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Selfknowledge: The Works of Jane Austen

For Students 9th - 10th
Text and related information on Jane Austen's novels.
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The English Teacher

Teacher2b.com: Dracula Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This series of lesson plans for teaching Bram Stoker's Dracula are broken into chapter segments and include many interesting and creative ways to teach this novel.
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Other

A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...
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Website
Tour Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Literature: Prose

For Students 9th - 10th
The page gives an excellent summary of Costa Rican literature from the 1800s and 1900s. Authors and their works are described.
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eBook
University of Maryland

Mary Shelley: The Last Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Mary Shelley's futurist novel The Last Man. Set in the twenty-first century, the novel revolves around six characters whose lives, over time and continents, are among the supposedly final generation of humans on...
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University of Maryland

Excerpts From Mary Shelley's Letters

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpts from four different letters written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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University of Maryland

"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of "The Mortal Immortal" written by Mary Shelley.
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University of Maryland

"The Last Man": Apocalypse Without Millennium

For Students 9th - 10th
A critical look at Mary Shelly's "The Last Man" and the idea (widely used in writing of that time) of the last man on earth.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Higher English

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides information about characters, plot, and setting of several different pieces of literature. It offers links to activities and tests on topic such as analysis and evaluation, creation and production, drama, novels, and...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Romantic Revival Austen

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Cambridge History of Literature, provides analysis of the life, novels, and early works of Jane Austen.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Grave of Love

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of the poem "Grave of Love" by Thomas Love Peacock.
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Website
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

For Students 9th - 10th
Seventy-nine quotes taken from the writings of Sir Walter Scott, with footnotes.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Anthony Trollope

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Anthony Trollope and provides links to his biography, the full text of five novels, and one short story. The works include Barchester Towers, The Last Chronicle of Barset, and The Warden.
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Emile Zola

For Students 9th - 10th
A fairly detailed biography of Emile Zola (1840-1902 CE), complete with a few excerpts from his works.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Henry James

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an in-depth biographical sketch of Henry James. Also takes a look at many of his novels and the characters he created.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Emile Zola

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the full text of six novels by the modern French author Emile Zola. These include Captain Burle, The Death of Olivier Becaille, The Fat and the Thin, The Fortune of the Rougons, The Miller's Daughter, and Nana. A link to...
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Bad Habit by Juliana Horatia Ewing

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel A Bad Habit by Juliana Horatia Ewing
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Tommy and Grizel by James M. Barrie

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the Scottish novel Tommy and Grizel by James M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Doctor by Ralph Connor

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Doctor by Ralph Connor, a tale of the Canadian Rockies.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Errand Boy by Horatio Alger

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the novel The Errand Boy by Horatio Alger. It is a simplistic and moralistic tale of a young man to which bad has been done, and who does good in return.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bright Morning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this lesson to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.
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New York University

Lamd: Bernard Malamud's "The Silver Crown"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website offers commentary on Bernard Malamud's short story "The Silver Crown." A link to the New York Times article that inspired this story is included. A list of keywords with links to other works with similar subjects is also...
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Handout
New York University

Bernard Malamud's "God's Grace"

For Students 9th - 10th
This New York University website offers a summary of and commentary on Bernard Malamud's novel "God's Grace." A list of keywords with links to other works with similar subjects is also provided.
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Dylan Thomas

For Students 9th - 10th
A short biography of Thomas with a bibliography of his works, and links to other websites.