Find out more about eighteenth-century literature through this comprehensive chronology. This site is set up to take you from 1660 through to 1800.

Keats' poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with notes.

Resource provides the text of Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native.

Text of the short story "Mimi" by Arnold Bennett, a British author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

This site features a complete project guide for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm."

The main objective is for students to be able to interpret a chosen character from the novel Animal Farm. Students will then have an opportunity to represent that character in original symbolic form and present it orally to the class.

The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...

This site has a list of quotes from Samuel Butler, compiled by John Bartlett.

The whole text of the famous novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, taken from the second edition, formatted for online reading.

Thia is the complete text of the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

This site gives you a biography of Brian Jacques as well as an interview with him about his writing.

This is the complete text of the novel Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.

This is the complete text of the novel Demos: A Story of English Socialism by George Gissing.

This is the complete text of the novel "Moon and Sixpence" by William Somerset Maugham.

Text of the short story "The Saint and the Goblin" by H. H. Munro, a Scottish author of the Edwardian era. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Match-Maker" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Phantom Luncheon" by H. H. Munro, a Scottish author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Reginald's Peace Poem" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Reginald on the Academy" by H. H. Munro. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Read the short story "Catching the Train" by Arnold Bennett about a man who absolutely must catch a train, but all events seem to be stopping him.

Resource provides the e-text of the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick (1591-1674) published in the 19th century with an introduction by the editor Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897).

The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.

This still current play, An Ideal Husband , is still relevant today. Read about the fascinating plot, setting and characters in this comprehensive site.