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| Full text of novels by Henry James (1843 1916), including The Altar of the Dead, The Ambassadors, The American, The Aspern Papers, Confidence, Daisy Miller, The Death of the Lion, The Europeans, An International Episode, Roderick Hudson, and The Turn of Screw. | |
| Set of articles addressing aspects of Poe's life in relation to drugs and alcohol, religion, family, friends, and enemies. Offers information on the writer's poems, tales, essays, literary criticism, with a selection of full text versions, and a collection of lectures and articles composed about him. Also provides specific information about Poe in Baltimore, the site of his birth, death, and burial. | ||
| Teaching resources, lesson plans, background information, and profiles of American authors Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Langston Hughes, and Henry James. Full texts of selected novels, a literary timeline, and a catalogue of American literature on videotape are available. | ||
| Collection of resources by or about Mark Twain, including maxims and sayings, texts, biography and criticism, teaching resources, and discussion lists. | ||
| Collection of online resources chronicling the history of the Oz stories in print, cinema, and art, and the people behind the tales. Biographical information includes sources on L Frank Baum, W W Denslow, Jr., Frank Kramer, and Dick Martin. Literary material incorporates the 'Famous Forty' covering the period 1899 1963, as well as the works that followed and were later discovered. Additional works by those involved in Oz, and their critical analysis, are also available. | ||
| Full texts of a selection of Kate Chopin's (1851 1904) novels, which identify with the Southern United States in the 1800s. Included are A Pair of Silk Stockings, A Reflection, A Respectable Woman, Awakening, Beyond the Bayou, Desiree's Baby, Ma'ame Pelagie, The Kiss, and The Locket. | ||
| Full text of The Last of the Mohicans by American writer James Fenimore Cooper (1789 1851). | ||
| Magazine for readers of English and American literature, providing access to critical articles published on the Web. Offers a 'Guide to 19th Century English Literature' arranged by author, and includes articles on plagiarism and online publishing. | ||
| Full text of children's literature by American writer, Frank Baum (1856 1919), including Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, The Land of Oz, and The Wizard of Oz. | ||
| Traces the life and work of Mark Twain as a best selling writer, live performer, celebrity, and American icon. As such, this resource details the advertising campaigns, reviews, illustrations, and e-texts of Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. | ||
| Resource which provides links and bibliographic information on Nathaniel Hawthorne and various aspects of his life and career. Sections include sources on The Scarlet Letter, The Bilthedale Romance, short fiction, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Hawthorne's friendship with Herman Melville, reasons for his current popularity, major themes in his fiction, significant influences, the novel versus romance debate and practice study questions. | ||
| Full text of the novel Little Women by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888). | ||
| Celebrates the life and works of American writer John Steinbeck (1902 1968). Offers a bibliography, a filmography, and a calendar of centennial events. | ||
| Full text of novels by American writer Jack London (1876 1916), including Before Adam, Burning Daylight, Call of the Wild, John Barleycorn, and the autobiographical novel, Martin Eden. | ||
| Biographical resources, excerpts and texts, criticism and related resources on sea, whales and sailing. | ||
| Full text of the novel Good Wives by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888). | ||
| Collection of women's writing from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, including works by Margaret Cavendish, Anne Wentworth and Aphra Behn. | ||
| Full text of American novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1819 1891). | ||
| Documentary celebrating Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', published in 1899. Now considered a valuable contribution to the women's movement in the 20th century, the novel was initially rejected and lost for over 50 years. Information includes transcripts, a chronology of events in Chopin's life, an interview with her grandson, articles about her work, and bibliographies of criticism. | ||
| Full text of American children's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1835 1910). | ||
| Descriptions and images of the covers of dime novels and penny dreadfuls, including long runs of major series such as Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, and Beadle's New York Dime Library. Provides a guided tour of the print process, and offers some of the works in full text. Collection is browsable by title, features, and images, and searchable by title, captions, graphics, and subjects. | ||
| Searchable bibliography of works by American authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, and Herman Melville. Tables of contents and an image of the first page is provided for each title, and full text is given where available. Offers proximity, Boolean, and citation search facilities, and entries can be browsed by author and keyword. | ||
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