World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of "Extracts From Adam's & Eve"
This site provides the complete etext for Mark Twain's story, "Extracts from Adam's & Eve's Diaries."
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World Wide School: Etext of "Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous"
This site provides the complete etext for Oscar Wilde's story, "Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous."
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World Wide School: Etext of "Moral Emblems"
This site provides the complete etext for Robert Louis Stevenson's "Moral Emblems."
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World Wide School: Etext of "Little Britain"
This site provides the complete etext for Washington Irving's short story, "Little Britain."
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American National Biography: John Steinbeck (1902 1968)
American National Biography offers a biography of John Steinbeck including links to more information about Steinbeck.
The History Place
The History Place: Abraham Lincoln
This site provides an extensive timeline of the life and work of Abraham Lincoln. Throughout the timeline there are photos that can be enlarged and many, many links to speeches, papers, letters of Lincoln's. The site is very easy to...
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World Wide School: "Edinburgh Picturesque" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter-by-chapter complete text for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Edinburgh Picturesque".
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Robert Frost: America's Poet
This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Letters
An archive of letters written to and by Edgar Allan Poe includes his correspondence with other writers of his time such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Washington Irving.
Fantastic Fiction
Fantastic Fiction: John Steinbeck: Detailed Bibliography and Awards
Here is a chronology of Steinbeck's work. Click on the year to view information about that year. The information on each novel is very brief, but this is a great resource for the covers (some of them the original) of his books.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Romance of the Line" by Bret Harte
The complete text of the story "A Romance of the Line" by Bret Harte. Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What "Orwellian" Really Means
If you've watched the news or followed politics, chances are you've heard the term Orwellian thrown around in one context or another. But have you ever stopped to think about what it really means, or why it's used so often? Noah Tavlin...
University of Michigan
American Verse Project: Cornhuskers, by Carl Sandburg
Maintained by the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan, this site provides the entire text of Sandburg's collection of poetry, "Cornhuskers."
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American Verse Project: Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The American Verse Project provides this full text version of Longfellow's famous poem, "Song of Hiawatha.
University of Michigan
Making of America: Aftermath, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the full text of Longfellow's collection of narrative poems Aftermath originally published in 1873. Includes "Tales of a Wayside Inn" and "Birds of Passage."
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A Thousand Deaths by Jack London
This site is from Gaslight of the Mt. Royal College. The site is an internet discussion list that reviews one story a week from all sorts of genres. This particular site provides a short story penned by Jack London during his college years.
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Jack London's Literature Page
Complete listing of his works, chronologically given. Great research site!
Sonnet Central
General Survey of the American Sonnet
This site is from The Sonnet in American Literature (1930). It includes links to the sonnets of E. A. Robinson as well as to many other poets and their works.
Sonnet Central
Sonnets: William Cullen Bryant (1794 1878)
Six sonnets by the American Romantic era poet, including "Midsummer," "October," "November," "To an American Painter Departing for Europe," "Mutation," and "William Tell."
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A Calendar for "Northanger Abbey"
This analysis of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" examines the function of time in the plot using an day-by-day calendar to summarize the events of the story. Includes a bibliography.
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Austen.com: "Mansfield Park" Text, Intro, & Resources
Access the complete text of Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park." The text is divided into chapters with a short description alongside each to help you jump to particular sections of the story more easily. Also includes an introduction...
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O. Henry: The Green Door, Lesson and Activities
This set of lessons and activities includes brief biography of the writer, synopsis, pre-story and other exercises and discussion questions, and a follow up. The plans are downloadable in .pdf or .doc format.
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O.henry: The Last Leaf Lesson and Activities
The ELLSA site offers this very complete set of lessons about The Last Leaf, focusing on setting, but including vocabulary and other elements.