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Book Awards
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For Mystery Readers
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l General
Literature
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Literary Criticism
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Minority Authors
l Online
Bookstores
Poetry
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Quotations
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Reader's Advisory
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Shakespeare
l Speeches
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Book
Award
Children's
Literature Awards:
A listing of children's book awards and past winners.
Nobel
Foundation:
See a list of all winners and their biographies.
Pulitzer
Prizes:
Features complete works from 1995 - 2006; an
interactive timeline listing names of all winners since 1917 and
history.
Book
Reviews & News
ACQWeb's
Directory of Book Reviews on the Web:
This user-friendly list of review sites is divided into
Popular Press, Scholarly and Interdisciplinary, Audio Visual,
Children/Young
Adults, History, and much more.
BookBrowse:
Read excerpts from
current bestsellers and many new fiction and non-fiction titles.
Includes plot summaries, reviews, and
author bios.
Booklist:
Digital
counterpart of American Library Association's Booklist.
With reviews of nearly 4,000 adult, children
and audio-
visual materials.
New
York Times Book Review:
An archive of 50,000+ reviews, news, bestseller
lists, and interviews back to 1980. Read full-text of first chapters
of
selected bestsellers available. Free registration is required.
Washington
Post.com: Book World:
Includes reviews, book news, a book club, a list of
upcoming releases and first chapter excerpts.
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For Mystery
Readers
Cluelass:
A good site for info about groups, news, events, and
more. Visit the Bloodstained Bookshelf for the latest mystery
releases.
The
Mystery Reader:
Get book reviews by subgenre, author interviews, news,
and more.
Stop,
You're Killing Me!:
"...hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological
lists of their books..." Begin by selecting your favorite
author/character
from the index. A great place to search for complete series titles.
For
Writers
Creative
Writing Prompts:
Got writers block? This site
offers over 300 prompts for your next story.
Xlibris:
"Where writers become authors." Get tips to publish
and market your work.
Poets
and Writers Online:
The Directory of
American Poets and Writers offers about 4,000 names and addresses of
writers. Learn about online conferences,
programs, and articles on writing/publishing.
Writers
Write: "A Write Resource":
For authors (and readers), browse market listings with
links to publishers and their writing guidelines. Explore
other writing-
related job links, industry news, reviews, and more.
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General Literature
American
Authors on the Web:
Comprehensive and up-to-date directory of American
authors arranged chronologically by author's dates.
Bartleby.com:
Search full-text
books, including Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
British
and Irish Authors:
Biographical and
critical info.
GradeSaver:
ClassicNotes:
Free literature summaries and analysis.
Great
Writers and Poets:
Links to pages about significant authors, with
brief biographical and bibliographical data plus short reviews of
works. Lists of
literary prizes are also available here.
Literary
Resources on the Net:
Websites focus on American and British literature,
arranged by historic period & broad subjects such as Theatre
& Drama,
Women's Literature, etc.
The
OnLine Books Page:
A large source for
links to electronic texts. Search 10,000+ texts online by author,
title, or subject.
Pegasos:
Literature Related Resources:
This site offers bios, print resource lists for further
reading, & selected lists of works on close to 1,000 authors.
PinkMonkey.com:
This is "Monkey
Notes" expanded. In addition to 100 Barron's Bookmarks and 200
Monkey Notes, read texts, textbooks,
practice exams, and more.
A
free site.
Project
Gutenberg:
Search electronic
texts of literature classics.
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Individual
Authors
Chaucer,
Geoffrey:
Find essays about
Chaucer and his works, plus links to 3 versions of the Canterbury
Tales.
Dickens,
Charles:
An exhaustive listing of sites.
Faulkner,
William:
This site, created by Ole Miss, explores Faulkner's
works, identifies characters, and provides helpful links.
Fitzgerald,
F. Scott:
The University of South Carolina's F. Scott
Fitzgerald Centenary Page.
Hardy,
Thomas:
A personal page with links pertinent to the work of
Hardy.
Hawthorne,
Nathaniel:
A profile includes biographical and critical essays,
links to Hawthorne's work, and a full text of "The Scarlet Letter."
Morrison,
Toni:
Links are maintained
by the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
Steinbeck,
John:
An extraordinary
site devoted to the works of Steinbeck. Extensive
resources are listed for research purposes.
Thoreau,
Henry David:
This site categorizes Thoreau's works, lists
significant quotations, provides literary criticism, and more.
Twain,
Mark:
Mark Twain in His
Times. Read dozens of texts and reviews. Learn how he created
his most popular works plus how they
were marketed and appreciated in his era.
Whitman,
Walt:
Get "digitized images of original documents,
transcriptions of those documents, and an elaborate body of
introductions,
commentaries, and other materials..."
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Literary
Criticism
Critical
Reading: A Guide:
Helps students to
think critically about literature. Includes analyses of
poetry, fiction, and how to write an analytical essay.
Internet
Public Library's Shakespeare Criticism:
IPL's links to general Shakespeare criticism.
Scroll down on your right for criticism on individual plays.
Online
Literary Criticism Collection:
American and British literature from pre-1500 to the
20th Century.
Online
Literary Criticism Guide:
A helpful guide to the previous website.
Shakespeare
Criticism:
Hundreds of
articles from scholarly journals. Click on "Individual articles" for
more.
For
more materials on this subject available through the Library,
visit
Starting Points - Literary Criticism.
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Minority
Authors
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century:
Provides "access to the thought, perspectives, and
creative abilities of black women as captured in books and
pamphlets published
prior to 1920."
A
Celebration of Women Writers:
Links to biographical and bibliographical info about women
writers. Includes complete published books.
Native
American Authors:
Find general info and bibliographies with links to
resources including interviews, online texts, and tribal websites.
Voices
from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color:
Focuses "on the lives and works of women writers of
color in North America." Read biographical and critical info,
browse
images and quotes.
Writing
Black:
Literature and
history written by and on African Americans.
Online
Bookstores
Abebooks:
Search for used or out of print, antiquarian books.
AddALL:
Compare prices from 40+ online bookstores.
Alibris:
4 million+ books, maps, autographs and ephemera for sale.
Amazon.com:
The largest online bookstore also has out-of-print
books, music CD's, sheet music and scores, computer games, DVD's, &
audio books.
Antiquarian
Bookseller's Booknet:
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America's site has
searchable access to 300+ members' catalogs; specializes in
rare and antiquarian books, maps, and prints.
Barnes
& Noble:
Search by author, title and keyword; browse subject areas and
categories.
Bibliofind:
Find,
evaluate, and price rare, out-of-print, and antiquarian materials.
Bookfinder:
Search
40+ million books for new, used, rare, and out of print titles.
Powell's:
1.5 million new/used books are on Powell's shelves
in Portland, Oregon. Updated daily.
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Poetry
Sites
The
Academy of American Poets:
This award-winning site contains essays on poetry, bios
of 200+ American poets, text of almost 600 poems, RealAudio of
80
poems read by the author, and more.
Electronic
Poetry Center:
A poetry information
center.
Poems
For Every Occasion:
A free collection of poems for numerous occasions and
subjects, including love, weddings, funerals, birthday, etc.
The
Poetry Archives:
A large collection
of "classical" poetry. Search by author, title, and first line
of poem.
Poetry
Foundation:
From the publisher of Poetry magazine,
this site provides the full text of
the magazine from 1998 on. Find info on poets and
poems by
title, author, first line, or occasion.
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Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations:
Find a quotation quick and easy, courtesy of
Bartleby. 11,000+ quotations. Quotations Page:
23,000+ quotations with more
added daily. Browse by subject or author.
Quoteland:
Quotations
are arranged by topics, including literary, humorous, special occasions, motivational, and more.
Reader's
Advisory
Based
on the Book:
1,150+ books, novels, short stories, and plays made
into motion pictures. The list covers movies released since 1980.
BookBrowse:
Offers
fiction lists, reviews, forthcoming titles, & author info. Explore
links to genre fiction sites, general fiction sites, listservs
&
more.
Book
Clubs Resource:
Your complete guide to creating and participating in
book clubs. Reading group guides offer tips and ideas. Participate
in
online book clubs!
Fantastic
Fiction:
Get bibliographies
for over 25,000 authors and information on 300,000+ books. out
the site, just click on a book to se its
Longitude
Books:
Click
on a map for essential reading for 100+ destinations.
Overbooked:
A web site for "ravenous readers" containing reading
lists, reviews, discussions, and more.
Soon's
Historical
Fiction.net:
Get
online bibliographies,
reading lists and more. Also includes a master list of historical
fiction writers.
WhichBook:
Find a book to suit your tastes. Adjust the
sliding scales to determine how happy/sad, funny/serious, optimistic/bleak,
short/long you would like your book to be.
The Winter Park Public Library offers
the
Novelist
readers' advisory database for patrons residing in Winter Park.
Get
read-alikes, reviews, genre lists, and much more.
Also,
check
out
WPPL's
Recommended Reading
lists!
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Shakespeare
Bradley's
Shakespearean Tragedy:
A.C. Bradley's classic study
with links and a citation guide.
The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
This site offers FAQs, discussion area, a glossary,
quotes, and links to each of the bard's plays.
Internet
Public Library's Shakespeare Criticism:
IPL's links to general Shakespeare criticism.
Scroll down on your right for criticism on individual plays.
Shakespeare
Oxford Society Home Page:
Did Shakespeare
really pen his own works? Many think it was Edward de Vere,
the 17th Earl of Oxford.
Shakespeare
Criticism:
Hundreds of
articles from scholarly journals. Click on "Individual articles"
for more.
Shakespeare
Online:
Essays, criticisms,
the plays, the poems, glossary, more.
Shakespeare
Resource Center:
Play synopses, Globe info, authorship, biography and
more. With a very helpful citation guide for each Web page.
For
more materials on this subject available through the Library,
visit
Starting Points - Book Reviews & Books.
Speeches
American
Rhetoric:
"Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text,
audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons,
legal
proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media
events..."
The Winter Park Public Library offers
the
Literature Resource Center
database for patrons residing in Winter Park.
Access biographies, critical essays and more.
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