University of Michigan
American Verse Project: Anti Slavery Poems
This site from American Verse Project provides the online text for "Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform" by John Greenleaf Whittier. Poems can be viewed in plain text or as page-by-page images of the original work.
University of Michigan
American Verse Project: Atlanta Offering: Poems, by Frances e.w. Harper
Searchable text of poems by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, from the book "Atlanta Offering."
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: End of Life: Exploring Death in America: "Last Day" From "Charlotte's Web"
This site, from an National Public Radio program, The End of Life, provides the text of the last chapter of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web."
PBS
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
This PBS site provides an introduction and the full text to the speech written and given by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1853 commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
PBS
Pbs the West: Chief Joseph Speaks
This Archive of the West site provides selected statements and speeches of the great leader of the Nez Perce Indians. They are reprinted from Chester Anders Fee's "Chief Joseph: The Biography of a Great Indian" which was published in 1936.
University of Michigan
Making of America: Illustrated Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes
A complete, searchable text of "Illustrated Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," which was illustrated by George Randolph Barse and others.
Other
University of Dayton: Paul Laurence Dunbar Website
This resource provides information about Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Project Gutenberg: Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser [Full Text]
Dreiser's second book, much more popular than his first when published, is available here from Project Gutenberg Australia.
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McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literary Library: "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" Study Guide [Pdf]
Explore Benjamin Franklin and his "Autobiography" with the help of background information, vocabulary lists, brainstorming exercises, and thought-provoking writing prompts on Franklin's talents and contributions. Also, use what you have...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes
From the University of Toronto Representative Poetry On-Line site, this page contains a brief discussion of the life and works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer and physician. Contains links to electronic text versions of ten...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Edna St. Vincent Millay
This University of Toronto site offers 18 selected poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, with notes on her life and works.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
Biographical information about Anne Bradstreet's life. Includes details about her works and their publication history. Includes a brief bibliography and the text of eleven of her works.
University of Toronto (Canada)
Selected Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins (1825 1911)
Selected full texts of poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Aunt Chloe", "The Drunkard's Child", and "The Slave Mother." Includes overview of the author's life and works.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: John Greenleaf Whittier
This site provides links to twelve of Whittier's most widely-read poems, including "Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl," "Barbara Frietchie," "Ichabod," and "The Worship of Nature." Also includes a brief biography.
University of Pennsylvania
Dreiser Web Source: Sister Carrie
At this website, one can read and search the full-text of Theodore Dreiser's novel, "Sister Carrie," and read "Background essays," on the novel, as well. A "Virtual Exhibition," provides biographical information on Dreiser as well as...
Other
The Bostonians by Henry James, Etext
The entire novel is available at this site in HTML format.
University of Michigan
Making of America Books
The complete online text of "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglass is available through University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collections.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: James Russell Lowell
A selection of 99 quotations from the writing and speeches of James Russell Lowell, American essayist, poet, and editor.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Whittier
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry is a bibliography of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier, including their original dates of publication. Lists works of biography and criticism written about Whittier...
University of Michigan
Making of America: Ballads of New England
This site from the University of Michigan provides access to online text for "Ballads of New England," an 1870 collection of Whittier's poetry. Poems can be viewed in plain-text format or as page-by-page images from the original work.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Renascence and Other Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
This site offers biographical information on Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as the complete text of seventeen of her poems and Sonnets I-VI.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: The Rabbit Pen
This essay from the University of Virginia provides an e-text of Anderson's story "The Rabbit-pen."
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: "The Brick Moon," and Other Stories
The University of Virginia Library provides the full text to Edward Everett Hale's volume of short stories. The preface is very enlightening and should definitely be read. The volume includes eight of his short stories.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Full text of Sinclair Lewis' 1922 novel, Babbitt.