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A - D - G - J - N - Q - T - W

  A - C
  1. A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
  2. A Short History of the World - by H.G. Well, 1922 - "Wells’s two-volume Outline of History published in 1920 was the first general history constructed on an evolutionary, sociological, and anthropological basis. It was immensely popular and set the basis for this Short History, which Wells created 'to meet the needs of the busy general reader, too driven to study the maps and time charts of that Outline in detail, who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind.' "
  3. ALEX - A Catalogue of over 1800 Electronic Texts on the Internet
  4. Academy of American Poets, The
  5. Alexander's Bridge - by Willa Cather
  6. Alibris - source for used, rare, and hard-to-find books
  7. AllReaders.com - Search by any combination of over 2,000 literary criteria to find precisely the kind of book you're looking for.
  8. American Hypertexts - online texts of American literature: Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more.
  9. Anne of Green Gables - by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  10. Arachnoid Writers Alliance
  11. Arts & Letters Daily - site is updated six days per week and features links to newspapers, magazines and journals, book reviews, articles, essays, editorials, news services, columnists, literary criticism, and 'amusements' in every area of the humanities.
  12. The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
  13. Jane Austen Information Page
  14. AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information - collection of annotated links to lists of science fiction literary awards, including the: Bram Stoker, Campbell, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, Tiptree, and many others. Other book award links cover general U.S. literary, mystery, and children's as well as the national prizes for Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
  15. Banned Books On-line
  16. Banned Books - Yahoo!
  17. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Excellent literature, reference, and verse resources.
  18. Bartlett, John - Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.
  19. Beasts of Tarzan, The - by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  20. Best Book Buys - site compares prices at 28 independent and chain online bookstores. Your search will show whether a book is in stock or back-ordered, how soon it will be shipped, and the approximate shipping cost.
  21. Bibliofind - the largest booksearch site with over 20 million old books, used books, rare books, out of print books, antiquarian books, offered by over 1000 booksellers around the world.
  22. Bibliophile.net - "The web site for everyone interested in reading, buying and selling books."
  23. Books AtoZ
  24. BookBrowser - guide for avid readers
  25. Book Collector's Home - information about rare books and book collecting. Included are tips on preservation, book dealers, appraisals, identifying first editions, signed books, collectible authors, and much more that would be of interest to both the amateur or serious collector.
  26. Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
  27. Books On-line: Authors - an indispensable A to Z index cataloging online texts with authors ranging from Aeschylus to Yeats
  28. Book Recommendations of Real Folks
  29. Bookreporter.com - explore the latest book reviews while interacting with other involved literary experts and popular authors from around the world.
  30. Book Talk - nightly moderated discussions and RealAudio readings by authors.
  31. Books In Depth - site consolidates in one place not only links to book reviews in newspapers, but also to excerpting sources, interviews features, and sources for rare and hard-to-find books.
  32. BookWire Reading Room - "Tremendous Resources!"
  33. Richard Brautigan
  34. British Library
  35. Bronte, Emily - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  36. Bullets and Beer: The Spenser Page
  37. Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Literary Works,Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  38. Cambridge History of English and American Literature - All eighteen volumes of this distinguished scholarly encyclopedia are now on the Web, thanks to Bartleby.com.
  39. Campbell, Joseph Foundation Web Site
  40. Canadian Literature Online
  41. Carroll, Lewis - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  42. Center for Utopian/Dystopian Studies
  43. A Celebration of Women Writers - Find links to Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf and a whole slew of other great authors and their works.
  44. Cervantes International Bibliography - An annual bibliography about the life and works of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).
  45. Chapman, George, trans. The Odysseys of Homer
  46. Chapter One - peruse the first chapters of select new fiction and non-fiction compliments of The Washington Post
  47. Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343?-1400 - An Annotated Guide lists, evaluates, and describes many Chaucer-related Web sites. Topics covered include biography, background, commentary, images, study guides, and more.
  48. Children's Literature Web Guide, The
  49. City of Bits
  50. ClassicBookshelf.com - "We offer free electronic classic books in a new Java format which makes them far easier to read on a computer screen than any other electronic book existing today."
  51. Classic Short Stories - collection of classic short stories: Balzac, London, Poe, Thurber and many others.
  52. ClassicsNotes - site provides free literature summaries and analysis.
  53. Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy
  54. Classics Subject Guide
  55. Cliffs Notes
  56. Concordances of Great Books - Over 200 classics of literature are here, in the genres of fiction, poetry, philosophy, religion, drama, and history. Currently, over 80 authors are represented. You can view the list alphabetically, or by author. Once you make a selection, search to find a particular passage within the book.
  57. Contemporary Poetry Review
  58. Critically Yeats - links and information page.
  59. Cyber Seuss

  D - F
  1. Darwin, Charles - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  2. Descartes - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  3. Dickens, Charles - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  4. Dickinson, Emily - Poems
  5. Doyle, Arthur Conan - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  6. Dr. Jekyll ad Mr. Hyde
  7. Dr. Shaw's Classics and Humanities Links
  8. Dr, Thorburn's Resources on Classics
  9. Dracula - by Bram Stoker
  10. Electro Magnetic Poetry
  11. Electronic Beowulf
  12. Electronic Poetry Center - This gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics, based at State University of New York at Buffalo, focuses on contemporary experimental poetry.
  13. Electronic Newsstand
  14. English Electronic Texts Resources
  15. English Server - Carnegie Mellon University
  16. Ever the Twain Shall Meet
  17. Fairy Tales: Origin and Evolution
  18. William Faulkner on the Web
  19. F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial
  20. Fiction Page - Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University
  21. FindSame.com - Site looks for content, not keywords. You submit an entire document, and FindSame returns a list of Web pages that contain any fragment of that document longer than about one line of text.
  22. Flatland - The complete Edwin Abbott science fiction fantasy, "Flatland."
  23. Fooling with Words - Based on the 1998 PBS poetry special, this site features the works of 21 poets reading and talking about their work. You'll also find links to dozens of other poetry sites.
  24. FreeBooknotes.com - Looking for free study guides, book notes, or book summaries online? You've come to the right place. Site lists over 200 books, and has indexed book notes from all the major study guide sites.
G - I
  1. Gods of Mars, The
  2. Great Books of Western Civilization
  3. Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens
  4. Greek World of Mary Renault, The
  5. Grey, Zane - 1872-1939 (Zane Grey’s West Society) - This romantic western author is responsible for 57 novels, 10 nonfiction titles, 130 movies, and for creating the "myth of the West." Essays on his importance to cowboy literature, bibliography, filmography, and a biography are included. Also includes his fishing records, the geography of his writing, book and film collectors FAQ, information on the annual convention, links to bookstores that have extensive holdings of his titles, and links to related museums.
  6. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - formatted version of the complete text of Gulliver's Travels, supported by accompanying materials for study and research
  7. HarperAudio - "Heard any Good Books Lately?"
  8. Thomas Hardy Resource Library, The
  9. Heart of Darkness - by Joseph Conrad
  10. History of the Mystery - the evolution of the mystery from Edgar Allen Poe to Murder She Wrote and a few butlers (who did it) in-between.
  11. Hitchens, Christopher - many samples of the author's work
  12. Holden Server, The - Random quotes from 'The Catcher in the Rye'
  13. Hungry Mind Review
  14. Hyperizons - The Search for Hypertext Fiction
  15. Henrik Ibsen - "that you can't, that will surely be forgiven - but never that you won't."
  16. Iliad, The - by Homer
  17. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
  18. Index of Poets
  19. Inkspot
  20. Internet Classics Archive, The. - searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary
  J - M
  1. Keats, John - Poetical Works
  2. Kidsreads.com - "site for children 6-12. Listed as a Yahooligan destination for children, the site's mascot, Booker T. Worm, guides readers through titles that include series books, new titles and author features. Reading lists and reviews are grouped by reader ability."
  3. Lady Chatterly's Lover - by D.H. Lawrence
  4. Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America - site from the Library of Congress, "presents a tapestry of the impressions that endure in our collective imagination of the American land and its culture."
  5. Legends - "Exploring the lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, Pirates & Privateers, and other swashbuckling characters..." Enjoy detailed information on ballads and broadsides, learn about the original tales behind some of Shakespeare's famous plays, or just peruse the broad selection of book reviews.
  6. Liberties Book Store
  7. Literary Kicks - "The Beat Generation, Kerouac, Ginsberg, et. al."
  8. Literary Research Tools
  9. Literature - WorldWideWeb Virtual Library
  10. Literature and Culture of the America 1950s
  11. Literature Link, The
  12. Little Women
  13. Living Poets
  14. MIT's Classics Archive
  15. MP3Lit.com - literature never sounded so good.
  16. MX Bookfinder - this is the search engine to start with for used, fine, and out-of-print books. It searches Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon, Antiqbook, Bibliocity, Interloc, and Powell's Books at once.
  17. MLink: Michigan Electronic Library
  18. Macbeth In-depth - annotations, summaries, analysis, CD-ROM reviews, discussions, and links for the great play.
  19. Macmillan Publishing - "USA Information SuperLibrary"
  20. Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition - Features editions of all of Marlowe's plays, his two known poetic works, his translations of Ovid and Lucan, his short miscellaneous works and others.
  21. Melville, Herman - Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall-street.
  22. Henry Miller Library - located in Big Sur. Online journal, events calendar and forum.
  23. Milton, John - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  24. Mississippi Writers Page, The - "site about writers in, from, or otherwise associated with the state of Mississippi," including William Faulkner, Shelby Foote, John Grisham, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, civil rights activist Medgar Evars, and others.
  25. Modern American Poetry - A collection of over 150 poets that "includes excerpts from interesting analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations (such as book jackets, broadsides, paintings, drawings, comics, and photographs), manuscripts, drafts of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews, mini-essays on important issues pertinent to the poet, book reviews, archival resources, and study questions."
  26. Modern English, Bibliography - HTI Univ. of Michigan
  27. The Modern Library: 100 Best - a list of the 100 "best novels published in the English language since 1900." Number one on the list? James Joyce's "Ulysses." Number 100? "The Magnificent Ambersons," by Booth Tarkington. Stop by to see what lies in between.
  28. The MU Online Writery

  N - P

 

  1. National Book Foundation - sponsor of the National Book Awards.
  2. New York Times Books
  3. NovelGuide - site provides an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature through Chapter Summaries, Character Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
  4. One Book List, The
  5. Online Books Page
  6. Online BookStore
  7. Online Literature Library
  8. Online Medieval & Classical Library - searchable full-text collection of over thirty literary works from classical and medieval Europe. In addition to the search function, the site can be browsed by author, title, genre, or language.
  9. Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 - 1900
  10. Oyster Boy Review
  11. Page at Pooh Corner, The
  12. Perseus Project Home Page
  13. PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide, this searchable site provides outlines and bibliographies of hundreds of authors, themes, and literary movements in the U.S. from colonial days to the present. There are many appendices, including the elements of poetry, drama, and fiction.
  14. Picture of Dorian Gray, The - by Oscar Wilde
  15. PinkMonkey.com - Literature Notes, Literature Classics, Study Guides and Online Textbooks.
  16. Plays for the Day - site of playwright Paul Thain
  17. Playwrights on the web
  18. Poe, Edgar Allan - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  19. Poet's Corner - Over 4000 poems, representing the work of almost 500 poets, have been compiled at this site.
  20. Poetry for Kids - by Kenn Nesbitt
  21. Poetry of Walt Whitman, The
  22. Poetry Market
  23. Poetry Publishers Online
  24. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - by James Joyce
  25. Powell's Books - "The Largest New and Used Bookstore in the World."
  26. Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
  27. Project Gutenberg
  28. Pulitzer Prize Web Site
  29. Publishers Lunch - a daily book publishing news and information site.
  Q - S
  1. Real Books - includes a collection of first chapters of books reviewed in Knight Ridder newspapers
  2. Red Badge of Courage, The
  3. Return of Tarzan, The - by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  4. Romance Novel Database
  5. Scarlet Letter, The
  6. SearcheBooks.com - a search engine that indexes the full text of thousands of online books. Site offers a simple keyword search interface and caches the versions of pages that its robots find, and returns two URLs for each hit, one for the provider's page, and one for the full text of the book.
  7. Shakespeare on the Web
  8. William Shakespeare - The Complete Works
  9. Shelley, Mary - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  10. Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Complete Poetical Works
  11. Shiki Internet Haiku Salon, The
  12. Short Stories - free classic short stories sorted by genre: fiction, nonfiction, children, humor, romance, science, etc. fiction,
  13. SimonSays.com - Offers live author events, reader reviews, subject and title-driven forums, and access to and information about 11,000 titles
  14. So You Wanna Publish Your Poetry?
  15. Spark Notes - Created by Harvard University students and alumni, SparkNotes is a collection of free online study guides to approximately 100 literature classics. Each SparkNote contains sections on context, characters, overall summary, chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for collaborative learning.
  16. Spy Fact of the Day
  17. The Steinbeck Center
  18. Stoker, Bram - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  19. St. John's Univ. Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
  20. Strunk, William, Jr - The Elements of Style
  21. Treasure Island - by Robert Lewis Stevenson
 T - Z
  1. Tales of the Storyteller - the Official James A. Michener site.
  2. Tech Classics Archive, The
  3. Teenreads.com - "a site where teens sound off about the books and issues they care about."
  4. Tender Buttons - by Gertrude Stein.
  5. Dylan Thomas
  6. TopBestsellers.com - Site averages major U.S. bestseller lists into a composite list of the top-selling books in many different categories; links to prominent bestseller lists around the country; and provides reviews, news, and analysis for the book-selling industry.
  7. Troutworks Mystery Guide - reviews of hundreds of novels, sorted by author and sub-genre (thriller, private-eye, historical). Each entry includes quick facts, 1- to 5-star ratings, and links to similar works by other authors.
  8. Turkish Poetry Home Page
  9. Twain, Mark - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  10. Mark Twain Resources on the WWW
  11. Ulysses - by James Joyce
  12. Ulysses for Dummies
  13. Vergil's Home Page
  14. Verne, Jules - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  15. Virtual Emily

W - Z
  1. What the Thunder Said: T.S.Eliot
  2. Whitman, Walt - Home Page
  3. Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
  4. Wilde, Oscar - Poems
  5. Wordsworth, William - Complete Poetical Works
  6. Worldbookdealers.com - "Top antiquarian booksellers have come together under one banner to present over 200,000 expertly catalogued books." Provides "search engine, a wide selection of participating dealers' stock, dealer profiles, highlights of latest activities, acquisitions and catalogues, general news items and notices of events."
  7. Writer's Guild of America, The
  8. Writer's Toolbox
  9. Writers Write