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Searchable and browsable versions of Aesop's fables in various languages.

Transcription of an interview with the 1999 National Book Award winner for poetry, Ai.

Collection of annotated links.

Provides a biography, a bibliography, news and events, and related information.

A searchable site which refers to itself as "the most comprehensive edition of Andersen's fairy tales in English (American) on the internet."

Survey of the author's life and work.

A lecture prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College for students in English 366: Studies in Shakespeare in January 2001.

Comprehensive bibliography of the author's works.

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. The Links To The Regency On The Web page provides links to historical sites which describe the times in which Jane Austen lived."

A directory of links to Austen home pages, discussion groups, a chronology,works and e-texts, academic resources, and miscellaneous material.

Hypertext versions of much Jane Austen material including the novels.

Contains a biographical and critical essay, a selected bibliography of works by and about the author, and links to additional resources.

Library of Congress online exhibit featuring book illustrations, book covers, posters, letters, copyright applications, publicity stills related to the works of L. Frank Baum.

Numerous links to articles, reviews, and essays websites and home pages, forums and discussion groups interviews online texts video and audio versions of plays.

Contains biographical material, memoirs, bibliography, essays, photos, and sound clips.

Searchable bibliography of English language trnaslations.

Information about Charlotte, Emily, and anne Bronte and the environmnt in which they lived. Includes related links.

"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."

"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."

Biography, portrait, timeline, selections from the works.

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."

Digital texts, bibliographies, images, and support material.

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.

Website for a PBS documentary directed by Ken Burns.

Wesbsite of the author's home in Hartford, Connecticut.

From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Maintained by the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, this extensive site features primary texts, chronologies, recommended reading, a glossary, etc.

Online works, reviews, links to other Crane sites, announcements, conference listings, table of contents for Stephen Crane Studies 1992-presesent, Crane bibliography 1962-present.

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."

Audio version, accessible using Real Audio.

Collection of links to criticism about Charles Dickens as well as biographical sites.

"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."

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.

"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."

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.

Companion to an exhibition on the life and works.

Explores many aspects of Garcia Marquez's life and literary output, including criticism, reviews, audio, images, and information on magic realism.

"The Official Website of the Allen Ginsberg Trust. Video, audio, photos, manuscripts, and biography representing the life of Allen Ginsberg."

Searchable, electronic editions of Gray's poems, letters, and prose works.

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.

From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

Founded in 1997 to promote the study and appreciation of Hardy's work. Siote includes links to Hardy-related sources.

Extensive site featuring the life, writings, critical work, and "other Hawthorneana".

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.

This site contains a biography, a bibliography, critical information,and a number of online texts of poems.

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.

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.

Links to resources of Irish interest including literature, language, newspapers and journals, and theatre.