Libraries, Books, and Literature on the World Wide Web 

Chapter Five provides an introduction to libraries, literature and electronic texts available on the World Wide Web.

Exploring Library resources on the Web

For general information and links to libraries visit:

St. Joseph County Public Library http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/homepage/PublicLibraries/PubLibSrvsGpherWWW.html#wwwsrv

Library Catalogs with Web Interfaces (No longer available) http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff.morgan/alcuin/wwwedcatalogs.html

Library Resources                                          http://info.cern.ch.:8002/sites2

Library WWW Servers                                       http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb/

American Library Association                                                   http://www.ala.org

Library web sites are among the most common sites found the World Wide Web. Among some of the most interesting and useful sites are:

Berkeley Public Library                                          http://library.ci.berkeley.ca.us/

The University of California                                          http://www.lib.berkeley.edu

Orion System at UCLA                                                   http://www.library.ucla.edu

Navy Department Library                                 http://tlc.library.net/ndl/services.htm

The Library Corporation            http://sunsite.nus.sg/bibdb/pub/libcorp/pubinfo.html

Law Library of St. Louis
http://tlc.library.net/lla

Library of Congress Site                                                           http://www.loc.gov

New York Public Library Home Page                                     http://www.nypl.org/

Portico—The British Library                                                     http://portico.bl.uk/

University of Virginia Library                                         http://www.lib.virginia.edu/

University of Waterloo Electronic Library http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~credmond/univ.html

College and University               http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

University of California Santa Cruz Campus http://www.ucsc.edu/library/index.html

United Kingdom Public Libraries on the Web http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html

St. Joseph County Public Library http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/homepage/PublicLibraries/PubLibSrvsGpherWWW.html#wwwsrv

Literature

American Authors on the Web http://ernie.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

English Literature—Seventeenth Century http://www.as.wvu.edu/engl01/www/clc/sevenlit.html

The English Server                                       http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/

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

LitWeb (No longer available)                                         http://www.vmedia.com/shannon/litweb.html

Nineteenth Century Literature (No longer available)      http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu/journals/ncl/

Poems, Poetry, Poets                                          http://www.execpc.com/~jon

WebLit                                                http://www.rust.net/~rothfder/weblit.html

Electronic texts can be found at many World Wide Web sites. Probably the best source for electronic books is Project Gutenberg. The project currently has several hundred books available online in fully searchable format. You can find it on the World Wide Web at:

Project Gutenberg                                                   http://www.gutenberg.net/

In order to search for electronic book resources online see:

Alex—A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet (No longer available) http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alex-index.html

Books Online—Authors                          http://www.cs.cmu.edu/bookauthors.html

Books Online—Titles                             http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booktitles.html

Classics at the Online Literature Library          http://www.literature.org/works

The Internet Book Information Center (No longer available) http://sunsiste.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html

The Internet Classics Archive          http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/index.html

The On-Line Books Page                    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html

Bartleby Library                                   http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html

The On-Line Medieval and Classical Library http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL

Stanford University Digital Libraries Project http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/

Resources on almost every specialized genre of literature can be found on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Poetry web sites, for example, can be found at:

British Poetry 1780–1910: A Hypertext Archive http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html

Electronic Poetry Center Home Page                  http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

Lost Poets of the Great War http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/index.html

Science fiction web sites include:

Linkhopping Science Fiction and Fantasy http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf_main.html

MIT Science Fiction Society Homepage http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/mitsfs/homepage.html

Sources on critical theory and literature include:

Bakhtin Centre        http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academica/a-c/bakh/bakhtin.html

Critical Theory Archives Gopher://listserv.cwis.uci.edu:7002/11/archives/critical-theory

Literary and Critical Theory http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/SSPCluster/literature.html

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

Boston Book Review                     http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/bbr-home.html

Web resources on women writers include:

Brown Women Writers Project http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwp/wwp_home.html

A Celebration of Women Writers http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/writers.html

Guide to Women's Literature       http://www.facl.mcgill/ca/guides/women.html

Feminism and Women's Studies (Carnegie-Mellon English Server) http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/Feminism.html

Censorship issues and banned texts can be found at:

Banned Books On-Line http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/spok/banned-books.html

A good place to browse for interesting book titles is:

Book Browser                                         http://www.browsebooks.com/index.html

Sources for books and bibliographies can be found at:

Amazon Books                                                         http://www.amazon.com/

Blackwell's Bookshops                         http://www.blackwell.co.uk/bookshops/catalogues.html

City Lights Publishers and Booksellers                   http://www.citylights.com/

Book Wire Index—Book Awards http://www.bookwire.com/index/book-awards.html

Many major literary figures have web sites devoted specifically to them. These include:

Maya Angelou                                    http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Maya/maya5.html

Isaac Asimov                        http://www.non.com/books/Asimov_Isaac_cc.html

Margaret Atwood                                        http://alvin.lbl.gov/bios/Atwood.html

Jane Austen                                      http://www.concordance.com/austen.htm

Aphra Behn                  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_nestvold/

Robert Benchley                          http://www.levity.com/corduroy/benchley.htm

Andre Breton                                           http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/abreton.htm

William S. Burroughs                             http://www.inch.com/~ari/words1.html

Truman Capote                               http://www.levity.com/corduroy/capote.htm

Raymond Carver                                                     http://world.std.com/~ptc/

Willa Cather Page                                        http://lonestar.texas.net/~kwells/cather1.htm

Raymond Chandler                      http://www.levity.com/corduroy/chandler.htm

Geoffrey Chaucer                             http://www.vmi.edu/~english/chaucer.html

Noam Chomsky
http://talene.home.texas.net/chomsky.htm

Agatha Christie                     http://www.angelfire.com/fl/christianx/page14.html

Arthur C. Clarke                                     http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/

S. T. Coleridge Home Page http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/stc/Coleridge/stc.html

Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page http://www.ozemail.com.au/~drgrigg/wilkie.html

Stephen Crane          http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Crane/crane.html

e. e. cummings
http://www.catalog.com/mrm/poems/poems.html

Daniel Defoe                                               http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm

Don DeLillo                                 http://haas.berkeley.edu/~gardner/delillo.html

Charles Dickens                                  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

Emily Dickinson                      http://www.planet.net/pkrisxle/emily/dickinson.html

E. L. Doctorow (No longer available)                                 http://www.msu.edu/lecture/doctorow.html

Fyodor Dostoevsky                          http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~jenno/dostoevsky.html

Rita Dove                               http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/fourmill/dove.html

Umberto Eco                                           http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/eco/

T. S. Eliot                                       http://www.deathclock.com/thunder/index.html

Ralph Emerson                                   http://miso.wwa.com/~jej/1emerson.html

William Faulkner http://cypress.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

F. Scott Fitzgerald                               http://access.mpr.org/features/9609_fitzgerald/

Robert Frost                        http://www.pro-net.co.uk/home/catalyst/RF/rfcover.html

Carlos Fuentes                                   http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/fuenbio.html

Andre Gide (No longer available)                                                 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/agide.htm

Allen Ginsberg          http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/AllenGinsberg.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne Page     http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.html

Robert Heinlein                                 http://www.jonsullivan.com/misc/heinlien.html

Joseph Heller (No longer available)                http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/authors/heller.html

Ernest Hemingway                http://www.ee.mcgill.ca/~nverever/hem/cover.html

Hermann Hesse                 http://home.tampabay.rr.com/bluemax/hermann.htm

Langston Hughes                                   http://ucl.broward.cc.fl.us/writers/hughes.htm

Aldous Huxley                 http://www.primenet.com/~matthew/huxley/index.html

Eugene Ionesco         http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/absurd/fiction.sht#ionesco

James Joyce                                                     http://www.2street.com/joyce/

Franz Kafka                                http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/absurd/fiction.sht#kafka

William Kennedy                              http://www.msu.edu/lecture/kennedy.html

Milan Kundera http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/kundera/kundera.html

Doris Lessing
http://tile.net/lessing/index.html

Primo Levi Page                                                http://inch.com/~ari/levi1.html

C. S. Lewis
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/

Wyndham Lewis
http://tori.ic.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/pub/lewis/lewis.htm

The Jack London Collection                       http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London

Normal Mailer                                          http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm

Gabriel  Garcia Marquez                       http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/gabo/

Terry McMillan                                  http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html

The Life and Works of Herman Melville                       http://www.melville.org

Arthur Miller                                          http://www.hollywood.com/movietalk/celebrities/amiller/html/sound.html

John Milton                                     http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html

Toni Morrison                                         http://www.viconet.com/~ejb/intro.htm

Haruki Murakami                          http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/int/1997/12/cov_si_16int.html

Vladimir Nabokov      http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/authors/nabokov.html

Pablo Neruda                                      http://pages.nyu.edu/~pdn200/neruda.html

Joyce Carol Oates                                http://storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/jco.html

Dorothy Parker                     http://www.users.interport.net/~lynda/dorothy.html

Walker Percy
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wpercy/

Thomas Pynchon                             http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/pynchon/

About Ayn Rand                                     http://www.epistemelinks.com/Pers/RandPers.htm

Alain Robbe-Grillet                                     http://www.halfaya.org/robbegrillet/

Philip Roth                                      http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~royald/roth.htm

Salman Rushdie                           http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/post/rushdie/rushdieov.html

and

http://www.crl.com/~subir/rushdie.html#info

Antoine de Saint-Exupery                           http://www.westegg.com/exupery/

J. D. Salinger                           http://educeth.ethz.ch/english/readinglist/salinger,j.d.html

Anne Sexton                                          http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/asextfst.htm

Shakespeare Web                                              http://www.shakespeare.com

William Shakespeare                                         http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/

The Works of the Bard (No longer available)           http://www.cs.ushd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw                  http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1925a.html

Terry Southern         http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/TerrySouthern.html

Edmund Spenser                                       http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/

John Steinbeck                      http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html

Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/EDC/edinburghers/robert-louis-stevenson.html

Mark Twain Resources on the Web http://web.syr.edu/~fjzwick/twainwww.html

The Tennyson Page              http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

J. R. R. Tolkien (No longer available)          http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html

John Kennedy Toole       http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/authors/toole.htm

Mark Twain                                     http://web.syr.edu/~fjzwick/twainwww.html

Kurt Vonnegut                              http://www.levity.com/corduroy/vonnegut.htm

Derek Walcott                                     http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/1992a.html

Evelyn Waugh                                 http://www.empirenet.com/~jahvah/waugh/

Walt Whitman                                   http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/wwhitfst.htm

Walt Whitman Collection                                      http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wwhome.html

Oscar Wilde                                            http://www.anomtec.com/oscarwilde/                                                   

Thomas Wolfe                                 http://coast.lib.uncwil.edu/wolfe/wolfe.html

Virginia Woolf                                        http://www.aianet.or.jp/~orlando/VWW/