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Literature on the World Wide Web
Literature
Many different web sites have been created to link to sources on literature. The following are some of the more useful:
The English Server
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/
Poems, Poetry, Poets
http://www.spondee.net/
Probably the best source for electronic books is Project Gutenberg.
Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/
In order to search for electronic book resources online see:
Alex—A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Books Online—Authors
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booktitles.html
Books Online
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Internet Classics Archive
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/index.html
Other valuable electronic collections include:
Bartleby Library
http://www.bartleby.com/
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Stanford University Digital Libraries Project
http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/
Poetry web sites can be found at:
British Poetry 1780–1910: A Hypertext Archive
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
Electronic Poetry Center Home Page
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
Lost Poets of the Great War
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/index.html
Science fiction web sites include:
Linkhopping Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf_main.html
MIT Science Fiction Society Homepage
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/mitsfs/
Sources on critical theory and literature include:
Bakhtin Centre
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html
Boston Book Review
http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/bbr-home.html
Web resources on women writers include:
Women Writers Project
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwp/wwp_home.html
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/writers.html
Guide to Women’s Literature
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/humanities/english/e dwards/142guide.html
Feminism and Women’s Literature
~http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/women.html
Censorship issues and banned texts can be found at:
Banned Books On-Line
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/spok/banned-books.htm l
A good place to browse for interesting book titles is:
Book Browser
http://www.Polyweb.com/BookBrowser
To look for specific book titles or authors consult:
Amazon Books
www.amazon.com
Barnes and Noble
www.bn.com
Book Wire Index—Book Awards
http://www.bookwire.com/
If you are interested in buying rare books online go visit:
Alibris
www.Alibris.com
Many major literary figures have web sites devoted specifically to them. Here are just a few:
Jane Austen
~http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html
Andre Breton
~http://www.lm.com/~kalin/breton.html
William Burroughs
~http://www.inch.com/~ari/wb1.html
Truman Capote
http://gopher.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/capote.ht ml
Raymond Carver
~http://world.std.com/~ptc/
Willa Cather Page
~http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~cather/
Raymond Chandler
~http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/authors/chandler.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3224/
Geoffrey Chaucer
~http://www.vmi.edu/~english/chaucer.html
Arthur C. Clarke
~http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/
S. T. Coleridge Home Page
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html
Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page
http://www.rightword.com.au/writers/wilkie/
Emily Dickinson
~http://userweb.interactive.net/~krisxlee/emily/
Emily Dickinson Society
http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html
Rita Dove
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/dove.html
William Faulkner
~http://cypress.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.h tml
and
~http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.htm l
Andre Gide
~http://www.lm.com/~kalin/gide.html
James Joyce
http://www.2street.com/joyce/
Milan Kundera
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/kundera/ku ndera.html
Doris Lessing
http://tile.net/lessing/index.html
Primo Levi Page
~http://inch.com/~ari/levi1.html
The Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London
The Life and Works of Herman Melville
http://www.melville.org
Walker Percy
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wpercy/
Alain Robbe-Grillet
http://www.halfaya.org/robbegrillet/
Anne Sexton
~http://www.inch.com/~ari/words1.html
Shakespeare Web
http://www.shakespeare.com
Terry Southern
~http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/TerrySouthern.htm l
John Steinbeck
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/EDC/edinburghers/robert-louis-stev enson.html
The Tennyson Page
http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html
Walt Whitman
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html
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