Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, learners will create an original extended metaphor about love in...

The PBS show 'The Source' looks at the lives and works of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, three writers largely credited with leading the way in developing new forms of writing during the rise of the 'Beat'...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Rosa Guy, an American writer who drew on her own experiences to create fiction for young adults that usually concerned individual choice, family conflicts, poverty, and the realities of...

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Rudolph Fisher, an American short-story writer and novelist associated with the Harlem Renaissance whose fiction realistically depicted black urban life in the North, primarily Harlem.

This resource provides links to many authors of the Romantic era. Biographies, works, and portraits are displayed for each author.

Text of the short story "A Princess of Grub Street" by James Branch Cabell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Pro Honoria" by James Branch Cabell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "A Predicament" by Edgar Allan Poe. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Preposterous Motive" by Susan Glaspell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Present at a Hanging" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Priestly Prerogative" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Princess" by Anton Chekhov. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Princess" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Princess and the Puma" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Prisoners" by Guy de Maupassant. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Prisoners of War" by Arthur Quiller-Couch. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Privy Councillor" by Anton Chekhov. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Prize Lodger" by George Gissing. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Prize Money" by W.W. Jacobs, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Procession of Life" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Prodigal Brother" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Promise of Lucy Ellen" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Promissory Note" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)