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Companion website to a 2005 exhibition.

Digital library of out-of-prints works of Joyce scholarship.

"The Ezra Jack Keats Virtual Exhibit highlights original materials from seven titles featuring the character, Peter, who first appeared in 1962 with the publication of The Snowy Day. The materials are part of the Ezra Jack Keats Papers housed in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi. For each of the seven titles, the website includes an annotation, a finding aid, and original materials such as corrected typescripts, storyboards, and sketches."

A lecture prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina-University College, Nanaimo, BC.

Information about the life and works, from the UK mmbership organization founded in 1927.

An extensive site, established in 1994, about the life and works of Clive Staples Lewis. It includes a biography, a bibliography of works by and about Lewis, an index of online essays and articles, photographs and audio clips, and an assortment of additional links.

From the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California, a collection of biographical materials, documents, audio files, images, e-texts, bibliographies, resources for students and teachers, and links to organizations, websites, and events centered around the life and writings of Jack London

Annotated, online version of the play.

A multidisciplinary, multi-institutional initiative at Holy Cross to use the World Wide Web to improve the teaching of Shakespeare.

Text, commentary, context.

"The Arthur Miller Society is an incorporated, non-profit society whose primary aim is to promote the study of Arthur Miller and his work. Additional objectives include the promotion of productions of Miller's plays and the fostering of continued interest in Miller's work." Includes a biographical information, a chronology, synopses of the works, and information about current productions.

Biography and bibliography of the Polish Nobel Prize winner.

This site is a home for juried reviews of books about the life or work of John Milton, or books about anything that Milton might have read, or books about any author of interest to Milton scholars.

This site contains a critical bibliography, a list of primary works, and a review of Morrison's novel Paradise.

Website based on a New York Public Library exhibition drawn from the Vladimir Nabokov archive of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg collection of English and American Literature, and presented on the occasion of the centennial of the author's birth.

Contains online texts by and about O'Neil, audiofiles, reviews of past productions, images, a biography, and finding aids for additional information.

In formation about "one of the largest and most important gatherings of George Orwell material. . . Consisting primarily of printed works by and about Orwell, the Leab Collection contains first and subsequent editions of all of his books, from Down and Out in Paris and London to Nineteen Eighty-Four. In addition, the Leab Collection contains a small, select group of manuscripts, as well as books owned by the author, including school books signed "Eric Blair," Orwell's birth name, and a considerable body of ephemeral material."

Includes news, reviews, biography, political writings, publications, calendar, and discussion forum.

Online exhibition companion features ""many of Poe's unique manuscripts and letters, scarce copies of his first editions, rare examples of the original newspaper and magazine issues in which much of his work first appeared, and editions of his most famous poem, 'The Raven.'"

"The Anthony Powell Society was founded in June 2000 by a group of scholars and enthusiasts following Powell's death at the age of 94. The Society's aim is to advance for the public benefit, education and interest in the life and works of the English author Anthony Dymoke Powell."

Access to the poems in French and English,plus letters and other documents, and biographical information.

The Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS Adv MS 19.2.1) is one of the National Library of Scotlands greatest treasures. Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by. It acquired its name from its first known owner, Lord Auchinleck, who discovered the manuscript in 1740 and donated it to the precursor of the National Library in 1744.

Portal to links on Scottish literature. Prepared in collaboration with the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive.

Links to over 300 e-texts of works by Sir Walter Scott.

Companion site to a PBS program which "reveals how popular children's author Theodor Geisel advocated social change, teaching generations of children not only how to be better readers, but better people as well."

Full online text by the English writer Anna Sewell (1820-1878), from Project Guttenberg.

Links, images, and heypertexts relating to Stevens.

Site provides information concerning Stowe's life and writings, her Conneticut home, bibliographies, and related links.

Exhibition of items drawn from UCR Libraries' Special Collections.

An evolving site designed as an llustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples.

Links to e-texts of the works (including Anna Karenina and War and Peace), biographical information, photographs, and additional resources.

"VRW is dedicated to the scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and toaiding researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period. VRW is intended to supply a handy set of tips and links to help Victorianists find the practical information they need, whether it's an archive catalogue, a bibliography, a listserv address, a sample syllabus, a place to stay in London, or a journal's submission guidelines."

Includes a "virtual library" of full-text works, some in French and others in English translation, scholarly articles, and links.

Designed both to introduce Welsh authors and their work and to aid experienced learners fill the gaps between speaking, writing and reading the Welsh language.

Home page with a broad range of links, plus biography, criticism, reviews, and e-texts.

This site contains a biography, a complete listing of the works, a bibliography of works about the author, and a listing of historical firsts and other accomplishments of the author.

Digitized images of original documents, transcriptions of those documents, and an elaborate body of introductions, commentaries, and other materials useful in interpreting Whitman's works.

A collection of news and analysis of August Wilson from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Companion to an ITVS television documentary.

"This site contains 17th century, Thirty Years War and English Civil War pamphlets, news sheets and other documents in full text format. Additionally, there are articles of interest to the reenactor, texts of blackletter ballads, bibliographies and links to other useful sites on the Internet."

Collection of links to web resources and full-text works, arranged chronologically by birth date of author.

This Library of Cobress site features a "series of annual pamphlets first started in 1998" which highlight "some of the most important and interesting books published abroad that an American public may have overlooked." Includes fiction and non-fiction.

Searchable index to article citations devoted to children's literature scholarship from 1995 to the present.

Literary academy established to preserve the Italian language. In Italian and english.

The American Comparative Literature Association, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.

Online version of 655+ fables, indexed in table format, with listed morals.

Site presents working papers on a range of topics within African and Asian languages and literatures. From the Department of Oriental and African Languages at Goteborg University.

This site promotes African American writers and features book excerpts, author profiles, book reviews, as wellas, online discussion groups.