Welcome to LiteraryWorks.net There are thousands of literary works in existence that take us to different worlds and different times, and I created this blog out of my passion for the written word.  I also wanted to bring people a useful site for literature online.  With all of the online information about literature, I wasn’t able to find many sites that had good articles and facts about famous literary works and other great literary works in one place.  On my …

Figures of Speech Figure shows while the words describe or tell. A man learns and understands very easily, the meaning of any thing that he sees with his naked eyes. If there is a picture of an object on one side and the name on the other side, the learner would definitely understood the picture first. As audio visual aids are used in the process of teaching or learning same is the function of the figure of speech in the …

by Philip Yaffe As a collector of quotations, I occasionally wonder if some of my favorite specimens are actually correct. In many cases, they seem too good to be true. I recently researched the subject on the Internet and came up with a number of quotations that indeed seemed to have been altered after the fact. I don’t know how accurate these revelations are, and for the most part I don’t care. Whether these quotes were actually said the way …

Anthology of American Literature, Volume II (10th Edition) Anthology of American Literature is available in two-volume and concise editions.  The carefully selected works introduce readers to America’s literary heritage, from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison.   Volume II includes literary works from the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.  There is a new section on Literature of the Twenty-first Century with increased emphasis on current authors and …