Get more than 3000 Works of Literature Free!

I chance upon this site ClassicReader.com who offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. It claims to have a collection of 3066 works of literature (including 1708 short stories) by 320 authors!

Do check out this site as new works are added to the collection on a regular basis. Recent additions –

1. Salvation of George Mackintosh, The by P.G. Wodehouse (added Nov 15)
2. Mixed Threesome, A by P.G. Wodehouse (added Nov 15)
3. Woman is Only a Woman, A by P.G. Wodehouse (added Nov 15)
4. Sundered Hearts by P.G. Wodehouse (added Nov 15)
5. Clicking of Cuthbert, The by P.G. Wodehouse (added Nov 15)
6. Dorothy Dale by Margaret Penrose (added Jul 7)
7. Three Men and a Maid by P.G. Wodehouse (added Apr 4)
8. Sea Fairies, The by L. Frank Baum (added Apr 4)
9. Rainbow’s End by Rex Ellingwood Beach (added Apr 4)
10. Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. Richmond (added Apr 4)
11. Best Sauce, The by P.G. Wodehouse (added Apr 4)
12. Concealed Art by P.G. Wodehouse (added Apr 4)

Yew Boon

Literature Matters!

“Literature Matters” the literature e-zine by the British Council, contains articles on creating writing, exerpts about Welsh literature and happenings in the literary world. Reading this e-zine allows you to travel to the world of fiction writers, books and more. Wales, Ireland and all other places that fans of the U.K can only dream about.

Literature Matters
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-matters-newsletter-1.htm

 

Oi May

Keeper of the canon

According to an article from the New York Times (Jan 8, 2006) — Keeper of the Canon
by Rachel Donadio — the editor of “The Norton Anthology of English Literature” holds one of the most powerful positions in the world of letters and he is seen as an “arbiter” of the canon.

M. H. Abrams, a leading scholar of Romanticism, will be handing over the editorship of the Anthology to Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar and Harvard professor. How is Bloom a “fearsome undergraduate” according to Abrams? For a good read, check out Lexis Nexis Academic to retrieve the article “Keeper of the Canon” from The New York Times, January 8, 2006 Sunday, By Rachel Donadio.

NTU Library has “The Norton Anthology of English Literature”, “The Norton Anthology of American Literature”. An order for “The Norton Shakespeare” has just been sent out.