Not all authors have links to more information, but many of them do. Classic Short Stories Read a variety of short stories collected by Gary Lindquist, and participate in a short story chat forum. Columbia University's Bartleby Library Project Bartleby offers fulltext classics of poetry and prose including works by Keats, Christie, Du Bois, O'Neill, and many more. Includes search tool. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Full text of the Bard's plays, online, with an accompanying dictionary that lets you look up Elizabethan words on-site.
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So begins the online, multimedia version of Dante's The Divine Comedy , with Italian and English translations, developed at Columbia University as a teaching tool. While you must be able to use Java to get anything out of this site, it's a delightful implementation if you do. Take individual words on the screen from a large assortment and drag and drop to create your own online poetry. No way to save your work, which is the only real disadvantage we can see. It didn't crash our browser, either.