| Classic Literature
Literature speaks to the mind and to the emotions. It stirs our imaginations
and enhances our experiences. Some literature is timeless; its appeal
remains constant from generation to generation.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about classic literature.
Places To Go | People
To See | Things To Do | Teacher
Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out
about classic literature.
The
Globe Theatre
Visit Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Literary
Locales
Virtually vist dozens of homes and locales where famous authors or literary
characters lived. This site is great fun. You can visit Arthur's Tintagel,
Shylock's Venice, Wordsworth's Lake District, Victor Hugo's Notre Dame
de Paris, Thomas Hardy's Dorset, Karen Blixen's (Isak Dinesen's) Rungstedlund,
and dozens more.
 Hannibal
Missouri
Travel to Hannibal, Missouri, the birthplace of Mark Twain. Visit his
boyhood home, take a virtual float down the Mississippi, and see where
Becky Thatcher lived.
The
Bronte Sisters
Virtually wander through the English moor in search of Heathcliffe.
 The
Camelot Project
Travel to Camelot and discuss the Arthurian legend with Arthurian scholars.
Gulliver's
Travels
Travel to Lilliput and meet its small inhabitants.
Anne Frank House
Virtually visit the home where young Anne Frank wrote her famous diary.
The Hobbitt
Site
Travel to Middle Earth and meet Bilbo and learn about author, John Ronald
Reuel Tolkien. Besides being an author, Tolkien was also a medieval scholar. 
People To See
Stephen
Crane : Man, Myth, and Legend
Chat with Stephen Crane. He was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer,
and he only lived to be 28 years old.Explore the themes and issues in
this writings as well as his literary techniques.
 Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
Meet Shakespeare and let him guide you through a complete annotated guide
of his works.
Jane
Austen Information Page
Talk with Jane Austen and find out who her favorite characters were....Elizabeth
Bennet? Catherine Morland? Jane Fairfax? Mary Crawford?
Digital
Dante
Spend some time with Dante and see if he's still following Beatrice around.
Find out about the upcoming multimedia translation of The Divine Comedy.
The site has tips for teachers using Dante in the classroom.
Herman Melville
Get to know Herman Melville. He had incredible experiences in the South
Pacific while working on a whaling ship. He was good friends with Nathanial
Hawthorne.
F.
Scott Fitzgerald
Get to know Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. According to this site, "The
dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature,
Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol."
 Odysseus
Meet Achilles and Ajax and Helen and Orestes and all the rest of the gang
from Homer's Odyssey.
Mark
Twain at Large
Mark Twain was an American original. He was a Mississippi River pilot,
a gold miner, a newspaper writer, a novelist, a political satirist. From
this site, you can see some actual photos of this author of American classics.
Willa
Cather
Get to know Willa Cather. Some of her most famous novels reflect her early
life in the late 1800s on the Nebraska prairie frontier.
Electronic
Beowulf
Meet Grendel's mother in cyberspace.
William
Faulkner
Spend time with William Faulkner. He won the Nobel Prize for literature
in 1949. Most of his novels are set in Yoknapatawpha county, an imaginary
area in Mississippi.
A Celebration
of Women Writers
Meet women writers from around the world.
Things To Do
SparkNotes
Find study guides for 100 classic books. This site is sort of like Cliff's
Notes online.
Geoffrey
Chaucer
Listen to the tales from Canterbury.
 Bartleby
Library: Great Books Online
Read great classic literature online or even print it out.
Project Gutenberg
Do you recall how Gutenberg's invention of the printing press made the
written word available to the masses? Well, this project's goal is to
make available the full text of hundreds of written works of literature
in an electronic form. It is THE source for online books.
The Internet
Classics Archive
If you didn't find what you were looking for at Project Gutenberg, you
might find it here. This site features 441 works of classical literature
by 59 different authors. It is searchable by work or author.
Teacher Resources
Hotlists from UEN provide internet sites to
visit to find out more about specific topics--in this case, classic literature!
(You can learn how to use this WWW
Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Online activities are a listing of internet
sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one.
(You can learn how to use this WWW
Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Lesson Plans/Webquests
Bibliography
- Christelow, Eileen. What Do Authors Do? New York : Clarion Books,
c1995.
- Hunter, Shaun. Writers. New York, NY : Crabtree Pub., c1998.
- Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Writers : Comedies, Tragedies (And What
the Neighbors Thought). San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
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