African American Writers Websites for African American authors and poets.
American Authors Information and links to American literature from the earliest days through the 1920s.
American Authors on the Web Links to American authors from 1550-1950.
American Literature: Twentieth Century Author Sites Links to American authors from Edward Abbey to Charles Wright.
Iowa: A Literary Landscape This bibliography covers fiction works with an Iowa setting and includes short stories, poetry, film, folklore, as well as long fiction.
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide With nearly 500 pages, including over 420 author pages, this is a major site in American literature on the web.
Project Crow American literature.
Voices of the Shuttle Web page for humanities research.
Wright American Fiction Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.
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Bartleby.com Access to free full-text books, poetry, quotations, references, and more.
Bibliomania Classic literature, drama, and poetry together with detailed literature study guides. Some sections require free registration.
Online Books Over 25,000 freely accessible books. Search by author, title, subject, new listings, and more.
Project Gutenberg 18,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet Annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
Shakespeare Online Free, original, and accurate information on William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Resource Center Collected links from all over the World Wide Web to information on William Shakespeare, his works, the Globe Theatre, and Elizabethan England.
Shakespeare Searched Search for keyword within Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Or search by a character or work.
Shakespearehelp.com Includes a brief biography of Shakespeare, links to selected works and Shakespeare Festivals.
Celebration of Women Writers Comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women.
Voices from the Gaps Women artists and Writers of Color.
The Children's Literature Web Guide Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults.
Indigenous Peoples Literature Archive of cultural material about the indigenous peoples of the world, ranging from literature and music to prayers and history.
Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Literary Resources on the Net A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
The Paris Review Read, search, and download in-depth interviews with poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics, musicians, and more, whose work set the compass of twentieth-century writing, and continue to do so into the twenty-first.
Poetry portal Directory of worldwide poetry online.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales Site Annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,400 illustrations.