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Authors & Biographies
  • about.com: Authors (searcher & lots of links)
  • A&E Biography ("over 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present, at your fingertips ... discover who they were, what they did and why")
  • Book Reviews by Danny Yee ("ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist ... A collection of almost 500 book reviews, covering all kinds of books" ... search by: Subjects, Titles, Authors, Keywords, Publishers, Latest")
  • Children's Authors & Illustrators on the Web @ U of Calgary ("The Internet has become a great source of information about a great many children's writers and illustrators. The websites listed here include authors' personal websites and websites maintained by fans, scholars, and readers.")
  • Literary Kicks (Beat authors: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure., etc.)
  • Mississippi Writers' Page ("a showcase for the many writers, both past and present, who have called the Magnolia state home. Biographies of the writers, information about their books and other publications, and bibliographies of other information sources [including literary criticism] are among the features available here.")
  • Oz's Kingdom: People - Biographies (& genealogy ... lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
  • Shakespeare, William: Legends (Robin Hood Pages, King Arthur & the Matter of Britain, Ballads & Broadsides, Pirates & Privateers, Swashbucklers & Fops, Erin & Alba, Fairy Tales, Shakespeare's Stories, Beowulf, Sagas & Sea-Kings, Paladins & Princes, Poets & Painters, Legendary Resources" ... illustrations)
  • Shakespeare, William: Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet ("This site attempts: .. To be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet ... To present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet")
  • Shakespeare, William: Complete Works of William Shakespeare @ MIT
  • Shakespeare, William: Shakespeare, William @ www.shakespeare.com
  • Mark Twain: Mining Company: Mark Twain (TONs of info on him, etext, history, etc.)

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Literature (reviews, criticism, history, study guides, links, etc.)

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Poetry

  • American Verse Project @ U Michigan (etext of American poetry prior to 1920)
  • Bartleby.com - Verse (Anthologies: The Oxford Book of English Verse,Yale Book of American Verse, Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry, Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century, The Golden Treasury (original lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets) ... Volumes: The Odysseys of Homer, Emily Dickinson's Poems, T.S. Eliot (Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems and The Waste Land), Robert Frost (A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval and Miscellaneous Poems), Robert Graves' Fairies and Fusiliers. Thomas Hardy's. Wessex Poems & Other Verses, G.M.Hopkins' Poems. A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, John Keats' Poetical Works, D.H. Lawrence (Amores and New Poems), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Edna St. Vincent Millay's Renascence and Other Poems, Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems and Cornhuskers), Siegfried Sassoon (The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, Counter-Attack and Other Poems and Picture-Show), William Shakespeare's Poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Complete Poetical Works, Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Oscar Wilde's Poems, William Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works, William Butler Yeats (The Wind Among the Reeds, Responsibilities and Other Poems and The Wild Swans at Coole) ... search page)
  • CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive - An Internet Archive for Out-of-Print Books @ Connecticut College
  • Carnegie Mellon: the English Server - Sparks ("publisher of fiction, poetry, music, art and spoken word")
  • Carnegie Mellon: the English Server - Sudden ("original poetry that reflects imagination and intelligence")
  • English Online Resources @ U Virginia (etext of many books ... also in other languages)
  • Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-Line @ U of Toronto (poetry: 1912- present ... short biographic info, explanations, criticisms, etc.)
  • Internet Poetry Archive @ U North Carolina (poems from a few contemporary poets from around the world including Philip Levine and Nobel Prize winners Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz)
  • about.com: Poetry (searcher & lots of links)
  • Perseus Project @ Tufts College ("a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase painting.")
  • Romantic Circles @ U Maryland (scholarly notes, etext, links)
  • Shakespeare, William: Complete Works of William Shakespeare @ MIT

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Online Texts (complete text of books, poems, stories, essays, etc.)

  • Aesop Fables - Online Collection by John R Long (don't be mislead by title ... includes full-text works by Androcles, Ambrose Bierce, Jean De La Fontaine, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, Charles Dickens)
  • Athena: Authors & Texts (over 7,000 links to online books and texts ... and works by Swiss authors and texts in French)
  • Austen, Jane Info Page (her books & writings, life, pictures, reviews, links, etc.)
  • Bartleby.com - Fiction (Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, John Buchan's The Thirty-nine Steps, G.K. Chesterton's. The Man Who Was Thursday. Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles, F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, Nathaniel Hawthorne's. The Scarlet Letter, Sarah Orne Jewett's. The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener, Eugene O’Neill's. Beyond the Horizon, Bernard Shaw {Man and Superman and Pygmalion}, Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons. H.G Wells {The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds}, Virginia Woolf's Monday or Tuesday ... search page)
  • Bartleby.com - Nonfiction (Henry Adams'. The Education of Henry Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois'. The Souls of Black Folk, T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood, Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, Thomas Paine's. Common Sense, Theodore Roosevelt {The Rough Riders, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Letters to His Children, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, An Autobiography, History as Literature, A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open, The Strenuous Life and A Bibliography of Theodore Roosevelt}, H.G. Wells' A Short History of the World, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman ... search page)
  • Bartleby.com - Verse (Anthologies: The Oxford Book of English Verse,Yale Book of American Verse, Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry, Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century, The Golden Treasury (original lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets) ... Volumes: The Odysseys of Homer, Emily Dickinson's Poems, T.S. Eliot (Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems and The Waste Land), Robert Frost (A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval and Miscellaneous Poems), Robert Graves' Fairies and Fusiliers. Thomas Hardy's. Wessex Poems & Other Verses, G.M.Hopkins' Poems. A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, John Keats' Poetical Works, D.H. Lawrence (Amores and New Poems), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Edna St. Vincent Millay's Renascence and Other Poems, Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems and Cornhuskers), Siegfried Sassoon (The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, Counter-Attack and Other Poems and Picture-Show), William Shakespeare's Poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Complete Poetical Works, Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Oscar Wilde's Poems, William Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works, William Butler Yeats (The Wind Among the Reeds, Responsibilities and Other Poems and The Wild Swans at Coole) ... search page)
  • Berkeley: On-Line Book Links (papyri, ancient texts, speeches, etc.)
  • Biblomania: The Network Library (reference, fiction, non-fiction, poetry))
  • Books On-line at University of Pennsylvania - (7,000+ books on-line ... most subject areas ... also literature in French, German and Spanish)
  • Classics at the Online Literature Library @ literature.org (Honore de Balzac, L Frank Baum, Ambrose Bierce, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Chaucer, Charles Darwin, Rene Descartes, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Omar Khayyam, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, John Milton, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Sun Tzu, Jules Verne, Voltaire, H G Wells)
  • Classic Short Stories @ bnl.com (more than 60 stories ... "site is dedicated to the short story and to those who love reading light prose")
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads
  • Columbia U: Project Bartleby (complete text of select poets)
  • Gargoyles, Angels and Shadows - An Outline Anthology (more than 30 short stories; links)
  • Gaslight @ Mount Royal College ("an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. The current readings and selected ones from the past are available here.")
  • Internet Classics Archive @ MIT ("Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors ... Mainly Greco-Roman works .. some Chinese and Persian ..  all in English translation" ... includes commentaries)
  • Internet Public Library - Literature (Authors, Book Lists & Awards, Criticism)
  • Johnson, Samuel by Jack Lynch @ Rutgers U (etexts, searchers, links, etc.)
  • MIT: The Internet Classics Archive ("441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors .. Mainly Greco-Roman works [some Chinese and Persian]")
  • Perseus Project @ Tufts College ("a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase painting.")
  • Project Gutenberg: Etext Library (complete, downloadable etexts .. "Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc. Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.")
  • Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library @ Duke U ("holdings .. range from ancient papyri to records of modern advertising. They number more than 200,000 printed volumes and more than 9,500,000 items in manuscript and archival collections. They support research in a wide variety of disciplines and programs, including African-American studies, anthropology, classics, economics, history, literature, political science, religion, sociology, and women's studies.")
  • Science Fiction Story Showcase by Terry Bisson ("The featured short stories and articles on this website are complete. Most have been published in magazines but are not yet available in book form. I'm displaying them on the internet because that's what the internet is all about." ... also includes essays, poetry, reviews, etc.)
  • Shakespeare, Complete Works of William @ MIT
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis @ U of Bergamo (bio, pictures, etexts, critiques, links, etc.)
  • Twain, Mark @ Mining Company (etexts, biography, critiques, photos, etc.)
  • U of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative 
  • U of Toronto: Representative Poetry On-line ("over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century")
  • U of Virginia: Electronic Text Center (many are available to public ... also multilingual & multinational versions)
  • U of Virginia: Electronic Text Center - British Poetry 1780-1910
  • Wheaton College: Christian Classics: Ethereal Library (books .. selected for your edification ... enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime ... Copy them freely")
  • Wiretap - Electronic Text Archive ("a free public service to provide electronic text to citizens of the Internet. As one of the earliest etext repositories, there are thousands of links to this site" ... a gopher site but will switch to www format later)
  • Wordsworth, William @ U of Oregon

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Mythology, Legends, Fables & Fairy Tales ... also see Anthropology & Cultures

  • Cathie's Faery Story Land (interactive stories, faery pics, famous faeries, links, midi files of nursery rhymes, etc.)
  • Celtic Mythology: The Story of MacDatho's Pig (written in Gaelic and English)
  • Druid´s Well ("Fairytales, ancient history & mythology of Celts, Vikings, Aesirs, Dragons....")
  • Encyclopedia Mythica ("an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 5100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world")
  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures (lots of information, resources, links, etc.)
  • Fables ("a virtual hamlet dedicated to providing quality folklore and speculative fiction on the internet")
  • Fairies and More Fairies (poems, pictures, fairy art, fairy names, links, etc.)
  • Fairy Tales: Origins and Evolution ("Looks at fairy tale literature, from before the dark stories were aimed at children.")
  • Folktales from the North East of England ("There are some 50-odd stories in the collection ... plus Songs & Poems and some traditional Sayings and Rhymes")
  • Indian Mythology (information, etext, pictures, links, etc.)
  • Irish Mythology: Cead Mile Failte, Brugh na Boinne
  • Joseph Campbell Foundation ("Promote mythological education by creating and disseminating educational materials and training teachers .. Support community-based, mythological informed activities .. Encourage intercultural mythological dialogue and exploration by sponsoring conferences, workshops, and seminars")
  • Legends (Robin Hood, King Arthur & the Matter of Britain, Ballads & Broadsides, Pirates & Privateers, Swashbucklers & Fops, Erin & Alba, Fairy Tales, Shakespeare's Stories, Beowulf, Sagas & Sea-Kings, Paladins & Princes, Poets & Painters, Legendary Resources" ... illustrations)
  • MIT Internet Classics Archive (440+ works of classical literature by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman works .. some Chinese and Persian)
  • Mythweb ("site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology" ... teacher resources)
  • Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends: An Archive of History and Historical Resources (excellent educational resources & links, Dawn of Man to Ancient Times; Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Others; Mythology: Gods, Goddesses, and Others; Vikings, Mongols, and Other Barbarians; Dark Ages to Renaissance - Medieval History; Legends? King Arthur & Robin Hood; Gwynnevere's Old World - Culture & Other Things; The Crusades & the History of Religion; Men, Ships, and The Sea - Maritime History; Post Renaissance thru the 19th Century; The History of the Old World; American History - Discovery to Revolution; American History-Post-Revolution to Pre-Civil War; American History - The Civil War; American History - The Native Americans; American History - The Wild, Wild West; The World in Conflict - The Great Wars; To Soar Free - The History of Flight; The History of Art and Literature; The 20th Century and Modern Times; The Celts; ... etc.)
  • One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights ("Wantok, the Pidgin English newspaper of Papua New Guinea, has published a series of folk tales sent in by readers from around the country .. I have collected and edited these folk tales, and have translating them into English .. indexed by author, village, original language, province, flora and fauna, and motif ... also a list of folktale titles")
  • Oz's Kingdom: Classics & Myths (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
  • Oz's Kingdom: Myth, Legend, Folklore and Ghosts (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
  • Pantheons ("Here is an index to various catalogues of religious and mythological pantheons: Celtic, Greek, Roman, Slavic & Eurasion, Teutonic")
  • Philippine Folklore ("The myths and legends of the Philippines are beautiful and rich as those of other lands, colored by the people who have come and influenced the land. The tales here are gathered to share the charm, depth and variety of what makes us Filipino")
  • Ring of Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Mythology (over 120 links to mythology pages)
  • SurLaLune: fairy tale pages ("I have annotated some of my favorite tales and included information about their histories, similarities with various tales, and other interesting tidbits.")

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Children's Literature

  • CBC Online (the website of the Children's Book Council, website for adults working with children and children's books. Online catalog of reading encouragement materials)
  • Children's Literature: A Guide to the Crticism - Online Book ("Covering works as diverse as a historical survey of the alphabet book and an analysis of the young adult novels of Judy Blume, this annotated bibliography draws together significant articles, books, and dissertations of children's literature criticism. Compiled from a wide variety of popular and scholarly sources... a thorough and easy-to-use resource to this burgeoning field of study ... categorizes and assesses the critical response to fiction, drama, poetry, and some nonfiction written for children between the ages of one and sixteen")
  • Children's Literature Web Guide (this site ... "gathers together and categorizes the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults ... compiles book awards lists from a variety of .. sources")
  • Greek Children's Literature ("through this site ... an attempt is being made to present: various Greek children's books (however not all in translation), where and how children's literature is studied in Greece, as well as various theoretical and critical books on children's literature published in Greece")
  • Quia ("a great starting point for new users ... a collection of thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas ... more than 400,000 activities)
  • Reading about Children's Literature: A Bibliography of Critism --- Compiled by Perry Nodelman. Writing, Reading, Teaching, Theory of Ideology, History of Children's Literature, Contemporary Childhood, Piaget, Censorship, Non-Fiction, Media Reading. Against a Text: Feminism, Masculinity, Race, Subjectivity Children's Literature as a Genre, Kinds of Children's Fiction Critical Theories and Children's Literature Types of Children's Literature: Picture Books, Poetry, Fairy Tales.
  • Reading Rockets: Advice and suggestions for parents to encourage young readers.
  • Vandergrift's Special Interest Page ("This website is a means of sharing ideas and information with all those interested in literature for children and young adults.)

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Library Resources (Libraries Online, Librarian Resources)

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