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Cambridge University Press
The home of Cambridge University Press, "the oldest printing and publishing house in the world."
American Library Association
American Library Association: Newbery Medal Home Page
This page is dedicated to winners of the Newbery Medal, an award named for an eighteenth-century British bookseller. Link is available for list of current winners and past winners.
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Asle: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
This site provides links to literature about the environment. They offer publications, programs, conferences, and events that explore the topic of literature and environment.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: Brief Timeline of American Literature
This Washington State University site provides a decade-by-decade timeline of American literature with historical events going on at the same time. Most topics on the timeline are links to additional information about the author, work,...
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Wisconsin State Reading Association (Wsra)
Learn about the goals, membership, publications, and committees of this affiliate of the International Reading Association. Links also take you to useful reading resources and to its hotline, which allows members to be a part of an...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: British and American History Paintings of the 1700s
This website provides a nice exhibit of history paintings from the 1700s. There are eight paintings discussed depicting various historical events including religious and mythological stories.
University of North Carolina
Unc: Literature in the American South: Regionalism
This University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site provides a wonderful explanation of regionalism and local color as it applies to literature. There is a lot of other good information about Southern Literature at this site!
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Fundacion Camilo Jose Cela
Official site of the Camilo Jose Cela Foundation in Spanish, with biography, work, and other kinds of information.
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Children's Book Council: Building a Home Library
The Children's Book Council offers four downloadable lists for different age groups to use for developing a home library or just for finding good books to read.
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has provided the full text of Paul (Pavel) Birukoff's book entitled "Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood."
Howard University
Howard University: African & Caribbean Literature in French
Resource presents an exhaustive bibliography and resources for research on African and Caribbean literature in French.
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France web.fr: Andre Chenier, 1762 1794
A short, but moving biography, with three poems and a bibliography, provided by the Club des Poetes.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: The Blue Hotel
This University of Virginia Library site provides the text of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel".
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Historiographie X Ve Xvii Ie Siecle: Agrippa D'aubigne
This French site focuses on Arippa d'Aubigne as a historian. The "Extraits de la preface" selection is from his "Histoire universelle."
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Anatole France (1844 1924)
This site offers full French editions of the following of France's works: "Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet et plusieurs autres recits profitables" "L'Etui de nacre" "Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Stephane Mallarme (1842 1898)
This site offers a full French edition of Mallarme's "Poesies"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Alphonse Daudet (1840 1897)
This site offer a full French edition of Daudet's "Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres"
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Guy De Maupassant (1850 1893)
This site offers full French editions of the following of Maupassant's works: Contes de la becasse (1883) Bel Ami (1885) Boule de suif (1880) Le Horla (1887) Les Contes du jour et de la nuit (1885) - Le vieux La maison Tellier - Une...
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Benjamin Constant (1767 1830)
This site contains a full French edition of Constant's "Adolphe."
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Bernard Fontenelle (1657 1757)
This site presents a full French edition of Fontenelle's "Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes".
ABU: The Universal Library
Abu: Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613 1680)
This site contains a full French version of La Rochfaucauld's "Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales."
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Women in Flight
Beryl Markham's contribution to aviation history is discussed in this lengthy article. Facts about many other famous female aviators before and after Markham are also included.