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Pleasures by Aldous Huxley
A short 1920 essay by Aldous Huxley on the pleasures that civilization quietly depends on, free to read in a clean publi…
PlotLines
Follow the characters of classic novels and plays across a period-style map, with each story's journeys traced out at on…
Poem of the Week: The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming on PotW.org, a Poem of the Week site running since 1996 with an archive of past poems bro…
Poeticous
An online poetry platform where writers publish and share poems and readers can browse a wide range of poetic works from…
Poetry Foundation
An archive of more than 40,000 poems with poet biographies, a glossary of poetic terms, and the monthly Poetry magazine.
Poetry in Translation
An open access archive of poetry and literature translated into English by A. S. Kline, spanning classical, medieval, an…
Poetry Platform
A large database of poetry you can browse, save to read later, and share, working like Goodreads for poems with a deep c…
Power Quote: Finnegans Wake
An HTMLGIANT post featuring ten of the longest words from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, including the hundred-letter thundercl…
Project Gutenberg Clock
A clock that tells the time by quoting a passage from a Project Gutenberg book that mentions the current time, turning t…
Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
Thousands of free audiobooks made from Project Gutenberg texts with neural voices, ready to stream or download straight…
Pulitzer Prize Winners by Year
A year-by-year archive of Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists across journalism, letters, drama, and music, going back…
Quiver and Fixity
An essay by Jhumpa Lahiri on returning to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure decades later and finding wells, ghosts, and t…
Read A Little Poetry
A living archive of poetry that began as a personal commonplace book in 2005, holding poets up to the light beside perso…
Read the Places
A literary atlas mapping the real places mentioned in hundreds of novels, ordered as each story visits them, so you can…
Reading Project
An independently run site offering book reviews across many genres, along with long-term projects of personal interest b…
Reluctant Habits
A cultural forum of essays and reviews on literature, film and arts, with thoughtful takes on classics the author admire…
Romantic Circles
A scholarly site devoted to Romantic-era literature, with free digital editions, author pages like Mary Shelley's, essay…
RuVerses
An online library of Russian poetry in English translation, collecting verses from classic and modern poets for readers…
Searching for the Self-Loathing Woman Writer
A long read asking whether famous women writers hated themselves or were writing about a world that hated them, weighing…
Shakespeare Network
Read all of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems online, browse them by genre, date or word count, search characters a…
Shmoop
Study guides that break down classic novels, poems, and plays with a witty, conversational tone, aimed at making literat…
Short Little Difficult Books
A reading list of challenging, stylish and formally inventive novels short enough to finish in a day, with a few lines o…
Standard Ebooks
A volunteer project producing beautifully typeset, carefully proofread, and completely free ebook editions of public dom…
Stop Calling Shuggie Bain Bleak
An essay in Litro Magazine arguing that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain should not be dis…
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