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Tomorrow When the War Began was initially published 1993 by Pan Macmillan's Australian imprint. Marsden's second novel (but his first in quite a few years), Tomorrow When the War Began is described by the publisher as a "young adult invasion...

Anne E. Neimark's Mythmaker: The Life of J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in September of 1996. Written for young adults, Mythmaker is a biography of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien. Primarily, Neimark's book explores...

For centuries, Titus Andronicus has carried the reputation of being the worst play by the best playwright. Though it was a great success when first staged in the late sixteenth century, in 1687 an English producer, Edward Ravenscroft, declared ...

Thomas Pynchon’s debut novel, V., first published in 1963, introduces many of the recurring themes—from historical relativism to technological menace to recurring characters like Pig Bodine and Lieutenant Weissman—that will appear throughout...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the English Middle Ages’ most famous writer. Best known for The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a variety of voices, he was also the author of several other well-known long works, multiple translations, numerous...

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's most famous tragedy and one of the world's most enduring love stories, derives its plot from several sixteenth century sources. Shakespeare's primary inspiration for the play was Arthur Brooke's Tragical History of...

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film. It was directed by Gil Junger and produced by Andrew Lazar and Jeffrey Chernov of Mad Chance Productions and Touchstone Pictures, respectively. It was released on March 31,...

“Pied Beauty” was written by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1877, but—like so much of his work—wasn’t published until 1918, 30 years after his death, as a part of the collection Poems, which was edited by his close friend Robert...

John Clare was born in 1793, in the English village of Helpstone to Parker and Ann Stimson Clare. His father was a field laborer, and both of his parents were essentially illiterate. Clare received some schooling and learned basic reading and...

The Boys from Biloxi is set to be released in October of 2022 and will be published by author John Grisham's longtime publisher, Doubleday.

The second of five children, John Grisham was born in February 2015 to Ronda and John Ray Grisham, a...

“Love Lives Beyond the Tomb” is a poem about love by the English Romantic poet John Clare, written while he was an unwilling resident of Northampton Insane Asylum. Like all of Clare’s later work, it was never published during his lifetime, but...

Children of Blood and Bone is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Nigerian-American novelist Tomi Adeyemi. Children of Blood and Bone is the first book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. It is followed by Children of Virtue and Vengeance. The final...

The only authoritative edition of Julius Caesar is the 1623 First Folio, which appears to have used the theater company's official promptbook rather than Shakespeare's manuscript. Some anomalies exist, most notably in Act Four where there is...

“The Yellowhammer’s Nest” is one of the best-known poems by the English Romantic poet John Clare. It was written in the mid-1820s and published in Clare’s final collection, The Rural Muse (1835), as part of a series of poems about bird’s nests....

Daniel Woodrell's Winter’s Bone is a 2006 mystery-crime novel about Ree Dolly, a sixteen-year-old girl whose family home will be seized unless she can find her missing father and make him appear in court. Determined to secure a place to live for...

“The Universe as a Primal Scream” is a poem by Tracy K. Smith which appears in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars. Conceived as a tribute to the author’s father who had worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the collection is...

"Ghazal" is a historical poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was published in the Wade in the Water collection by Graywolf Press in 2018. The collection won the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was nominated for the 2018 Forward Prizes for...

"Declaration" was initially published in 2018 as a part of author Tracy K. Smith's poetry collection Wade in the Water. "Declaration" is told from the perspective of an African American taken captive aboard a pirate ship on the high seas.

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"Sci-Fi" is a poem by American poet Tracy K. Smith. It was included in the Life on Mars collection published in 2011 by Graywolf Press. The collection is a lament for the poet's father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope at the National...

"The Journey" was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "The Journey" is one of Oliver's most widely read and well-respected works; it is a significant part...

"The Black Walnut," Mary Oliver's poem was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. The poem, which many have considered to be semi-autobiographical, is widely...

"Good-bye Fox," Mary Oliver's poem, was initially published in 2017 as a part of the final collection of poetry entitled Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. "Good-bye Fox," one of the most cited works of Devotions, is an exploration of...

Mary Oliver's "The Swan" was originally published in 2010 in her collection of poems entitled Swan: Poems and Prose. "The Swan," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Oliver is best known...

Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" was initially published in 2004 in her collection of poems entitled Wild Geese: Selected Poems. "Wild Geese," one of Oliver's most celebrated and well-known poems, is a significant part of that collection.

Much of...