Welcome to Oxford Progressive English Readers for students Here you will find useful links to book-related websites.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Website about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Museum www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/
Websites about Sherlock Holmes www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A2773415 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes
A Christmas Carol
Websites about Charles Dickens David Purdue's Charles Dickens Page www.fidnet.com/%7Edap1955/dickens/
Game: Survive Dickens' London www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/
Websites about Christmas WhyChristmas? www.whychristmas.com/
The Christmas Pages www.north-pole.co.uk/
The Dagger with Wings and Other Father Brown Stories
Who is G. K. Chesterton? http://www.chesterton.org/discover/who.html
Profile of Father Brown http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philipg/detectives/brown.html
The Flying Heads and Other Strange Stories
Asian ghosts database http://asiasghosts.fateback.com/ghost_database.htm
How stuff works: Ghosts http://science.howstuffworks.com/ghost.htm
The Golden Touch and Other Stories
The Golden Touch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Midas
The First Spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne
The Donkey's Ears www.mythweb.com/gods/Apollo.html
Theseus and the Minotaur http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Theseus.html http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Minotaur.html
The Wonderful Wings www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/daedalus.html
Pluto and Persephone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone
A Wonderful Musician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus
The Golden Chariot of the Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pha%EBton
Gulliver's Travels ¡X A Voyage to Lilliput
www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels
The Jungle Book
Websites about The Jungle Book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Book www.scoutingresources.org.uk/jungle_names.html
Websites about Rudyard Kipling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling www.ontalink.com/literature/rudyard_kipling/
Rudyard Kipling Society www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm
Life Without Katy and Other Stories
Profile of O. Henry http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/
Lord Jim
Biography of Joseph Conrad http://www.iona.edu/faculty/dwilliams/499/ConradBio.htm
Page on the SS Jeddah, probable basis of the story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S._Jeddah
A Midsummer Night's Dream and Other Stories from Shakespeare's Plays
Websites about Shakespeare www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/index.html www.shakespeare.org.uk/main/1/12
A Midsummer's Night's Dream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream
Twelfth Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_night
Romeo and Juliet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_juliet
As You Like It http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_you_like_it
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot biography http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/pva92.html
The Mill on the Floss study guide http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/millonthefloss/
Nicholas Nickleby
Dickens portal http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
G. K. Chesterton review of Nicholas Nickleby http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Chesterton-A&C-1.html#IV
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist summary, including family tree http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/twist.html
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain website http://ww3.telerama.com/~joseph/mtwain.html
The Stone Junk and Other Stories
General information on fairy tales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_tale
Stories from Greek Tragedies
Website about Greek theatre http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/greek.html
Origins of Greek tragedy http://raconter.net/viewstory.php?sid=15&textsize=0&chapter=1
Stories from Shakespeare's Comedies
General information on Shakespearean comedies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_comedies
Tales of King Arthur
Arthurian resources http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/ http://faculty.smu.edu/arthuriana/
The Talking Tree and Other Stories
Fables website http://www.lefavole.org/en/
Through the Looking Glass
About Lewis Carroll http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/
About the Alice books http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alice.html
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