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Some people like to describe the Internet as a giant library filled to the brim with information. Those interested in literature will find this especially true, because from book reviews to literary theory to full texts, you'll find a rich
world of literature online, as museums, libraries, and universities around the world have made their archives
available to the public.
- Literary
HyperCalendar - will tell you what auspicious literary events occurred
on any given day of year. Click on the monthly calendar for that
day's events, search for a particular author or
work.
- Project Gutenberg - strives to make literary and
reference works available to as many people as possible. Read War and Peace, browse
Roget's
Thesaurus, or search for your favorite classic.
- Representative
Poetry Online - features over a
thousand English poems, searchable by poet,
title,
first
line, keyword, or date.
- Winners of
the Nobel Prize in Literature - part of the Nobel Prize Internet Archive,
featuring all the laureates in literature.
- Luminarium - showcases the literature of the Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century periods in
England. Authors, poets, courtiers, wits, and wags of the time are
listed, with links to works, articles, biographies, and other resources.
- The Jane
Austen Information Page - all things Austen, from an annotated
and illustrated hypertext version of Pride and
Prejudice to a collection of failed pick-up
lines from her novels.
- Complete
Plays of Shakespeare - all of the Bard's
dramatic works, searchable by words and phrases.
- New York Times Book
Review - contains not only the complete contents of the current week's
Sunday book review, but also an archive going back to 1980.
- Victorian
Web - aims to create a historical, social,
political and economic context for the writings of authors such as Thomas
Carlyle, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and other eminent
Victorians.
- Oscariana -
a multimedia biography of poet, playwright, artist and Irishman Oscar
Wilde.
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"Though online publishing is on the brink of becoming a trend, no one
seems worried that the printed book will expire anytime soon. In the
end,
a book on paper is just more comfortable to read."
"Read It and Weep: Online Publishing Actually Boosts
Sales", The Washington Post
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