This site focuses on Gilbert Parker by providing links to the full text of 14 of his novels: The Judgment House, Lane Parables Of A Province, Northern Lights, Seats Of The Mighty, The Translation of A Savage, and nine others.

In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of late-nineteenth-century economic policies in the book. Is...

Explains what personification is and gives examples. Includes links to related articles on symbolism, elements of rhetoric, fables, figure of speech, and allegory.

Read the short story, or a parable of forgiveness, called "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" by Leo Tolstoy about a man wrongfully convicted of murder.

Celebrated WWI poet Wilfred Owen's life is summed up here, along with the text of 24 of his poems.

The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."