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Here you will find useful links to book-related websites.

   
   
Level 2

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

Dickens portal
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html

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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