Literature: Websites

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Listing of websites with electronic books.

This site contains full electronic text of hundreds of Middle English literary works. The site is a project of the Robbins Library of the University of Rochester and is intended for individual use.

Quick and convenient reference to the major movements and various authors in American literature, PAL devotes individual Web pages to nearly 400 authors of American literature.

Treasure trove of more than 73,000 historical and critical citations about the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Offers an online version of three important print volumes written by Hall (Texas A&M Univ.): Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1878-1985 (CH, Oct'87), ... 1985-1991 (CH, Dec'93), and ... 1992-1995 (1997).

This is an annotated electronic text of Dante's Comedy for scholarly use only. Included besides the electronic text are critical essays, biographies of Dante, and multimedia presentations

Full-text access to some of the Paris Review interviews with literary figures from the 1950s to today. Interviews are arranged by decade and are searchable by keyword. There is also an A to Z index of interviews available in audio format.

Guide to setting up a poetry book club, the Listening Booth (with 150 audio clips), a prose section comprising more than 400 articles and essays presented in useful categories, and the On Writing section, which houses FAQs useful to beginning poets, articles from the academy's magazine, a book awards page, and writing advice from famous poets.

This is a comprehensive site from the University of Nebraska on Willa Cather's life and writings. Included is a digital edition of her letters, audio, video, and a section on "teaching Cather."

Kate Chopin International Society provides a network and forum for the study of American author.

This highly recommended collection incorporates images of all of Poe's manuscripts and letters at the Ransom Center (linked to transcriptions by the Poe Society of Baltimore) with a selection of related archival materials, two books by Poe annotated by the author, sheet music based on his poems, and portraits from the Ransom Center collections.

The Mark Twain Project Online "unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents. Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote." The annotations that accompany each letter, text and document represent the work of scholars for more than four decades.