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Banned Books Online -- books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts
Beaucoup! -- Search Engine in Reference, Language and Literature
BigEye Literature Center -- Gateway to a large number of internet literature sites
Google Web Directory: World Literature
Galaxy's Literature Resources -- Internet resources in literature.
Hall of Literature and Language -- The Texas Education Network (TENET)
Internet Book Information Center -- Links to internet resources about books and authors.
Literature and Rhetoric -- Catalog of selected internet resources in literature and rhetoric
trAce Online Writing Community
University of Toronto English Library -- Selected authors and some online works.
Alex catalogue of electronic texts -- a collection of digital documents in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy
American Verse Project -- an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920
Bartleby Library -- Great Books Online
Berkley SunSite Digital Library -- a large collection of digital full-text books and other documents maintained by the University of Calfornia at Berkley
Books on the Internet (Univ. of Texas Library)
CARRIE -- a full-text electronic library.
Electronic Literature Foundation -- "...electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is to provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature available in several languages and/or editions, with forums for communication regarding these works, for all types of readers."
Great Books of Western Civilization -- Readings from the Great Books of Western Civilization program
Internet Public Library Online Texts
The Literature Page - Read classic books, plays, stories, poems, essays, and speeches online. The collection currently includes 202 works from 80 authors. More are being added every day.
On Line Books Page -- a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet
The Online Literature Library -- An online literature library.
Project Gutenberg -- Project Gutenberg offers electronic access to thousands of books (full text).
Shakespeare Bookshelf -- The complete works of William Shakespeare Online (Internet Public Library).
Tales of Wonder -- Folk and fairy tales from around the world
19th Century American Women Authors
Academic Info: American Literature -- an annotated directory of internet resources
African-American Literature & History
African-American Literature and Poetry
African-American Women's Literature
An American Literature Survey Site
American Women Writers 1890 - 1939
Black American Women Authors: a resource guide
The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC, 1920-1930's
Cambridge History of American and British Literature
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, 1650-1920
English and American Literature Resources -- University of Connecticut Libraries
Key Sites on American Literature -- Links to American Literature sites.
Literary Resources on the Net -- a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics
Native American Authors: Teacher Resources
StudyWeb: African-American Authors
WWW Resources for American and British Literature -- Indiana University Bloomington Library.
16th Century Renaissance English Literature
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
English and American Literature Resources -- University of Connecticut Libraries
Literary Resources on the Net -- a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics
Victorian Women Writers Project -- highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century,...include[s] anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama
Choice List of Literary Websites -- Individual author sites, multicultural literary sites, and literary resources by period and nationality.
Great Books Five Star Sites -- links to quality literature sites, by author.
Online Literary Criticism Collection -- biographical and/or literary criticism about an author. You can browse by author, title, or by literary period. It covers U.S. and British literary works from pre-1500 to the present
Online Classical Literature Library -- 1258 classical fiction and nonfiction e-books. 460 authors linked to 1258 author titles of classic literature
Augustine of Hippo -- Works by and about St. Augustine of Hippo
Life of St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo -- Links to web resources.
William Blake Archive -- A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress
Robert Burns Page
-- San Antonio College.
Welcome to Burns Country -- The official Robert Burns site.
Mark Twain in his times -- focuses on how "Mark Twain" and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated.
Mark Twain Papers and Project -- The Bancroft Library
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) -- Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
James Fenimore Cooper: Home As Found
Charles Dickens -- The Active Portal Project.
Charles Dickens -- works by and about Charles Dickens
Davis Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
Faulkner Resources on the World Wide Web -- Selected by Jim Alderman, (Univ. of North Florida at Jacksonville Library)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary -- University of South Carolina
Nathaniel Hawthorne (About.com)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Links to Hemingway sites on the Web
About Washington Irving -- Resources for Educators
Work in Progress: A James Joyce Website
David Herbert Lawrence 1885-1930: Aesthete's List
H.L. Mencken -- Internet site dedicated to the works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Mencken, Henry Louis -- Google Web Directory
Mencken, Henry Louis -- Open Directory Project.
The James A. Michener Site on the World Wide Web
John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet
Milton Reading Room -- Online collection of works by John Milton, includes criticisms
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) -- sponsored by Monmouth University and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
Lewis Mumford: a sketch of his work
Celestial Timepiece -- A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page
Edgar Allan Poe -- Biography, selected poems and tales
Ayn Rand Institute -- the authoritative source on the Internet for Ayn Rand’s ideas
The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Anne Rice -- Open Directory Project
The Official Anne Rice Web Site
Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive
Harry Potter: Meet J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling Teacher Resource File
Rowling, J. K. -- Open Directory Project
Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery -- "Pilot, Poet, Man (1900-1944)
The Life and Times of Mr. William Shakespeare
Shakespeare -- the complete works
Shakespeare-Oxford -- Resources on Shakespeare
Shakespeare resources on the internet -- "Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet"
William Shakespeare of Straford-Upon-Avon -- Brief history, times, and references.
Dylan Thomas -- The Academy of American Poets site.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- a Guide to the Resources
THE CENTAURIAN -- A John Updike Website For Information And Discussion
Books and Writers: John (Hoyer) Updike
Life and Times: John Updike -- New York Times
Vergil's Home Page -- Links to internet sites about Vergil (P. Vergili Maronis)
William Wordsworth: a hypertextual biography
Wordsworth Page -- William Wordsworth resources on the internet
APA style resources -- links to APA style guides and help sheets on the internet
Beginning Library Research on Women Writers
Voice of the Shuttle -- Web Page for Humanities Research
19th Century French Literature -- A Globe Gate research library
Africa South of the Sahara: Literature
African Literature (About.com)
African Literature on the Internet
Asian and Asian-American Poets
Catalogue of Internet Resources: French Literature
Chinese Literature in Translation
Chinese Literature Resources Page
French Literature -- Open Directory Project
French Literature Resources -- Bobst Library at NYU
German Literature Resources -- Bobst Library at NYU
Latin American Writers: Contemporary Literature (About.com)
Mexican and Latin American Literature: Selected Sources
StudyWeb: Latin American Literature
Classics-Perseus Project -- Tufts University
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Electronic Resources for Classicists
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Online Medival and Classical Library -- a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Outline of Classical Literature
Perseus Project -- Classical Greek and Roman Literature
Canadian Children's Literature Service
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Children's Literature Association
The Children's Literature Web Guide -- Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature
ISLMC Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
American Literature Association
Arts and Letters Daily -- A daily literature and arts newspaper, includes book reviews.
BookReporter.Com -- Reviews of books
Literary Journals, Magazines and Feminist Zines -- Links to literary journals about women writers
Literary Journals and Magazines Online -- Fiction, poetry and literary studies
Literay Links: Online journals
NetSerf's Research Center: Literary Journals -- Medieval Literature Journals
Modern Language Association (MLA) guide to style
Online Writing Lab (Purdue University -- includes sections on Parts of Speech, Punctuation, General Writing Concerns, and on Citing Sources (MLA & APA format).
Seven Steps of the Research Project (Cornell University) -- a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find
SparkNotes: online study guides -- A series of study guides covering 40 famous literary works. They were written by Harvard students and cover the context, characters and a summary. A list of study questions and a message board for each work is also available.
Internet Poetry Archive -- Contemporary poets
Modern American Poetry -- Multimedia companion to "Anthology of Modern American Poetry" (Oxford University Press, 2000). Contains biographies and links.
Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1990
Poetry Archives -- Archive of Classical poetry.
Poetry Resources -- Links to poetry resources on the web. Maintained by the Poetry Society of America
Poets' Corner -- "Our goal is to create the largest, most diverse, and most user-friendly public library of poetic works ever assembled."