Hinduwebsite.com -The Literature Resource Page
Summary: This page offers a curated collection of high‑quality online resources related to world literature, covering poetry, fiction, nonfiction, language arts, and classical texts . It highlights major literary organizations, digital libraries, poetry archives, ESL tools, and academic portals that support reading, writing, and research. Visitors can explore free ebooks, public‑domain collections, author directories, and educational materials designed for students, teachers, and general readers. The page also includes links to specialized resources in English, American, Christian, and classical literature, making it a comprehensive gateway for literary study and exploration.
The list waws updated on 3/24/30/2026.
What is Literature?
Broadly speaking whatever the human mind can conceive and express as words can be considered literature. A more specific definition of literature could be that which is produced by literate people as their literary expression. However, the classical definition includes only such works that have great artistic and creative value such as poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
Literature arises from education and learning, and contributes to them as well. In literature, people expresses the creative powers of the human mind in best possible terms. Literature makes writing both an art and a craft. It also records the story of the mankind, and the progress of the human languages, in bits and pieces from the earliest to the present.
In literature, the emphasis is both upon how you truly convey the meaning of an experience or an idea and how aesthetically you express it. Literature helps us know the world and other people, how they live, what they think, feel, struggle, or manage the complexities of life. With the help of literature we not only express our thoughts, ideas and emotions but also connect to the world at a much deeper level. Literature also helps us understand the subtle nuances of the language, people, culture and society. Jayaram V
Websites on Literature
Free Language Arts Website: This is set up by a group of 17 teachers to make usable free high quality language worksheets available for teachers for free. Every month they create new worksheets for you to enjoy. All of their work is directly created in response to the English Language Arts Common Core Standards.
Poetry.com : Poetry.com welcomes all amateur poets and wants to encourage your participation in the world’s largest and most vibrant poetry community. We have established a system of points and badges which you’ll earn for every different type of action you take. For example, you will receive points for each poem you write, each poem you review, etc.
Electronic Literature Organization The Electronic Literature Organization was founded in 1999 to foster and promote the reading, writing, teaching, and understanding of literature as it develops and persists in a changing digital environment. A 501c(3) non-profit organization, the ELO includes writers, artists, teachers, scholars, and developers.
The Academy of American Poets : The Academy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Poets.org is one of several programs presented by the Academy of American Poets. For more information, see our Annual Report.
The Poetry Foundation: The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
Electric Literature's Recommended Reading: An informative literature website that showcases outstanding stories.
The Poem Hunter: PoemHunter.Com aims to spread the effects of poems in the social and individual life of people, where a continuous change is undergoing with the Internet. PoemHunter.Com without a pause, continues its activities with the active participation of thousands of members.
ESL Gold: ESLgold provides hundreds of pages of free English teaching materials for ESL students and teachers.
Poets Archive: The Poetry Archive aims to bring the widest possible audience to the fullest possible range of English-language poetry being published around the world, and to complement that poetry with educational material of value both to the specialist and to the general reader. It has no editorial agenda except to demonstrate the range and richness of poetry in all its forms.
Litvillage: English literature resource features author interviews and reviews of quality free book-related websites.
Project Guttenberg: Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: Electronic access to Sanskrit Buddhist texts, with its profound possibilities for enhancing the depth, scope and subtlety of research, has been a desideratum of the field for some time.
Representative Poetry Online: Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
Using English: Resources to learn the English language for ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP students and teachers.
Call for Papers: CFP Website is maintained by The University of Pennsylvania Department of English
The Bartleby Collection of Fiction : Bartleby.com provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors. Also available from here
The Bartleby Collection of Non-Fiction consisting of a diverse and intelligent nonfiction corpus, including many works of political and social history.
Alex Catalogue of Etexts: The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Yahoo Literature: Authors Awards, Banned Books, Art Books, Classics, Comparitive Literature, Creative Writing and more.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: The Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
The Electronic Literature Directory: It provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.
Christian Literature on the Internet: Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves! You can copy them freely for any purpose. Outside of the US, check your local copyright laws.
The Literature Network: Searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast, with over 200 full books and over 800 short stories and poems by over 70 authors and over 8500 quotes.
Literature of the Holocaust: A great collection of works on Holocaust is arranged alphabetically with search facility. This site is maintained by Al Filreis, a specialist in modern and contemporary American poetry and the literary politics of the American 1930s and 1950s.
Voice of the Shuttle: Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that Old VoS: Dec. 1994 to Oct. 2001serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able to work more efficiently and flexibly.The Voice of the Shuttle began in late 1994 as an introduction to the Web for humanists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. VoS became publicly accessible on March 21, 1995, when the Humanitas server on which it resided opened to global Web access.
Bartelby.com: Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="Bartleby, Great Books Online, Project Bartleby, Bartleby Archive, Bartleby Library, BartlebyVerse, Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Theodore Roosevelt, Emily Post, Strunk's Elements of Style, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Fannie Farmer, H.G. Wells, Bulfinch, Frazer, Mencken, Sapir, Einstein, Shakespeare, Brewer, Gray's Anatomy, King James Bible, Usage, Harvard Classics, World Factbook, World's Orations
Biography.com: Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.
Department of Classics: Mainatained by Department of Classics in The College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin.
The Online Books Page: A comprehensive search resource very useful for students and research scholars and lovers of literature and books. Search over 15000 listings.
Department of Classics: Resources maintained by Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis.
Research Guide to the Great Books National Geographic Book Curriculam is a guide to finding information on Great Books texts and authors in libraries, electronic databases, and on the Internet. The resources listed in this guide can be valuable aids to research, study, writing papers and essays, and teaching the Great Books, and can even help in pinpointing free online versions of Great Books texts.
The Latin Library: These texts have been drawn from different sources. Many were originally scanned and formatted from texts in the Public Domain. Others have been downloaded from various sites on the Internet (many of which have long since disappeared). Most of the recent texts have been submitted by contributors around the world.
Latin Studies and Background Essays: Maintained by Middlebury College, Vermont.
Classics of World Literature (331 books)
Masterpieces of World Literature | Harvard University
World Literature -- Classics and Literary Fiction Around the World
What is world literature? - California Learning Resource Network
What Is World Literature? | Princeton University Press
Literatures of the World Portal | Britannica
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