Directory of Classics Resources

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This category offers links to classic literary works available online.

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Animated Tall Tales

http://www.animatedtalltales.com/
Animated versions of classic American tales like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others. Fully narrated online story books and Flash cartoons.
Books for Young Readers

http://www.bygosh.com/kidsstories.htm
Electronic text versions of young children's books and rhymes. Most are illustrated.
Building Rainbows Book Reviews - Classic Children's Books

http://www.buildingrainbows.com/ETEXT/classics.html
A collection of electronic texts for young people with provisions for adding book reviews and discussion about each of the books.
byGosh.com: Children's Classics

http://www.bygosh.com/childrensclassics.htm
Offers online selection of classic stories for kids and teens. Includes links to short stories for kids.
Catcher in the Rye Essays

http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/honeydew/
Includes a summary of the book, an "about the author" section, essay ideas and help, and completed essays.
Classic Bookshelf

http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/
E-texts presented with the aid of an applet which allows the choice of font size, spacing, and color.
Classic Reader

http://www.classicreader.com/
A large collection of full-length classic stories for online reading.
Classics for Young People

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas.html
A list of classic literature for young people sorted by author. HTML versions of the text are included for many of the books.
Electronic Texts Formated by Robert Stockton

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/rgs/mosaic/rgs-home.html
A collection of over twenty electronic text versions of classics reformatted for easy reading.
From Mother Goose in Prose by Frank Baum

http://oaks.nvg.org/goose-prose.html
Includes story versions of a few rhymes.
Golden Books

http://www.randomhousekids.com/brand/little-golden-books/
Offers printable activities and games based on childhood favorites.
IPL Story Hour

http://www.ipl.org/div/storyhour/
A small collection of online stories for younger readers. Contents include: Mother Goose, The Tortoise and the Hare, and others.
Jack London's Writings

http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/
A collection of electronic text versions of novels and short stories by Jack London.
Lynch Multimedia

http://www.lynchmultimedia.com/
Includes Shakespeare's plays with audio, and the original.
The Baldwin Project

http://www.mainlesson.com/
Online editions of classic children's books from the golden age of children's literature (1880-1922).
The Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Electronic texts archived at the University of Pennsylvania Digital Library. Search or browse by author/title/subject.
The War of the Worlds

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html
E-text of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: The Modern English Collection

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog?f_inclusive[digital_collection_facet][Online+Manuscripts]=1&f_inclusive[digital_collection_facet][Online+Texts]=1&catalog_select=catalog&op=AND&sort_key=title
Browse and search the publicly-accessible electronic texts from this extensive selection. Browse by author, or area of interest. Search by author or title or keywords/phrases within the text. Some titles include illustrations.
Young People's Zone

http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/ordinal/
A site with children's literature online sorted by series and author. Includes fairy tales, Avonlea series, fables, Robin Hood tales, and other classics

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