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Webrary Links
800-899 - Literature
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Philosophy and Theory of Literature
- Poets' Corner
- This enormous online poetry database provides access to nearly 7,000
copyright-free English poems, including well-known classics. Search by
author, subject, or title/first line. (theotherpages.org/poems/)
- Poetry Foundation
- This site celebrates the world of poetry with audio poetry readings, the Poem of the Day, a database of thousands of poems, poetry award lists, and much more! (www.poetryfoundation.org)
- SparkNotes
- Free - all the time! Online study guides for many high school and college subjects, including the literature guides to hundreds of classic works, from 1984 to Yellow Raft in Blue Water. Test preparation guides are also available. (www.sparknotes.com/)
- PinkMonkey.com
- Another good site for free online study notes. PinkMonkey has hundreds of literature notes, including Barron's Booknotes, along with other academic subject study guides, and guides to the SAT and GRE exams. (www.pinkmonkey.com)
- CliffsNotes
- The ever-popular Cliffs Notes are now online They have also added Course Guides and Test Prep - everything for the student! (www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/)
- Grade Saver ClassicNotes
- Similar to other online literature study guides, this site is written by Harvard University students and provides author
profiles, chapter summaries, practice quiz questions, and other information
for many classic and contemporary novels used in U.S. literature courses. (www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/)
- Literary Criticism
- To the delight of many students, this resource from the Internet Public Library is available -- a collection of more than 1,000 Websites devoted to literary criticism. Browse for criticism by author's last name, title, or by literary period. (www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/)
- Web Sites for Book Lovers
- Looking for some good books? Our own electronic reader's advisor lets you browse a great collection of Websites on all types of fiction - Westerns, romance, thrillers, science fiction, and more. (www.webrary.org/rs/rslinks.html)
- Reader's Circle
- This Website introduces the idea of reader's circles, book clubs where people meet to discuss everything they are reading, not necessarily one book title. Locate a reader's circle near you with a zip code search. (www.readerscircle.org)
- Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
- Duke University Libraries provides this online guide to using any of the
four best known style manuals: APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian. For
footnotes, use Citing Sources within Your Paper . (www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited)
- A+ Research & Writing
- A step-by-step guide through the process of writing the research paper for high school and college students - from getting the assignment to gathering the information and writing the paper. Find information on writing styles and techniques, citation sources, and quotations usage. (www.ipl.org/div/teen/aplus/)
- Writers Write
- Writing resources for would-be writers, publishers, and editors. Includes links to paying and nonpaying online publications, writing and publishing news, message boards, and job listings. (www.writerswrite.com)
- Morton Grove Public Library Play Index
- Search the Library's play collections in this 1,500-entry index. (The index provides references to books in the Library's collection containing specific plays.) (www.webrary.org/ref/searchplays.html)
- Online Books Page
- A searchable index of links to the full text of thousands of free online books in English - with specialty and foreign language archives. (digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)
- American Rhetoric
- Locate audio and video versions of thousands of public speeches given in the U.S.A., including movie speeches, religious sermons, and the 100 most significant political speeches. (www.americanrhetoric.com)
- Quotation Links
- Choose from among dozens of links to reviewed quotation collections from the Quotations Page. (www.quotationspage.com/links.php3?cat=1)
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American Literature
- Edgar Allan Poe
- A comprehensive source from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, the
city where Poe died. Links to biographies, literary criticism, and the texts of his poems and short stories are included. (www.eapoe.org)
- Lincoln's Speeches and Writings
- Letters, speeches, proclamations, and poems by Abraham Lincoln. (www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln/speeches/speeches.htm)
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English Literature
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Poems and quotes, biographical information, and essays on the master of early English poetry - Geoffrey Chaucer. Read the full text, or listen(!) to excerpts of the Canterbury Tales. (www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm)
- Shakespeare's Complete Works
- A lovingly compiled collection of the Bard of Avon's works. (the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/)
- The Charles Dickens Page
- Everything for Dickens lovers!: descriptions of all of his fictional characters, links to the full texts of Dickens' works, a Dickens genealogy chart - even an interactive map of Dickens' London! (charlesdickenspage.com/)
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Latin Language and Literature
- Selected Resources for Latin
- Latin students and aficionados will enjoy this collection of links to Latin dictionaries, grammar guides and classical literature - all from College of Saint Benedict/St. John's University in Minnesota. (library.csbsju.edu/rqs.phtml?subject_id=20)
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Greek Language Literature
- The Internet Classics Archive
- Aesop's Fables, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Plato's Republic, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and more! (classics.mit.edu/)
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