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Internet Book List ~ Search
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Authors
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Angelou,
Maya
Official Web site.
Atwood, Margaret
(Official site) Includes selected writings, brief biography,
and bibliography.
Carroll, Lewis
Information about his life and his work.
Cather, Willa
(University of Nebraska Press) Includes biography, e-text, photos,
and other scholarly information.
Dickens,
Charles
(University of California) The Dickens Project is a consortium
devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times,
and work of Charles Dickens.
Dickinson, Emily
Complete poems, with an introduction by her niece.
Faulkner,
William
Offers extensive notes on plot synopsis, commentary about works,
Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, biographical background,
anecdotes, and quotes.
Fitzgerald,
F. Scott
Nicely organized centenary page with informative essays, articles,
sound and media clips, chronology, and quotations.
Hemingway, Ernest
Life & work, with emphasis on Oak Park, Illinois origin,
information about joining Hemingway foundation.
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Joyce,
James
The James Joyce Centre is dedicated to promoting an understanding
of the life and works of James Joyce.
McCarthy, Cormac
Official web site by the Cormac McCarthy Society, includes biography,
news, criticism, discussion forum, and an online journal.
Melville, Herman
a publication dedicated to disseminating information about Herman
Melville on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Intended to be a resource for fans, students, and scholars of
Joyce Carol Oates's work including biography, works, and photos.
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Poe Museum
Robbins,
Tom
contains a biography, bibliography, interviews, and other fun
stuff.
Steinbeck,
John
Center for Steinbeck Studies is an authorized resource for readers,
students, and teachers.
Twain,
Mark
contains references to Twain's works, quotes, photos, and a biography.
Vonnegut, Kurt
(Official site) Provides a biography of the author.
Wolfe, Thomas
Authoritive page containing biography, bibliography, and photo
gallery, with links to the Thomas Wolfe journal, memorial, and
society.
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Award Winners
The
Bookwire Index of Book Awards
Links to book awards.
Nobel Prize Winners
Information about the Nobel prizes in all fields and information
about the Laureates.
Pulitzer Prize
Lists of winners, past and present of the Pulitzer Prize.
Book Reviews
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Online
Literary Criticism Collection
Extensive online literary criticism collection from the Internet
Public Library. Users are able to browse by author's last name,
works, and literary periods.
Booklist Magazine
Electronic companion of the American Library Association's magazine.
Boston
Book Review
Informative and probing reviews about today's most influential
books from leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals.
Chicago
Tribune Books
Book reviews from the Chicago Tribune.
Great Books
WebRing Home Page
Includes indexes to the great books, reading lists, great books
reading groups, chat sites about the great books, college great
books programs, etc.
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Library
Journal
Digital version of oldest national library publication.
Los Angeles
Times Book Review
Sunday book review from the Los Angeles Times.
Publisher's Weekly
Online version of leading magazine on book industry. San
Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Browse the latest book reviews from the Chronicle's Sunday edition.
School Library Journal
Book Reviews for children, young adults, and school librarians.
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Drama
Small-Cast One-Act Guide
Online
This site accesses small-cast one-act plays for four or fewer actors, giving
worldwide access to over 600 unpublished and published scripts in many languages
in various media.
Playbill On-Line
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Offering The PlayFinder™ Browse or search our catalogue ; Center
Stage: News and Recommendations Page to Stage: A listing of select
productions of DPS plays in the U.S. and Canada. New Plays Now In
Print
Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Internet
Speculative Fiction DataBase
The ISFDB is an effort to catalog works of Science Fiction, Fantasy,
and Horror. It links together various types of bibliographic
data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award
listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection
content listings, yearly fiction indexes, and forthcoming books.
SFF Net
SFF Net is the place for authors, editors, readers, and publishers
to get together to discuss books, stories, the art of popular
fiction, and all aspects of the literary life.
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The
Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
Almost six thousand links to web science fiction resources
Science Fiction and
Fantasy Links
The SF Site is dedicated to the best in science fiction and fantasy,
in print and media, on the Web and off.
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Fiction and Multi-Genre Book Sites
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African
American Literature Online
The purpose of this web site is to provide the reader with
a comprehensive guide to African American Literature during
the Twentieth Century.
BookBrowse
Popular reading lists - includes series and sequels, many mysteries
and romances.
Bookwire
Links to book reviews.
The Book Reporter
Where readers meet writers.
Booknotes
"America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas."
The Cambridge
History of English and American History
Considered the most important work of literary history and
criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over
303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from
poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and
political writing.
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Celebration
of Women Writers
The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions
of women writers throughout history.
Literary Gothic
Web's premier guide to Gothic literature.
Literary Kicks
The site is devoted to a few experimental literary movements
that tried to uncover some deeper truths about life, namely
the beats: kerouac, ginsy, and burroughs, etc.
Overbooked
A web site for ravenous readers, specializing in literary and
genre fiction information.
SparkNotes
Online study guides for literary works - similar to Cliff's
Notes
Simon & Schuster Online
This site posts excerpts from books, including chapters from Stephen King's new
novel "Bag of Bones."
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Horror
Horror World
Interviews and reviews of horror fiction.
DarkEcho's
Web
Guide to other horror sites, book lists.
Mystery
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Bullets and Beer:
The Spenser Home Page
A site dedicated to the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker.
The Cadfael
Chronicles
Ellis Peters' sleuth Brother Cadfael is an eleventh-century
monk and the subject of this site.
ClueLass Home Page
ClueLass is the longtime screen alias of Kate Derie, a writer/editor/website
designer/publisher who lives in Berkeley, CA. She heads Deadly
Serious Press, which sponsors the Murder
Must Advertise mailing list and the Independent
Mystery Publishers website. Kate is also the Assistant
Editor of the Mystery
Readers Journal, and writes columns and articles for several
mystery publications. She is a member of Sisters
in Crime.
Merely
a Genius...
A fan site dedicated to Nero Wolfe and his creator, Rex Stout.
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The
Mysterious Home Page
Wide variety of links to mystery-related sites on the Internet,
including characters, authors, and themes.
Mystery Reader
Reviews of current releases, as well as author interviews.
Mystery Writers of America
For the would-be author or professional writer who needs material
on member benefits, agents, contracts, events, and other aspects
of mystery writing.
Sue Feder's
Magical Mystery Tour
Online version of the "Magical Mystery Tour" column,
contains more than 900 book reviews.
Tangled Web
A Virtual Library: The Latest on Hundreds of Crime, Mystery & Fantastic Fiction
Authors and their Books
"Everything But The Book"
Sherlockian.net
A site for Sherlock Holmes devotees.
Women
Sleuths
An extensive directory of female detectives from the Madison
Public Library in Wisconsin.
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Poetry
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Albany
Poetry Workshop
An Interactive Forum for Poets and Writers
Atlantic
Unbound: The Poetry Pages
The Atlantic Monthly magazine brings together poetry, critical
appraisals of poets and their work, and audio readings of poems
all in one location.
Bartleby's On-Line
Poetry Anthologies
Thousands of poems by hundreds of authors - Irish, British and
American
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
On-line tenth edition from 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable
quotations
Electronic
Poetry Center
From the State University of New York at Buffalo, this site has
links to various forms of poetry from all over the world as well
as poetry magazines.
Golden Age
Spanish Sonnets
Cite created to provide good verse translations of Golden Age
Spanish sonnets to English-speaking readers.
The Internet Poetry Archive
(University of North Carolina Press) Selected poetry from many
of today's contemporary artists. Archive includes work of living
poets from around the world.
Introduction
to Representative Poetry On-Line
Search poetry database by poet, title, first line, or keyword.
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Modern
American Poetry Home Page
A multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
National Poetry
Month, sponsored by The Academy of American Poets
Literary Links, Poetry Exhibits and Resources.
Poetry
and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Information and full-text poems of authors of the Harlem Renaissance
Poets & Writers Online
Resources of creative writers
Poet's Corner Over
6,000 poems and more than 700 authors are now included on this
web site.
Poetry Society of America
A wealth of information for the poetry writer or reader. Information
on MFA programs, festivals, literary magazines, and the Poetry
Society's extensive award program.
poets.org
One of the most thorough poetry websites on the Internet compiled
by the Academy of American Poets.
University
of Michigan humanities Text Initiative - American Verse Project
This is an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior
to 1920.
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Romance
The Romance
Readers Connection
Book reviews and news, including mystery and inspirational titles.
The Romance Reader
Latest reviews and news of romance novels.
Shakespeare
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Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet including
a timeline, genealogy, biography quiz, festivals, movies, and
even references to Shakespeare in Star Trek.
Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
Full text editions of the Bard's plays and poetry. Search engine
allows ability to search the entire collection.
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Shakespeare
Bookshelf
Compiled by the Internet Public Library, this site offers electronic
editions of Shakespeare plays, biographical background, and various
links.
Shakespeare
Monologues
Electronic text versions of classical monologues with plays alphabetized
by comedy, history or tragedy.
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Sources for Out-of-Print & Rare Book Titles
Alibris - Books You Thought You'd
Never Find
Bibliofind More than
ten million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered
for sale by thousands of booksellers.
ElephantBooks.com Independent
online bookseller in out-of-print , rare, and used books.
Westerns
Official
Louis L'Amour Web Site
Western Writer's of America
Western Writers of America, Inc., was founded in 1953 to promote
the literature of the American West and bestow Spur Awards for
distinguished writing in the western field.
Writers' Tools
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Writing for the Web
For anyone thinking about publishing information online.
National Writers Union
Protecting freelancers' rights to be compensated by online publishers.
American Society of Journalists
and Authors
A clearinghouse of information on rights issues involving many
major magazines and newspapers.
The Write Market
Markets and publisher for writers.
The Romance Writers
of America
Offers organizational and benefits information for its members.
The Electronic Journalist
Offers media news, workshop and convention information, and a directory of journalism
contest winners.
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Writers Guild of America: Screenwriting
for Screenwriters
Union news and activities, much online content from its print
magazine.
The Playwriting
Seminars
Richly hyperlinked online course, providing a solid introduction
to the craft of playwriting.
Writers Write
Most useful for its three market guidelines lists (Paying Markets,
Nonpaying Fiction and Poetry, Nonpaying Nonfiction).
The Slot: A spot for copyeditors
A kind of Miss Manners of grammar and style, writing with wit
and passion.
Purdue OWL: Writing
Resources
Online Writing Labs is a collection of style guides covering
a broad range of writing, including fiction, poetry, multimedia,
business writing, and basic grammar.
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Storytelling
Miscellaneous Sites
Harvard
Classics On-line
"The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises
both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume
Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher,
religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century."
Project Gutenberg
The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and
other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority
of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote,
and search.
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