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Literature - General Interest

E-Server.Org - University of Washington Generous helpings of e-texts from established literature, historical documents, calls for papers, and other items of academic and hobbyist interest.
Internet Classics Archive Excellent assortment of Classical e-texts and discussion groups.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland started in 1935 and is one of my favorite places on earth. I started going in 1986 (thanks Brian!) and have seen 61 productions there as of 2002. Its outdoor Elizabethan Theater is beautiful and it's wonderful watching plays under the stars with kamikazee insects flittering about and bats swooping down to devour them.
Project Gutenberg An organization dedicated to making available important copyright-free documents as free e-texts.
The Thinking Man's Minefield Seek here and ponder the difference between thought-ful and thought-fill.
Yahoo! Literature sites Write a report on these by next week.

Specific Authors

- Collected Works of William Butler Yeats E-text for all of Yeats' poetry as presented in Collected Poems. I'm awful at writing and appreciating poetry, but I like Yeats. Perne grinding in a gyre and gimboling in the wabe and all that. One of his poems serves as the skeleton for my first novel. Guess which one!
- Official Oscar Wilde website Hmmph. We've all seen better, but it's the only one actually overseen by his descendants. The late Richard Ellmann wrote a great biography of Wilde that's worth reading for its details about Oscar's famous father, celebrity mother, doomed marriage to a decent woman, Victorian sexuality, the Beautiful Boy as Destroyer, aesthetes, bathos, pathos, hubris, and Wilde's syphillitic head which exploded upon his death.
- about nabokov This is a very tightly designed site with information about the Russian-born author Vladmimir Nabokov who wrote "Lolita" and dozens of other novels in English and Russian. He was also an itinerant literature professor across several continents and collected butterflies. Some amusing essays and a bewildering list of his various domiciles are included, among which was a three month stay during the summer of 1953 in Ashland, Oregon. I've walked in front of that house before, and was tempted to break in and search for some kind of relic I could later rub to transfer his magic to remedy my own literary quagmires.

James Joyce

The Brazen Head This is my favorite among the Joyce sites. Warmer feelings here than one usually gets from the peculiar, solipsistic, astringent types attracted to Joyce. Wait a minute, I just described myself!
Work in Progress Easy to navigate. Doesn't seem recently updated, though. Not that Joyce is writing any more material.
International James Joyce Foundation An actual organization with information about conferences, etc.
The Internet Ulysses, while its design is a bit of a mess, does a good job of providing easy to access supplemental material about Joyce's most famous and celebrated novel.
Here's an MP3 of Joyce reading from the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of 'Finnegans Wake'. Yes, it's very hard to understand. "Finnegans Wake" is the most notoriously opaque novel in English, and possibly any language. People have gone mad studying it. I've tried starting it twice, and have set a goal of tackling it again in 2004.

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