Best of the Web
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A hypertext version of the 1918 autobiography.
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Searchable and browsable versions of Aesop's fables in various languages.
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Transcription of an interview with the 1999 National Book Award winner for poetry, Ai.
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Transcription of an interview with the 1999 National Book Award winner for poetry, Ai.
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Critical articles, excerpts, information on the Collected Works and forthcoming volumes, and related links.
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Collection of annotated links.
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Provides links to biographical information, criticism, full text versions of the novels, stories, and poetry, and other online resources devoted to the 19th Century American author.
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Provides a biography, a bibliography, news and events, and related information.
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From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).
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A searchable site which refers to itself as "the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet."
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Companion to a British Library exhibit features a timeline, short essays, images from the exhibition, and related links.
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Survey of the author's life and work.
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Links to relevant sites.
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A lecture prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College for students in English 366: Studies in Shakespeare in January 2001.
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Contains a biography of the author, a listing of her work, a bibliography of secondary sources, critical reviews, and personal interviews.
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Comprehensive bibliography of the author's works.
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This society commemorates the life and work of the English poet.
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This site includes various resources on the life and work of Jane Austen."On the Works of Jane Austen page, there are links to each of her six novels, aswell as much of her Juvenilia, and some of her letters. The Links To Jane Austen On The Web page provides links to many sites with information on Jane Austen, her life, and Jane Austen societies around the world. Off-Line Jane Austen Resources gives some links to societies, books, and tourist sites which exist in the real world.
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Tourism information about locations associated with Jane Austen's life and works.
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A directory of links to Austen home pages, discussion groups, a chronology,works and e-texts, academic resources, and miscellaneous material.
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Critical essay addressing the life and works, from a professor at Brandeis University.
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Hypertext versions of much Jane Austen material including the novels.
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A guided tour "through the monumental heart of Paris in the time of Balzac, as described through some of his works, and as documented in maps and engravings of The Vernon Duke CollectionSpecial Collections DepartmentUniversity of California Library."
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Contains a biographical and critical essay, a selected bibliography of works by and about the author, and links to additional resources.
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Modern American Poetry page about Amiri Baraka (also known as Leroi Jones).
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Full text of works by American children's author L. Frank Baum (1856-1919.
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Numerous links to articles, reviews, and essays websites and home pages, forums and discussion groups interviews online texts video and audio versions of plays.
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Provides access to the major works of Blake's visual and literary art, with bibliographic information, and extensive general and specific bibliographies.
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Contains biographical material, memoirs, bibliography, essays, photos, and sound clips.
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Biographical information, bibliographic resources, a newsletter, message boards.
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Searchable bibliography of English language trnaslations.
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Searchable bibliography of English language translations.
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Information about Charlotte, Emily, and anne Bronte and the environmnt in which they lived. Includes related links.
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Digitized version of the 1988 edition illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
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"Discover Burns close-up through our on-line gallery, virtual tours of the homes and haunts of the poet, and a wealth of poetry and songs. Youll also find resources for the classroom, links to Burns organisations, and information on caring for Burns artefacts. . . .This website has been created by a partnership of museums, galleries, libraries, and other organisations across Scotland which together care for over 36,000 objects. These manuscripts, books, art and artefacts help bring us closer to understanding and appreciating Scotlands national poet."
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"A must for Burns lovers' is how The Burns Encyclopedia was hailed when it first appeared in the bi-centenary year, 1959. As a handbook and guide to readers of the poet's poems and letters and as a reference book to his life, his work and Burns scholarship, it is invaluable. It also provides a fascinating Scottish backcloth to the eighteenth century, and is thus enjoyable as a bedside anthology in its own right. This is the third revised and updated edition of a classic work, now online for the first time."
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"These pages are devoted to the study of the life, letters, and poetic works of George Gordon Byron, the most prolific and controversial of the great English Romantic poets."
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"This Collection has been created by members of the Byron Society who have donated rare books and autograph material together with visual representations of the poet (e.g., engravings, busts, statuary, lithographs) and other material objects that demonstrate Byron's impact on culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. "
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Biography, portrait, timeline, selections from the works.
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Audio version, accessible through Real Player.
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In this online version, "the works of several different illustrators have been selected for inclusion on the Alice In Wonderland story page. The varying styles offer a fascinating window into artistic creativity, allowing us to enjoy the historical as well as the contemporary illustrative renderings of this whimsical tale."
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Library of Congress exhibition feature a scrapbook kept by Lewis Carroll. Includes an essay, a portrait gallery, and a timeline.
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Digital texts, bibliographies, images, and support material.
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"Publishes scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Cervantes' life and works, reviews, and notes of interest to cervantistas."
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Project intitiated at the 33rd International Congress of Mrdieval Studies to promote Chaucer Studies on the web. Organizes and provides navigation tools for Chaucer resources. Includes Pages, Works, Bibliogrphy, Life and Times, and other medieval sites.
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Site provides online editions of the texts, links to articles and critical studies, and useful language resources for the study of Middle English.
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Website for a PBS documentary directed by Ken Burns.
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Website of the museum in Hannibal, Misosuri.
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Wesbsite of the author's home in Hartford, Connecticut.
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This archive "focuses on how 'Mark Twain' and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed and appreciated. The goal is to allow readers, scholars, students and teachers to see what Mark Twain and His Times said about each other, in a way that can speak to us today. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits."
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From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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A project to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote.
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Maintained by the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, this extensive site features primary texts, chronologies, recommended reading, a glossary, etc.
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This Website is based on the on-going scholarly work of producing The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, a publishing efort whose "intention was to provide readers with sound scholarly editions of Cooper's major works, based wherever possible on authorial manuscripts."
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Online works, reviews, links to other Crane sites, announcements, conference listings, table of contents for Stephen Crane Studies 1992-presesent, Crane bibliography 1962-present.
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Site features the full-text of the Divina Commedia, including two English translations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Allen Mandelbaum.
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This site is based on a 1994 exhibit which "presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library."
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Biographical information, plus Defoe's online versions of the major novels, pamphlets, and travel writings.
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Audio version, accessible using Real Audio.
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An extensive collection of resources and links related to Dickens' Works, his Life and Family, London and the Victorian period.
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Collection of links to criticism about Charles Dickens as well as biographical sites.
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"The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London."
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"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895."
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Extensive Holmes website, including the original stories, and a broad range of additional resources.
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Although a portion of the site is devoted to Doyle's other works, the focus of most of the material in on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
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Each of the Holmes stories is available, with some basic information about the original publication, links to online full-text versions, and items of related interest.
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"The International Theodore Dreiser Society was formed by Miriam Gogol and Frederic E. Rusch at the second annual American Literature Association Conference in Washington, D.C., on 25 May 1991. A growing organization of scholars, teachers, and Dreiser enthusiasts, the Society promotes interest in the life and works of Theodore Dreiser and those associated with him."
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Provides access to over 200 poems and a libretto.
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A site devoted to the Italian author, critic, literary theorist, medievalist, and semiotician. Includes a biography, quotes, discussions of the work, and links to reviews, interviews, and unpublished writing.
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The University of Mississippi's extensive website on the life and works of Faulkner, including a broad range of connections to other resources.
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Companion to an exhibition on the life and works.
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A large site sponsered by the University of South Carolina and devoted to the life and works of Fitzgerald. Includes bibliographies, biography and chronology, essays, articles, photographs, quotations, and voice and film clips.
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Explores many aspects of Garcia Marquez's life and literary output, including criticism, reviews, audio, images, and information on magic realism.
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History of the first publication of Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" as well as a description of the various 2006 celebrations and festivities in its honor. From City Lights Bookstore.
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"The Official Website of the Allen Ginsberg Trust. Video, audio, photos, manuscripts, and biography representing the life of Allen Ginsberg."
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Full text of works by Victorian writer Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), including the Wind in the Willows.
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Searchable, electronic editions of Gray's poems, letters, and prose works.
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Selected Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm in RealAudio.
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An electronic version of the second quarto and first folio editions. Both can be displayed in their entirety, but users can also search for and compare differences between the specific sections of the texts.
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A directory of informative, worthwhile web pages devoted to Hamlet, divided into such categories as directories, discussion groups, full-text editions, humor, movies, papers, Shakespeare resources, spinoffs, summaries, and translations.
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From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
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From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
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From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
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Features biography and a selected bibliography and suggestions for further reading.
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Founded in 1997 to promote the study and appreciation of Hardy's work. Siote includes links to Hardy-related sources.
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Brief essays on Hardy's life and works with bibliographies and links to other resources.
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Extensive site featuring the life, writings, critical work, and "other Hawthorneana".
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A lecture prepared for English 366: Studies in Shakespeare, by Ian Johnston of Malaspina-University College, Nanaimo, BC.
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The society "disseminates information on the life and works of the American author William Dean Howells and facilitates the exchange of facts, ideas, and texts concerning Howells and those authors significantly associated with him. Its activities include lectures, discussions, presentations by panels at scholarly conferences, and the publication of The Howellsian and the HOWELLS=L Discussion List." Includes links to full-text works and bibliographies of criticism available on the web.
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This site contains a biography, a bibliography, critical information, and a number of online texts of poems.
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This site contains a biography, a bibliography, critical information,and a number of online texts of poems.
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Digital images of "ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997." Can be searched by keyword or browsed by title.
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Extensive site contains an encyclopedia, biographical information, digital versions of the plays, links, and more. Official web page of the National Ibsen Committee of Norway.
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A bibliography (in English and Irish languages) of poets, dramatists, and writers of fiction (limited to period 1789-1840), with biographies and links to texts.
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The CELT project is producing an onlinedatabase of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Norman French, and English)in texts accompanied by introductions, translations (where possible and necessary), and scholarly bibliographies.
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A directory of links whose major categories include history, periodicals, literature, Irish language, mythology, folklore, theatre companies, and fine arts.
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Links to resources of Irish interest including literature, language, newspapers and journals, and theatre.
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Enormous site with many full-text electronic editions, articles, concordances, e-journals, teaching ideas, and links to other institutions and resources
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Newsletter encouraging scholarly research into James, his themes, nd his followers.
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Includes a guide to Samuel Johnson, texts by and about him, links to other books, scholarship, and quotations.
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