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Provides access to a wealth of literature works from contemporary and classic writers from around the world including750 videos of great literacy works, 10,000 topics providing research and writing suggestions, 4,750 author profile and interview, fulltexts of 1,000 classic works and 2,600 searhable fulltext poems.
提供大量古典及現代作家的文學作品，包括：750部名著視頻、10,000項寫作專題討論、4,750個作者專訪、1,000個經典文學作品全文及2,600項可供全文檢索的詩歌等。

Austen, Jane
Born: 1775 Died: 1817
British novelist
Chopin, Kate
Born: 1850 Died: 1904
American novelist, short story writer
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Born: 1804 Died: 1864
American short story writer, novelist
King, Stephen
Born: 1947
American horror fiction writer
Poe, Edgar Allan
Born: 1809 Died: 1849
American short story writer, poet, critic
Shakespeare, William
Born: 1564 Died: 1616
British playwright, poet
Tan, Amy
Born: 1952
American novelist, short story writer, children's book writer

Animal Farm
Date: 1945
Author: Orwell, George

In a single, enlightening volume, Animal Farm presents a helpful literary guide to one of George Orwell's most famous literary works.
Death of a Salesman
Date: 1949
Author: Miller, Arthur

An inquiry into the meaning and elusive nature of the American Dream, Death of a Salesman is Arthur Miller's best-known play and won him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award.
Frankenstein
Date: 1818
Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

In the preface to the 1831 revised edition of Frankenstein (the edition most often read today), Mary Shelley famously wrote that she had tried to conceive a story "which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
The Great Gatsby
Date: 1925
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels.
Hamlet
Date: 1600
Author: Shakespeare, William

In Shakespeare's timeless play of truth and revenge, the character Hamlet must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father to take the throne of Denmark.
Pride and Prejudice
Date: 1813
Author: Austen, Jane

Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice, perhaps her most recognizable work, is a story of manners, courtship, and marriage in 18th-century and 19th-century England.

Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch, the central adult character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, is the father of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch and her older brother, Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch. A respected lawyer in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, and a state legislator representing the county, Atticus provides the moral focus in this story of racial and social injustice.
Elizabeth Bennet
The heroine of Austen's Pride and prejudice exhibits wit, independence, and intelligence.
Hamlet
In Shakespeare's powerful drama of destiny and revenge, Hamlet, the troubled prince of Denmark, must overcome his own self-doubt and avenge the murder of his father.
Huckleberry Finn
Hailed by writers and critics alike as one of the most important American novels ever published, Mark Twain's quintessential coming-of-age story The adventures of Huckleberry Finn gave a distinct voice to American literature.
Jay Gatsby
Self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby epitomizes the decadence of the 1920s Jazz Age in this tale of mobility and decline, told with detached curiosity by his neighbor and confidant Nick Carraway.
Victor Frankenstein
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.