Literature On-line Resources for Literary Collections
General Literature,
Short Stories, Poetry,
Authors
Hypertexts, Student Magazines
Summaries and Criticism
General Resources
- American
Memory
- American National Biography
- American
Literature: Electronic Texts
- American
Memory
- A
Hypertext of American History
- I Hear America
Singing
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Nobel Prizes
- Books
On-line-Authors
- Adolescent
Literature
- Literary
Research Tools on the Net
- American
Literature: Electronic Texts
- Great Books
Index
- Bibliomania.
This site has some wonderful stuff-Anna Karenina, The Hound of
the Baskervilles, four Jane Austen novels, Cooper's Last of the
Mohicans.
- The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
- The Online
Medieval Classical Library.<- If you are interested
in what was written a very long time ago from such authors as
Chaucer, Asser and deTroyes, check this out. Excellent!
- Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library--Duke University.
-Developing an understanding of human experience and culture
requires access to historical documentation in many forms and
subject areas. The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library at Duke University preserves such documentation and promotes
its use. While the library's holdings are developed in relation
to instructional and research interests in the University, they
are available for use by visiting scholars and the general public
as well as Duke faculty and students.
- Project Gutenberg>
Texts of more than 1,000 English-language books --mostly literature,
mostly pre-1920. More than 200 books with the keyword "poems"
in the title.
- Virtual Seminars
for Teaching Literature-online tutorials and resources based
around First World war poetry.
- American
Literature: Electronic Texts
- Classic Literature
- Online
Literary Collections - a good collection of sites devoted
to novels, plays, short stories, and poetry anthologies. If you
are looking for a poem from Poe or a short story from William
Faulkner, look at this page.
- Examples
of Virtual Libraries
- Internet Public
Library of Online Books
- Sci-fi Channel's Homepage
- Dime
Novels
- The
Modern English Collection 1500-Present: I love this site.
You
can find many of the authors from around the English speaking
world
here.
- American
Hypertexts
- The
University of Texas Online Books
- African
American Writers Online
- The Naked Word: Texts
that are in public domain
- The
Rare Book Page
- American
Studies: Black Literature and History
- Native
American Literature
- Native
American Literature Site: Both Oral and Written
- The Literary
Traveler: visit homes and places of famous authors
- Popular
Culture Links
- The Literature
Page: Literature Online
- Perspectives
on American Literature:
- Online Literature
- Online
Literary Network
Short Stories Collections
Poetry
- The Academy of American
Poetry: Poetry Selections
- The American
Verse Project
- Modern
American Poetry Home-- Good source of biography and criticism.
- The Poetry
Archive
- Yahoo
Poetry Anthologies
- MIT's Internet Classics
Archive - a searchable collection of over 400 classical
Greek and Latin texts (in English translation)
- Poetry
Daily - a sampler of contemporary print-published ("imagist")
poetry; largely from books under copyright which aren't available
elsewhere.
- Poems
of Acclaim 70 famous poems
- Little
Archive of Poetry - poems; sentimental, rhymed: "Casey
At the Bat", "Annie's and Willie's Prayer", "Heaven's
Grocery Store".
- Poet's
Corner
- The Poetry
Pond- Poetry Links; Reviews, 40 contemporary sites, with
ratings
- Yahoo's
Web-Published Poets
- Project
Bartleby -The complete texts of 38 famous, pre-1920 books,
most of them poetry; several thousand poems in total.
- The
University of Toronto's --Representative Poetry On-Line More
than 1,000 pre-1900 poems; chronologically organized (with author,
title, keyword searching, too)
- Richard's
Poetry Library Good selections from 18th and 19th century
English poets.
Selected Authors
American Authors
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World Authors
Lord
Byron: Selections
She
Walks in Beauty
Written
After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos
Percy
Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
William
Butler Yeats
The
Second Coming
Easter
1916
No
Second Troy
Leda
and the Swan
William
Blake: Selected Poems
The
Tiger
Literature:
American Folklore
Net
Clickable Poems:
An Electronic Hypertext of Poems
Emily Dickinson Electronic
Archives This site focuses on the work of Emily Dickinson,
her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work,
and critical and creative writings generated by her work.
North American
Slave Narratives: Documenting the American South
Library of
Southern Literature: Documenting the American South
Encyclopedia
Mythica This online encyclopedia has entries for gods and
goddesses, supernatural beings, and legendary creatures and monsters.
Browse by category (mythology, folklore, etc.), or search articles
by keyword.
Favorite Poem Project
The project site houses a collection of short video documentaries
of Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they
love. It also provides a forum for teachers and students, including
poetry lesson plans and forms for submitting favorite poems.
Grimms'
Fairy Tales: from National Geographic
Mr. Shakespeare
and the Internet This site endeavors to provide annotated
links to every Shakespeare site on the Internet. Additionally,
the site provides timelines, genealogy material, and online versions
of important texts.
NYPL
Digital Gallery The New York Public Library's new image database
contains over 275,000 items for online viewing, including an
entire section on Arts and Literature. The site includes such
resources as Dust Jackets from American and European Books and
Illustrated Books by William Blake.
Great
Poems to Teach The Academy of American Poetry
Publisher's Binding:
1815-1930 The Art of Books This site includes images of close
to 5,000 decorative bookbindings along with research tools and
lesson plans. The site features include various bindings for
Uncle Tom's Cabin, bookbindings focusing on representations
of the Industrial Revolution in America, and bindings that feature
metal stamping.
Walt
Whitman: Revising Himself This Library of Congress exhibition
traces this evolution of Leaves of Grass and Walt Whitman's
life, tapping a range of editions and drafts of the famous work.
A wealth of interesting biographical material on Whitman, his
friends and associates, his work as a teacher, tending the wounded
during the Civil War, and for the federal government, also appears
in the exhibit
Walt Whitman Archive
The Walt Whitman Archive includes a host of versions of Whitman's
Leaves of Grass, numerous poetry manuscripts witn a related
guide, a detailed biography of Whitman, and a bibliography of
articles, books, chapters of books and poems about Whitman published
from 1975 to the present.
American
Poets: Spotlight on Voices and Visions Thirteen modern American
poets are featured in this Web supplement to the video series
from Annenberg/CPB. Teachers and students will find value in
the video clips freely available from the series, along with
links to sites that explore the life and works of each poet in
greater depth.
Folk and Fairy
Tales from around the World
Teen Reads.com
Each month, Teenreads.com features candid reviews of new
books for young adults. Author biographies and interviews, advice
on starting a book club, and discussion guides are also available
on the site.
American
Collection Literary Map The American Collection Literary
Map provides a visual gateway to authors across America. By selecting
any state, users can access author information or submit their
own information and related web links. This site is brought to
you by Exxon and the National Council of Teachers of English.
The
Cinderella Project: This University of Southern Mississippi
site is the place to go if your students are interested in exploring
how tales have changed over time. This collection includes texts
and images from a dozen English versions of the Cinderella story.
Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to similar collections
on Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk.
The Web English
Teacher: The Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12
English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests,
videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, professional
development and classroom activities.
The Web
English Teacher: The 1818 and AP
Poetry
Lesson Page
St. Louis Poetry
Center
Margie: American
Journal of Poetry
Margie
Poetry Contests
Social
Studies Literature Connections
Interactive
Literature Links: The American Traditions Ebook supplement
Daily Scripts: a
collection of movie scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource
for writers and actors and those who simply enjoy reading movie
scripts.
Scripts and
Screenplay Links
Simply Scripts:
downloadable movie scripts
Movie
Scripts and Webring-Great site and lots of links
Short Story Links
Shirley
Jackson Site Online
Lottery
Excerpt
The
Full Text of The Lottery
Shirley
Jackson: The Lottery
Quote
by Jackson on why there's always been a lottery
Kurt
Vonnegut on Writing Short Fiction with a Shirley Jackson reference
Short Story Collections
Classic Short Stories
Wikipedia:
Short Stories
Wikipedia
List of Short Story Authors
The English
Server: Short Fiction
The
Online Book Page
The William
Faulkner Foundation
Faulkner's
Sound and Fury Hypertext
Faulkner
on the Web
If: the future
of the book
Institute for the Future
of the Book
William
Faulkner Short Story Collection
Faulkner's
Characters: Glossary
Faulkner's
Genealogical Charts
A
Yoknapatawpha Timeline
Faux-Faulkner
Contest: 2005
Faulkner
and Hemingway Parodies
Isaac
Asimov Homepage
O'Henry
Collection
Author
Index: Online Literature
The LinxNet: Library
Indes: Novels, Short Stories and More
The LinxNet:
Library Indes: Short Stories
The Classic
Reader Author List
Modern
Library 100 Best Novels
The Internet
Poetry Address Book
Author List
Sherwood
Anderson
Honore
de Balzac
Ambrose
Bierce
An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
L.
Frank Baum
Willa
Cather
Paul's
Case
The
Sculptor's Funeral
Wagner
Matinee
Anton
Checkov
The
Bet
Kate
Chopin
A
Respectable Woman
Joseph
Conrad
The
Heart of Darkness
Charles
Dickens
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Arthur
Conan Doyle
Gustave
Flaubert
Nikolai
Vasilievich Gogol
The
Overcoat
Zane
Grey
Riders
of the Purple Sage
Bret
Harte
The
Luck of Roaring Camp
The
Outcasts of Poker Flats
O'Henry
After
Twenty Years
The
Gift of the Magi
The
Ransom of Red Chief
Washington
Irving
Henry
James
James
Joyce
Araby
The
Dead
The
Boarding House
Franz
Kafka
The
Meamorphous
Rudyard
Kipling
The
Man Who Would Be King
Ring
Lardner
Alibi
Ike
You
Know Me Al
D.
H. Lawrence
Jack
London
H.P.
Lovecraft: Collected Stories
Herbert
West: Reanimator
Katherine
Mansfield
Bliss
The
Garden Party
Guy
de Maupassant
The
Diamond Necklace
The
Legend of Mont St. Michel
Herman
Melville
Bartleby
the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street
H.
H. Munro "Saki"
The
Interlopers
Mark
Twain
Kurt Vonnegut's Official Website
The Wasteland
Hypertext
The Prufrock
Papers: A hypertextual resource for "The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock"
James Joyce's Ulysses:
One page every day
The Rainer Maria Rilke
Archive
Mason
& Dixon: Pynchon Hyperart
Thomas
Pynchon.com: Hypertext Related to Thomas Pynchon
Grimm's Fairy
Tales
209 Tales Collected by the brothers Grimm
Fairy
Tales by the Grimm Brothers: Web Edition
The Brothers
Grimm: National Geographic Movie Connections
The
Majestic Script
Selections
Black
Mask: Westerns
Black
Mask: Dime Novels
Black
Mask: Pulp Fiction
Dime
Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Dime
Novels: American Treasures of the Library of Congress
American Women's
Dime Novels
Dime
Novel Cover Art Gallery
Harvey,
Charles M.. "The Dime Novel in American Life"
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library (1907)
Etext
Center Lollections at Virginia
Literature
American
Literature Sites Online
American
Literary Resources-
American
Authors on the Web
Literature Project:
Hypertexts on American Authors
Stephen
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage Hypertext
Nathaniel
Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables
Post-Modernism
is Fiction: a site dedicated to exploration of contemporary
writers
Poem Hunter: Poets
American
Literature Archive
American
Authors from American Studies U-California
James Fenimore
Cooper Society
Kerouac
Speaks
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Wallace
Stevens
Ludwig
Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logica-Philosophicus
The Ovid
Collections
Reading Hypertext
Publishing
for Students and Seasoned Writers
Summaries and Criticicm
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