Literature
General Literature Information
- San Antonio College LitWeb
- SparkNotes
- Online study guides to around 100 literature classics created by Harvard University students and alumni. EachSparkNote contains sections on context, characters, overall summary, chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for collaborative learning. Like Cliffs Notes, but available online at no charge.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection
- Contains 4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period
- Literary Research Tools on the Net
- English and American literature resources on the web, organized by period
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- Links to web sites about women authors, as well as those containing online works by women authors
- Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color
- A growing archive of information on women writers of color
- Cambridge History of English & American Literature (full text)
- "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom
- Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler (full text)
- Yale Book of American Verse (full text)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (full text)
- The ninth edition
- The King’s English, 2nd ed. (full text)
- A grammar and style book from 1908.
Authors
Authors - Links to biographical information and criticism on selected authors.
Full-Text Sites
- Access the Great Books
- The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library
- "Over 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets."
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- A "collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
- American Authors
- Athena
- "Nearly 10,000 links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. Multilingual."
- The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Government
- The Baldwin Project
- "Bringing yesterday's classics to today's children"
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Bibliomania
- The Bralyn Archives
- Books-On-Line
- Classics Archive
- Full-text of classical literature
- Electronic Text Center
- Classical Authors Index
- EuroDocs
- Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -- Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
- Etext Archives
- Many of these texts are newsgroup posts gathered together by subject.
- Gargoyles, Angels and Shadows: An Online Anthology
- Great Books Index
- Great Literature Online
- Humanities Text Initiative
- JollyRoger.com Great Books & Classics Library
- Litrix Reading Room
- The Mad Cybrarian's Library
- The On-Line Books Page
- Online Literature Library
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library
- Organization For Community Networks: Electronic Bookshelf
- Project Gutenberg
- Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University
- Representative Poetry On-line
- Universal Library
- The University of Toronto English Library
- The Wiretap Electronic Texts Archive