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

Text of the short story "The Prospector" by Stewart Edward White. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Proving of Jerry" by Ralph Henry Barbour. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

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

Text of the short story "A Psychological Shipwreck" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Pumpkin Coach" by Melville Davisson Post. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Pumpkin-Glory" by William D. Howells. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Purification" by Robert Barr, a Scottish author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

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

Text of the short story "The Purple of the Balkan Kings" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "A Purple Rhododendron" by John Fox Jr., an American author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Purser's Story" by Robert Barr. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

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

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

Text of the short story "Quail Seed" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

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

One page chronology of important events in Dante's life.

Have you ever read "Frankenstein" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley? Explore this comprehensive site featuring links to activities and lesson plans for "Frankenstein."

This website provides a biography of George Orwell, the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A collection of engaging quotations by scientists, inventors, writers, and statesmen about science and invention. With entries from modern-day scientists, such as Francis Crick, and from notable ancients, such as Archimedes.

The most complete information you can get on author Jane Yolen! Teachers, writers, kids- everyone can find something here. Lots of pictures too!

This site from Education Place provides brief but factual biographical information on the short story writer Russell Freedman. The site also includes a picture of Freedman and a listing of the books he has written.

This house was home to abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, where she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A mask. Masks were worn by Greek and Roman actors in nearly all dramatic representations. This custom arose undoubtedly from the practice of smearing the face with certain juices and colours, and of appearing in disguise, at the...