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Google Book Search...Finding books with Google Book Search is as easy as finding websites with Google Web Search; just enter the keyword or phrase you're looking for into the Google Book Search box. For example, when you search for "rock climbing" or for a phrase like "one small step for man," we'll find all the books whose contents match your search terms. Click on a book title and you'll see basic info about the book just like you'd see in a card catalog. You might also see a few snippets - sentences of your search term in context. If a publisher or author has given us permission, you'll see a full page and be able to browse within the book to see more pages. If the book is out of copyright, you'll see a full page and you can page forward or back to see the full book. Clicking on "Search within this book," allows you to perform more searches within the book you've selected. You can click on any of the "Buy this Book" links to go straight to an online bookstore where you can buy the book. In many cases, you can also click "Find this book in a library" to find a local library where you can borrow it.

100 Words - Contributing authors write poems, stories, diaries, fiction, and nonsense. All entries are 100 words in length.

Alternative Literature - Featuring Creative Writing, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Online Commentary, Speculative Fiction and Hypertext Fiction.

AudioBooksForFree - A collection of free children, fiction and non-fiction audiobooks

Audiobooks - Download 2 free audio books every day
Bibliography for Gay Teens - Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Roundtable of the American Library Association

Bibliomania - Thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays

Bookglutton is a new way to read online and it's free... You can either choose a book from our public domain collection, or choose a group that’s reading something you like. Then you just jump into the reader.
BOOKS ONLINE - FREE. BOOKS ONLINE. Search our 16,000+ Listings -- New Listings -- Authors -- Titles -- Subjects -- Serials. NEWS. ... Description: Over 10000 online books free to the public. Many War Between the States related titles included,...

Charles Dickens Page ...amazingly comprehensive site dedicates itself to helping readers understand and appreciate the writings of Charles Dickens. The site includes information on all of Dickens' novels and includes many of the original illustrations for the novels. Best is the wealth of biographical information about Dickens, including a map of the London he knew, a look at his visit to America, and even the BBC's animated "Life of Charles Dickens."
Circle of Stories - uses documentary film, photography, artwork and music to honor and explore Native American storytelling.
ClassicNotes.com - provides free literature summaries and analysis. All of the ClassicNotes have been written and compiled by our Harvard essayists. Find detailed summaries, character information, and literature references
ClassicReader.com - where you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 627 books and 905 short stories by 193 authors. New works are added to the collectio
Dracula’s Homepage - Bram Stoker, DRACULA and Vampires; Vlad the Impaler; Dracula Park; - TSD Colloquium in Romania; Journal of Dracula Studies; Dracula: Further Reading; The Dracula Archive; Portrait Gallery
ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater’s American Collection - This NCTE-sponsored companion site to Masterpiece Theater’s American Collection television series provides background information and teaching resources for high school literature teachers and students. James Agee, Langston Hughes, Henry Adams...

Free Classic AudioBooks - Free audio books in either mp3 format or m4b audio book format

Full Books is a simple alphabetical list of thousands of free online books. Everything from Sun Tzu and Abraham Lincoln to Chekhov and Huxley.

Google Book Search...Read the Classics Online
Hyperizons - Hypertext Fiction

KISS THE BOOK: Books Reviews for Schools

Librivox... provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer: Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Literary Podcasts...Here’s a rundown of many literary podcasts
Literary Resources on the Net - a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics
Literature & Life: The Givens Collection - Explore this unique collection of African-American literature and the people, ideas, and eras that the work represents. Read excerpts from writers from the days of slavery, the Black Renaissance and through to today. Also included are online study guides.

The Literature Network. ...offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. They currently have over 1200 full books and over 2000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotation database has over 8500 quotes.

Lit2Go ...great website allows you to download stories and poems from more than 100 authors onto your computer or MP3. There is also the capability to read along as you listen. The literature is grouped by title, author, reading level. Selections span a wide range of literature ranging from nursery rhymes to the philosophy of Aristotle.

Litsum is the internets largest collection of study guides, chapter summaries, analysis, discussion topics, quotes, styles, themes and character analysis.

LoudLit.org pairs together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player

manybooks.net ...With over 18,000 books available for free, a WAP-enabled mobile site, and suggestions on how to read and save ebooks on your iPhone, ManyBooks.net offers something for nearly everyone. The site features a minimalist interface and simple navigation, as well as user reviews and over a dozen file formats for download.

Novelguide.com is the premier free source for literary analysis on the web. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.

The Online Books Page - Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web
Online Stories, Open Directory Project - This category has online novels, short stories, folk tales, fairy tales, scary stories, and other fiction and non-fiction for children and teenagers.

OpenCulture:Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

Open Source Shakespeare ...Access the complete works of William Shakespeare - all his plays, sonnets and other poetry - with a lot of interesting tools to aid in serious studies of the Bard's works. Each of the works is completely searchable. In addition, the site offers a concordance which allows users to trace all uses Shakespeare made of any particular word. Users can also view sonnets individually, or choose any two to examine side by side.
Page by Page Books - classic books you can read now in our e-Library! Catch up on your reading list, expand your horizons, or just spend a relaxing evening by yourself. You can also view all the authors we have books by, or see this list arranged by book author.
Project Gutenberg - Official and Original Project Gutenberg Web Site and HomePage . What ... Description: Official site includes an index of texts available, newsletters, articles, and information
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers - books that teens, ages twelve to eighteen, will pick up on their own and read for pleasure. The list is geared to the teenager who, for whatever reason, does not like to read.

Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

NEW Shmoop, a great provider of online Literature and History study guides has just announced the addition of twenty more great study guides. The new study guides cover topics in US History and Literature. The additions to the literature section includes guides for works by Melville, Hemingway, Wilde, Salinger, Eliot, and Shakespeare. The new additions to the history section include study guides for the Gilded Age and the development of labor unions.

Simile of the Day Generator - This gizmo pairs one of 141 abstract nouns (fear, destiny, etc.) with one of 236 concrete nouns (a submarine, a tightrope, or a 1994 Ford Tempo—seriously) for some fun similes that will bring out your students’ creativity.
The City Stories Project - a network of city-based storytelling sites, tying real people in real cities all over the world together with a thread of personal stories.

TIME critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. A-Z list with original reviews.

Words Without Borders — The online magazine for international literature