Welcome to Oxford Progressive English Readers for students Here you will find useful links to book-related websites.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Online study guide http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Huckleberry-Finn.id-20.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/index.html
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Websites about Mark Twain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/ www.marktwainhouse.org/
Around the World in Eighty Days
Websites about Jules Verne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne www.unmuseum.org/verne.htm
Student website project http://library.thinkquest.org/J002459F/index.htm
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Websites about Oscar Wilde www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilde_oscar.shtml www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A507052 www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/index.html
David Copperfield
Game: Survive Dickens' London www.bbc.co.uk/arts/multimedia/dickens/
About David Copperfield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_%28novel%29
Fog and Other Stories
A guide to classic mystery fiction http://members.aol.com/MG4273/classics.htm
Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Essay on locked-room mysteries http://www.mysterylist.com/lockedrm.htm
Sherlock Holmes museum http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/home.htm
Great Expectations
Great Expectations study guide http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Great_Expectations_Dickens/ Great_Expectations01.html
PDF scans of the original edition http://dickens.stanford.edu/archive/great/expectations.html
Gulliver's Travels ¡X Further Voyages
Annotated original text http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/index.html
Jonathan Swift biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Hound of the Baskervilles study guide http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hound/
Recent TV adaptation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/hound/
The Merchant of Venice and Other Stories from Shakespeare's Plays
Websites about Shakespeare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/index.html
The Merchant of Venice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice
Macbeth www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ english/macbeth/index.shtml
History: www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/macbeth.shtml
The Tempest www.universalteacher.org.uk/shakespeare/tempest.htm
Hamlet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
King Lear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear
The Missing Scientist
The Pickwick Papers
Pickwick Papers website http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pickwick/index.html
David Purdue's Charles Dickens Page www.fidnet.com/%7Edap1955/dickens/
The Red Badge of Courage
Website about the novel http://www.redbadgeofcourage.org/
The Stephen Crane Society http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/
Robinson Crusoe
Websites about Daniel Defoe www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jdefoe.htm www.mantex.co.uk/ou/a811/defoe-01.htm
Website about Robinson Crusoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe
Silas Marner
Silas Marner study guide http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-123.html
Page on George Eliot http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/index.html
Stories from Shakespeare's Histories
General page on Shakespearean histories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_histories
A Tale of Two Cities
Notes on the novel http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ttc/index.htm
Lecture on the book http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=45&EventId=611
Tales of Crime and Detection
Two Boxes of Gold and Other Stories
Essay on Dickens's short stories http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/dickens-charles
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