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Literature Resources

American Authors
This website provides information on American authors and literary movements, a timeline of literary and historical events, and links to other American literature sites.

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Bartlett’s includes a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
This is one of the more outstanding sites on the Web and provides students and researchers with unlimited access to academic books and information, free of charge, including The Harvard Classics and World Factbook.

English Literature on the Web
This excellent site lists hundreds of links to web pages with biographical information on authors, literary periods, “The Great Books”, poetry sites, etc.

Online Library of Literature
This site offers full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature, including fiction from authors like Lewis Carroll, the Bronté sisters (Anne, Charlotte, and Emily), Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and many others.

Poetry Portal
This site is a directory of worldwide poetry online and includes definitions, types of poetry, and poetry analysis.

What is a Short Story?
Taken from Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust home page, this page includes elements of the short story, how to start, and how to analyze the story.