Aesop's Fables [Wit has always an answer ready . . . and he had!]
Isaac Asimov [he peered into the future and founded the Foundation]
Jane Austen Information Page [her life and online copies of her works; outstanding!!]
Francis Bacon [he certainly wrote The New Atlantis, but Shakespeare's works, too?]
JM Barrie [famed son of Kirriemuir, Scotland who made our imaginations fly beside Peter Pan]
L. Frank Baum [genius who escorted us to an audience with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]
Mrs Beeton [Victorian doyenne whose Book of Household Management is still in print]
Mary Elizabeth Braddon [prolific Victorian novelist; Three Times Dead was her first book]
Brontė Sisters [meet them on this lovely site; then move on to their glorious words]
Lewis Carroll [wonderful page! links to everything, including Tenniel's famed illustrations]
GK Chesterton [ever wonder if he really was that intrepid sleuth, Father Brown? :-) ]
Agatha Christie [undisputed Queen of Mystery, she introduced Hercule Poirot at Styles]
Wilkie Collins [Victorian "sensation" writer whose novels presage the mystery genre]
James Fenimore Cooper [author of Last of the Mohicans; roundly criticized by Mark Twain!]
Roald Dahl [a WWII Gremlin undercover agent, he became a master of children's stories]
Charles Dickens [yes, A Christmas Carol and his other works are online!]
Emily Dickinson [you-will-revel in her poetry]
Arthur Conan Doyle [most famous, of course, as the father of Sherlock Holmes]
Daphne du Maurier [she celebrated Cornwall in Rebecca and actually stayed in Jamaica Inn!]
William Faulkner [self-styled "failed poet" who earned the Nobel as a novelist!]
Robert Frost [laureate who pondered a Road Not Taken, but knew about Asking for Roses]
Oliver Goldsmith [18th Cent. Irish creator of She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield, etc.]
Thomas Hardy [man of Dorset, whose many works include The Mayor of Casterbridge]
Nathaniel Hawthorne [categorized for the over 13 set, his Scarlet Letter is an American classic]
James Herriot [who so loved All Creatures and the Yorkshire Dales]
Gerard Manley Hopkins [one of Victorian England's more interesting poets]
Washington Irving [no Rip Van Winkle, he told us The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]
John Keats [major star of literature's Romantic movement]
CS Lewis [inspired seeker who discovered Narnia]
Sinclair Lewis [first American Nobel laureate author, he glorified Main Street; a few of his other works also online]
Jack London [UC-Berkeley's multimedia salute to a local Favorite Son]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [did you know he was native of Portland, Maine?]
Don Marquis [who? why, the creator of the wonderful Archy & Mehitabel! :-) ]
Herman Melville [definitive, stellar compendium of his life and works]
Edna St. Vincent Millay [works of a great writer who called an island off Camden, Maine home]
A.A. Milne [hunny of a writer who gave us Pooh, Tigger and all in Hundred-Acre-Wood]
Lucy Maude Montgomery [she and Anne of Green Gables enchanted Prince Edward Island]
Thomas More [he envisioned Utopia...but gave his life for conscience]
John Mortimer [barrister and author who gave the world the irrepressible Rumpole]
Edgar Allen Poe [a brilliant and tragic man, he crafted tales to chill the spine]
Beatrix Potter [writer/artist who gifted us with Peter Rabbit]
Will Rogers Site [sumptuous tribute to a beloved wit who never met a man he didn't like]
Walter Scott [prolific author-Knight whose pen wrought Ivanhoe; passing fair poet, too!]
William Shakespeare, The Complete Works [the ultimate Shakespeare source!]
Mary Shelley [wrote Frankenstein and The Last Man ; her #1 man was poet Percy Bysshe Shelley]
Edmund Spenser [proflic 16th Century poet, probably best known for The Faerie Queen]
Robert Louis Stevenson [Edinburgh's son, he Kidnapped us to Treasure Island and beyond]
Bram Stoker [a first edition of his horror classic Dracula is at the Dublin Writers Museum]
Rex Stout [prolific mystery writer, creator of the egocentric genius and gourmand, Nero Wolfe]
Harriet Beecher-Stowe [wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brunswick, Me; hubby was Bowdoin staffer]
Jonathan Swift [author of, among a few other things, Gulliver's Travels]
Alfred Lord Tennyson [his Idylls of the King and Crossing the Bar were our schoolmates]
Henry David Thoreau [immortalizer of Walden Pond; champion of Civil Disobedience]
James Thurber [brilliantly erudite satirist/commentator/cartoonist; his home is now a museum]
JRR Tolkien [weaver of wonders; including The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings]
Mark Twain [makes you just want to curl-up with a good PC!]
Jules Verne [who took us Around the World, to the Moon, and Under the Sea]
H.G. Wells [brilliant conjuror of the Time Machine, he chronicled the War of the Worlds]
Edith Wharton [among her voluminous works is the revered Ethan Frome]
Walt Whitman's Poetry [and pictures and biography and home and...]
Kate Douglas Wiggin [Hollis, Maine resident who created Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]
W B Yeats [great site from his Co Sligo home; also check-out the Bartleby collection]
Some Excellent Collections (kids should be guided) (to Top of Page)
19th Cent British & Irish Authors [super site; disappeared for a bit, now resurfaced!]
Bibliomania [hundreds of searchable full text works]
Cambridge History of English and American Literature [a most important research work]
Links to Places Literary [magnificent; don't miss this one! by the Univ of Dundee's English Dept]
Literary Resources on the Net [fine collection, from the classical to the contemporary]
Reading the Web [great collection of Lit Links!]
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