Cultural Literature

• Greek Mythology Pretty cool site with a list of the Gods, Heros, and a few of the stories. Theres also a family tree of the Gods.
• Greek Mythology: from the Illiad to the fall of the last tyrant.This site has lots of interesting and useful information. Theres a table of Greek vs. Roman names, a fun fact quiz, as well as information about each of the Gods as well as where the appear in important books such as the Illiad. This site is also nicely designed.
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Here are some author specific sites

Fiction

• The Writings of Jane Austen - Author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, etc. Includes texts, summaries, analysis and more!
• Charlotte Bronte: an overview >The complete resource on Charlotte Bronte from the excellent Victorian Web. This site includes a biography, literary relations, themes, symbolism, setting, and much more!
• The life of Charlotte Bronte The full text of a biography on Charlotte Bronte, the author of Jane Eyre.
• The Bronte SistersAbout the Bronte Sisters; Charlotte (Jane Eyre), Emily (Wuthering Heights), and Anne. This site includes links to chronologies, biographies, and more.
• Exploring Kate Chopins The Awakening - About her life, analysis and student essays on The Awakening.
• Stephen Crane - Author of The Red Badge of Courage. Biographical information,themes, issues, and literary technique.
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Website - Mostly links to Critical essays, study guides, e-texts, cool stuff, links, a chronology of his life, and information about Russia.
• The World of Fyodor Dostoevsky - In Russian and in English. Includes photos and a timeline of his life.
• William Faulkner - "an evolving guide to the life and work of William Faulkner." There is tons of information at this web site! Including: plot synopsis, commentaries, e-texts, biography, trivia, quotes, and much more.
• Thomas Hardy - Author of Tess of the DUrbervilles. E-texts, analysis, and more.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Author of The Scarlet Letter. Full online texts of many of his major novels. Also includes criticism and biographical information.
• The Papa Page - Web page of Ernest Hemingway.
• Mark Twain Resources on the WWW - A massive resource with everything you could want related to Mark Twain and his books. E-texts, criticism, biographical information, and everything else!
• Zora Neale Hurston - Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Stories, photos, and dozens of student essays. Be sure to use the essays for ideas only, DONT plagirize!
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man page - Written by James Joyce. Nothing fancy, but several pages of biographical information and criticism.
• Franz Kafka - Author of Metamorphases. Includes a biography, links, and some papers, and miscellaneous information.
• Jack London - Author of Call of the Wild and White Fang. Biography, personal letters, e-texts
• N. Scott Momaday - Author of House Made of Dawn. Lots of information, very student oriented. A great place to ask serious questions about his books or poetry, very discussion oriented.
• Toni Morrison Beloved page - Biography, Historical events surrounding Beloved, analysis, and an Anthology. This site is packed full of information!
• Animal Farm page - Written by George Orwell. This web page was written by 8th graders as a project for school. Theres not a lot of information about the book here, but it is a very interesting and creative site. Might be a good place to get ideas for an Animal Farm project.
• Edgar Allan Poe - Biographical info, e-texts, analysis of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Author of Frankenstein. Primarily biographical information.
• John Steinbeck: The California Novels - Author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. In depth information about many of his novels. Plus many Steinbeck links.
• Jules Verne page - Author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in 80 Days. This page includes links to E-texts and a chronology of Vernes life as well as other information.
• Web Page for Alice Walker - Biographical information, synopsis of The Color Purple
• Alice Walker - Author of The Color Purple. This is a great page, lots of information. Including: biographies, poetry, short stories, excerpts from her novels, interviews, essays, criticism, and e-texts.
• Virginia Woolf - Author of Orlando and To the Lighthouse... This page is a little confusing to maneuver through. One pointer, the links to Woolf information are in tiny print at the bottom of the main page. But, theres lots of information on her life and works as well as many articles and links to information on Modernism.

  Non-Fiction

• Ralph Waldo Emerson - E-texts, including poetry, essays, commentaries and analysis of his works, biographies, quotations, pictures and more. Also includes information about Transcendentalism.
• Sir Thomas More - Renaissance English author and statesman. Biographical information, e-texts, essays
• Henry David Thoreau - E-texts, including poetry, essays, commentaries and analysis of his works, biographies, quotations, pictures and more. Also includes information about Transcendentalism.
• The Transcendentalists - A web page about this social movement. Includes essays on Transcendentalism, and information about the people involved in this movement.
• Upton Sinclair - Progressive Era journalist and author of The Jungle. Theres nothing really wrong with this web page, but there just isnt much here. There are links to 13 letters written to to Sinclair from Jack London. Theres also the full text of his book The Jungle

  Poetry

• Introduction to Poetry - a simple introduction to poetry.
• Maya Angelou - biographical info., commentary, an interview, audio, and video
• Maya Angelou - Poet laureate of the United States. A short biography and bibliography, plus over a dozen of her poems. Also some pictures and links.
• Beat Generation Poets - Biographical information about Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg among others. Also book synopsis, and information about subjects related to the Beat movement, like Buddhism.
• The Influence of Jazz on the Beat Generation, an essay. - Very interesting and informative.
• William Blake Archive - Searchable e-texts and many bibliographies.
• Emily Dickinson Poems - An Emily Dickinson reading room. No analysis or biographical info. just poems.
• Robert Frost - Biography, poetry sampler, analysis & reviews, and other interesting information, such as an interview with his grandson.
• The Complete Works of Robert Frost - Everything he ever published is here.
• Nikki Giovanni - Biography, bibliography, and links to some of her recent classes.
• Its a Hughes Thang! - About Langston Hughes, biographical information, a poem, and some historical information.
• Langston Hughes - 5 poems by Langston Hughes
• John Keats - A few poems, a short biography, and a couple of pictures.
• Pablo Neruda - Biography, poetry sampler, including a few in Spansih, analysis, essays, reviews, and other interesting information.
• Sylvia Plath - Biography, analysis, bibliography, poems, and links.
• Christina Rossetti - Biography, poems, essays, and information about the Victorian era. Lots of information!
• Alfred Lord Tennyson - A timeline of his life and many poems.
• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitmans book of poems, Leaves of Grass
• The Walt Whitman Project - Biographical info., e-texts, analysis, a nice site, but still under major development.
• William Butler Yeats - The Collected Poems: many, many, many poems, by Yeats.
• William Butler Yeats - Biography, bibliography, links to poems.

  Plays

• Chekhov World - Author of The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya. It took me a long time to find this page. Its great! The page includes biography, historical background, analysis, pictures, bibliography, and links.
• Complete Works of Shakepeare - Everything Shakespeare ever published! E-texts, discussion forums, famous quotations, and more.
• Thornton Wilder - Author of Our Town. The links on this page are pretty disappointing though. Lots of bibliographies and not too much real information.