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

For a poetic touch visit this site. BartlebyVerse contains a collection of American and English works from 1250-1920.

Mark Twain Online Texts http://www.bomis.com/rings/twainetexts

Mark Twain, straight and simple. A ring of Mark Twain electronic texts, this site gives you links to searchable books by the author, his life and times, other writings and even virtual postcards.

Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp

The aim here is to provide those interested with online editions of works by British women writers of the late nineteenth century. The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, poetry and verse drama. As for the names, you can find everyone from Lady Ardagh Susan Hamilton to Mona Caird and Caroline Norton.

Digitised Library of Southern Literature http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/southlit/southlit.html

Created as a showcase for the diversity of the Southern experience from its beginnings to 1920, this site gives you one hundred of its most important literary works online. The names include 19th century American Southern authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin and Ellen Glasgow.

American Literary Classics http://www.americanliterature.com

Vast, comprehensive and a great idea. This site is all and more. Log in for online texts of classic works of American literature, given in doses of one chapter a day. Updated daily, you can find a classic quote and vocabulary word of the day, as well as everything from 'Moby Dick' and 'Little Women' to 'Tom Sawyer' and 'The Wizard of Oz.'

A Celebration of Women Writers http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/celebration.html

Vast and extremely rewarding, here's where you can go for texts, recordings, bibliographies and links to information about women writers. The database is huge, to say the least, and encompasses women writers categorised by alphabetical order, periods of literature and even countries.

Anthology of Middle English Literature http://www.luminarium.org/medlit

Well-designed and useful for students and academicians alike, this site takes in Middle English literature from 1350 to 1485. It gives you nice introductions, online texts, essays and articles covering everything from Chaucer and Gawain to Langland, lyrics, plays, Malory and the Everyman series.

Austen E-texts http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/austen

Like Jane Austen? You'll love this site. Apart from a full-colour 'History of England' it gives you access to the author's complete juvenilia, poetry, illustrations of her books, criticism, biographies, and more. And yes, you can also buy the texts online.

Western European Literature http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

For those wondering what literature from Sweden, Germany and Holland is like, here's the place to find out. The site gives you links to online collections of literary texts in languages other than English, from Catalan and Danish literature to Galician, Greek, Italian, Norwegian and many more.

The Libyrinth http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth

Esoteric and wonderful, The Libyrinth devotes its net presence to twentieth century experimental authors who challenged boundaries in language and invention. It gives you texts, links and comprehensive resources on giants of modernism from James Joyce to Umberto Eco, Pynchon and Borges.

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html

The stark simplicity of this site is compensated for by its content. What it gives you is texts of poems and prose from authors of the Harlem Renaissance in America, including Gwendolyn B Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and James Weldon Johnson.

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