Introduction to literature

Great Expectations Great Expectations, novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in All the Year Round in 1860–61 and issued in book form in 1861. The classic novel [...]

Lord of the Flies Introduction Before The Hunger Games, there was William Golding’s 1954 Lord of the Flies. Well, okay, before there was The Hunger Games, there [...]

Uncle Ernest Introduction Sillitoe effectively criticises the legal system in “Uncle Ernest.” Uncle Ernest is a working-class lonely man who lives an isolated, [...]

The Rocking-Horse Winner Introduction “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (1926) is one of D. H. Lawrence’s most popular short stories, an Oedipal drama seasoned with [...]

The Open Window “My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; “in the meantime you [...]

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall meet my fateSomewhere among the clouds above;Those that I fight I do [...]

The Lotos Eaters “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”In the afternoon they came unto [...]