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Online Literary Criticism Collection
From the Internet Public Library, this site contains over 4745 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, by nationality, or by literary period.
The Modern English Collection
From the University of Virginia, this large collection contains fiction, non-fiction, 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.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
From a professor of English at California State University Stanislaus, an excellent source for information on specific authors by period of American history from the Colonial Period to the Present. Additional
information including obituaries for some authors, introductory essays for each period (e.g., Early 19th Century Transcendentalism, The Harlem Renaissance) and bibliographies.
Booklist
The Web site of the American Library Association's Booklist provides access to reviews of books for adults, young adults, and children, written by librarians. The overall ALA Web site is searchable, and you
can browse the reviews by category (Adult, Youth, Nonfiction, etc.).
Cliffsnotes.com
180 literature guides online for free viewing. You may also purchase the titles for downloading or printing.
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