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Get Wilde
Bored on your commute home? You’re in fine company. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde wrote, “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” You can actually read Wilde’s Life and Confessions as a … Continue reading
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Tagged #greatwriters, Challenging the Canon, commute, Dickens, Great Writers, Oscar Wilde, oxford, podcast, Shakespeare
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Free But Not CC: Online Education Resources
While we only include public domain and creative commons resources on our website writersinspire.org, in our trawling for internet treasures, we came across a lot of resources that can be accessed free online, but cannot be reused under any free … Continue reading
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Tagged Austen, Blake, Dickens, Jonson, joyce, Milton, playwright, Renaissance Theatre, Romanticism, Shakespeare, Swift, Victorian Gothic, Whitman, women writers
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Open Knowledge Foundation Resources
The Open Knowledge Foundation created Open Shakespeare, an open license website with all of Shakespeare’s plays, introduced and annotated by volunteers. It also includes essays, words of the day, and the very useful ability to compare different Shakespeare editions in a … Continue reading
