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Carver    Doyle    Hemingway    Hornby   Mistry    Orwell   Shakespeare    Steinbeck
 

Monica Ali (born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1967, and grew up in England)

• Ali's in wonderland Interview
• Brick Lane:  Excerpt                     MostlyFiction                             The Observer
  The Guardian            NYT           ReviewsOfBooks             Reading Group Guide
   

W. H. Auden (1907-73)

• Musee des Beaux Arts
   

Paul Auster (born 1947)

• Paul Auster. The Definitive Website
• The Chris Pace Auster Page
• From the Archives of The New York Times
• Worldguide Interview 1996
• Writers Online

The New York Trilogy:

• An Examination of the Identity of Author and Character and Their Relationship Within the Narrative Structure of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy  Nicholas Dawson (1999)
• Escaping from the Locked Room: Overthrowing the Tyranny of Artifice in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy  Chris Pace (1993)
• Paul Auster's Urban Nothingness  Nicola Caleffi (1996)
• Paths through the language of the “New York Trilogy” by Paul Auster
• Spaced Out: Signification and Space in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
• Mirrors of Madness: Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
• "Nowheresville" Paul Auster, adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzuchelli, graphics by David Mazzucchelli. Review
   

• The Sea: ReviewsOfBooks links
   

Julian Barnes

• JulianBarnes.com

• Archives of The New York Times
   

Sujata Bhatt

• Search for My Tongue 1988. Text, analysis
   

William Blake

• The William Blake Archive
• Tate Online
   

• www.asbyatt.com
   

Peter Carey

• Peter Carey books and writers

• Profile The Guardian                                                 Peter Carey Guardian Unlimited

• True History of the Kelly Gang:
  BBC                                                                                            The complete review

• Ned Kelly:
  Ned Kelly: Australian Iron Outlaw                                              Ned Kelly's World
   

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Raymond Carver

    ·  Phil Carson's Raymond Carver Page
    ·  Carver The Raymond Carver Web Site
    ·  Classroom Issues and Strategies
    ·  Short Cuts Gloser
 

J. M. Coetzee  (born 1940)

    ·  The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
    ·  Guardian Unlimited
    ·  The New York Times

        Disgrace
    ·  On John Maxwell Coetzee from BBC News with a short interview and an audio
       extract from the book "Disgrace." Oct. 99
    ·  Disgrace Salon.com                                             Disgrace - Reading Guide Penguin
    ·  Like a Dog London Review of Books                                     MostlyFiction.com

Don DeLillo (American author, born 1936)

    ·  Don DeLillo wikipedia
    ·  Don DeLillo's America
    ·  The Don DeLillo Society: Bibliography -  Links
    ·  Don DeLillo The New York Times
    ·  Postmodernism is fiction
    ·  Underworld Media Watch
    ·  Falling Man (2007): ReviewsOfBooks

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971):
an Indian author who is a citizen of India and resident of the US

    ·  Kiran Desai wikipedia
    ·  The Inheritance of Loss (2006 Man Booker Prize): ReviewsOfBooks links
       The New York Times Review by Pankaj Mishra - recommended
 

Charles Dickens

    ·  The Dickens Project
    ·  The Dickens Page
    ·  The Charles Dickens Page
 

    ·  Dickinson, Emily  -   Complete Poems Bartleby

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Roddy Doyle (born 1958)

• Roddy Doyle

• The Commitments Kim Boje, Viborg Katedralskole, præsenterer et meget omfattende materiale til forløb om The Commitments med bl.a. forslag til videofilmet rollespil. Særdeles velegnet til en blokdag!

• The Woman Who Walked into Doors:
  Reading Group Guides                                                 Guardian Unlimited Review
   

T. S. Eliot

• Eliot, T.S:   Prufrock and Other Observations 1917                      Poems 1920
• Eliot reading Prufrock
   
• The Waste Land 1922. Perhaps Eliot’s most famous poem, which details the journey of the human soul searching for redemption. Bartleby
• The Waste Land Annotated hypertext version of The Waste Land with sound files of Eliot’s reading of the poem
   

Bret Easton Ellis

    ·  The Bret Easton Ellis Page
    ·  Interview with Bret Easton Ellis
    ·  Alex E. Blazer: Chasms of Reality, Aberrations of Identity
        Defining the Postmodern through Ellis's American Psycho
 

• William Faulkner
   

        Vernon God Little
    ·  ReviewsOfBooks: links          -          ReviewsOfBooks Review
    ·  The Guardian                                                The Observer 1            The Observer 2
    ·  MostlyFiction                            Washington Post                                          Cercles
    ·  New York Times 1    NYT 2                   New Yorker review by Joyce Carol Oates
 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

    ·  Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Page:
       online texts, biographical information, etc.
    ·  F. Scott Fitzgerald. Winter Dreams
    ·  The Great Gatsby E-text
 

Richard Ford

    ·  Richard Ford
 

    ·  John Fowles - The Web Site
    ·  John Fowles From the Archives of The New York Times
    ·  Audio Interview with John Fowles (36 min. 09 sec.) Don Swaim 1985
    ·  John Fowles Papers Finding Aid
 

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William Gibson

• Postmodernism is fiction
   

• Lord of the Flies: Guides and notes                         Lord of the Flies Info Page
   

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
• Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience by Per Wästberg
• On Nadine Gordimer from Pegasos Author's Calendar
• BBC Four - listen to Nadine Gordimer
   

• Greeneland
   

Seamus Heaney (born 1939)

• Poems by Seamus Heaney - study guide Andrew Moore
• Seamus Heaney The New York Times
   

• The Hemingway Resource Center

• Palin's Hemingway Adventure
   

• The Line of Beauty:  ReviewsOfBooks links

• 'I don't make moral judgments' Interview, October 21, 2004. The Guardian
   

Nick Hornby

• The Guardian

• About a Boy:
  Gymnasium Ulricianum Aurich contains a student summary, relevant quotes, character descriptions, interpretations as well as biographical, bibliographical and general student notes on the author.
  Langkær Gymnasium & HF student reviews of the book, links to official book reviews as well as background material on the author and the book
   

Langston Hughes

• Teacher Resource File
• Langston Hughes includes audios of Hughes reading his own poetry as well as several articles about him and reviews of this works. The New York Times
   

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Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)

• Ted Hughes Page
   

James Joyce

• The Dead. A literary cyber-project Mulernes Legatskole
   

Jack Kerouac

• Jack Kerouac and Beats - Dharma Beats Home Page
   

• Keats, John.   Poetical Works Bartleby
   

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kingwood College Library

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Part I Bjarne Albrechtsen

• Ken Kesey Interview by Mary Jane Fenex and Matthew Rick
   

• King on King Fra Mette Weisberg: Stephen King's American Nightmare

• The Body 1982. Penguin Readers Factsheets

• The Body Wikipedia encyclopedia
   

Hanif Kureishi

• The carnival of culture Multiculturalism has to be a robust exchange of ideas, rather than of festivals and food. The Guardian August 4, 2005

• Midnight all Day Gloser
   

• The Namesake:  Reader's Guide + Video Of Jhumpa Lahiri and A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri
• ReviewsOfBooks.com                                                                          MostlyFiction
   

Ursula LeGuin

    ·  Ursula K. LeGuin                                                                 Le Guin's World
    ·  Magical World of Earthsea                                                  EARTHSEA TRILOGY
 

    ·  The Official Website of Ian McEwan
    ·  How could we have forgotten that this was always going to happen?
      Ian McEwan watches oddly familiar scenes unfold in the heart of the capital
      after the London bombings. The Guardian, July 8, 2005

       Saturday (2005):
    ·  Reading Group Guide for Saturday                                      ReviewsOfBooks links

       On Chesil Beach (2007):
    ·  ReviewsOfBooks links

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Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950, American poet and biographer)

    ·  Masters, Edgar Lee  -  Spoon River Anthology  In these post-mortem
      autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens reveal the truth about their lives—
      with the honesty no fear of consequences enables. Bartleby
    ·  Spoon River Anthology The definitive online edition

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

    ·  The Arthur Miller Society
    ·  Arthur Miller SwissEduc                                 Arthur Miller The New York Times
    ·  Death of a Salesman Study Resource Center
 

• Rohinton Mistry: An Overview Postcolonial web
• Rohinton Mistry British Council
• January Profile  January Magazine
• Interview Asia Source
   
• Family Matters:
  Family Matters BBC
  Family Matters ReviewsOfBooks.com
   

Toni Morrison  (born 1931)

• Anniina's Toni Morrison Page A comprehensive web site for all of Toni Morrison's books as well as biographies, interviews, and web resources
• Toni Morrison Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature the Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Morrison, Toni SwissEduc. Information on Toni Morrison and her books suitable for class reading, teaching information, teachers' and students' comments, requests
• Literature 1993 The Nobel Foundation. Biography, Nobel Lecture, Banquet Speech, Nobel Diploma, Other Resources
• Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota
• On Toni Morrison from Pegasos Author's Calendar
• Toni Morrison Academic info
• Guardian Unlimited   - Links
• ClassicNotes: Toni Morrison Gradesaver
• Yahoo! Directory Authors > Toni Morrison
• Beloved by Toni Morrison - A Homework Online Study Guide
   

V.S. Naipaul

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001

• On V.S. Naipaul from Pegasos Author's Calendar

• Roundup of V.S. Naipaul South Asian Journalists Association
   

George Orwell

• George Orwell Brief biography, bibliography, and a few links. Unscholarly and not always trustworthy
• Political Writings of George Orwell Mostly E-texts of Orwell's essays and journalism
• Charles' Orwell Links Several dozen links on Orwell's life and works. No annotations, but links are divided into categories

• George Orwell Resources  This website includes a short biography, an extensive bibliography, quotes, photographs and links to online texts

• E-texts Project Gutenberg of Australia
   

Caryl Phillips (born in St Kitts, West Indies, in 1958, brought up in Leeds, and now divides his time between London and New York)

• carylphillips.com
• The Caryl Phillips Bibliography on the Internet
• Caryl Phillips Contemporary writers.com
• Phillips, Caryl Literary Encyclopedia
  The Nature of Blood:
• Diasporas and Desperations The New York Times
• The more things change Ross Sherman
• Bloody History! Exploring a Capacity for Revision. Restaging History in Wilson Harris's Jonestown and Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood
   

DBC Pierre: see Peter Finlay
 

Edgar Allan Poe

• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• Poe Museum  -  Poe Links
• The Poe Decoder
   

Salman Rushdie

• wikipedia.org Salman Rushdie
• subir.com Link collection

• Carl Sandburg The Academy of American Poets

• Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems

• Chicago Poems E-texts

• Sandburg, Carl Carl Sandburg celebrated his romance with America in these three early collections. 1916 Chicago Poems. 1918 Cornhuskers. 1920 Smoke and Steel. - Bartleby
   

• Sassoon, Siegfried At times violent, always honest, Sassoon’s poetry expresses his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse. 1918 The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918 Counter-Attack and Other Poems. 1920 Picture-Show. - Bartleby
   

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William Shakespeare

Texts

• MIT Shakespeare Homepage Complete Works

• Shakespeare in Quarto The British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642
  
  
  Background

• Shakespeare's Life and Times

• Shakespeare Resource Center

• Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare

• Shakespeare's Globe Theater

• The Elizabethan Theatre a lecture by Hilda D. Spear

• Shakespeare Online

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

• Shakespeare and the Renaissance  - Links

• William Shakespeare SwissEduc

• English 366: Studies in Shakespeare Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College. Excellent lectures
  
  
  Macbeth
   

• Text: The Tragedy of Macbeth                                                Wired for Books
   

• Study guides:
  Studying Macbeth                 SparkNotes             Booknotes                 Synopsis
   

• Academic analysis:
  Introduction to Macbeth Ian Johnston, Malaspina Univ. College. - Excellent
   

• Understanding "Macbeth"
   

• Quizzes:
  The Ultimate Macbeth Quiz
  Quiz: Act I  Act II  Act III  Act IV  Act V (academically, the best quiz)
   

Ali Smith (born in Inverness in 1962)

• Ali Smith British Council                                                  Ali Smith  Wikipedia

• The Accidental (2004): ReviewsOfBooks
   

Zadie Smith (born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother)

• Zadie Smith Wikipedia

• On Beauty (2005):  ReviewsOfBooks
   

John Steinbeck

    ·  John Steinbeck SwissEduc
    ·  Center for Steinbeck Studies

        Of Mice and Men:
    ·  The Great Depression General background
    ·  Mass Exodus from the Plains
    ·  Migrant Workers Photos by Dorothea Lange

    ·  Factsheet Background to Of Mice and Men
    ·  Notes on Of Mice and Men
    ·  Barron's