Best of 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 Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997."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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An extensive site including numerous texts, essays related to James, bibliographic information, book reviews, and links to other James' sites.
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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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Companion website to a 2005 exhibition.
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Comprehensive and imaginative site devoted to the Irish novelist, including a short biography, descriptions of his work and narrative techniques, and a list of recommended critical works.
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Digital library of out-of-prints works of Joyce scholarship.
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Website contains a directory of resources available to enthusiasts andscholars of the work of James Joyce.
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Full text version, translated into English. Also available in the original German.
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Site which describes itself as the "World Wide Web's most organized and comprehensive listing of resources onKant".
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"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."
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National Public Radio feature on Kerouac's novel "On the Road", featuring audio and video of Kerouac reading, as well as links to related material.
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Provides writings, images, links, a bibliography and more.
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A lecture prepared by Ian Johnston of Malaspina-University College, Nanaimo, BC.
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Official website. Biographical and bibliographical material, excerpts from her work, links to online stories, information on public appearances.
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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.
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Full text, from Project Guttenberg.
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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
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This site provides information about Lovecraft's life, writings, and other critical and biographical work. Includes additional internet resources.
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Annotated, online version of the play.
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Biography, bibliography, full-text of several short pieces.
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A multidisciplinary, multi-institutional initiative at Holy Cross to use the World Wide Web to improve the teaching of Shakespeare.
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Enormous collection of links to Melville texts, events, biographical and geographical information, and other Web resources.
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Text, commentary, context.
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An exhibition running concurrently at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum which explores the entirety of the architect's work. Includes drawings, scale models, video and digital displays, photographs, a selected bibliography, and a biography.
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BBC feature includes article, biographical information, obituary, photos, video vlips from his plays, and a tribute by Harold Pinter.
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"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.
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Information on the real stuffed bear who inspired the creation of Winnie the Pooh and now housed in the Central Children's Room at the Donnell Library Center, part of The New York Public Library.
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Biography and bibliography of the Polish Nobel Prize winner.
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The site contains most of Milton's major poetry in English and some of his prose. Many of the works presented have been fully annotated.
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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.
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Resources related to the life and work of the author of Anne of Green Gables.
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This site contains a critical bibliography, a list of primary works, and a review of Morrison's novel Paradise.
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Links to resources concerning the Japanese writer.
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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.
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Resouces in both English and Russian include literary works, interviews, lectures, articles, and study notes.
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Provides biographical information on Nietzsche's life. The primary sources are the three volume biography of Nietzsche by C. P. Janz and the Chronik of the Kritische Studienausgabe. The citations from the Nietzsche's works and notes are based on the Kritische Gesamtausgabe.
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An annotated bibliography of books by and about Nietzsche. Includes an overview of how Nietzsche has been understood, his influence, and current scholarship.
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Contains online texts by and about O'Neil, audiofiles, reviews of past productions, images, a biography, and finding aids for additional information.
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Devoted to the English novelist, essayist, and social commentator (real name Eric Arthur Blair). Site includes summaries and interpretations, essays, biographical information, links to other resources, and a gallery of pictures, poems, and letters.
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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."
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Browse Owen's manuscripts, photographs, video clips of World War One, publications of the war, and audio clips from interviews with veterans.
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Includes news, reviews, biography, political writings, publications, calendar, and discussion forum.
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"The Archelogos Project aims at constructing an electronic database which will contain all the philosophical arguments found in the works of Plato and Aristotle.The philosophical arguments of Plato and Aristotle are represented in Archelogos according to a method which makes explicit their logical interconnection. The database also includes information about how scholars have understood the philosophical arguments of Plato and Aristotle throughout the ages."
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In English and French.
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Essays, information, buiographical and blibliographical details, links to other notable sites.
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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.'"
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Provides text and audiop versions of many of Potter's tales.
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"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."
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"This volunteer-maintained site is sponsored by the American Branch of the England-based Richard III Society and devoted to the study of King Richard III, last of the medieval English kings the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic struggle in the later middle ages that pitted Yorkist against Lancastrian fifteenth-century England and its culture the reputation of Richard III in history, literature, and drama, especially Shakespeare."
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Access to the poems in French and English,plus letters and other documents, and biographical information.
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Links to the leading academic websites.
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This site contains a biography, quotes, articles, and links to related sites.
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Features information about the society, a short biography, a bibliography of works, and a very extensive list of related lins.
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Links to leading academic websites.
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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.
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The only known copies of nine of the earliest books printed in Scotland. From the Digital Library of the National Library of Scotland.
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Portal to links on Scottish literature. Prepared in collaboration with the Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive.
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Includes about 400 texts from Scots to Scottish English.
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Links to over 300 e-texts of works by Sir Walter Scott.
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BBC News fact sheet.
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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."
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Dartmouth has published this 157-page finding-aid reflective of the contents of all of the Dr. Seuss volumes. Available as a PDF download.
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Full online text by the English writer Anna Sewell (1820-1878), from Project Guttenberg.
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This site, celebrating the centennial of the author's birth, includes a biography and bibliographic information.
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"This site is designed to help first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo." In English and Spanish.
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Site includes complete translations by R. H. M. Elwes, a chronology of Spinozas life, and numerous links to other related resources.
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Links, images, and heypertexts relating to Stevens.
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Site contains material in the following categories: e-texts bibliographies derivative works museums and libraries events associations and clubs website updates iconography images critical reception links.
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Site provides information concerning Stowe's life and writings, her Conneticut home, bibliographies, and related links.
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E-text of the novel, annotations, images, a timeline of Swift's life and works, images, and links to other resources.
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Exhibition of items drawn from UCR Libraries' Special Collections.
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Poems in e-text format.
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Site offers links to relevant resources.
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The Thoreau Institute "provides the most comprehensive body of Thoreau-related material available in one place. Opening in 1998, the Thoreau Institutes Library holds 8000 volumes, and upwards of 60,000 items that include manuscripts, correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets, music, graphic arts, maps, and personal histories. It is the mission of the Library to collect, preserve and make available research materials relating to Thoreau, his historical context, and his contemporary relevance to environmental and human-rights issues."
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An evolving site designed as an llustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples.
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"In 1969 the Tolkien Society was founded to further interest in the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.B.E., the author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and other works of fiction and philological study. Based in the United Kingdom and registered as an independent, non-profit making charity. . .the Society has an international membership which benefits from regular publications and events."
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Links to e-texts of the works (including Anna Karenina and War and Peace), biographical information, photographs, and additional resources.
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A hypertext edition of the 1850 work, from the University of Virginia.
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"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."
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Collection of material by and about John Updike, including an interview, a biography, and a bibliography.
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Includes timeline of his life, images of paintings, essays.
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Includes a "virtual library" of full-text works, some in French and others in English translation, scholarly articles, and links.
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Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.
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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.
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"This is a list of Welsh and Welsh-based writers. The entries include brief biographical details and information about publications, tutoring experience and other work in the creative writing field. Fuller biographical details can always be obtained directly from the writer or from their publisher. In a number of cases, photographs are carried and extracts of work can be seen by clicking the reference in the entry."
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Home page with a broad range of links, plus biography, criticism, reviews, and e-texts.
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Home page with a broad range of links, plus biography, criticism, reviews, and e-texts.
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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.
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"The Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and other interested persons an opport unity to share in the study and appreciation of the life and works of this author. Through annual meetings, sessions, special conferences, and its journal, The Edith Wharton Review, the Society provides a forum for Wharton studies."
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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.