Prose Fiction www.novelguide.com
Useful summaries, character studies and valuable brief biographies of authors. www.bibliomania.com
The Top Ten Quotes will save time on looking through the whole book. www.achuka.co.uk
The latest news about books for young readers. cityofshadows.stegenga.net
The homepage offers you a creepy Gothic Tour of Victorian London. Choose ‘A Dark Night’s Work’ to find the ghost stories. www.channel4.com/learning/main/secondary
Click on ‘English’ and scroll down to ‘Hooked on Horror.’ www.alcottweb.com
All about Louisa May Alcott, the author of ‘Little Women.’ www.bronte.info
This is the official Bronte Society site, so it’s expert and informative. Have a look at ‘The Brontes’ ‘Who were the Brontes?’ Family Tree’ and ‘The Novels.’ www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens
This is a great site about Dickens,his world and his novels. www.dickensmuseum.com
Have a look at the Dickens House Museum in London. www.sherlockian.net
This is a good general site about Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The most useful pages are ‘The Original Sherlock Holmes Stories’ ‘The World of Holmes and Watson’ and ‘Sherlockian Resources on the Web.’ www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/index.html
‘The Lord of the Rings’ was voted best book of the twentieth century. This is the official site on Tolkien. www.novelguide.com/animalfarm
Orwell called this book a ‘fairy tale’ but it’s actually a dark protest against some of the worst tendencies of the 20th century. Myths and Legends
www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/index.html
Modern translation of the 1000 year old class narrative poem. Teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/myths_home.htm
Go to ‘Myths from around the world’ to find stories from Greece and Rome to Australia to North America. Poetry www.learn.co.uk
Go to ‘Key stage 3’ the ‘English Literature Poetry’ then to ‘Introduction to Poetry. This site explains the technical features of poetry you should know about. Also check out ‘Narrative Poetry’, these poems are stories in verse.
Take a look at ‘Sonnets.’ You can find out about the sonnet form, along with explanations of Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare, O Earth, lie heavily by Rossetti, Batter my heart by Donne and The Fly by Reid. You can even try writing your own sonnet.
There are a wide variety of poems, exercises, explanations and tips on this website. www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/poetry/blake.htm
Blake is a brilliant poet, whose work looks easy but is rather difficult to understand. There are poems, questions and discussions here. www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore/poetry/mariner.htm
Lots of thought provoking activities on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. | 
