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English / Literature / Reading

American Verse Project
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
A searchable electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.

The Eserver Poety Collection
http://poetry.eserver.org/
Poems and poetry links from the Carnegie-Mellon English Server.

Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/
a resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion.

Perseus Collection
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman
Greek and Roman materials from Tufts University.

LitLinks
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx
Biographies and carefully chosen annotated links for over 700 authors.

A Literary Index
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html
Provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature. 

Internet Public Library-Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48496
A Literary Criticism pathfinder.

LiteraryHistory.com
http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Literaryhistory.com catalogs credible literary criticism on nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature that is available on the free internet.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature.

Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm
This online book is organized in chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.

Shmoop.com
http://www.shmoop.com/literature/
Created by educators and experts from Ph.D and Masters programs at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley and other top universities, Shmoop’s mission is to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

READ OR LISTEN TO BOOKS ONLINE

Biblomainia
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Free online literature and study guides.

LibriVox
http://librivox.org/
Provides free audio books from the Public Domain. 

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books.

Great Books Online
http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html
This index is at attempt to guide readers to available online editions of Great Books of the Western World and other great books.

EServer Fiction Collection
http://fiction.eserver.org/
This site offers works of and about fiction collected from its members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
University of Pennsylvania site that offers over 35,000 free books on the web.