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LITERATURE SITES
Academy of American
Poets
- “...one of the liveliest and most comprehensive
poetry sites on the Internet.”
American
Authors on the Web
- Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka of Nagoya University
lists approximately 100 sites that pertain to American authors.
American
Studies Web Sites
- David Philips of Yale University has compiled this list of
sites that pertain to American Studies. He has categorized this list.
Bibliomania
- This site contains HTML versions of selected literary
works.
- Book
Browse
- Although intended for adults, this site covers
books as they are published adn older students may find good
suggestions here.
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- Book
Spot
- A comprehensive site of book related resources--includes
a link to young adult books.
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- Booklist
Center
- Features book lists by genre and topic. Includes
all the major book awards.
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- Byzantine
and Medieval Web Links
- A comprehensive list, divided into categories,
of sites pertaining to Byzantine and medieval topics provided by
Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
A
Celebration of Women Writers
- “All too often, works by women, and resources
about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy
access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides
a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical
information about women writers, and complete published books written
by women.”
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Children's Literature Web Guide: Booklists
- This collection of links includes young adult
resources.
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- The
Crucible Project
- This West Springfield High School site is dedicated
to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its connections
to McCarthyism. It offers vast links and images pertaining to the
Salem witch trials and the 1950s Red Scare.
Dictionary
of Phrase and Fable
- This hypertext version of The Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 edition, offers a
search engine to its alphabetical listing.
- Fairfax
County Public Library: Good Reading
- Recommended lists by genre and audience.
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- Favorite Poem
Project
- View Americans saying the poems they like. Videos
and full texts of the poems illustrate the power of the written word
and how we are touched by the ideas of others. This site is a partnership
among the New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston University and
the Library of Congress, with funding provided by the National Endowment
for the Arts, Boston University, the Knight Foundation and the Hewlett
Foundation.
First Lines
of Novels
- An engaging literacy test that asks you to identify
the first lines of well-known literary works which have been divided
into twenty-two categories.
Gatsby
Project
- This multi-media web site devoted to The Great
Gatsby was developed by three English 11 GT classes at West Springfield
High School. Chapter summaries, character identification, significant
quotations, and research devoted to ancillary topics complete this
vast site.
Kathy
Schrock’s Links to Literature and Language
Arts
- Kathy Schrock has compiled an extensive site devoted
to literature and language arts for both teachers and students. This
section is only one part of Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators,
hosted by the Discovery Channel.
Literary
Resources on the Net
- Jack Lynch has collected and annotated links to
sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American
literature, including most single electronic texts.
Mythology
Links
- Cathy Horowitz compiled this extensive list of
sites devoted to mythology.
Nobel Prize
Winners in Literature
- This searchable site lists all Nobel prize categories,
including the literary winners.
Of
Mice and Men
- Louise Rutherford of Belmont High School has created
a web site devoted to all aspects of Steinbeck’s novel.
Online Literary
Criticism
- “The Internet Public Library (IPL) Online
Literary Criticism Collection contains 2504 critical and biographical
websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author,
by title, or by nationality and literary period.”
- Outstanding
Books for the College Bound
- Chosen by the Young Adult Library Services
Association.
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- Pulitzer Prize
Winners
- A visually appealing site that celebrates eighty years of achievement in journalism, letters, drama, and music.
Rosencrantz
and Gildenstern...
- This indexed site, developed by two West Springfield
High School English AP students, explores Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead.
- Teenreads.com
- It's the teen part of "The Book Report Network"
which is a collection of sites that share book reviews, new releases,
etc.
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Kill a Mockingbird
- Created by the American Memory Fellows Program
of the Library of Congress, this site offers an historical perspective
of Harper Lee’s novel. It includes multidisciplinary enrichment
opportunities.
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REFERENCE SITES
Educators’
Humanities Site
- EDSITEment, a joint project of the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI WorldCom,
and the National Trust for the Humanities, offers a massive list of
resources pertaining to the Humanities. It provides lesson plans and
web links to a variety of humanities topics.
Fairfax County
Public Library
- Use your Fairfax County Public Library web site
to access a variety of materials. You may even complete transactions
with your FCPL library card.
Find a Grave
- Search this site to find a photograph of a writer’s
tombstone.
Genealogy Links
- For those who wish to research their family histories,
Cyndi Howell has accumulated an expansive list of resources appearing
on the Web.
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AUTHOR SITES
Cather,
Willa
- This web site offers links to various Cather web
sites as well as information and help on research and writing papers
about this author.
Dickens,
Charles
- An exhaustive listing of sites pertaining to Charles Dickens.
Dickens,
Charles - Gads’ Hill Place
- “Welcome to Charles Dickens - Gad’s
Hill Place. In 1860, behind his home at Gad’s Hill Place, Charles
Dickens tried to cover his tracks. He gathered ‘the accumulated
letters and papers of twenty years’ and set them ablaze
in his backyard.”
Ellison,
Ralph W.
- This multi-media web site devoted to Invisible
Man was developed by three English 11 GT classes at West Springfield
High School. Chapter summaries, character identification, significant
quotations, and research devoted to ancillary topics complete this
comprehensive, award-winning site.
Fitzgerald,
F. Scott
- The University of South Carolina’s F. Scott
Fitzgerald Centenary Page.
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel
- Eric Eldred’s excellent Hawthorne site at Eldritch Press contains
all of Hawthorne’s works, notes on the writings, annotated editions,
and lots of other information. This is an essential site for those
working on Hawthorne.
Hughes,
Langston
- Part of the Internet School Library Media Center, this site includes
biographical, bibliography, critical, and bibliographical information
regarding Langston Hughes.
Melville, Herman
- An exhaustive collection of information about Herman
Melville.
Morrison,
Toni
- A collection of links devoted to Toni Morrison
maintained by the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
Poe, Edgar Allan
- Maintained by the Dauphin County, (PA) Public Library,
this comprehensive site is devoted to the life and works of Poe.
Shakespeare,
The Complete Works of
- This site offers FAQs, discussion area, glossary,
quotations, and links to each of the bard’s plays.
Steinbeck,
John
- Ed Stephan’s extraordinary site devoted to
the works of John Steinbeck. Vast resources are listed for research
purposes.
Steinbeck,
John
- The National Steinbeck Site devoted to all aspects
of John Steinbeck’s work.
Thoreau,
Henry David
- A site devoted to Henry David Thoreau’s work
by Jone Johnson Lewis. He has categorized Thoreau’s works, he
lists significant quotations, and he provides literary criticism and
search engines for finding other materials related to Thoreau and
his time.
Twain,
Mark
- Text, illustrations, and early reviews of Twain’s
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Virginia H. Cope, University
of Virginia.
Whitman,
Walt
- The University of Virginia’s Walt Whitman
Archive offers “digitized images of original documents, transcriptions
of those documents, and an elaborate body of introductions, commentaries,
and other materials useful in interpreting Whitman’s works.”
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LANGUAGE SITES
American Slanguages
- This site features dialects and slang spoken in various cities.
Want to know how people speak in Baltimore? Need help to understand
someone from New York? Study the American language from many perspectives.
The Book
of Clichés
- Extensive lists of trite and overused phrases appear
in categories on this easy-to-use web site.
Creative Quotations
- “...Possibly the largest (and certainly the
most creative) quotation resource on the Internet...”
Glossary
of Poetic Terms
- An extensive handbook of poetry terms. This site
offers phonetic pronunciation, cross references, a broad range of
definitions, numerous examples, hyper-linked keywords and cross references,
a wealth of poetic quotations, and writers’ guidelines.
A
Guide to Grammar and Style
- Jack Lynch has compiled a “miscellany of grammatical
rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage.”
Click on the first letter of the word to see his list of answers,
examples, and definitions.
Merriam Webster Language Center
- Word of the day, daily word game, word for the wise, and
cool new stuff await you at this easy-to-use dictionary site.
MLA
In-Text Citations
- This site provides sample internal documentation,
Works Cited entries, and papers that use the MLA format.
MLA
Style Guide
- Using the Modern Language Association’s style,
these guidelines model appropriate use for citing electronic sources
in a documented essay.
On-line
Technical Writing
- Maintained by David A. McMurrey, Ph.D., this web
site, designed to accompany an on-line writing course, defines technical
writing and provides examples, models, and case studies for technical
writing.
Paradigm Online Writing Lab
- An easy-to-use reference for writing, including
grammar tips, composition format, and much more. Spend some time browsing
this site for hints to improve your writing.
Poetry Online Rhyming Dictionary
- A searchable database that enables you to match rhymes.
Purdue On-Line Writing
Lab
- A well-developed site devoted to all aspects of the writing
process.
Puzzlemaker
- A site that helps you create individualized puzzles, word
searches, mazes, criss-cross puzzles, number blocks, math squares,
and cryptograms.
Quotes
of the Day
- This site provides random motivational and inspirational
quotations. It also offers a mailing list.
Resources
for Writers and Writing Instructors
- An extensive listing of links that pertain to all
aspects of writing.
Strunk
and White’s Elements of Style
- A hypertext version of the classic 1918 writer’s
guide.
3-D Thesaurus
- A visually pleasing three-dimensional thesaurus guaranteed
to mesmerize you. You must see this one!
Wordcounter
- This site ranks the most frequently used words
in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse,
or maybe just to find some keywords from a document.
Word Play
- An expansive alphabetical listing of sites that offer word
play. You can spend hours exploring this site.
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