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1. 4Literature - Read any one of thousands of classic books free at this site. The archives include the works of Shakespeare, religious and historical documents, children's fairy tales, Greek and Roman classics, and books by famous American authors of the 19th century.
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare
3. A Short History of the World - by H.G. Wells, 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.' "
4. ALEX - A Catalogue of over 1800 Electronic Texts on the Internet
5. Academy of American Poets, The
6. Alexander's Bridge - by Willa Cather
7. Alibris - source for used, rare, and hard-to-find books
8. AllReaders.com - Search by any combination of over 2,000 literary criteria to find precisely the kind of book you're looking for.
9. American Hypertexts - online texts of American literature: Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more.
10. American Writers - On this companion web site for a C-SPAN special series, this site offers an in-depth look at 45 American writers who helped shape a nation, featuring biographical and historical background information for each featured author.
11. Anne of Green Gables - by Lucy Maud Montgomery
12. Arachnoid Writers Alliance
13. 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.
14. The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
15. W. H. Auden Society - "The W. H. Auden Society commemorates the life and work of one of the greatest poets in the English language."
16. Audio Book Cafe - "Where spoken word is spoken about."
17. Jane Austen Information Page
18. 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.
19. Banned Books On-line
20. Banned Books - Yahoo!
21. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Excellent literature, reference, and verse resources.
22. Bartlett, John - Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.
23. Beasts of Tarzan, The - by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Bibliophile.net - "The web site for everyone interested in reading, buying and selling books."
27. Books AtoZ
28. BookBrowser - guide for avid readers
29. 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.
30. Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
31. Books On-line: Authors - an indispensable A to Z index cataloging online texts with authors ranging from Aeschylus to Yeats
32. Book Recommendations of Real Folks
33. Bookreporter.com - explore the latest book reviews while interacting with other involved literary experts and popular authors from around the world.
34. Book Talk - nightly moderated discussions and RealAudio readings by authors.
35. 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.
36. BookWire Reading Room - "Tremendous Resources!"
37. Richard Brautigan
38. Breakthrough Books - Lingua Franca asks the experts to recommend the breakthrough books in their field, those books that have defined a particular area of thought.
39. British Library
40. Bronte, Emily - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
41. Bullets and Beer: The Spenser Page
42. Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Literary Works,Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
43. Cambridge History of English and American Literature - All eighteen volumes of this distinguished scholarly encyclopedia are now on the Web, thanks to Bartleby.com.
44. Campbell, Joseph Foundation Web Site
45. Canadian Literature Online
46. Carroll, Lewis - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
47. Center for Utopian/Dystopian Studies
48. 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.
49. Cervantes International Bibliography - An annual bibliography about the life and works of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).
50. Chapman, George, trans. The Odysseys of Homer
51. Chapter One - peruse the first chapters of select new fiction and non-fiction compliments of The Washington Post
52. 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.
53. Children's Literature Web Guide, The
54. City of Bits
55. 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."
56. Classic Short Stories - collection of classic short stories: Balzac, London, Poe, Thurber and many others.
57. ClassicsNotes - site provides free literature summaries and analysis.
58. Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy
59. Classics Subject Guide
60. Classics Unveiled - "The ultimate source in Classical studies with information on Greek Mythology, Roman History, Roman Life and Latin Vocabulary and Derivatives."
61. Cliffs Notes
62. 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.
63. Contemporary Poetry Review
64. Critically Yeats - links and information page.
65. Cyber Seuss

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.

1. Gods of Mars, The
2. Great Authors of 19th Century Literature - "Biographies, works and life of great authors and poets from the 19th century including Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Victor Hugo, and many others "
3. Great Books of Western Civilization
4. Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens
5. Greek World of Mary Renault, The
6. 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.
7. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - formatted version of the complete text of Gulliver's Travels, supported by accompanying materials for study and research
8. HarperAudio - "Heard any Good Books Lately?"
9. Thomas Hardy Resource Library, The
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

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

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 Literary Criticism Collection - The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4492 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
8. Online Literature Library
9. 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.
10. Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 - 1900
11. Oyster Boy Review
12. Page at Pooh Corner, The
13. Perseus Project Home Page
14. 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.
15. Picture of Dorian Gray, The - by Oscar Wilde
16. PinkMonkey.com - Literature Notes, Literature Classics, Study Guides and Online Textbooks.
17. Plays for the Day - site of playwright Paul Thain
18. Playwrights on the web
19. Poe, Edgar Allan - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
20. Poet's Corner - Over 4000 poems, representing the work of almost 500 poets, have been compiled at this site.
21. Poetry for Kids - by Kenn Nesbitt
22. Poetry of Walt Whitman, The
23. Poetry Market
24. Poetry Publishers Online
25. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - by James Joyce
26. Powell's Books - "The Largest New and Used Bookstore in the World."
27. Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
28. Project Gutenberg
29. Publishers Lunch - a daily book publishing news and information site.
30. Pulitzer Prize Winners 2001 - Site offers a list of the 2001 Pulitzer winners and their citations, the finalists, links to the works, short biographies, and lists of jurors. Winners from previous years also available.

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

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

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