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  • (Aesop) Aesop's Fables Online

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

  • (Andersen ) Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

    From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).

  • (Andersen) Complete Hans Christian Andersen

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

  • (Baum, L. Frank) Novels

    Full text of works by American children's author L. Frank Baum (1856-1919.

  • (Browning, Robert) The Pied Piper of Hamlin

    Digitized version of the 1988 edition illustrated by Kate Greenaway.

  • (Carroll, Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Audio version, accessible through Real Player.

  • (Carroll, Lewis) Bed-time Story Classic: Alice In Wonderland

    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."

  • (Dickens, Charles) A Christmas Carol

    Audio version, accessible using Real Audio.

  • (Grahame, Kenneth) Novels

    Full text of works by Victorian writer Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), including the Wind in the Willows.

  • (Grimm) Selected Fairy Tales

    Selected Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm in RealAudio.

  • (Kingsley, Charles) The Water-Babies: Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith

    An online exhibit from the Library of Congress featuring the "large, lavish drawings Jessie Willcox Smith produced as color plates for The Water-Babies in 1916."

  • (Lofting, Hugh) The Story of Doctor Dolittle

    Full text, from Project Guttenberg.

  • (Potter, Beatrix) Kid's Corner

    Provides text and audiop versions of many of Potter's tales.

  • (Sewell, Anna) Black Beauty

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

  • Aesop's Fables Online

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

  • Baldwin Project

    "The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. . .in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities."

  • Cinderella Project

    This website presents "a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Materials to construct this archive were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University ofSouthern Mississippi."

  • Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

    From the English translation: H.P. Paull (1872).

  • Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826-1919

    This browsable and searchable "online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words. This online collection of 12 works, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century."

  • Internet Shakespeare Editions

    Publishes peer-reviewed editions of early Shakespearean texts. The site also contains an excellent online textbook, Shakespeare's Life and Times by Michael Best, developing sections on Shakespeare in performance, supporting reference materials, and a good page of links to diverse Shakespeare and Renaissance sites.

  • Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project

    This website presents "a text and image archive containing several Englishversions of the fairy tale. The Jacks presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi."

  • Literature for Children

    "Literature for Children is a collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950." Currently contains 564 works.

  • Little Red Riding Hood Project

    This site offers "a text and image archive containing sixteen English versions of the fairy tale. TheLittle Red Riding Hoods presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children'sLiterature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi."

  • MIT Shakespeare Homepage

    "Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993."

  • Shakespeare in Quarto

    British Librarys digitized versions of 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto. Site includes background material, links and references, and a study of how the plays have been changed in print and performance.

  • Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century

    "These works are studies of the stage texts used in various seventeenth-century performances of Shakespeare's plays. G. Blakemore Evans has identified the different manuscript hands that annotate the prompt-books and compared the cuttings with other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespearean stage texts. Thus, the collection provides an opportunity to examine Shakespearean performance traditions and innovations."

  • Smith, Jessie Wilcox

    The Water-Babies online exhibit at the Library of Congress.

  • Snow White

    Site features a hypertext version of "Snow White" which can connect to 36 alternative editions a series of illustrations excerpts on the context of fairy tales and issues in their study selected links and a bibliography.

  • The Internet Shakespeare Editions

    Publishes peer-reviewed editions of early Shakespearean texts. The site also contains an excellent online textbook, Shakespeare's Life and Times by Michael Best, developing sections on Shakespeare in performance, supporting reference materials, and a good page of links to diverse Shakespeare and Renaissance sites.

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