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Narayan links

R.K Narayan

• R. K. Narayan: A Tribute - Run by India Today at his recent death. Nice background information.
• The English in R.K. Narayan's Novels - A look at British influence, ironically written in not-so-great-English. Thanks to Kate.
• "I'm a very boring fellow" - A visit with Yoda - er, R.K. Narayan

The Guide

• A study guide to The Guide - Full of thoughtful questions and informative links. Put together by the prodigious Professor Paul Brians of Washington State University.

The Guide in film

• Tales of Travesty - How RKN was bribed to turn his novel into a film.
• Etched in Memory - An enthusiastic summary of the filmed Guide, from Hindu Online.
• Dev Anand - Some background on 'Bollywood's Gregory Peck': the man behind the 1965 film that RKN called "the Misguided Guide."

Twain links

Mark Twain in general

• Twain on the WWW - Deep collection of all kinds of resources - the first stop for any online Twain research - worth the evil pop-up boxes.
• Mark Twain: Related Links - PBS rounds up worthy MT resources, including info on his various homes & vivid historical material. Thanks to Carol.
• The Mark Twain Projects - A major collection of his letters and writing that is reshaping even the best-known Twain texts. Hosted by some school in California named Berkeley.
• Twain works online - Available in HTML and zip format for easy downloading.

Huckleberry Finn

• Huck online - A clean presentation
• Huck Finn section of Mark Twain in His Times - An embarrassment of riches from the University of Virginia, including sources, publicity & advertising, illustrations, and an 'interactive gallery' on race. Thanks to Carol.
• Recent Huck news - A Discovery article that describes the discovery of new passages of an old classic.

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Wilde links

Oscar Wilde in general

• The World-Wide Wilde Web - A huge collection of annotated links. The starting point for any online OW research.
• The Oscariana Project - A vivid online portrait made up of pictures, quotes, letters.
• The Voice of Oscar Wilde - Maybe, maybe not. Supposedly made in 1900, the year of OW's death.
• Oscar Wilde's 1895 martyrdom for 'indecent acts' - Background on the scandal that brought him down.

The Importance of Being Earnest

• Earnest  online - One of several texts available online. This one fits the whole play on one page, for easy searching.
• Background on IBE - Its stormy 1895 debut.
• IBE Act One self-test - A quick & fun way to jog your memory on Act I.
• IBE 2002 movie - Earnest goes Hollywood. Starring Rupert Everett, of course. Info & a link to the trailer. Thanks to Samantha.

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Radcliffe links

The gothic

• The Gothic Literature Page - General background on the movement, a bibliography, and special attention paid to Radcliffe.
• The sublime and the domestic - Bite-sized excerpts of recent theory about the gothic.

Ann Radcliffe

• The Literary Gothic: Ann Radcliffe - Good links to what little is out there, including snippets of her other bestsellers.
• The life of Ann Radcliffe - Don't believe the hype, she wasn't crazy - but she did die gasping....
• "On the Supernatural in Poetry" - A brief meditation by AR about the difference between terror and horror.
• Radcliffe's word painting - Modern tribute to Mother Radcliffe: she's cinematic.

The Italian

• The Italian Monk - Schedoni onstage? Iago would eat his lunch.

Images

• Piranesi online - Now you can join the Marchesa in collecting the Vedute (thanks to Philip)

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Shakespeare links

Shakespeare in general

• The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Oxford Edition) - Forgot your book? Relax, it's all online.
• Shakespeare Search Engine - The fastest I've run across.
• Shakespeare Glossary - What does that word mean? When else did the Bard use it? Be patient - it's a slow loader, but worth the wait.
• Shakespeare Timeline - A good way to surf around what little we know about his life.
• The Globe Theater info - Where it all began.

Shakespeare the imposter

• A Historic Whodunit: If Shakespeare Didn't, Who Did?- Ripped out of the headlines... the New York Times presents a case for De Vere. Includes an interactive tour of a portrait. Check it out before the article moves to archives & you have to pay for it.
• Who really wrote this stuff? - All the theories, all the controversy. Also check out PBS Frontline on the same debate.
• The Shakespeare Mystery - A class project, with short, informative essays on many angles of that darn mystery. Thanks to Phillip.
• Shakespeare Authorship page - Here's an idea: maybe Shakespeare really was Shakespeare.

Othello links

• Background information on Othello's history and racial references. It's poorly coded - if you want to go onto page 2, click here.
• Some ways to approach that big mystery: Iago's motivation. And by the same prof, ways to measure Iago's tactics.
• A.C. Bradley's essay on Othello's nobility.

Fun and games

• Elizabethan Insults - Whip up your own Shakespearean put-down.

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