British Library
British Library: 20th Century Literature: Collection Items
Discover a wealth of original sources from 20th-century literature, including manuscripts, first editions, newspapers, diaries, letters, photographs, and maps.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Prose Version) by Anonymous
This is the full text of a prose version of the Medieval British Literature epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, author unknown. It also provides prefaces for the first and second editions and notes about the work.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Sketches of British Insects by William Houghton
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sketches of British Insects: A Handbook for Beginners in the Study of Entomology by William Houghton (1888), an illustrated introductory textbook on the subject of...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Routledge's British Primer by George Routledge and Sons
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Routledge's British Primer (1888). It is an illustrated textbook for young children including the letters of the alphabet, numbers, spelling, syllabication, poetry,...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American and Puritan Literature: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts to an unknown effect, and again on July 8, 1741, in...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: An Inspector Calls
Find contextual treasures from production posters and programs to J.B. Priestley's scrapbook.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library: Works of Oscar Wilde
The Digital Library provides links to 23 of Oscar Wilde's works.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Poetry of Sir Walter Scott
This University of Toronto site contains links to 16 of Sir Walter Scotts poems and provides some biographical information.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
This is the full text of the three-act play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde including a list of characters and scenes.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Bede Life of St. Cuthbert
Complete translation of Bede's "The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne," preceded by background information on Bede and Cuthbert.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Royal Geographical Readers by Thomas Nelson and Sons
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Royal Geographical Readers by Thomas Nelson and Sons (1884), a collection of maps and information for the countries in the British Empire.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Adventures of a Soldier Boy by William Martin
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Adventures of a Soldier Boy by William Martin (1890), tales of the sea and of the British Navy.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Eleventh Hour by Ethel M. Dell
This is the full text of the British novel The Eleventh Hour by Ethel M. Dell; it was adapted into The Eleventh Hour, a 1922 British silent film. The film revolves around Doris Elliott, who marries farmer Jeff Ironside, but quickly tires...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
This is the full text of the five-act British play Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw including notes.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: "Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll
This site provides the text for Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky." Also available here is a good biography of the author. Click on 'Lewis Carroll' to find the biography.
University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide Library: Lady Clare
This site from the University of Adelaide Library provides a fully illustrated version of Tennyson's poem, "Lady Clare."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Letter to Pope About Thomas Becket's Death [Pdf]
This is a one-page PDF of a letter from William, archbishop of Sens, to the Pope, in relation to the death of Thomas Becket.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Trans Jessie L. Weston[pdf]
This is a 22-page PDF of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Jessie L. Weston.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Gawayne and the Green Knight by Charlton Miner Lewis [Pdf]
This is a 27-page PDF of GAWAYNE AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A Fairy Tale by Charlton Miner Lewis; a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Night.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: The Nun's Priest's Tale[pdf]
This is a 12-page PDF of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Justice by John Galsworthy
This is the full text of the four-act play Justice by John Galsworthy including a list of characters.
Other
The Online Medieval and Classical Library: The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
A complete modern full-text English translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a history of England written between 8th and 12th centuries CE.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: "The Twa Corbies"
This is the text of the anonymous 17th century Scottish poem "The Twa Corbies."
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Siegfried Sassoon (1886 1967 Ce)
Bartleby has made available several volumes of the poet's work. Site includes a very brief biography, the collections themselves, quotations from his work, and several poems which appear in Modern British Poetry.
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