• 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 The archives include the works of Shakespeare, religious and historical documents, children's fairy tales, Greek and Roman classics, and books by famous American authors of the 19th century.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - by William Shakespeare

• 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.' "

• ALEX - A Catalogue of over 1800 Electronic Texts on the Internet

• Absolute Shakespeare - Online resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre. Also includes study guides, quiz and a timeline.

• Academy of American Poets, The

• Alibris - source for used, rare, and hard-to-find books

• AllReaders.com - Search by any combination of over 2,000 literary criteria to find precisely the kind of book you're looking for.

• American Hypertexts - online texts of American literature: Creve Coeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more.

• 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.

• Anne of Green Gables - by Lucy Maud Montgomery

• AntiStudy.com - A search engine that searches for free cliff notes online from all the major book notes sites such as Sparknotes and Pinkmonkey. The site makes it easy to find study guides on over 500 novels, plays, and poems.

• Arts & Letters Daily - This site delivers updated report of news and reviews in the field of Arts and Letters - the latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip. Featured sections include announcements of new books and articles of note and essays and opinions from many online publications.

• The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

• W. H. Auden Society - "The W. H. Auden Society commemorates the life and work of one of the greatest poets in the English language."

• Jane Austen Information Page

• 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.

• BBC Bookcase - Site provides literary news, features, and games along with an animated history of books guided Shakespeare.

• Banned Books On-line

• Banned Books - Yahoo!

• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Excellent literature, reference, and verse resources.

• Bartlett, John - Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

• Beasts of Tarzan, The - by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• 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.

• Bibliofind - the largest book search 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.

• Bibliophile.net - "The web site for everyone interested in reading, buying and selling books."

• Books AtoZ

• BookBrowser

• 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.

• Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature

• Book Magazine - "Book goes beyond book reviews to cover the whole world of books, from all angles. In Book, you'll read about authors at home and at work; publishing news, trends and issues; great bookstores; exciting literary locations; and technological developments affecting books. You'll find excerpts, essays and fiction by leading writers and new voices. And you'll get plenty of book reviews, too: more than 50 in every issue!"

• Bookreporter.com - explore the latest book reviews while interacting with other involved literary experts and popular authors from around the world.

• Book Talk - nightly moderated discussions and RealAudio readings by authors.

• Book Terms & Glossary

• 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.

• BookWire Reading Room - "Tremendous Resources!"

• Bookwolf - Site offers free book notes, homework help and message boards for high school and college students.

• Richard Brautigan

• British Library

• Bronte, Emily - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature - All eighteen volumes of this distinguished scholarly encyclopaedia are now on the Web, thanks to Bartleby.com.

• Campbell, Joseph Foundation Web Site

• Carroll, Lewis - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• 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.

• Cervantes International Bibliography - An annual bibliography about the life and works of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).

• Chapman, George, trans. The Odysseys of Homer

• Chapter One - peruse the first chapters of select new fiction and non-fiction compliments of The Washington Post

• 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.

• Children's Literature Web Guide, The

• 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."

• Classic Reader - At this site you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 651 books and 906 short stories by 196 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of readers.

• ClassicsNotes - site provides free literature summaries and analysis.

• Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy

• Classic Reader - At this site you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 743 books and 1041 short stories by 211 authors.

• Classics Subject Guide

• Classics Unveiled - "The ultimate source in Classical studies with information on Greek Mythology, Roman History, Roman Life and Latin Vocabulary and Derivatives."

• Cliffs Notes

• 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.

• Contemporary Poetry Review

• Cyber Seuss

• Darwin, Charles - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Descartes - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Dickens, Charles - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Dickinson, Emily - Poems

• Doyle, Arthur Conan - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Dr. Jekyll ad Mr. Hyde

• Dracula - by Bram Stoker

• Electro Magnetic Poetry

• Electronic Beowulf

• English Electronic Texts Resources

• English Server - Carnegie Mellon University

• Ever the Twain Shall Meet

• Fascinating Facts About the Library of Congress - The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts. Other facts and information available at the site provided by the Library of Congress.

• Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner's fourth novel, first published on October 7, 1929, is a difficult work that has posed many problems for both readers and teachers. This hypertext of the novel and related materials is designed as a unique means of exploring the text of the novel, and of augmenting its study, for all levels of readers.

• William Faulkner on the Web

• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centennial

• Fiction Page - Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University

• Flatland - The complete Edwin Abbott science fiction fantasy, "Flatland."

• 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.

• 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.

• Gods of Mars, The

• 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 "

• Great Books of Western Civilization

• Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens

• Greek World of Mary Renault, The

• Grey, Zane - 1872-1939 (Zane Grey’s West Society) - This romantic western author is responsible for 57 novels, 10 nonfictions titles, 130 movies, and for creating the "myth of the West." Essays on his importance to cowboy literature, bibliography, flexography, 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.

• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - formatted version of the complete text of Gulliver's Travels, supported by accompanying materials for study and research

• HarperAudio - "Heard any Good Books Lately?"

• The Harvard Classics The Shelf of Fiction - The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.

• Hitchens, Christopher - many samples of the author's work

• Hungry Mind Review

• Hyperizons - The Search for Hypertext Fiction

• Henrik Ibsen - "that you can't, that will surely be forgiven - but never that you won't."

• Iliad, The - by Homer

• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States

• International Standard Book Number (ISBN) - During the nineteenth century there developed in the U.K. and the U.S. pioneering efforts to systemize and cumulate the catalogues of publishers' output, to the benefit of booksellers, wholesalers and librarians." The Standard Book Number is the result of these efforts. Use this site to study this numbering scheme and discover its history.

• Internet Classics Archive, The. - searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary

• Keats, John - Poetical Works

• 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."

• Lady Chatterly's Lover - by D.H. Lawrence

• 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."

• 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.

• Links to Literature - a directory that contains more than nine thousand organized, annotated links to literature resources--all browsable by author.

• Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary - The aim of The Literary Encyclopaedia and Literary Dictionary is to provide profiles of the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language, and to do so within an electronic publication which will enable readers to explore literary history as never before.

• Literary Kicks - "The Beat Generation, Kerouac, Ginsberg, et. al."

• Literature - WorldWideWeb Virtual Library

• Literature and Culture of the America 1950s

• Little Women

• 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.

• MLink: Michigan Electronic Library

• Macbeth In-depth - annotations, summaries, analysis, CD-ROM reviews, discussions, and links for the great play.

• 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.

• Melville, Herman - Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall-street.

• Henry Miller Library - located in Big Sur. Online journal, events calendar and forum.

• Milton, John - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• 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.

• 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."

• Modern English, Bibliography - HTI Univ. of Michigan

• 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.

• The Modern Word - Site is a large network of sites developed to explore twentieth century writers who have pushed the envelope of traditional narrative and structure. This includes many writers associated with Modernism, surrealism, "magical realism," and postmodernism.

• The MU Online Writery

• National Book Foundation - sponsor of the National Book Awards.

• New York Review of Books, The

• New York Times Books

• 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.

• One Book List, The

• Online Books Page

• Online Literature Library

• 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.

• Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 - 1900

• Oyster Boy Review

• PEN America - a consortia of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors and novelists (thus PEN), contains a variety of works, opinions and essays from such noted writers.

• Perseus Project Home Page

• 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.

• PinkMonkey.com - Literature Notes, Literature Classics, Study Guides and Online Textbooks.

• Plays for the Day - site of playwright Paul Thain

• Playwrights on the web

• Poe, Edgar Allan - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Poet's Corner - Over 4000 poems, representing the work of almost 500 poets, have been compiled at this site.

• Poetry 180 - Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.

• Poetry for Kids - by Kenn Nesbitt

• Poetry of Walt Whitman, The

• Poetry Market

• Poetry Publishers Online

• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - by James Joyce

• Powell's Books - "The Largest New and Used Bookstore in the World."

• Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen

• Project Gutenberg

• Publishers Lunch - a daily book publishing news and information site.

• 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.

• Real Books - includes a collection of first chapters of books reviewed in Knight Ridder newspapers

• Red Badge of Courage, The

• Return of Tarzan, The - by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Salon.com: Books - Book reviews and much more literature related features from Salon.com.

• 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.

• Shakespeare on the Web

• William Shakespeare - The Complete Works

• Shelley, Mary - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Complete Poetical Works

• Short Stories - free classic short stories sorted by genre: fiction, nonfictions, children, humour, romance, science, etc. fiction,

• SimonSays.com - Offers live author events, reader reviews, subject and title-driven forums, and access to and information about 11,000 titles

• So You Wanna Publish Your Poetry?

• 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.

• The Steinbeck Centre

• Stoker, Bram - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library

• St. John's Univ. Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

• Strunk, William, Jr - The Elements of Style

• Tales of the Storyteller - the Official James A. Michener site.

• Tech Classics Archive, The

• Teenreads.com - "a site where teens sound off about the books and issues they care about."

• Tender Buttons - by Gertrude Stein.

• Thoreau Reader, The - site includes three complete books and four essays by Henry David Thoreau, with a brief introduction, annotated copies of Walden and Civil Disobedience, the Walden Express for students, and links to other Thoreau and Walden sites.

• Treasure Island - by Robert Lewis Stevenson

• 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.

• Turkish Poetry Home Page

• Twain, Mark - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library

• Ulysses - by James Joyce

• Ulysses for Dummies

• Used Books Search - A used books search engine for secondhand, rare and out of print books. Search, browse and buy online from thousands of bookstores worldwide.

• Verne, Jules - Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library

• Virtual Emily

• Whitman, Walt - Home Page

• Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass

• Wilde, Oscar - Poems

• Wordsworth, William - Complete Poetical Works

• The World eBook Library - This site has thousands of downloadable ebooks, including classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. You can browse and search by author and title.

• Writer's Guild of America, The

• Writers Write

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