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Books

1. -Books Online (Ockerbloom)
   Provides the complete text of 14,000 books online. Search by title, author, or subject.
2. Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women (Bibliomania)
3. American Literature Online (Ockerbloom)
   Provides hundreds of works of American literature.
4. Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (Bibliomania)
5. Blake, William - Collected Poems (Bibliomania)
6. Books for Children and Teens (Children's Literature Web Guide - Brown)
   Provides an alphabetic list of classics available online. 11-01
7. Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights (Bibliomania)
8. Bulfinch's Mythology (Fisher)
   Provides a comprehensive text, including line drawings, depicting life and legend in ancient Greece.
9. Crane - Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
10. Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe (Bibliomania)
11. Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities (Bibliomania)
12. Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations (Bibliomania)
13. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable from 1894 (Bibliomania - Brewer)
    Provides a short history of words, written in 1894. Can be searched using a keyword or browsed using an alphabetical directory.
14. Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Bibliomania)
15. Fiction (Bibliomania)
    Provides 40 classical works of fiction.
16. Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
17. Gulliver's Travels (Jaffe)
    Provides the text and background information on the book and Johnathan Swift.
18. Haggard, H. Rider - King Solomon's Mines (Bibliomania)
19. Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Bibliomania)
20. Homer - The Iliad (Internet Classics Archive - Stevenson)
    Provides the full text.
21. Homer - The Odyssey (Internet Classics Archive - Stevenson)
    Provides the full text.
22. Jefferson, Thomas - Autobiography (Bibliomania)
23. Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Bibliomania)
24. Literature - An American History of Literature (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
    Provides a history of American Literature for students. Includes the colonial period to recent times.
25. London, Jack - White Fang (Bibliomania)
    Provides the full text online, by chapter. 6-00
26. Maugham, Somerset - Of Human Bondage (Bibliomania)
27. Montgomery - Lucy Maud: Anne of Avonlea
28. Montgomery - Lucy Maud: Anne of the Island
29. Montgomery - Lucy Maud: Anne of Green Gables
30. Prize-Winning Books Online (Ockerbloom)
    Provides the complete text of prize-winning books online. Most of the books are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired. In other words, they are older books.
31. Smith, Adam - The Wealth of Nations (Bibliomania)
32. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Bibliomania)
33. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Bibliomania)
34. Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina (Bibliomania)
35. Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Samuel Clemens)
    Provides the book by chapter.
36. Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Review (Doyno)
    Provides a review of some of the original writing that did not become a part of the final book. The material helps provide context and meaning to Twain's writing process.
37. Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Critiques (Mining Co - Zwick)
    Provides critiques of the book.
38. Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Teacing Resources (Mining Co - Zwick)
    Provides resources for teachers using the book in a class.
39. Twain, Mark - Tom Sawyer (Bibliomania)
40. Verne - Jules: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
41. Verne, Jules - Around the World in 80 Days (Bibliomania)
42. Wells - HG: The War of the Worlds
43. Whitman - Walt: Leaves of Grass 10-00
44. Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass (Bibliomania)

Discussions

1. Ask the Author

Lesson Plans

1. By Book Title (Donn)
   Provides hundreds of lesson plans, listed alphbetically by book title. 1-00
2. Literature - Classical (Able Media)
   Provides lessons related to ancient Greek mythology, history, and literature. Requires the use of the Adobe Reader, which is free.
3. Shakespeare (Donn)
   Provides two dozen lessons, by work. Includes Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, MacBeth, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest. 1-00

Lists

1. A Celebration of Women Writers
2. American Literature Written before 1900
3. Book Summaries (About.com - Spalding)
   Provides sources of book summaries and notes. 8-00.
4. Books (Powell's)
   Provides one of the largest listings of new and used books in the USA.
5. Canadian Literature (National Library of Canada)
6. Classic Texts, by Author (Internet Classics Archive - Stevenson)
   Provides the full text of works by Aeschines, Aeschylus, Aesop, Andocides, Antiphon, Apollodorus, Apollonius, Apuleius, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Augustus, Bacchylides, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Demades, Demospthenes, Dinarchus, Diodorus, Epictetus, Epicurus, Euclid, Euripides, Galen, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hippocrates, Hirtius, Homer, Horace, Hyperides, Isaeus, Isocrates, Josephus, Livy, Lucan, Lucretius, Lycurgus, Lysias, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plotinus, Plutarc, Porphyry, Quintus, Sophocles, Strabo, Tacitus, Thucydides, Virgil, Xenophon, Confucius, Lao-tzu, Sun Tzu, Ferdowsi, Omar Khayyam, and Sa'di. 2-01
7. Eighteenth-Century - Jane Austen
8. Eighteenth-Century - Samuel Johnson
9. Eighteenth-Century Literature
10. Electronic Text Center
11. Homework Helper (Pinchbeck) 2-01
12. Huxley - Aldous
13. Literature by Genre or Period (Liu - Voice of the Shuttle)
    Provides hundreds of resources in drama, fiction, and poetry. Includes resources to improve writing skills. 2-00
14. Literature by Nationality (About.com - Deter)
    Provides well organized articles on literature by nationality, as well as by time periods. Includes a few authors, such as Shakespeare, Blake, and Chaucer. 3-00
15. Medieval Drama (Higgins)
    Provides links to costumes, scripts, props, musical, and other related materials. 11-00
16. Out-of-Print Books Search (Penguin)
17. Publishers and Booksellers
18. Science Fiction Authors
19. Shakespeare, William - Complete Works (Gray)
    Provides many sources of the works of William Shakespeare.

Materials

1. ERIC: Reading, English, and Communication
2. Postcards - Romeo and Juliet

Papers

1. -Poetry Online (University of Toronto)
   Provides the poetry of hundreds of great poets, listed alphabetically. Allows searches by the first line of poetry, keyword, date, or author. Includes criticism on the poetry.
2. -Shakespeare, William - Complete Works 1 (MIT - Hylton)
   Provides the complete works of William Shakespeare. In addition, provides a listing of works by type, chronology, or alphabetical order. Includes a search engine to find a work through a phrase or keyword. 5-00
3. Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Long)
   Provides the text for all twelve "books" or chapters.
4. Bestselling Books (Internet Public Library)
   Provides a list of books with the greatest distribution or best selling. 8-00.
5. Biographies of Literary Greats (Bibliomania)
   Provides biographies, in alphabetical order, by last name. See (on the left) Research. Select Choose a Section, Reference and then Choose, Biographical Dictionary. 2-01
6. Blake, William - Poems (University of Toronto)
   Provides selected poems.
7. Book Recommendations (Awesome Library)
8. Book Reviews by Grade Level
9. Book Summaries (PinkMonkey.com)
   Provides MonkeyNotes and Barron's Booknotes online. Requires registration. 8-00.
10. Book Summaries (SparkNotes.com)
    Provides summaries by Harvard students. Provided in PDF format. 8-00.
11. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
12. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Short Biography (Kaupunginkirjasto)
    Provides a short biography and a selected list of works.
13. Cooleridge, Samuel Taylor - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems. 3-00
14. Dickinson, Emily - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
15. Dryden, John - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
16. DuBois - W.E.B.: Works
    Provides five articles by DuBois and a long book entitled The Souls of Black Folk.
17. Dunne, John - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
18. Eighteenth-Century Texts
19. Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
    Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.
20. English and American Literature - A History (Bartleby - Cambridge)
    The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is considered "the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published." This online encyclopedia covers 11,000 pages. 2-01
21. Franklin, Benjamin (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
    Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.
22. Frost, Robert - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
23. Hero Tales (Aaron Shepard) 10-99
24. Keats, John - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
25. Literature Nobel Laureates Since 1900 (Nobel Foundation)
    Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in literature during the 20th century. 9-00
26. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
    Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.
27. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
28. Lord Byron - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems of George Gordon, known as Lord Byron.
29. Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
30. Milton, John - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
31. Multicultural Book Reviews (Mele)
    Provides reviews organized by ethnic group. Provides title author, publisher, date, illustrations, ethnic group, protaganist sex, genre, review, grade level, and then a reviewer's grade for the book. Mostly contains books at the middle and high school levels. 2-00
32. Novels - Analysis (Novelguide.com - IGD Solutions)
    Provides interpretations of over two dozen classics, including summaries, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, top ten quotes, and biographies of the authors. The classics include subect matter suitable for mature high school level students. 4-00
33. O Henry - The Gift of the Magi
    Provides links to definitions for key difficult words. No pictures are provided.
34. Plots - Basic Plots in Literature (Internet Public Library)
    Provides the basic kinds of plots used in literature. One assessment is that there are only 7 basic plots. 8-00.
35. Poe, Edgar Alan - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
36. Pope, Alexander - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
37. Pound, Ezra - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
38. Reader's Handbook (Bibliomania - Brewer)
    Provides summaries of famous works and includes explanations of key words or characters in literary works. 6-00
39. Real Kids Real Adventures
    "Have you ever daydreamed about being a hero? Ever imagined what it would be like to be lost in the mountains...or caught in a tornado...or trapped on a sinking ship? In the Story Room, you can hear about real kids just like you who have survived those incredible dangers and more..."
40. Reviews of Children's Books
41. Sacred Tales (Aaron Shepard)
42. Salem Witchcraft Trials (United Nations Environmental Program)
    Includes information used to try individuals as witches from the trials themselves and The Crucible.
43. Sandburg, Carl - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
44. Seeger, Alan - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems.
45. Shakespeare - Finding the Real Author (PBS - Austin)
    Provides an essay suggesting that the works of Shakespeare may have been written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Editor's Note - Lack of evidence that William Shakespeare traveled extensively or had first hand knowledge about the lifestyles of characters in his plays has led to speculation that someone else may have been the real author. 6-00
46. Shakespeare, William - Sonnets and Other Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems. 3-00
47. Shakespeare, William (Bibliomania)
    Provides a biography related to his work. 2-01
48. Shakespeare, William - Plays (Bartleby)
    Provides the plays of William Shakespeare, including The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well that Ends Well, Twelfth-Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Life and Death of King John, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, The Life of King Henry the Fifth, King Henry the Sixth, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Cæsar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 5-00
49. Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems. 3-00
50. Tennyson, Alfred - Poems (Chandler)
    Provides the works of Alfred Tennyson.
51. Tennyson, Alfred - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides 78 poems.
52. Tennyson, Alfred - Short Biography (Kaupunginkirjasto)
    Provides a short biography and a selected list of works.
53. Thoreau, Henry David (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
    Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.
54. Whitman, Walt - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems. 3-00
55. Wordsworth, William - Poems (University of Toronto)
    Provides selected poems. 3-00
56. Wordsworth, William - Short Biography (Kaupunginkirjasto)
    Provides a short biography and a selected list of works.

Periodicals

1. Just for Teens - Teen Trek (Weekly Reader)
2. Readers Digest

Projects

1. Midlink Magazine for Kids in Middle Grades
   Highlights "exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe." By and for kids 8 - 18. 9-01
2. Shakespeare Interactive
3. Word Puzzles
4. Word Puzzles by Grade Level (Syndicate.com) 3-01

Purchase Resources

1. Book Summaries (CliffNotes.com)
   Provides CliffNotes online. Must be purchased to view. (Sometimes visitors misspell as Cliff Notes.) 8-00.
2. Books - New and Bargain Books (Amazon.com)
   Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
3. Books - New and Bargain Books (Barnes and Noble)
   Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
4. Books - New, Used, and Rare Books (Powell's Books)
   Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
5. Books - Sources (Awesome Library)
   Provides search engines for books from Amazon.com, Powell's, and Barnes and Noble.