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This widely studied play is one of the "best sellers" of the Shakespeare canon....

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least 30 years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays....

Paradise Lost is a well-known and integral part of the English literary canon. Told as an epic poem in blank verse, Paradise Lost is John Milton’s retelling of the biblical story of Satan’s fall from grace and the beginning of humanity....

Jonathan Rogers takes you further into the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis....

The CliffsNotes study guide on William Golding's Lord of the Flies supplements the original literary work....

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is the fascinating tale of Henry Higgins, a professor of speech and phonetics who takes on the task of teaching Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class flower seller, how to "act like a lady"....

Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia....

By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar....

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May", or "remembrance of things past", or "the marriage of true minds"....

In a rickety, converted 17th-century farmhouse in Dorset, England, a group of authors teaches a creative writing seminar....

For students of Middle English, The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over 30 years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems....

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) left a vast body of work, ranging from delicately simple lyrics to deeply meditative odes....

What does the name "Agatha Christie" mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a "whodunnit"....

Milton tells the story of man's creation, fall and redemption, "to justify the ways of God to men"....

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness....

Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism"....

Eliminate the impossible, Sherlock Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But, as Pierre Bayard finds that sometimes the master missed his mark....

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode to a Nightingale", a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into a state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature....