This will be the main page on British and American Literature.
For keeping track of your own reading, have a look at: http://www.shelfari.com.
Don’t know what to read? Have yourselves informed at http://www.encompassculture.com/ or at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books
Common pages
The Big (USA) Read: http://www.neabigread.org/index.php
AUTHORS (alphabetically)
Maya Angelou – I Know why the Caged Bird sings / read her famous poem that can be connected to this wonderful book: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623
Jane Austen / Information on her writings can be found here: http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janewrit.html. Another good page would be the one of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath: http://www.janeausten.co.uk/. But probably the best to start with is: http://www.online-literature.com/austen/
Emily Brontë / It is this woman who wrote the British No.1 book of all times: Wuthering Heights: http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/wutheringheights/ or http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/ More information on the Brontës can be found at: http://www.bronte.org.uk/, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/ebronte/index.html, http://www.brontefamily.org/
Charles Dickens / Take a look at this beautiful website on one of the greatest British authors that ever lived: http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html
Somerset Maugham / Read a short biography on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham
Dorothy Parker / http://www.dorothyparker.com/; http://www.poemhunter.com/dorothy-parker/; http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/parker/
Mary Shelley / The female author who became famous with the book Frankenstein. For a short biography and explanation of her reasons to write this book, go to: http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary/
Oscar Wilde / “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her”. This is only one of the many sharped quotations Wilde made in his short life. For biographical information on Wilde: http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde For more quotes: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/
