Literature on the Web  

A Comprehensive Guide
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Ancient ballads

Ancient ballads, songs and poems of the English peasantry.
Project Gutenberg
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The Bodleian Library Ballad Collection
View facsimiles of printed ballads.
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Ancient ballads, songs and poems of the English peasantry.
Project Gutenberg
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Wikipedia entry on the ballad form.

Ancient literature
See also: Classical Literature
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Alexandria on the Web. The Library of Alexandria
A meeting place of philosophy, cosmology, religion and myth. The Alexandria Journal
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Antique Book Resources Online
From Antiqu.
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Aphorisms
Aphorisms Galore:
aphorisms, quotes and sayings of famous people. Categorized under subject and author.
Articles
Articles from Google Scholar
Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Artists' Books
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Assonance in poetry
Assonance
A definition.
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Assonance
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Awards . Literary awards
The Academy of American Poets
Awards, prizes and grants for poetry.
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Awards. Literature awards:
a web directory from Literature Awards.com.
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Booker Prize for Fiction (The Man Booker Prize)
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Booktrust, UK
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Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
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Granta best British young novelists.
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Guardian First Book Award
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Independent Publisher Awards
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The Kiriyama Prize -
established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
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Literature Awards,
a web directory covering all genres from children's to non-fiction.
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Impac Dublin Literary Award
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National Book Critics Circle Awards
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Nobel Prize for Literature
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Poetry Awards
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Prix Goncourt (French prose)
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Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
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T S Eliot Prize for Poetry
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Ballads
The Bodleian Library Ballad Collection:
view facsimiles of printed ballads..
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Ancient ballads, songs and poems of the English peasantry.
Project Gutenberg
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Wikipedia entry on the ballad form.
Bible resources, Bibles online
See also: Religious Literature
Apocrypha
A page dedicated to the scholarly investigation of Christian Apocrypha in association with the Christian. Apocrypha Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
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The Bible on the Web
King James,  Revised Standard, Darby. Searchable by word, verse, chapter.
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Directory of online Bibles, in several modern and ancient languages.
From Virtual Christianity.
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Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg Digital, The Göttenberg/Gutenberg Bible, Germany.
View by chapter and page. All 1282 pages of both volumes. Johann Gutenberg:  His Life.
Biographies   See also: Authors Index
Biographies of classic fiction writers.
Bluepete.com
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Litweb,
where you can find over 500 author biographies of some of the most important writers in history. You can also view selected bibliographies, and the winners, past and present, of the top literary prizes since they began.
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Biographies.
More than 328 author biographies and bibliographies. Biblio.com
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Blogs.  Literary Blogs
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Book fairs
Book fairs,
an international web directory from The Library of Congress, US.
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Book Expo America, Los Angeles.
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Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany.
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Leipzig Book Fair
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London Book Fair
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Salon du Livre, Paris.
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Turin International Book Fair, Italy.
Fiera Internazionale del Libro
Books on Demand (BOD)  See also: Publishers
iuniverse
Internet, BOD publishers.
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XLibris
Book-on-demand publishers (BOD)
Book arts   See also: Artists' Books
Typography on the web
Typefaces, history of typography, typesetting.
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Censorship

Censorship. Project Censored
Media censorship stories, censorship accounts.
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Censorship. Banned book and censorship resources.
Media issues, art, literature, humanities, libraries, censorship associations.
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Free Speech
A page of useful links to free speech organizations and web pages.
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Wikipedia entry on censorship.

Children's literature 
See also: Children's Literature
Children's Cyber Library
Fairrosa Library of Children's Literature.
Classical, Ancient Literature
Classical Literature. Etexts archives
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Concordance of Great Books
Search for words and phrases as they are found in classic literature, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
Competitions
Awards
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Competitions.
Literary competitions, a directory from The Open Directory Project.
Contemporary English / American literature
See also: American Literature   English Literature
Contemporary Literature E-texts. Digital Variants Project
From the Italian Department, Edinburgh University.
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Richmond Review. What's New
Contemporary writing on the net
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Contemporary English and American Literature
Extensive link directory from  The Voice of the Shuttle.
Country: literature categorized under Country
Country, period, author, language directory.
Courtly love
Courtly Love
The Code of Chivalry and Courtly Love Rules of Courtly Love.
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Courtly love and Machaut.
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Background to Romance.
Courtly love in Medieval literature.
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Wikipedia entry on courtly love.
Creative writing schools
Creative writing web links.
The British Council
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Training and Workshops
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FAQs, help and and tutorials.
Open Directory Project
Crime fiction, detective fiction. mystery fiction
See: Crime Fiction
Agatha Christie
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British Crime Fiction
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Chandler, Raymond. Raymond Chandler website.
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Chase, James Hadley. James Hadley Chase
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Classic Crime Fiction,
a resource for collectors & readers alike.
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Wikipedia entry on crime fiction.
Criticism, literary critics, literary theory
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Culture Vulture
Choices for the cognoscenti. Art & architecture, dance, destinations, film, television, theater, archives. Up-to-date reviews and overviews of the latest books, music and film and theater performances.

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