Celts and Germans: The Enduring Heritage of the European Northlands

This CliffsNotes study guide on John Milton’s Paradise Lost supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glo...

It can reasonably be argued that the British invented the novel. And to understand the way in which the novel, as a literary form, developed in Britain is key to understanding the literary form itself. In this first of a two-part series, beloved Mod...

Few writers are more often read, and better loved, than Charles Dickens and Samuel Langhorne Clemens---Mark Twain. Many of the characters populating their novels have become household words, cultural landmarks in their own right---Tom Sawyer and H...

This CliffsNotes study guide on George Orwell's Animal Farm supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossarie...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Swift's Gulliver's Travels supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries,...

One of the Modern Scholar’s most popular professors, Timothy B. Shutt brings his literary acumen and trademark enthusiasm to the study of the epic poems that sit at the very wellspring of Western culture. The earliest surviving works of Greek ...

This program is read by the author.A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the f...

Perry Keenlyside tells the remarkable story of the world’s richest literary resource. The story-telling, the poetry, the growth of the novel and the great histories and essays which have informed the language and the imagination wherever Engli...

These days, English professors teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They prefer to indoctrinate their students in Marxism and feminism and propagandize against our oppressive Western culture. Take a fascinating tour through ...