The Cambridge History of English and American Literature -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. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.

Access The Great Books -The Great Books - A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature. Divided by time-from Hammurabi, Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Beowolf to Locke, Defoe, Swift, Franklin, and Kant to Marx, Eliot, Whitman, Ibsen, and Shaw, to Angelou, Bellow, Salinger, Rawls, and Dillard.

The Perseus Project -a classic collection focusing on the ancient Greek world- includes atlas, art, architecture, literature, text tools plus Greek and Latin online dictionary help and encyclopedia

Project Gutenberg -A compilation of whole books and pieces of literature in electronic form- includes classic, American, English, and world literature, reference materials and more. Titles include 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Black Beauty, Don Quixote, Dracula, The Raven, Red Badge of Courage, The Red Shoes, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Tarzan of the Apes, Tempest, Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Three Musketeers, Treasure Island,The Scarlet Letter, Silas Marner,House of the Seven Gables, Wuthering Heights. Authors include Jane Addams, Aesop, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Dante, Daniel Defoe, Dickens, Mansfield, Melville, Rynd, Wollstonecraft, Stowe, Swift and many others.

Bibliomania Classic Fiction -Texts for many major classics by Austen, Conrad, Twain, Dickens, Hardy, Defoe, Kipling, Joyce, Stevenson, Doyle, Bronte, Carroll, Tolstoy, Wilde and others.

MIT's Internet Classics Archive -441 works by classic writers like Aesop, Homer, Vergil, Plato, etc. (mainly Greek and Roman with a few others)- also includes commentaries from readers and web resources related to the literature.

The Literature Page -A new site devoted to making it easy to read classic literature online. We already have over 100 works online including Dickens, Austen, Melville, Tolstoy, the Brontes, Eliot, Emerson, Twain, Wilde, and many more.

Classics for Young People -Includes online texts of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, such as The Little Mermaid, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Jack London's Call of the Wild, Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Mr. Tod, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, HG Wells' War of the Worlds, and many more

Kill Devil Hill -Kill Devil Hill is the world's largest literary cafe. Come on by to discuss Shakespeare, Conrad, Austen, Hemingway, Salinger and many others.