Digital texts for Aristotle, Bentham, Berkeley, Descartes, Dewey, Emerson, Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Locke, Machiavelli, Mill, Plato, Rousseau, Socrates, Spinoza, Vergil

Electronic Books

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html

Links to literature websites

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Also Folk and Fairy Tale Links, Germanic Myths, Legends & Sagas

The Modern English Collection

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/

Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present

The Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Over 30,000 books available on the Web

The Online Library of Literature

http://www.literature.org

Full and unabridged texts of classic English literature

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Over 25,000 free electronic books

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Web’s first edition of Shakespeare’s Complete Works

Internet Shakespeare Editions

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html

Annotated texts, multimedia, records of play performances

Poetry

Bartleby Verse

http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

One of the largest free collections of poetry on the web

Guide to Poetry & Literature Webcasts

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/webcasts/

“webcasts of poets, fiction writers, and critics as they read and discuss their own and each other's work”

Modern American Poetry

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps

“An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry”

The Poetry & Literature Center of the Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/poetry

Includes Poet Laureate, News and Events, Webcasts

Poet’s Corner

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/

Online collection of poetry

poets.org

http://www.poets.org/

from the Academy of American Poets

Literary Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/

First Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded in 1901

Pulitzer Prize - Fiction and Poetry

http://www.pulitzer.org

“Honoring excellence in journalism and the arts”

Man Booker Prize

http://themanbookerprize.com

Best Fiction

The National Book Awards

http://www.nationalbook.org

Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Young People’s Literature, Poetry

National Book Critics Circle Award

http://www.bookcritics.org/?go=awards

Awards for finest books and reviews published in English

Hugo

http://thehugoawards.org

Awards in the field of science fiction and fantasy

Bram Stoker

http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm

Award for “Superior Achievement” from Horror Writers Association

Nebula

http://www.swfa.org/awards

Awards from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.

The Randolph Caldecott Medal

http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.cfm

“Most distinguished American picture book for children”

The John Newbery Medal

http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.cfm

“Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children”

Nene Award

http://nene.k12.hi.us/

“Chosen by the Children of Hawai’i”

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