Literature

    Never judge a book by its movie.
                                            ~ J. W. Eagan

Periods in English Literature
    - The Norton Anthology of English Literature (extensive)
    - The Norton Anthology of American Literature (overview)
    - The Norton Anthology of World Literature (overview)
    - Romantic Circles (Romanticism in literature)
    - Victorian Web (Victorian literature)
    - Postcolonial Web (Postcolonial literature)
  
English Literature Resources
    - Project Gutenberg (over 20,000 online books)
    - Literature (fiction, poetry and drama)
    - Literature Study Online (find literature by author, country, literary movement, literary prizes and more...)
   
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    - Amazon Bestsellers (also: fiction, children's books, young adult etcetera)
  
Youth Literature
    - Roald Dahl (official website)
    - Harry Potter (official website)
    - Lemony Snicket (official website)
    - Terry Pratchett (official website)

Young Adult Literature
    - His Dark Materials (official website)
    - PUSH (new authors, new voices)
    - Teen reading (top 10)

Shakespeare
    - Shakespeare Resource Center (selection of resources)
    - Sparknotes: Shakespeare, the Plays
    - The Sonnets (texts + analyses)
    - Shakespeare's Globe
    - Royal Shakespeare Company
    - The Collected Works (complete texts)
    - Google Books: Shakespeare

Old and Middle English Literature
    - Exeter Book Riddles (Old English Riddles: original, translation and solution)
    - Beowulf (Old English and modern text, characters, history)
    - Old English Literature and Culture Resources (University of Adelaide)
    - Geoffrey Chaucer (Harvard University site; all Canterbury Tales + translation)

Theatre
    - Theatre Database

Poetry
    - Famous Poets and Poems

Reference Material
    - Sparknotes
    - PinkMonkey
    - Wikipedia
    - English Language Timeline (British Library)