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Fault Lines: Milton's Mirror of Desire

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Complex analysis of many facets of "desire" in "Paradise Lost." Includes comparisons to Spenser's "The Faierie Queen."
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New Arts Library:paradise Lost the Summary Paraphrased

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
New Arts Library offers a rewritten version of Milton's summary of "Paradise Lost." Features less complicated, more modern language.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "When Doctors Disagree" by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 7th - 9th
Read the full text of "When Doctors Disagree" by P.G. Wodehouse on this site.
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Revolver" by Arnold Bennett

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "The Revolver" by Arnold Bennett. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Dickinson College: Keats on Nature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An analysis of Keats views on nature as evident in his writings.
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Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: John Keats (1795 1821)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of sonnets written by John Keats: "On the Sonnet," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again," and others.
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Insite.com: Lewis Carroll Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a brief biography of Lewis Carroll (1832-1898 CE), the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of children's classics "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," and "Through the Looking Glass."
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About Fly Fishing: The Bait by John Donne Flyfishing and Romance

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides the text to John Donne's poem "The Bait".
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861 CE) the English poet, the wife of Robert Browning, the most respected and successful woman poet of the Victorian period, considered seriously for the laureateship that eventually was...
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: Works of Matthew Arnold

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Victorian Web includes a complete list of the works of Matthew Arnold, with links to related essays and sometimes to the texts themselves.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Pride and Prejudice: Reading Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A surprisingly detailed site that provides an overview of Austen's work, as well as biographical information and discussion questions. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Selfknowledge: "Sense and Sensibility"

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," plus links to other Austen sources.
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Website
Sonnet Central

Sonnet Central: Robert Burns, "A Sonnet Upon Sonnets"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a sonnet from Robert Burns entitled, "A Sonnet Upon Sonnets." Burns' less-than-serious look at what constitutes a sonnet.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Quotations by Robert Burns

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has seventy quotations from works by Robert Burns.
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Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-text of Charles Lamb's enchanting 1811 narrative poem is illustrated with period drawings from the original edition.
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Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: Susanna Moodie

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A biograhpy about Susanna Moodie, with information on her marriage and family life, emigration to Canada, and early publications. Read about her best-known book, "Roughing it in the Bush," and her latter works.
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Victorian Web

The Victorian Web: William Wordsworth an Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
This page on William Wordsworth from a Brown University site contains links to a variety of topics related to him and his writings. It has a link to a biography, the text to two of his works, an analysis of his style of writing and the...
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Luminarium

Luminarium: The History of Tom Jones

For Students 9th - 10th
An easy-to-read HTML version of Fielding's novel is offered here.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

For Students 9th - 10th
The whole text of the famous novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, taken from the second edition, formatted for online reading.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the original Middle English. Within the text is also a modern English prose translation.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of Henry Fielding's satirical and party autobiographical novel. Commentaries are included.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Justice by John Galsworthy

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the four-act play Justice by John Galsworthy including a list of characters.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:20th Century and Modern Poetry: Ww Ii: Sir Winston Churchill

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Sir Winston Churchill and his award-winning speeches during WW II. It features links to a brief history "England in World War II," a Winston Churchill biography, a list...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Brit Lit: 20th Century Postmodernism: William Butler Yeats

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on 20th Century Postmodernism, focuses on the poet William Butler Yeats. It provides links to hit biography, a virtual tour of Yeats' life and works, and two poems. Students are asked to respond to two questions...

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