True passion can drive you mad. Stephen Dedalus, the main character in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man straddles many lines, including those between sanity and insanity, piety and sin, and individuality...

Being raised by wolves has its advantages. An eBook gives readers the chance to experience Rudyard Kipling's classic novel The Jungle Book, a story about a boy named Mowgli who wants to stay with the wolves that raised him instead of...

This site provides the complete etext for Edgar Rice Burroughs's story, "The Mad King."

This is the full text of the novel Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, his first major literary success. Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold...

"An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog", written in 1920 by Oliver Goldsmith, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 7 page book is appropriate for early readers.

The harrowing experiences of Nellie Bly as she observed undercover the workings of Blackwell Island Insane Asylum are reproduced here as they were originally published.

Text of the short story "The Madness of John Harned" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

This Quia Pop-Up game is a proofreading exercise in which students see a part of a friendly letter and are asked to select the correct form and punctuation for it using the drop-down menu.

This beautiful online edition of the Lewis Carroll classic is written in large text for easy legibility, and includes illustrations from eleven different versions of the story. It also includes background information on the writing of...

This site features the author Thomas Hardy including a biography, the full text of 13 novels, and the short story "Squire Petrick's Lady".

This is a 15-question exercise/assessment for homonyms; students select the correct word from the homonyms in the box that fits the sentence.

Quite a few of Robert Herrick's many poems are included here in full text. A brief biographical sketch can be found here as well.

This brief biographical outline focuses on dates of events in Anthony Wayne's military career. There is also a description of a portrait but the portrait itself is not currently available.