about the themes and style of Bradstreet's poetry. Includes quotations from her poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband."

This site lists and discusses the characters and themes in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw wants the reader to think about the problems caused by "common" language, and how language can separate people from different places and...

This is a list of links to online resources related to the study of the planets. It has a literary theme associated with the Lewis Carrol poem "The Hunting of the Snark" with many quotes from literature and science. Navigation tools...

This site, part of the online version of the magazine BookPage, provides a 1998 interview with Gary Soto, in which he discusses the themes of some of his works, his background, and his use of different genres of writing.

Discussion of the earliest poetry in Colonial New England. Describes common themes and forms and identifies specific poets of the period.

This site provides a biography, list of works, and information on Hodge's themes.

A Library of Congress lesson on "The Grapes of Wrath," through which students discover how cultural artifacts from the book support its themes and see connections "between the social, cultural, and literary contexts of literature."

An interactive demonstration that reveals the literary content of John Quidor's painting The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane. Roll over elements in Quidor's painting to find connections to Washington Irving's tale of the...

Designed as an online companion for teachers to the "Heath Anthology of American Literature," this website offers analysis of Williams' "Portrait of a Madonna," with sections on theme, style and original audience for his work.

This site provides a literary analysis of Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World". Check it out.W.9-10.9a Analysis, W.11-12.9a

This site shares a short story elements trivia game. Examples of short story elements are applied to high school classic literature.

"The Understudy" is part of a collection of short stories revolving around the theme of revenge. Read the full text of this short story by Robert Barr.

This site provides a biography of Langston Hughes, followed by several of his poems (some complete with audio clips) and a bibliography of his more influential works.

A critique of a realistic novel of the Gilded Age entitled "The Gilded Age." "The title is a masterly epigraph on the flushed, corrupt period of the Reconstruction."

Discover the ways in which writers captured the fast-changing world around them during the 20th Century.

Explore the ways in which 20th-century writers imagined the future, investigated the present, and prepared for the unknown.

From Stanislavski to Brecht and from Theatre of the Absurd to Theatre Workshop, explore some of the key influences and developments within 20th-century theatre practice.

Find out how 20th-century writers used fantasy and traditional tales to analyze and question the real world around them.