Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Beyond by John Galsworthy
Read the full text of "Beyond" by John Galsworthy which centers around the theme of love.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Happy Ending by Anton Chekhov
Read the full text of the short story "A Happy Ending" by Anton Chekhov which explores the theme of marriage.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
Read the full text of the short story "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov that revolves around the theme of social injustice and the suffering of those less fortunate.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Clay by James Joyce
Read the short story "Clay" by James Joyce which encompasses the themes of poverty, conflict, disconnection, escape, and paralysis.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Understudy" by Robert Barr
"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.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "War" by Sherwood Anderson
"War" by Sherwood Anderson explores the themes of conflict, change, and determination. Read the full text on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "When the Bayou Overflows" by Alice Dunbar
"When the Bayou Overflows" explores the theme of love lost. Read the full text of this short story on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Woman Who Tried to Be Good" by Edna Ferber
The themes of hypocrisy and intolerance characterize the short story "The Woman Who Tried to Be Good" by Edna Ferber. Read the full text on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Xingu" by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's "Xingu" satirizes high society women in her witty short story that revolves around an exclusive literary lunch club meeting. Read the full text on this site.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Chorus Girl by Anton Chekhov
Read the short story "The Chorus Girl" by Anton Chekhov that revolves around the themes of adultery, trust, guilt, and loneliness.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analyzing the Author
A slideshow with ten slides that discusses the difference between a subject and a theme and gives several examples of each found within a variety of popular classical and modern texts.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature
Multimedia course focuses on thirteen literary classics from many different times and many different cultures. Each lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on a particular work. Read excerpts from each work and...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: T. S. Eliot
This site features the author T. S. Eliot including a biography and the full text of the poetry collection Poems, which contains 24 poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "A Cooking Egg."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Zane Grey
This site features the author Zane Grey including a biography, the full text of 20 novels, and 11 short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: The Poetics by Aristotle
This site features the full text of the treatise The Poetics by Aristotle, the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory.
Other
Loyola Marymount University: Classicism
A broad site on this movement in the arts with references and links to many artists and philosophers.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Epics
The University of Victoria's English department gives a comprehensive definition of the "epic" poetic form. Short examples included.
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Mythology by Edith Hamilton
This site offers all you need to read and study Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It includes an overview, a character list, an introduction to classical mythology, the themes, motifs, and symbols, a summary and analysis, the full text, a...
City University of New York
Cuny: General Characteristics of the Renaissance
A look at the rebirth of the Renaissance in the context of five interrelated issues: a renewed interest in classical antiquity and the concept of "the Great Chain of Being", political changes, Humanism, the literary doctrine of...
University of Chicago
University of Chicago: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Printed images of the major architectural monuments and sculptures of ancient Rome spread knowledge of classical antiquity throughout Europe. The "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence") represents a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 3: The Seance
Students explore the advantages and disadvantages of adapting a classic work for the screen in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Using a scene that was created especially for the film,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Short Story
This lesson is an introduction to the modern short story including defining the short story, how the modern short story differs from the classic short story, the elements of a short story, and what is to be expected in this unit.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Leonard Bernstein Collection
The online version of the Library of Congress' collection. Content includes more than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other types of...
Grade Saver
Grade Saver: Antigone by Sophocles
This is an online study guide for the classical play Antigone by Sophocles including author information, literary elements, scene summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.