Selected Sites

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

was produced from the second Texinfo edition of a well-known book entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll, alias Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. The original was first published in Great Britain in 1865. Also contained herein, you'll find the sequel Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there, that was first published in Great Britain in 1872. Both of these original editions owe much to the illustrations by Sir John Tenniels. All of these 42 + 50 images are included in this edition of this online version.

Banned books online

gives short descriptions of the titles, which range from "Ulysses" to "Little Red Riding Hood". It also describes how and why each book was censored or suppressed. You can then follow hypertext links from the top-level page to the works themselves, so that you can see what the censors didn't want people to see.

BEATRICE WWW

is a new Webzine that includes poetry, short fiction, articles, and reviews of music and literature. It also has a section on 20th century literature which will include short essays on some of the major writers of this century, reflecting the idiosyncratic tastes of the editor.

Bryn Mawr Medieval Review

will publish timely reviews of current work in all areas of medieval studies, a field it will interpret as broadly as possible (chronologically, geographically, culturally, etc.).

Children's Literature Web Guide

is a directory to Internet resources for Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Contemporary Fiction

features LOVE Enter, a love story set in Paris and New Orleans and was named the winner of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction.

Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literatures

from Georgetown University, includes syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources related to teaching American Literatures. This is complementary to the T-AMLIT listserv.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein

Navigable with or without graphics, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's masterpiece is split into 32 pages so you can read it bit by bit without being overwhelmed by feelings of sickening dread and abject terror.

loQtus

Quotations Resources on the Internet

The Literature Page

is an exercise in group authoring where users get together and write a story.

Literary Kicks

is dedicated to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and all the writings, people, places and things associated with the Beat Generation in Literature.

The Online Writery

is a kind of a road-side stop for writers, like a rest area with maps and information and other people to talk with about writing.

The Paris Review

is the international literary quarterly edited by George Plimpton, now entering its fifth decade.

Published Writers on the Internet

is a database of published writers. You can add an entry, browse all entries, or search the database. Entry fields include: contact info, published works, agent, pseudonym, short bio. The database is meant mainly for use by published writers, agents, and publishers/editors.

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

is the series of 75 frequently quoted maxims that Mark Twain used to start each chapter of his 1897 book, Following the Equator.

RhetNet

provides rhetoric and Internet students and scholars with the means of capturing, contextualizing, searching, and retrieving some of the intriguing and valuable conversations that occur on various parts of the Net, but which currently lie scattered and forgotten in dusty corners of the virtual world. It provides a repository of netscholarship on rhetoric and writing.

Project Gutenberg

encourages the creation and distribution of English language electronic texts. The goal is to provide a collection of 10,000 of the most used books by the year 2001, and to reduce, and we do mean reduce, the effective costs to the user to a price of approximately one cent per book, plus the cost of media and of shipping and handling.

Project Runeberg

is an open and voluntary initiative to create and collect free electronic editions of classic Nordic literature and art.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab OWL

offers a variety of writing related information in an interesting and attractive format. They have lots of information that'll help you with your writing, whether you're not sure how to avoid sexist language, fix run-on sentences, put together a good resume, or follow MLA (or APA) format for citing your sources.

The search for some hypertext fiction

started because Professor Edith Wyschogrod of the Department of Religious Studies here at Rice was interested in postmodern narrative forms and wanted to examine examples of interactive hypertext fiction on the net. It has grown much larger!

The complete works of William Shakespeare

available in hypertext format with an online glossary. See also the Shakespeare database project at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany. And the Second Look project at the University of Iowa offers Virtual Henry a multimedia annotated text of Shakespeare's Henry V

Tolkien Information Page

contains references to Internet resources concerning the works and life of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Word Detective

is a bimonthly newsletter on words and language. TWD features myriad strange little graphics, awards cats as prizes for readers' questions, and in general aims for the large grey area between Monty Python and the Oxford English Dictionary.