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

Collection of annotated links.

Links to relevant sites.

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.

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 translations.

"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.

"Publishes scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Cervantes' life and works, reviews, and notes of interest to cervantistas."

Site provides online editions of the texts, links to articles and critical studies, and useful language resources for the study of Middle English.

Website of the museum in Hannibal, Misosuri.

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."

A project to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote.

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."

Site features the full-text of the Divina Commedia, including two English translations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Allen Mandelbaum.

Biographical information, plus Defoe's online versions of the major novels, pamphlets, and travel writings.

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

"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."

The University of Mississippi's extensive website on the life and works of Faulkner, including a broad range of connections to other resources.

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.

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.

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

Brief essays on Hardy's life and works with bibliographies and links to other resources.

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.

Enormous site with many full-text electronic editions, articles, concordances, e-journals, teaching ideas, and links to other institutions and resources

Companion website to a 2005 exhibition.

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

Online directory of sites maintained by authors, their publishers, and their fans.

"This unique, searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs. Searchable by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, book title, date of publication and prize name and date."

This site provides access to over 3500 recordings of literary figures who have participated in Naropa University's Writing Programs since 1974. Includes Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Diane DiPrima and more.