Resources: General Literature
Bartleby.com
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge.
BBC: Writing, Poetry, and Books
All about authors, learning to write, and literary fun and games.
BookSpot.com
BookSpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.The site is dedicated to clear, accessible writing in the humanities.
Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Literary Criticism: An Overview of Approaches
This site presents an excellent overview of literary criticism, which has at least three purposes: to help us solve a problem in the reading, to help us choose the better of two conflicting readings, and to enable us to form judgments about literature.
Overbooked
Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information. This site is maintained in central Virginia.
Today in Literature
Today in Literature is a small independent publication about the great writers, books and events in literary history. Every day they publish a new biographical story that offers annecdotes and insights into the lives and works of writers famous and infamous, classic and contemporary, including novelists, poets, dramatists and critics. (Free registration with option for pay registration for more services.)
Voices of the Shuttle
Voices of the Shuttle, an allusion to mythology, is very extensive meta-index of humanities Internet resources, including pages for English literature and literatures other than English.
What Makes a Good Short Story
This site takes you on a journey through a classic short story, "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell. Along the way, you'll solve the mystery of whether Minnie Wright killed her husband and explore the story's literary elements.
Wired for Books
Wired for Books brings literature alive with audio, video, and old-fashioned text of modern and classic stories, plays, poems, essays, and author interviews.