Jack London: "To Build a Fire"

Tim O'Brien: "The Things They Carried"

Alex Macleod: "Sonny's Blues"

Essays:

Judith Ortiz Cofer: "The Myth of the Latin Woman: Just Met a Girl Named Maria" 

Al Smith: "Thanksgiving"

Carolyn Hwang: "The Good Daughter" 

The Shakespeare Homepage
The collected works available on-line.

Czeslaw Milosz

An excellent site devoted to Milosz's poetry. Text and sound files are available.

Edgar Allan Poe
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, and a wealth of information about one of the most widely read, and misunderstood, American authors.

Mark Twain
The author who single-handedly put American literature on the map leaps into the 21st century.

Roald Dahl
A site in honor of the author of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and other works for children — of all ages.

Charles Dickens
The University of Southern California's Dickens Project. Complete with an archive of electronic texts for downloading.

Walt Whitman

The entire text, with indexes, of Leaves of Grass.

British Authors
A good collection of Web Links to various British authors.

American Literature
Rich collection of e-text and news about American literature(s) presented by Georgetown University.

Bartleby Library
Rich collection of electronic literary texts in English from the public domain or under Columbia University copyright.

Bible Gateway 
Search multiple versions of the Bible to find chapter and verse.

Children's Literature Web Guide

Information about children's literature, conferences and book events.

Greek Mythology

Introduction to Ancient Greek Mythology.

Haiku for People
Collection of Haiku and Haiku-related resources.

Hyperizons
Starting point for hypertext fiction and other literature exploring the interaction of literature and computers.

Myths and Legends
Compendium of links to worldwide mythological and folkloric resources.

Mythtext
Mythology from all over the world.

The Orwell Reader
A comprehensive site dedicated to this 20th century British writer.

Philosophy on the Web

Resources in the study of philosophy.

Poems by Emily Dickinson
Bartleby Project's masterful collection of Dickinson poems.

Poetry Garden Project
Featuring contemporary poets, bulletins boards, children's poetry, and more.

Project Gutenberg
Making electronic texts available to the world.

The BBC's Page of English and Educational Materials
The British Broadcasting Company's wide ranging, often changing list of resources for teaching English literature.