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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 1 Fantine

For Students 9th - 10th
An HTML version of the first volume of Hugo's famous novel is available here from the University of Virginia.
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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 5: Jean Valjean

For Students 9th - 10th
The last volume of Hugo's novel is found at this etext from the University of Virginia.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At this collection from the University of Virginia Library, Hugo's novel continues in Volume 2 with the story of Cosette. Read the whole volume.
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New York University

New York University: Literature Annotations: The Idiot

For Students 9th - 10th
Sponsored by a multi-disciplinary Medical Humanities program at The University of New York School of Medicine, this brief summary/commentary focuses on the medical aspects of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
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Middlebury College

The Definitive Study Guide for the Brothers Karamazov

For Students 9th - 10th
Middlebury College provides this site authored by a professor of Russian language and literature that provides summaries and analyses for all sections of The Brothers Karamazov, a biography of Dostoevsky, character analyses, and a...
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Middlebury College

Middlebury College: Dostoevsky and the Devils

For Students 9th - 10th
Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Race and Identity in Antebellum America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit features authors of Antebellum America and how they portray the American identity through their literature. Click on the tabs to explore the various resources available to enhance this unit.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro (1865 85)

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition brings together the work of two masters of the early modern period, Cezanne and Pissarro. Compares and contrasts their styles, choices of subject, techniques, and development, with interesting thematic pathways into the...
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: John Greenleaf Whittier

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Bryant and the Minor Poets, Bibliography

For Students 9th - 10th
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry provides a complete bibliography of William Cullen Bryant and related minor poets among his contemporaries.
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University of Michigan

Making of America: Ballads of New England

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)

For Students 9th - 10th
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
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Other

Louvre Museum: Thematic Mini Sites: Ingres, 1780 1867

For Students 9th - 10th
Retrospective, with full-color reproductions of Ingres's masterworks, including the "Grande Odalisque," traces the major episodes in the painter's artistic career.
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Old Nyc

For Students 9th - 10th
Mapping historical photos from the NYPL.
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides multiple digital formats of this eBook.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Traits of Indian Character

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia essay offers a selection of Irving's work from the larger work, "The Sketch Book."
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: Washington Irving

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia essay offers text summarizing and critiquing Washington Irving's work, "A History of New York."
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: George Eliot Middlemarch

For Students 9th - 10th
At this website, read the full text of George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Included is a brief paragraph intoducing the book, its context, and its plot.
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University of Michigan

American Verse Project: Anti Slavery Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Musee D'orsay: Gustave Courbet (1819 1877): A Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, "Gustave Courbet (1819-1877): A Biography" is presented with a breakdown of major periods of the artists life and examples of paintings from each period.
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Other

University of California, Riverside: Balzac's Paris [1799 1850]: A Guided Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
Paris in the early 1800s through the eyes of the author Honore de Balzac. Born in 1799, Balzac lived in Paris during a period of intense renovation. The guided tour provides many unique insights into the city's development as a major...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Whittier: Quaker Ancestry and Nature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Biography and analysis of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Describes his Quaker upbringing, his role as an abolitionist, honors bestowed upon him, and his ballads. Includes analysis of his anti-slavery poetry and "Snow-Bound." Use...
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University of Virginia: Walt Whitman Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive archive of works by and about Walt Whitman, from the University of Virginia. Includes his manuscripts (transcriptions and page images), published works, biography, criticism, images, teaching materials, and much more.

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