Death
of a Salesman (Arthur Miller) (http://www.deathofasalesman.com)
What
the Thunder Said (Eliot) (http://www.camdenfamily.com/thunder)
Favorite
Poem Project (http://www.favoritepoem.org)
History
of the Mystery (http://www.mysterynet.com/history)
Indigenous
Peoples' Literature (http://www.whitestareagle.com/natlit/natlit.htm)
- Poems, stories, and music from various groups of native peoples
from the Americas,Africa, Asia, and Australia. Great stuff on
Native American chiefs and leaders.
Electronic
Text Center (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html)
- Nearly
45,000 online and offline humanities texts, over 50,000 realted
images, and literature from 12 languages.
The
English Server (http://www.eserver.org)
- Online literature provided by the English Department
at Carnegie Mellon University. Also allows accesoudio and video
recordings of reviews.
Children's
Haiku Garden (http://www.tecnet.or.jp/~haiku/)
- This garden is for the haiku verses with illustrations
from Japanese children and other children from the USA or other
countries.
Classical
literature (http://classics.mit.edu/)
by 59 different authors; Aeschines to Xenophon.
The
Electronic Text Center (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html)
-The Modern English Collection contains fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations
from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's
last name or by category of interest.
Online
Children's Stories (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html)
- There are a lot of stories available on the Internet
to read or download. Some of them are from well-known books,
others can be found only online.
Stories
for Children
The
Children's Literature Web Guide (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown)
Aesop's
Fables (http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/)
- with morals listed. This site has hundreds of fables
and fairy tales.
The
Birdhouse (http://www.tellmeastory.com/birdhouse/)
- A story of a bird-loving girl and a hard to please
red bird.
Little
Snake (http://www.tellmeastory.com/littlesnake/snake.cfm)
- The story of a snake who tries to make friends. The
story is accompanied by a 1 megabyte sound file so your computer
can read the story to your children.
Online
Children's Stories (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html)
- There are a lot of stories available on the Internet
to read or download. Some of them are from well-known books,
others can be found only online.
Stories
to Grow By from Whootie Owl (http://www.storiestogrowby.com/)
- You can search for stories by type, the values taught,
or the place of origin. This is a large stockpile of stories
and the stories are age ranked.
The
Symphony of Friendship (http://www.mandala.co.jp/B9/P00E.html)
- A story about the start of the Japanese custom of playing
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Christmas.
Will
Ate My Library Book (http://www.tellmeastory.com/will/will.cfm)
- The story of a little brother who will eat Anything!
The story is accompanied by a 1 megabyte sound file so your
computer can read the story to your children.
You
Make the Story (Plaid-Libs) (http://www.billsgames.com/plaidlibs/)
- children supply adjectives, adverbs, verbs, nouns and
pronouns (singular and plural) and then a silly story is generated
from the words they supplied.
Tales
by Beatrix Potter
The
Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids/beatrix/jf0.htm)
The
Tale of Peter Rabbit (http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids/beatrix/p1.htm)
The
Tale of Two Bad Mice
(http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids/beatrix/bm0.htm)
