Class Zone: The Language of Literature

Selection Links

The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant on-line texts
This French-language site contains many links to on-line versions of stories by Guy de Maupassant in both English translation and in the original French.

Biographie de Guy de Maupassant
Students who study French may enjoy this French-language site.

The Most Dangerous Game, By Richard Connell

Animal Rights Resource Site
Arguments against hunting are found on this site's issues page.

Hunting Net
Billed as the "Ultimate All Hunting Web Site," Hunting Net offers the perspective of hunters.

Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy? By Tim O'Brien

Vietnam Veterans Home Page
This is a comprehensive and interactive on-line forum for Vietnam veterans and their families--on both sides--including poems, stories, songs, photographs, remembrances, a "lost and found," news of unit reunions and memorials, related links, and more.

The Vietnam Experience
Personal testimony and photographs by a Marine who helped produce a series of books entitled The Vietnam Experience and now solicits contributions for a volume to be called Vietnam Remembered

The Viet Nam Generation, Inc., Home Page
This is the home page of an on-line forum for scholars, educators, librarians, students, and members of the general public interested in the sixties in general and the Vietnam war in particular.

I like a look of Agony (Emily Dickinson)

Emily Dickinson
This useful site features numerous references and links to biographies, research, related sites, and other information. Included are links to over 350 Dickinson poems.

Emily Dickinson Poems On-Line
Contains links, alphabetized by first line, to the more than 350 Dickinson poems on-line

Emily Dickinson: Poems
This page, part of Columbia University's Project Bartleby, provides the text of Dickinson's Poems(1896).

Marigolds, By Eugenia Collier

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI
Over 50,000 photographs are available on this site developed as part of the Library of Congress' American Memory project.

Two Kinds, By Amy Tan

An Amy Tan Page
This site contains a fact sheet, photographs, a bibliography, numerous reviews, interviews, news clippings, and other material relating to Amy Tan.

The Osage Orange Tree, By William Stafford

The Poetry of William Stafford
More selections by the author

The Sacred Blur
A biographical site dedicated to William Stafford

The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger

The Perfect Storm Foundation
Created by Sebastian Junger, the Perfect Storm foundation is a nonprofit agency that provides cultural and educational grants to children of those in the fishing industries.

The Sebastian Junger Web Site
Site includes an email link to the author.

The Wreck of the Hesperus, By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow's collected poetry online

What is that Sound, By W. H. Auden

The W. H. Auden Society Home Page
A site commemorating the life and work of W. H. Auden

Incident in a Rose Garden, By Donald Justice

The Donald Justice Page
Site features a brief biography and selected poems online.

The Gift of the Magi, By O. Henry

The O. Henry Museum
Web page of the O. Henry Museum in Austin, Texas. Site includes biographical information and photographs of the writer.

William Sidney Porter
Biographical information on Porter, who is better known as O. Henry.

The Sniper, By Liam O'Flaherty

Social Abandonment: The Life of Liam O'Flaherty
A thorough biography of the writer.

Go Ireland
Sponsored by Ireland's National Tourism Service, this Web site provides an overview to the land and its people.

The Possibility of Evil, By Shirley Jackson

Horror and Literature
A critique of Jackson's work as exemplifying horror in literature

Shirley Jackson Photos
A collection of photographs of Shirley Jackson

The Censors, By Luisa Valenzuela

Luisa Valenzuela
This Spanish-language site provides a brief biography, a list of Valenzuela's works, and links to selected stories.

Argentina Guide
In Spanish and English, this Web site provides information about Valenzuela's homeland

The Freedom Forum
Learn about censorship and the struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights in America.

The Princess and the Tin Box, By James Thurber

The James Thurber page
Sponsored by San Antonio College, this site provides a list of Thurber's major works and links to other Thurber sites.

A Collection of Thurber's Stories and Cartoons
Links to selected works.

Edgar Allan Poe (author study; Annabel Lee; The Bells; Letter to Maria Clem; The Cask of Amontillado

"Annabel Lee" in Poe's Own Hand
On this page you can view an original signed copy of "Annabel Lee," written out by Poe not long before his death and circulated to friends. The document is located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.

Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet
Links to various on-line resources are included in this brief summary of places to look for Poe information.

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, where Poe is buried, has a very good site and appropriate links.

Edgar Allan Poe's Literary Neighborhood
This study by a University of Virginia student examines two literary magazines to which Poe contributed--Graham's Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book--to provide a context for his work. The site contains links to relevant texts.

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