The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

A History of English Literature

8th Century

Beowolf in Old Ehglish (Anglo-Saxon)

Beowolf in Old English

Beowolf an adaptation to Modern English

Beowolf - modern translation

Beowolf resource page

Beowulf is the oldest epic in English. Drawing from Danish history and folk tales, it was composed, probably in the early 8th century,. by a Northumbrian poet.

13th Century

Index to the interlinear translations of some of the Canterbury Tales

Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury interlinear

Chaucer resources

include audio files

16th Century

De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions), 1543 C.E - Nicholas Copernicus

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

17th Century

18th Century

19th Century

Complete Works of Charles Darwin

Complete Darwin with Letters

Complete Works of Charles Dickens

Complete Works of Mark Twian

Mark Twain Papers

Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Literature Network Forums

Old West 19th Century - Six travel books including The Orgeon Trail by Francis Parkman

20th Century

Mules and Men - Zora Neale Hurston

The Log of a Cowboy Andy Adams

Complete Works of George Orwell

The Literature Network Great 20th Century Authors and Books Online

About the Great Books and the Hutchins Scholar programs

See also: Artie's Liberal Arts Page