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Literature

Children's Literature

• On-line Collections
  • Aesop's Fables
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Fairy Tales by H.C. Andersen
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales
  • Peter Pan
  • Jo's Boys
  • Little Women
  • Little Men

• Books and Characters
  • Banned Books: From Harriet the Spy to Catcher in the Rye
  • Kids' Top 100 Favorite Books
  • Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children
  • Best-Selling Children's Books, 2005
  • Best-Selling Children's Books of All-Time
  • Children's Literature (Encyclopedia)
  • Awesome Animal Books
  • Charlotte's Web: About the Book
  • Fantasy Books for Harry Potter Fans
  • Fantastic Fantasy Novels
  • Great Characters You Should Know
  • Most Popular Kids' Books in England
  • Ten Great Girl Characters: Novels
  • Top Mystery Books
  • Types of Literature

Literature (Encyclopedia)

• American Literature
  • Colonial Literature
  • A New Nation and a New Literature
  • The Literature of a Split and a Reunited Nation
  • The Turn of the Century
  • The Lost Generation and After
• English Literature
  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Middle English
  • Tudors and the Elizabethan Age
  • Jacobean Era
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Romantic Period
  • Victorian Age
  • Early Twentieth Century
  • Postwar Era to the Present
• Literature in Other Modern Languages
  • African
  • Australian
  • Canadian
  • Chinese
  • French
  • German
  • Greek, modern
  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • Spanish American
  • Spanish
  • More Literature in Other Modern Language
• Fiction
  • The Novel
  • Short Stories
  • The 100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century
  • 100 Best First Lines from Novels
  • Top 100 Works in World Literature
• Allusions: Literary, Biblical, Mythological, and Historical
• Literary Terms (Encyclopedia)
  • Allegory
  • Biography
  • Irony
  • Metaphor
  • Mystery
  • Satire
  • Tragedy
  • More Literary Terms
• Drama
  • Asian
  • Western
    • Greek
    • Roman
    • Medieval
    • Renaissance
    • Eighteenth-Century
    • Nineteenth-Century
    • Twentieth-Century
  • Shakespeare: His Life, Plays, and Poetry
  • Shakespeare's Plays
  • Shakespeare Quotes: Comedies
  • Shakespeare Quotes: Histories
  • Shakespeare Quotes: Tragedies

Foklore and Mythology

• American Folklore
• Ancient Greek Literature & Mythology
• Famous Storytellers
• Mythology
• Mythological Allusions
• Characters in Mythology
  • Eqyptian
  • Greek and Roman
  • Gods and Goddesses Around the World
  • Norse
  • The Olympian Gods and Goddesses
    • Gaea, the Cyclopes, the Hundred-handed Ones, and the Titans
    • Zeus
    • Hera and Zeus
    • Poseidon and Hades
    • Hestia and Demeter
    • Athena
    • Hephaestus and Ares
    • Aphrodite
    • Artemis and Apollo
    • Hermes
    • Dionysus
  • Heroes in Greek Mythology
    • Achilles
    • Hercules
    • The Twelve Labors of Hercules
    • Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts
    • Odysseus
    • Perseus
    • Theseus
    • The Fall of Troy
  • Monsters in Greek Mythology
  • The Nine Muses
• Mythology and Folklore (Encyclopedia)

Authors

Some Favorite Authors

• C. S. Lewis
• J. K. Rowling
• Maurice Sendak
• Lemony Snicket
• Dr. Seuss
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Laura Ingalls Wilder

Biographies: Notable Writers

• American Literature
• Asian Literature
• Classical Literature
• Latin American Literature
• More Biographies: Literature (Encyclopedia)

Notable Writers

• African-American
• Asian-American
• Hispanic-American
• Irish
• Women

Awards

Awards For Children's Literature

• Caldecott Medal
• Newbery Medal
• Other Awards

Literary Awards

• Nobel Prize
• Pullitzer Prizes
• National Book Awards
• Man Booker Prize
• PEN/Faulkner

Quotations

• African-American Quotations
• Advice to the Graduates
• Father's Day
• Mother's Day
• Quotations by Women
• Quotations For The Seasons
  • Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall
• Quotations from Classic Love Poems
• Shakespeare Quotes
• Those Quotable Irish
• Wedding Quotations

Literature and Authors: Just for Fun

Other

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• How A Charlie Brown Christmas Came to Pass
• Mystery Initials: Full names of famous authors