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Good Places for Reading
Here are some great places to spend some time if you like reading in English.
Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/-/frameset.html
Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world's greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare's plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe.
East of the Web
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/indexframe.html
Large online library of short stories with monthly features and additions. Classics and new writing - includes summaries, biographies and analysis. Children's, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Humour, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science-Fiction and Hyperfiction Short Stories. Plus Word Games and Interactive activities.
The Literature Network
http://www.online-literature.com/
We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes.
Project Gutemberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Poetry 180
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.
Poem Hunter
PoemHunter.Com aims to spread the effects of poems in the social and individual life of people, where a continuous change is undergoing with the Internet. PoemHunter.Com without a pause, continues its activities with the active participation of thousands of members.