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English Reading: Electronic texts

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Large collections

Alex catalog of electronic texts "a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy"

Electronic Literature: Collections Yahoo's index

Online Books Page University of Pennsylvania has a remarkable collection of thousands of online texts; you can sort by author, title, or subject; you can search by title or author; you can examine several interesting 'special interest' features such as "Banned Books online" or "A Celebration of Woman Writers."

ESL : Reading web-based reading materials for English language learners

Something to Read web-based reading materials for English language learners

Voice of the Shuttle U California Santa Barbara's extensive selection of literature, neatly separated into different categories

Drama

ESL Cafe Web Guide: Drama links for English language learners

E server Drama collection modern and classic drama

The WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama many resources inlcuding: Electronic text archives and plays online, Monologues in print, Theatre studies, articles and resources. etc.

Literary Resources -- Theatre and Drama list of resources

News

Breaking News English current news stories and exercises, with answer keys

BBC: Learning English listen too!

Bangkok Post for English Language Learners articles from the Bangkok Post, a major Asian English Language newspaper, with background information, vocabulary notes, and reading skill suggestions

Ohio ESL World News page News in English from around the world

Poems

ESL: Poems a collection fo resources

ESL Cafe Web Guide: Poetry links for English language learners

Haiku how to haiku, articles on haiku writing, samples of haiku, and links

Popular Poets a good collection of links for English and American poets

Stories

Short Fiction many resources from Carnegie-Mellon University's English page

Story Bytes a few VERY short stories (2 words (!) to 2048 words)

English Story Reading Room

Songs

Yahoo Lyrics Page many sources of song lyrics

Digital Tradition folksongs

AskLyrics.com search by artist or title

Interactive Fiction

Online Gallery of Interactive Fiction games online

Hyperizons -- Hypertext fiction construct-your-own-stories

Interactive Fiction Wikipedia's collection of links

Other

MysteryNet online mysteries

Short Fiction many resources from Carnegie-Mellon University's English page

Master Works of Western Civilization links to (English-language) texts of a number of classics of European thought, from ancient Greece to the first half of the twentieth century

Myths and Legends directory of links, organized by region and language group

 

 

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