Advanced Placement Literature

General Sources
Voice of the Shuttle
Project Bartleby
Bibliomania
The Libyrinth
Luminarium
Myths and Legends
The Perseus Project
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Literary Resources -- Classical and Biblical
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Classic Books Online
EServer Drama Collection
An Introduction to Shakespeare's Life and Times
The Shakespeare Review Foto Gallery

Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man: etext at Project Gutenberg
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Bernard Shaw: A Brief Biography
George Bernard Shaw at Wikipedia
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925
Arms and the Man: A charming comedy about the horrors of love and war

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner on the Web: As I Lay Dying
Brief annotation at NYU Med School Site
Reading Group Guide
"Interiority and Depth of Field in As I Lay Dying" by Michael Zeitlin
Book-a-Minute Classics ultra-condensed version (humor)

Beloved
Toni Morrison at Luminarium
Beloved at Luminarium
Beloved Resources at Homework-Online
Morrison's Nobel Lecture

The Cherry Orchard
The Text: Translated 1916 by Julius West
The Cherry Orchard and the Rise of Bolshevism by Michael R. Allen
Stanislavsky braves The Cherry Orchard: 1904
Anton Chekhov: Biography and Links
Anton Chekhov: Miscellany
Chekhov: Brief Biography
201 Stories by Chekhov

The Crying of Lot 49
Lot 49 resources at The Modern Word
San Narciso Community College
Wikipedia entry on The Crying of Lot 49
Reading Group Guide
Thurn und Taxis
Remedios Varo Images
One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Novels (Be sure to read their "snotty" original 1966 review)
The New York Times review: May 1, 1966

The Death of a Salesman
A concordance for the play
The play's 50th anniversary: a Miller interview at PBS
Study Questions at Creighton U.
Reviews of filmed versions via MRQE
An online quiz

A Doll House
Text: translation and introduction by William Archer
ISU Play Concordances:A Doll House (Meyer trans.)
Emma Goldman on A Doll House
On Ibsen's A Doll's House: a lecture by Ian Johnston
Study Guide on Ibsen's A Doll's House

Endgame / Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett: Apmonia (at The Modern Word)
Samuel Beckett at Wikipedia
The Samuel Beckett Endpage
The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Page
Samuel Beckett
Bohemian Ink: Samuel Beckett
Existentialism and Samuel Beckett
Endgame (complete text)
Beckett and Brecht: Keeping the Endgame at a Distance by Jodi Hatzenbeller
Endgame: A Study Guide
Beckett's Godot: "A bundle of broken mirrors" by Robert D. Lane
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Ropes, Belts, and Cords in Waiting for Godot by R. C. Schonfeld
Theater of the Absurd: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
From Beckett to Stoppard: Existentialism, Death, and Absurdity

Genesis / Exodus
Bible: Revised Standard Version

Greek Drama
Aeschylus at The Perseus Project
Sophocles at The Perseus Project
Glossary of Terms Associated with the Greek Stage
drama, Western (Columbia Encyclopedia)
Oedipus: the Theban story and its interpretation
An Overview of Greek Drama
Study Guide for Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Grendel
The Grendel Index and Resources

Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels Home Page
Theorizing Satire: A Bibliography
Restoration & 18th Century Resources (VoS)
Eighteenth-Century Resources
English Culture, 1660-1830
Eighteenth-Century Studies at E-Server

Heartbreak House
Text of the play at Project Gutenberg
A brief review of the play
Another brief review of the play
Scenic Design for Heartbreak House
Dramaturgical Materials
Hesione at Wikipedia
Ariadne at Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
George Bernard Shaw at Wikipedia
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925

Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Other Conrad texts at Bibliomania
The Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
The Joseph Conrad Foundation
Conrad Page at an Apocalypse Now site
Conrad Links
Mr. Kurtz's Home Page

The Iceman Cometh
eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
The Iceman Cometh at eOneill.com
An essay by Bill Johnson on the play's construction
Brief comments from a medical perspective
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936
The Eugene O'Neill Collection at Bartleby
American Masters (PBS): Eugene O'Neill

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller...
A brief introduction
David Mitchell reconsiders the novel (Guardian Unlimited)
If on a winter's night a traveller: written by aliens, read by fictional constructs
Italo Calvino (Dr. Frank Pajares)
Italo Calvino at Wikipedia
Audio Special (NY Times): Celebrating Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino (Dr. Frank Pajares)
Outside the Town of Malbork
Review of Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"
Italo Calvino at Wikipedia
Hotel Tressants in Menorca
Audio Special (NY Times): Celebrating Italo Calvino

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Resources on Ellison's Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Literary Allusions in Invisible Man
Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
Invisible Man at West Springfield High School. VA
Class Web Pages on Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Chapter 22 of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Storybook Version
The Rhetoric of Anticommunism in Invisible Man: An Essay
Irving Howe's review of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, May 10, 1952
The Aesthetics of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: An Essay by J. M. Martinez
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Student Essay by Steven Gomez
Teacher's Guide to Ellison's Invisible Man: from Random House
African American Studies Resources

Jacob's Room
A complete e-text of Jacob's Room
Another e-text
The International Virginia Woolf Society
Talking to Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf at Bartleby.com
Virgina Woolf links
Woolf's Psychiatric History
Virginia Woolf Photos
Virginia Woolf: Bookbinder

King Lear
Text of the play at EServer
The Complete Text of Shakespeare's King Lear with Quarto and Folio Variations, Annotations, and Commentary by Dr. Larry A. Brown
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare: King Lear
"Enjoying King Lear" by Ed Friedlander, M.D.
King Lear Paintings

Madame Bovary
A British Translation
Bovary and Flaubert Resources
Madame Bovary at Springfield Southeast High School
Erica Jong on Madame Bovary
Course Notes for French Culture and Society since 1789
The Director's Eye: Madame Bovary on Film

The Odyssey
Odyssey: Study Guides and Background Information
The Odyssey - Butler translation
The Odyssey: An Introduction
Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey
Mythology in Western Art

Othello
The text online
Othello at Wikipedia
Othello On-Line
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare: Othello

A Place on Earth
Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky
A Few
Images from Kentucky Farms

She Stoops to Conquer
The Harvard Classics text of the play
Project Gutenberg texts of the play
A Comparison between Laughing Comedy and Sentimental Comedy (by Goldsmith)

The Tempest
The Tempest: an e-text
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare: The Tempest
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The Complete Shakespeare
The Chronicles of the New World, Shakespeare's The Tempest by Norine Polio
Sound in William Shakespeare's The Tempest by Skylar Hamilton Burris

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Project Gutenburg text of the novel
A Concordance to Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Human morality and the laws of Nature by Ian Mackean
Some sites associated with Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Maps of Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Things Fall Apart
Nigeria Information at the Postcolonial Web
Chinua Achebe at the Postcolonial Web
Student Site on TFA
Igbo People
The Igbo People - Origins and History

The Things They Carried
Some Other World: An Index to The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien, Novelist
"Writing Vietnam": Tim O'Brien Lecture
The Things They Carried: Google Search

Twelfth Night
Online text of Twelfth Night
Allowed Fools: Notes Towards An Elizabethan Twelfth Night
"An Improbable Fiction": Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in Sources and Performance
Twelfth Night Revision
Twelfth Night or What You Will Study Guide
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Study Questions
The Dark Pleasures of Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Waiting for Godot / Endgame
Samuel Beckett: Apmonia (at The Modern Word)
Samuel Beckett at Wikipedia
The Samuel Beckett Endpage
The Samuel Beckett On-Line Resources and Links Page
Samuel Beckett
Bohemian Ink: Samuel Beckett
Existentialism and Samuel Beckett
Endgame (complete text)
Beckett and Brecht: Keeping the Endgame at a Distance by Jodi Hatzenbeller
Endgame: A Study Guide
Beckett's Godot: "A bundle of broken mirrors" by Robert D. Lane
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Ropes, Belts, and Cords in Waiting for Godot by R. C. Schonfeld
Theater of the Absurd: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
From Beckett to Stoppard: Existentialism, Death, and Absurdity

Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Walden: Or, Life In The Woods: a searchable e-text
A Concordance to Walden
Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau
The Thoreau Reader
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: A Manuscript Project
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Way to Rainy Mountain
Momaday for Teachers
Spoken word is powerful: A Report on Momaday Appearance 1995
Momaday at Modern American Poetry
Native American Authors

Wise Blood
Wise Blood at Wikipedia
Wise Blood at the New Georgia Encyclopedia
The Comforts of Home: a site dedicated to Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor at the New Georgia Encyclopedia
Flannery O'Connor at Wikipedia
Flannery O'Connor at Books and Writers

Wuthering Heights
Text
Another Text
A Searchable Text
A Concordance to Wuthering Heights
"The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights" by Joyce Carol Oates
An Essay by Tim Dirks on the 1939 Film

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