Student Links
Short Story Library - this is a large collection of some of the best short stories from many established authors including Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O Henry, Washington Irving, Anton Checkov, Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle and many others to read online or print for classroom study.
Works
of William Shakespeare - Welcome
to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare.
Charles Dickens Website - a large site devoted to Dickens' works including novels, characters, life and the times of Dickens. The site includes links to online versions of Dickens' works as well as other Dickens sites
Dickens' A Christmas Carol - the complete text of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with electronic annotations
Great Books Online - includes an alphabetical index to links which contain texts of the famous Great Books of the Western World online, along with biographical information and study guides.
Internet
Classics Archive - select from over 400 works of
classic literature by more that 50 Greco-Roman authors and a few
Chinese and Persion authors
Project Gutenburg - search by author or title through a large collection of more than 17,000 electronic texts of fine literature
Online Library of Literature - many classis works of literature including works that might be appropriate for those students with less developed reading skills or who want material to read to their children (Frank Baum, J M Barrie, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll).
Classic Authors.Net - another collection of classic works of literature in electronic fomat that includes both literary and philosophical works.
Bartleby Great Books
Online
- includes many works of fiction, nonfiction, verse and reference for
free download. Featured items include the popular collection know as
the
Harvard Classics, several encyclopedias, and
anthologies of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Internet Public Library - huge collection of resources available as links categorized by subject matter
Word IQ - the ebooks section of this site has a large number of electronic texts for online study or printing by students. Other sections of the site allow you to search for definitions, research materials and articles. Of particular use to students studying the online books is a feature that links each word of text to its definition just by clicking the word.
Movie Scripts and Screenplays - this site contains scripts of many popular movies. These may be used as content for reading lessons, read along with the movie to increase student's reading fluency or acted out as a speaking lesson.