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You know who critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The complete text, from the Project Gutenberg edition, linkable by chapter.
The complete text, linkable by chapter, with colorized versions of the John Tenniel illustrations.
An eclectic compilation of writings taken from ancient and contemporary authors on various facets of the Universal Wisdom Teaching—both Eastern and Western traditions.
A great site to visit if you want to catch up on reading you know you should be doing, but don’t have much time to dedicate to it. This site gives a chapter a day of a classic American novel. (For instance, The Red Badge of Courage was featured at the time of this writing.) In addition to the chapter, the rest of the novel is present if you’d like to read it in its entirety, and links to the author of the featured book and some other interesting links are also available.
Contains the texts of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories. Also includes scans of illustrations from Holmes books, and a canon word search feature.
Includes electronic versions of dozens of books that have been the objects of censorship and banning attempts. The books range from Candide to Huckleberry Finn and include commentary on banning and censorship attempts currently underway.
Short pieces of fiction, poetry, and other writings by contemporary author Don Berry.
This award-winning site is a repository for children’s online literature. From Rumpelstiltskin to Thumbelina, you can read your children these online classics. Includes a bookstore, international gallery, and spelling machine game. Story and illustrations submissions are welcome.
An online reading group that you can easily join by sending email. Club reads one book per month. Site includes top ten picks, monthly selections, and reviews.
Provides a biography of writer David Eddings, scans of artwork, and links to other pages. Also contains some excerpts from some of Eddings’ works.
Site devoted to lovers of short stories and short prose, it includes an impressive selection of short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to Virginia Woolf and on. You can search by story name as well as by author.
Traditionally, a “commonplace book” is a place to put notable passages people find in their reading to memorialize those ideas. This page is an electronic version of one of those books made by a variety of readers.
Home to hypertext in literature, there are links to articles, e-texts, and other resources concerning hypertext in the area of writing. Essays by important authors are also present and link to other related articles.
This virtual library is available for the free dissemination of e-texts by thousands of different authors. There is a nice search engine that is available to find anything present in the “stacks.”
http://www.teleport.com/~bcmetter/
http://www.internetv.com/austin/index.htm
Provides a collection of short stories and works of serial fiction written by fellow Web browsers. Submissions are welcome. Includes stories of humor, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, children’s, and other traditional fiction types.
Here you’ll find online children’s stories from Germany, with beautiful illustrations. Legendary German fairy tales about mythological flower-children will delight children and adults. In German and English.
A self-study sort of course that should give the reader a well-rounded liberal education. The interesting twist on this, however, is that the books in the course are online (for the most part—some would infringe on copyrights).
Provides radical literature and fiction to the reader of new or dangerous fiction. Provides links to other small presses, quarterly publications, and new and existing titles and authors.
HyperLiterature/HyperTheory has an annotated bibliography, some readings, and some works by students who are studying this exciting new field.
Contains the complete text of Huck Finn and Connecticut Yankee, with more to come.
The complete text of the book, linkable by chapter.
A page maintained by the publisher, devoted to the Jurassic Park sequel. Contains ordering info, excerpts. Also contains links to other sites’ articles on such subjects as dinosaurs, electric/hybrid vehicles, and chaos theory.
Browse the complete text, chapter by chapter if you like, and look at the first edition illustrations. Includes early reviews and “the obscene sales prospectus illustration.”
Maintained by Washington State University, this is a useful page for those wishing to study and critique Bradbury’s writing style.
A project sponsored in part by Michigan’s libraries, includes collections of online excerpts, stories, and reports in categories such as education, humanities and the arts, and science and the environment. Includes a reference desk, as well as a periodicals section.
The Mystery Corner supplies short stories and samples of novels on a weekly basis and provides general discussions of interactive fiction. You are the detective and decide which clues to follow as you read along and discover the motive and plot of the story.
Read this heart-wrenching autobiographical account of Frederick Douglass’ life. Born a slave around 1817, he learned to read and write from his master’s wife and by teaching himself. He spent his life fighting for abolishment of slavery and the rights of free men.
A Frequently Asked Question list concerning the availability of online works, with links to archives and other directories, and information about public domain laws.
An excellent collection of online books, including categories such as prize winners and women writers. Provides search capabilities via author, title, subject, and what’s new.
This award-winning site contains a collection of electronically stored books, mostly classics, that can be downloaded free of charge and viewed offline. Gopher searches for your favorite author reveal various options for downloading.
Electronic literature, some previously published, now for free. Poetry by Milly Ryer, short stories by Molly Ryer, humor by Rufus Jarman, a new mystery in serial by Marion Ryer, novels by Anne Silleck. Updated on the first of the month.
A project to bring books and reading to everyone. It includes articles, links, and papers written by scholars in support of electronic publishing.
Includes complete and detailed reproduction of the Ten Commandments, as well as commentary on differences in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, comparison of Hebrew, Catholic, and Protestant versions, and more. Printed by Joseph Lewis.
Site devoted to the expansion of knowledge regarding influential texts and authors in history. Submissions and additions are welcome. You an search via author and subject matter.
Gareth Rees’s paper concerning hypertext and the World Wide Web presents differing ideas about the use of hypertext in today’s literature. He even offers that certain games are a form of hypertext; in fact, he maintains that these are the most interactive type.
srv/style/longterm/books/bookgrp/bookgprules.htm
Read along with the Washington Post book club, an online forum that reads scheduled books and participates in discussion about the book. Books read here include All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy and The Wedding by Dorothy West. Includes tips on creating your own book group.
Includes stories for children updated twice weekly. Read about Willy the Spider, who spins his Web of stories, as well as other characters. Good way to introduce the Web and reading to a young child.
The complete text of the book, linkable by chapter.
http://eldarco.com/istory/mira/
http://www.deere.com/jdkids/johnny/index.htm
http://www.buylink.com/m7/syl/syl.html
http://pages.prodigy.com/lemus/lemus.htm
http://newt.blackboard.com/winter/guide/
http://www.wp.com/fictionreview/