800-899  Literature

802 Literature Miscellany, 807 Education/Research/Related Topics,  

808 Effective Use of Language & Collections of Literary Texts,  

809 Literary History/Description & Critical Appraisal,  

810 American Literature in English, 811 Poetry, 812 Drama,  

815 Speeches, 820 English & Old English Literature,  830 Literatures of Germanic Language,

840 Literatures of Romance Languages, 850  Italian, Romanian & Related Literatures,

860 Spanish and Portuguese Literature, 870 Italic Literatures; Latin Literature,

880 Hellenic Literatures; Classical Greek, 890 Literature of Other Languages

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802 Literature Miscellany

• Banned Books Online  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
• BookRags  http://www.bookrags.com/
• Free Booknotes  http://www.freebooknotes.com/   Free online study source, some require free registration to view.
• Glossary of Literary Terms   http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
• GradeSaver Classic Notes  http://www.gradesaver.com/
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices  http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
• The Literary Encyclopedia  http://www.litencyc.com/  Profiles, works, & literary and historical topics.  Some free content available.
• Literary Resources on the Net  http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/   Searchable collection of links to sites on the internet.
• Masterpiece Theatre Online  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/   Schedules, teaching resources, interactive literary timeline.
• NovelGuide  http://www.novelguide.com  
• Page by Page Books  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com 
• PinkMonkey.com   http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp   Homework help site with more that 300 literature summaries.
• Pseudonyms  http://www.trussel.com/books/pseudo.htm
• Quick Reference: Literature/Writing
• SparkNotes  http://www.sparknotes.com/  

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807 Education, Research, Related Topics

• A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students  http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/
• APA Style Guide  http://www.apastyle.org/ 
• Elements of Style  http://www.bartleby.com/people/Strunk-W.html
• The Five Paragraph Essay http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html
• Garbl's Writing Resources Online  http://garbl.home.comcast.net/writing/
• MLA Style citations of Electronic Sources http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
• MLA Style Guide  http://www.mla.org/ 
• Turabian Style Guide  http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/turabian.html
• Writing, Poetry & Books:  All about authors, learning to write and literary fun and games  http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/  

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808 Effective Use of Language & Collections of Literary Texts

• A Celebration of Women Writers  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html
• AhaJokes.com  http://www.ahajokes.com  Thousands of clean jokes, funny pictures, cartoons, funny audio, funny videos, and random humor. Search for humor by keyword, by topic, or even by date! Plus, sign up to get humor in your e-mail every week!
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/  
• Author Webliography http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit/authors.html   
• Avi's Home Page  http://www.avi-writer.com/
• Bartleby.com  http://bartleby.com   Great reference site.
• Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/   Fully searchable full-text editions of classic works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and reference titles.
• Books - Literature  http://www.refdesk.com/books.html#top
• Books On Line http://67.118.51.201/bol/default.cfm  List of over 35,00 mostly free of charge books online, browsable by subject.
• Children's Author and Illustrator on the Web  http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library  http://www.ccel.org/   All of the books on this server are believed to be in the public domain in the United States unless otherwise specified. Copy them freely for any purpose.
• Classic Bookshelf  http://www.classicbookshelf.com/SiteMap.htm
• Classic Short Stories  http://www.bnl.com/shorts/
• Electronic Literature Directory  http://directory.eliterature.org/   Search or browse by author, genre and keyword.
• Great Literature Online http://underthesun.cc/Classics/ Online editions of the works and biographical information of  several  authors.
• The Haunters & the Haunted:  Ghost Stories & Tales of the Supernatural  http://www.bartleby.com/166/
• Hemingway, Ernest The Collection  http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrcbib.htm Includes a biography of Hemingway.
• The Internet Booklist  http://www.iblist.com  May use without registration.  Includes book synopsis searchable by author, title and series.
• IPL Online Texts Collection  http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/  "Contains over 16,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification."
• Knowing Poe  http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org  
• Lear, Edward  http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/index.html   Contains all of Lear's writings.
• National Poetry Almanac http://www.poets.org/almanac/ 
• Online Literature Library http://www.literature.org/
• Online Books  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/  A large list of online books from dozens of repositories. You may search or browse listings by author or title, or browse a subject list.
• The Oxford Book of American Essays  http://www.bartleby.com/109/
• The Papers of George Washington  http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/
• Project Gutenberg  http://promo.net/pg/   Massive eText database.
• Public Address Resources http://douglassarchives.org/  Browse by speaker, title, issue or chronologically.
• Public Agenda Online - An inside source for public opinion and policy analysis - could be used for debate topics.  http://www.publicagenda.com 
• Rhetorica  http://www.rhetorica.net 
• The Short Story:  Illustrating Its Development  http://www.bartleby.com/195/
• Short Stories  http://www.short-stories.co.uk
• Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973  http://www.nytimes.com/specials/advertising/movies/tolkien/index.html   must register (Free) for New York Times to view archives.
• World Wide School Library - Literature http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html

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809 Literary History, Description & Critical Appraisal

• American Studies, Black History and Literature  http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit-black.html 
• Author Pages  http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/AuthorSite/
• Authors on the Web  http://www.authorsontheweb.com  Bibliographies, biographies, book discussions, etc.
• Book TV  http://www.booktv.org  From CSPAN TV
• British and Irish Authors on the Web  http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html
• Cherry Ames Page http://www.netwrx1.net/CherryAmes/
• Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley  http://www.randomhouse.com/sweetvalley/index.html
• The Harry Potter Lexicon  http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/
• IPL Literary Criticism  http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/ 
• John Grisham  http://library.msstate.edu/grisham_room/index.htm
• Judy Blume's Official Web Site  http://www.judyblume.com/
• Literature:  What Makes a Good Short Story?  http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/ 
• Mississippi Writers Page  http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/
• Mystery Greats Time Line  http://www.mysterynet.com/timeline/ The evolution of the mystery from Edgar Allen Poe to Murder She Wrote and a few butlers (who did it) in-between.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection  http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
• Perspectives in American Literature:  A Research and Reference Guide   http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
• Poe, Edgar Allan http://www.eapoe.org/
• J. K. Rowling, Official Website  http://www.jkrowling.com 
• Sisters in Crime  http://www.sistersincrime.org  Crime writing and women authors.
• Stevenson, Robert Louis  http://dinamico.unibg.it/rls/rls.htm 
• Sue Grafton Web Site http://www.suegrafton.com/
• Today in Literature  http://www.todayinliterature.com  Information about authors & spotlights literary events that happened on that particular day.
• Zane Grey's West Society  http://www.zanegreysws.org/zgwsmenu.htm    Essays on importance to cowboy literature, bibliography, filmography, and a biography are included.
• William Faulkner Foundation, France  http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner/wf/index.htm   bibliographies, criticism and links to more material on the web.

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810 American Literature in English

• American Hypertexts  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
• The American Leterature Archive  http://ww.en.utexas.edu/amlit/links.htm 
• AmericanLiterature.com  http://www.americanliterature.com/   American classical literature that can be read a chapter a day online.
• American Literature on the Web  http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
• The Dickens Page  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
• Early American Fiction - 1789-1850 - Online Collection of University of Virginia  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubindex.html 
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott  http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
• Key Literature Sites  http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm
• The Oz Books Revealed http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/books.htm Everything you could want to know about the Oz series, by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson and others.
• Melville, Herman  http://www.melville.org/melville.htm
• The Milton Page  http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton/
• Poe, Edgar Allen  http://www.dcls.org/x/archives/poe.html
• Seussville!  http://www.seussville.com/
• William Faulkner on the Web http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

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811 Poetry

• American Verse Project  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
• Contemporary American Poetry Archive  http://capa.conncoll.edu/   Out of print poems by contemporary American poets.
• Cowboy Poetry  http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ 
• Electronic Poetry Center - epc  http://epc.buffalo.edu/
• Find a Poem - The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poems/search.cfm    Nearly 600 poems by American poets.
• Find a Poet  http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm    Biographical and bibliographical information.
• Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/ 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.  
• The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in the English Language  http://www.bartleby.com/106/
• HTI American Verse Project  http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
• Internet Poetry Archive  http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
• LionHeart  http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/   "Full texts of 1,000 love poems from the 1500s to 1900."
• MAGNOLIA Full-text Poetry Resources  http://library.msstate.edu/magnolia/news/poetry.htm
• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century  http://www.bartleby.com/105/
• Modern American Poetry  http://www.bartleby.com/104/
• Modern American Poetry http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/   Multimedia companion to the Modern American Poetry 2000.
• Oxford Book of English Verse  http://www.bartleby.com/101/
• Poetry at About.com  http://poetry.about.com
• The Poetry Archives  http://www.emule.com/poetry/ 
• Representative Poetry Online  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
• VoS Literatures  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3  From the English Department of the University of California.
• World Wide School Library-Literature-Poetry http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-poetry.html
• Yale Book of American Verse  http://www.bartleby.com/102/

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812 Drama

• Creative Drama and Theatre Education Resource Page  http://www.creativedrama.com/
• eServer Drama Collection  http://drama.eserver.org/
• World Wide School Library-Literature-Drama http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-drama.html

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815 Speeches

• Faulkner, William:  Nobel Prize Speech   http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.html
• Inaugural Addresses of Presidents of the United States  http://www.bartleby.com/124/
• Presidential Inaugurations  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pihome.html   Includes speeches, diaries and letters of presidents , photos, inaugural programs and information on others involved in the program.
• Vincent Voice Library   http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/   Largest academic voice library in the nation with a collection of over 50,000 people, recorded over the last 100 years.

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820 English & Old English Literatures

• British Poetry 1780-1910  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
• Doctor Who e-Books  http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/ebooks/index.shtml  
• Modern British Poetry http://bartleby.com/103/
• Online Medieval & Classic Library  http://omacl.org/  A searchable full-text collection of over thirty literary works from classical and medieval Europe.
• Oxford's Complete Works of William Shakespeare  http://www.bartleby.com/70/
• Luminarium: Anthology of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century Literature with Biographies  http://www.luminarium.org/ 
• Middle English Collection of University of Virginia  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html 
• Modern English Collection - 1500 to present - of University of Virginia  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
• Representative Poetry On-line  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm  Includes over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century.
• Shakespearean Poetry Search  http://quarles.unbc.ca/shakescan/
• Works of Shakespeare, University of Virginia  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/ 

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830 Literatures of Germanic Languages

• 19th Century German Stories  http://www.fln.vcu.edu/menu.html
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
• SOPHIE: A Digital Library of Works by German Speaking Women  http://sophie.byu.edu/ 

840 Literatures of Romance Languages

• The ARTFL Project  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/  From the University of Chicago, some of the links are restricted to University students.
• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
• French Authors and Texts http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/resources/french/authors.html  From Harvard University.
• Literature in Latin America http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/  From the Latin America Network Information Center.

850 Italian, Romanian, & Related Literatures

• Italian Literature (Letteratura Italiana) http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html
• Romanian Literature from Romania Online  http://romania-on-line.net/general/literature.htm

860 Spanish and Portuguese Literatures

• Comedia - Spanish Drama, online at University of Virginia  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/spanish/comedia.html 
• Dictionary of Writers in Mexico  http://www.arts-history.mx/literat/li2.html  Bibliography and biography, also in Spanish.
• Five Decades of Mexican Short Story  http://www.arts-history.mx/cinco.html 

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870 Italic Literatures; Latin Literature

• The Fables of Phaedrus: Reading Exercises in Latin  http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/zepsphaedrus.html
• The Latin Library http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/

880 Hellenic Literatures; Classical Greek

• Ancient Greek Literature  http://www.hol.gr/greece/ancwords.htm
• Greek Literature  http://www.crystalinks.com/greekliterature.html With links to translations.

890 Literature of Other Languages

• Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/
• Russian Literature Online  http://www.namdar.dircon.co.uk/rlo.htm
• Scottish Writers  http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~crumey/scot.html   An index of published novelists, poets and dramatists who were born or lived in Scotland, with bibliographies and biographical sketches.
• VoS Literatures (Other Than English)  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719  From the English Department of the University of California.

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