General Sites

• Author Pseudonyms

• Bibliomania: hundreds of searchable full text works

• Booksurfer: British literary weblog

• British Broadcasting Company: Interviews with Bodern Writers

• BBC Radio 4 Author Interviews

• Bulfinch's Mythology

• Cambridge History of English and American Literature

• Can I have a word?: ideas and inspiration for creative writing from Barbican Education

• Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards

• Classic Literature Library: Free Classic Literature in the Public Domain

• Ex-Classics: obscure classic works now in the public domain

• Feedbooks: public domain and original books by new authors, readable on any mobile device

• Fictional Books: non-existent books found in other works of fiction

• Guardian Children's Books Site

• Gnooks: world of literature

• Google Book Search

• Guardian Review

• John Murray Archive (1768-1920) from the National Library of Scotland

• Literary Resources on the Net: pages  maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers — Newark

• Location Register of Twentieth Century English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: at Reading University Library

• London Review of Books Online

• Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author

• ManyBooks.net: free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook reader

• Plain English Campaign: includes Internet Crystal Mark for websites

• Project Gutenberg: free ebooks on the Internet

• Read Print: free online library

• Reading Group Guides: online community for reading groups

• Sacred Text Archive

• Romanticism On the Net

• Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Online

• Today in Literature: features a new original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history

Individual Authors

• Jane Austen Centre

• Lewis Carroll Home Page (US)

• The Geoffrey Chaucer Metapage

• David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page

• The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: His Life, All His Works and More

• Sherlockian.net: links to everything in 221B Baker Street and beyond

• Foxe, John. The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Foxe's Book of Martyrs

• Ben Jonson

• The Carlyle Letters Online

• Into the Wardrobe: A Web Site Devoted to C.S. Lewis

• John Stuart Mill Links

• Pepys Diary: daily entry from the diary with links to people and places mentioned

• Shakespeare

• The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site

• Walter Scott Digital Archive: Edinburgh University Library

• Trollope Society

• The Oscar Wilde Collection
   

Poetry

• Bartleby Verse: American and English Poetry, 1250-1920

• Canterbury Tales with Glossary

• Child Ballads

• Digital Poets Society

• Find Free Poetry

• Guide to Verse Forms

• John Donne

• Old Poetry: classical poetry and discussion

• Oxford Book of Ballads: Chosen and Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch: 1910 edition

• The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1900 edition

• Poetry Daily

• Poetry Magazine: includes selections from recent issues

• Poets' Corner

• The Poetry Archive

• Poetry Archive: the world's premier online collection of poets reading their own work

• Poetry Book Society (UK)

• Poetry Society (UK)

• Rhyming Dictionary

• Scottish Poetry Library

• The Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery
   

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