In addition to offering a summary of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, this guide contains notes on themes, a collection of quotes, character profiles, interactive quizzes, a list of study questions suitable for reviewing...

Sandra Cisneros is featured for her literary prose, drawing on her personal heritage as a Chicana to exhibit her "Americanness" in order to share hope for other minority women. See "Sandra Cisneros Activities" for related materials.

Full text and search engine for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in which the history of Britain, from the 1st Century to the 12th, is rendered by scribes. Translated into modern English.

The SAT subject tests are designed to test knowledge in particular content areas and determine how well you demonstrate that knowledge. Practice tests are available here for: mathematics, science, history, literature, and languages....

A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...

A collection of digital resources for three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3-5 that address characters' traits and motivations in works of literature. They focus on modern retellings of old stories and...

This article is part of a review of the book, "Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings," by Olga M. Davidson. The article's author is Mahmud Kianush, a renowned modern Iranian author. In the article, he discusses the historical...

This lesson focuses on the Early English poem "The Dream of the Rood" which tells the story of the crucifixion of Christ from the cross's point of view. It features a video of the Ruthwell Cross that is inscripted with a section of the...

In addition to providing both Modern English and Middle English texts of Malory's "Morte d'Arthur, Luminarium provides several biographies, and essays on Malory and his works.

This site from the University of Toronto offers "Beowulf" in its entirety with the original Old English lines and their modern English translations alternated, line by line.

The 1880's in America were chock full of new architecture, technologies, businesses, modern conveniences such as gas and electric, operas, fashions, and much more as featured in this resource.

This unit examines poetry of the postmodernism period, focusing on the Beat Movement, Black Arts Movement, feminism, and other related movements and periods in recent literary history. An extensive list of authors, time line, video, and...

In this article, Michael Wood tries to explain how the legend of King Arthur came to be and the changes that took place over time. He also attempts to separate legend and myth from history.

This lesson focuses on the the impact of fast food on the American people. It features links to obesity statistics, PBS NewHour: "Fighting Fat," Rolling Stone: "Fast-Food Nation: The True Cost Of America's Diet," and New York Times:...

Drawing on the monstrosities of World War I, Ernest Hemingway presents male characters persevering through many difficult circumstances in his works, as highlighted in this biography. See "Ernest Hemingway Activities" for more resources.

Read the full text of "The Blue Pike" by Georg Ebers set in Germany in the late 1400's.

Unfortunately, "literary" writing was not as simple and direct as political writing. When trying to write poetry, most educated authors stumbled into the pitfall of elegant neoclassicism. The epic, in particular, exercised a fatal...

An article about Emecheta which discusses her writing.

The spiritual crisis at the heart of this novel is described in its cricial introdcution, followed by biographical information on the author, and a number of disucssion questions.

Contains a biography of William Faulkner (1897-1962 CE), list of works, and links to additional information on the writer.

This site from the University of Toronto provides the full texts for 16 of George Meredith's poems.

The official website for the Mythopoeic Society, founded in 1967. Includes study and education concerning modern and classical fantasy and mythical literature, especially that of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams.

In a Washington Post essay written the week of Paz' death, Hass discusses his work and presents one poem in translation, "Wind and Water and Stone."

The Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Seafarer," with the Old English original and the Modern English translation in side-by-side presentation.