Great Books on the Internet

1
Great Books on the Internet
Dave Andrews
Heather Caddell
Sara Jones
2
Contents

• Overview
• Great Books on the Web
• Case Studies
• Research and Interpretation

3
Overview

• With the dawn of the age where most everything
  can be accessed through the Internet, literature
  is becoming widely available. As opposed to
  buying several books, a computer will suffice as
  a library of works. If the interest grows to
  read Macbeth, navigating the web can get the work
  for you along with notes or research on the text.
  Great Books on the Internet displays sites,
  which contain full text and how to research great
  books, for those who want to discover the library
  contained in your computer.

4
Great Books on the Web

• There are thousands of internet sights that
  provide full text versions of classic literature,
  and even some that have contemporary literature.
• I have picked three sights that I feel do a
  particularly good job in organizing and making
  these books easily accessible to the average
  computer user.

5
http//www.bartleby.com

• This is a company that sells books, but it also
  has an extensive library of full texts online
  separated into categories, such as fiction,
  non-fiction and reference.
• It is organized by author and then by individual
  works.
• The works are split into chapters which makes the
  whole site functional and easy to use.

6
http//www.literature.org/

• Although this site has less of a selection as the
  previous one, it is organized quite well and easy
  to use.
• Each full text version is in an easily readable
  font and formatted so the text doesnt fill the
  entire screen.
• I picked this site for its conducive reading
  conditions.

7
http//www.concordance.com/

• Although this site is not as esthetically
  pleasing as the first two, it has a wide variety
  of ways to search for the text you are looking
  for.
• Once the text is chosen there are many ways to
  choose which part of the book you would like to
  read. For example, instead of just picking a
  chapter, key words can be typed in to read about
  a certain theme in the text.

8
Case Studies

• Macbeth
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Beloved

9
Macbeth

• http//www.macbethessays.com/
•  
• As was stated earlier in this presentation,
  sometimes you just cant trust what you will get
  off of the web. When I started my search for
  Macbeth, I was looking for sites that might have
  some kind of critical essays about the play.
  Instead, I got this site which offers to let you
  buy mediocre (at best) essays right off of the
  Internet. At least, for those of us who are above
  purchasing our homework, the site did offer some
  pointers on writing an essay, should you actually
  choose to do it the old fashioned way. These
  pointers were good ones to follow, but they were
  also ones that have been drilled into our head
  since Junior High. The bottom-line? Dont waste
  your time, it certainly wont tell you anything
  new.
•  
•  

10
Macbeth

• http//students.roanoke.edu/t/tnunez/MACBETHomepag
  e.html
• This website was actually pretty good at giving
  information about the play, Shakespeare, and the
  time frame in general. Background information is
  given over the actual person Macbeth, as well as
  historical information about the play itself.
  There is also a section that deals with witches
  and the role they play within the piece. This
  includes links to related web sites as well as
  specific references to witches from within the
  play.
• One of the main features that I really enjoyed
  about this website was the fact that it gave
  information on the history of Scotland and its
  clans. Each character is listed according to
  which clan they belong to in the play. An example
  of their tartan is also given and a description
  about the clan itself. I never saw any
  information like this on the other websites I
  examined, and thought that it was a very unique
  way to approach the play.
• There is also a final section within this site
  that is devoted to art that is inspired by
  Shakespeare. This is a good opportunity to gather
  pictures for a presentation or simply to enjoy
  some one elses interpretation of a beautiful
  piece of literature. Several good links are given
  throughout this site and the information is
  arranged in a way that is both attractive to the
  eye and easy to follow.

11
Macbeth

• http//library.thinkquest.org/2888/
• This site was very impressive and contained
  quite a wealth of information. It even begins
  with a forward that provides instructions for
  optimum use of the site. This site contains the
  entire text of the play and it can be linked to
  through various acts and scenes as well as read
  straight through. To help aid in the reading of
  the piece, a glossary is provided as well as
  various links which lead to discussions of themes
  and so forth.
• Reviews of several different editions of the
  play are also available to make sure that you
  select the copy that would be best suited to your
  needs. This site is a total multi media
  presentation that incorporates text as well as
  pictures, audio excerpts, and scene videos. There
  is also an interactive zone where you can post
  any questions or information that you may have
  about the play. These will then be responded to
  by the Macbeth Discussion Board, as well as
  others who may be enjoying the site.
• Finally, this site provides a lengthy list of
  other sites as well as a small abstract about
  what they include within them. Several of these
  links also seemed to prove worth while and would
  probably be helpful to research. 

12
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
• This web site turned out to be the official
  site for the San Jose State Colleges Center for
  Steinbeck Studies. As a result, roughly about
  half of it deals with the classes and
  administration of the center. However, there is
  still valuable information to be gained from
  here.
• One of the main things that I liked about this
  site was that interpretations of its text are
  available in French or Spanish as well. This
  would allow people who were not native English
  speakers to also access the information
  presented. As far as content is concerned, there
  are a few areas which might prove to be helpful.
• There is a list provided of Steinbecks life
  works along with the year in which they were
  published. Also, there is a fairly detailed
  biography of his life which includes time lines,
  pictures, and other visual aids. Several
  recommended web sites are also given. Many of
  which seemed to be fairly developed sites with
  good information.

13
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.teachwithmovies.com/guides/grapes-of-wr
  ath.html
• My first impulse upon encountering this site was
  to simply leave it and explore another. After
  looking at it for a few minutes, however, I
  decided that it might actually be of some value,
  particularly for teaching majors.
• Obviously the subject of this web site is using
  movies in the classroom. Here, the example is the
  Grapes of Wrath. The site starts out by giving
  basic information about the movie such as who
  starred in it, what year it was made, etc. Then,
  however, it goes on to list the benefits that
  would and the possible problems that might occur
  if the film were to be shown.
• Helpful background information is also given as
  to the historical context of the movie and the
  piece from which the film is based, in this case,
  Steinbecks novel. The themes of the piece are
  explored in detail and several other pieces of
  literature or film which share parallel themes
  are suggested.
• Finally, at the end of the site we are given a
  list of discussion questions that a teacher may
  wish to ask her class. I thought that these could
  be especially helpful if someone was trying to
  develop a lesson plan.

14
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.go.com./WebDir/Arts_and_Humanities/Book
  s_and_
• Literature/All_authors/S_U/Steinbeck_Jo
  hn/Grapes_of_
• Wrath_The
• This web page is helpful and short. It doesnt
  have any real information on the piece, it is
  simply a list of web pages that are related to
  Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath. Many of these
  proved to be helpful and all of the sites
  provided seemed to be of the more academic
  variety.

15
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//home.pacific.net.au/greg.hub/grapes.html\
• This page was by far the best that I could find
  on Steinbeck and his novel. In fact, I think it
  was one of the best sites that I have ever come
  across for any novel. The thing is absolutely
  huge! There are several special features included
  in this site.
• One of these is the fact that a summary is given
  of the piece, but it is very detailed and can be
  linked to by chapter. This breaking down of the
  book into smaller segments creates room for a
  lot more detail. Also, if you are focusing on a
  particular portion of the novel, you dont have
  to scroll through everything else to reach it.
• There is also a forum area available where
  questions or comments can be posted and responded
  to. From the amount of material in there, it
  seemed that the place was actually pretty busy.

16
The Grapes of Wrath

• One of the neatest features of this web site was
  that besides having several critical essays and
  discussions of theme available, it actually
  provided a format for which to write a paper.
  There are several different topics which are
  given such as imagery and when you select one,
  it will link you to an outline that will have
  questions already arranged in a nice, coherent
  package. While it is obviously not necessary to
  follow the outline, the questions that they
  contain are very good starting points when you
  are beginning to write your paper.
• There is also a section in which one can read a
  variety of book reviews over the novel and see
  what the critics thought of Steinbecks work when
  it was first published.
• A variety of other links provide historical
  information on the author as well as the piece,
  and even explore various related topics such as
  the Depression, Woody Guthrie, and Operation
  Grapes of Wrath. Various links to other Internet
  web sites are also provided.

17
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.awerty.addr.com/grapes2.html
• This site would be helpful in gathering
  background information. It provides character
  overviews as well as a fairly detailed summary of
  the plot. One of the things that I thought made
  this site stand out a little is the fact that it
  has a section for commentary in which some of the
  writing techniques are given attention

18
The Grapes of Wrath
http//www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
This web site turned out to be the official site
for the San Jose State Colleges Center for
Steinbeck Studies. As a result, roughly about
half of it deals with the classes and
administration of the center. However, there is
still valuable information to be gained from
here. One of the main things that I liked about
this site was that interpretations of its text
are available in French or Spanish as well. This
would allow people who were not native English
speakers to also access the information
presented. As far as content is concerned, there
are a few areas which might prove to be
helpful. There is a list provided of Steinbecks
life works along with the year in which they were
published. Also, there is a fairly detailed
biography of his life which includes time lines,
pictures, and other visual aids. Several
recommended web sites are also given. Many of
which seemed to be fairly developed sites with
good information.    
19
Beloved
http//www.az.com/andrade/morrison/start.html
This site was fairly decent for being a non
academic site. It is posted by a fan of
Morrisons, and she makes a point of stating that
she is not an authority. However, the site does
examine the use of symbolism in the text of
Beloved with suporting citations from the text
itself. Also, there is a list of frequently asked
questions which she responds to rather well. The
bottom line? This site is a good one to get your
wheels turning about the book. If you are doing
an official academic paper, however, you might
want to find a source with more credibility.
20
Beloved
http//www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorriso
n/beloved.htm There wasnt much meat to this
site, unfortunately. A few critical essays are
provided which offer a pretty good insight into
the text. The only thing that I really considered
worthwhile, however, were that the links this
site offers to other sites are pretty decent and
would probably yield more information than this
site.
21
Beloved
http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/mmaynard/Morrison/biog
raph.html This was one of the better sites that
I found over Beloved. For starters, this was the
first site that I ran across that actually had
personal background information on Morrison
herself. Also, there are a number of critical
reviews available over her works that could prove
useful in research. There is also a section
that gives historical information into the
background of Beloved, as well as a time line
showing major events in history that would have
happened around the time the novel would have
taken place. Several parallel themes are also
discussed and are explored using citations from
the text as well as other sources. Internet links
are also given to other sites that might yield
information.
22
Beloved
http//wcuvax1. Wcu.edu./amiller/smith/Bio.htm
This site also includes a personal biography into
the life of Toni Morrison. Internet links are
also provided to other sites containing
biographical information. A brief overview of
the book itself is also given along with other
site links about the actual piece. However,
neither set of links is something to wrote home
about.
23
Beloved
http//www.homework-online.com/beloved/index.asp
This was an incredibly good site with lots of
useful information. A detailed summary is
presented of the novel along with an extensive
character analysis. There is also a lengthy
section which examines many of the complex themes
which weave in and out of the novel. Likewise,
there is also a section that is dedicated to the
use of symbols in the piece as well as the
structure of it as a whole. These areas not only
delve deeper into the text than most of the other
sites, but they provide a really unique outlook
on the book itself. Another feature that I
really enjoyed was the fact that there is an
entire section that is devoted to Morrisons
writing style and structure, which is an area
that most of the other sites just barely touched
on.
24
Research and Interpretation
The Internet, besides being the place to check
your e-mail, can be extremely useful when trying
to gather information about great books. Most
books have some site dedicated to help you
further your knowledge about what you had read or
what you want to read. Going to any search
engine and typing in the name of the book can
lead you to many sites that could either be the
site you were looking for or something totally
unrelated to Moby Dick, but rather a site that
should be blocked by Parental Control. The
problem with researching great books on the
Internet is sorting through the helpful and the
helpless. When going to research on a novel on
the Internet, the usual guidelines should be
followed such as .org, .gov, and .edu are
usually more reliable sources, always check why
the site is in existence, and who is the author.
It is easy to find a commercial site that is a
homepage of your best friends high school
brother that contains a work copied from another
website word for word on the criticism of Moby
Dick being a symbol for soap. Basing your
central argument on these findings dont quite
hold up. There are good sites out there and
finding them doesnt require a day of surfing,
but just a careful and judgmental eye.

25
Useful Sites for Research

• These following sites are all excellent sites in
  helping you research a great book on the
  Internet.
• http//lang.nagoya-.ac.jp/matsuoka/AmeLit.html
• http//www.novelguide.com/novelanalysis.html
• http//www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/lit.html
  litcrit
• http//www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html
• http//www.teleport.com/mgroves/index.shtml
• http//www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
• http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/index.ht
  ml
• http//www.sparknotes.com/lit/.dir/

26
Great Books on the Internet
Dave Andrews
Heather Caddell
Sara Jones
27
Contents

• Overview
• Great Books on the Web
• Case Studies
• Research and Interpretation

28
Overview

• With the dawn of the age where most everything
  can be accessed through the Internet, literature
  is becoming widely available. As opposed to
  buying several books, a computer will suffice as
  a library of works. If the interest grows to
  read Macbeth, navigating the web can get the work
  for you along with notes or research on the text.
  Great Books on the Internet displays sites,
  which contain full text and how to research great
  books, for those who want to discover the library
  contained in your computer.

29
Great Books on the Web

• There are thousands of internet sights that
  provide full text versions of classic literature,
  and even some that have contemporary literature.
• I have picked three sights that I feel do a
  particularly good job in organizing and making
  these books easily accessible to the average
  computer user.

30
http//www.bartleby.com

• This is a company that sells books, but it also
  has an extensive library of full texts online
  separated into categories, such as fiction,
  non-fiction and reference.
• It is organized by author and then by individual
  works.
• The works are split into chapters which makes the
  whole site functional and easy to use.

31
http//www.literature.org/

• Although this site has less of a selection as the
  previous one, it is organized quite well and easy
  to use.
• Each full text version is in an easily readable
  font and formatted so the text doesnt fill the
  entire screen.
• I picked this site for its conducive reading
  conditions.

32
http//www.concordance.com/

• Although this site is not as esthetically
  pleasing as the first two, it has a wide variety
  of ways to search for the text you are looking
  for.
• Once the text is chosen there are many ways to
  choose which part of the book you would like to
  read. For example, instead of just picking a
  chapter, key words can be typed in to read about
  a certain theme in the text.

33
Case Studies

• Macbeth
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Beloved

34
Macbeth

• http//www.macbethessays.com/
•  
• As was stated earlier in this presentation,
  sometimes you just cant trust what you will get
  off of the web. When I started my search for
  Macbeth, I was looking for sites that might have
  some kind of critical essays about the play.
  Instead, I got this site which offers to let you
  buy mediocre (at best) essays right off of the
  Internet. At least, for those of us who are above
  purchasing our homework, the site did offer some
  pointers on writing an essay, should you actually
  choose to do it the old fashioned way. These
  pointers were good ones to follow, but they were
  also ones that have been drilled into our head
  since Junior High. The bottom-line? Dont waste
  your time, it certainly wont tell you anything
  new.
•  
•  

35
Macbeth

• http//students.roanoke.edu/t/tnunez/MACBETHomepag
  e.html
• This website was actually pretty good at giving
  information about the play, Shakespeare, and the
  time frame in general. Background information is
  given over the actual person Macbeth, as well as
  historical information about the play itself.
  There is also a section that deals with witches
  and the role they play within the piece. This
  includes links to related web sites as well as
  specific references to witches from within the
  play.
• One of the main features that I really enjoyed
  about this website was the fact that it gave
  information on the history of Scotland and its
  clans. Each character is listed according to
  which clan they belong to in the play. An example
  of their tartan is also given and a description
  about the clan itself. I never saw any
  information like this on the other websites I
  examined, and thought that it was a very unique
  way to approach the play.
• There is also a final section within this site
  that is devoted to art that is inspired by
  Shakespeare. This is a good opportunity to gather
  pictures for a presentation or simply to enjoy
  some one elses interpretation of a beautiful
  piece of literature. Several good links are given
  throughout this site and the information is
  arranged in a way that is both attractive to the
  eye and easy to follow.

36
Macbeth

• http//library.thinkquest.org/2888/
• This site was very impressive and contained
  quite a wealth of information. It even begins
  with a forward that provides instructions for
  optimum use of the site. This site contains the
  entire text of the play and it can be linked to
  through various acts and scenes as well as read
  straight through. To help aid in the reading of
  the piece, a glossary is provided as well as
  various links which lead to discussions of themes
  and so forth.
• Reviews of several different editions of the
  play are also available to make sure that you
  select the copy that would be best suited to your
  needs. This site is a total multi media
  presentation that incorporates text as well as
  pictures, audio excerpts, and scene videos. There
  is also an interactive zone where you can post
  any questions or information that you may have
  about the play. These will then be responded to
  by the Macbeth Discussion Board, as well as
  others who may be enjoying the site.
• Finally, this site provides a lengthy list of
  other sites as well as a small abstract about
  what they include within them. Several of these
  links also seemed to prove worth while and would
  probably be helpful to research. 

37
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
• This web site turned out to be the official
  site for the San Jose State Colleges Center for
  Steinbeck Studies. As a result, roughly about
  half of it deals with the classes and
  administration of the center. However, there is
  still valuable information to be gained from
  here.
• One of the main things that I liked about this
  site was that interpretations of its text are
  available in French or Spanish as well. This
  would allow people who were not native English
  speakers to also access the information
  presented. As far as content is concerned, there
  are a few areas which might prove to be helpful.
• There is a list provided of Steinbecks life
  works along with the year in which they were
  published. Also, there is a fairly detailed
  biography of his life which includes time lines,
  pictures, and other visual aids. Several
  recommended web sites are also given. Many of
  which seemed to be fairly developed sites with
  good information.

38
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.teachwithmovies.com/guides/grapes-of-wr
  ath.html
• My first impulse upon encountering this site was
  to simply leave it and explore another. After
  looking at it for a few minutes, however, I
  decided that it might actually be of some value,
  particularly for teaching majors.
• Obviously the subject of this web site is using
  movies in the classroom. Here, the example is the
  Grapes of Wrath. The site starts out by giving
  basic information about the movie such as who
  starred in it, what year it was made, etc. Then,
  however, it goes on to list the benefits that
  would and the possible problems that might occur
  if the film were to be shown.
• Helpful background information is also given as
  to the historical context of the movie and the
  piece from which the film is based, in this case,
  Steinbecks novel. The themes of the piece are
  explored in detail and several other pieces of
  literature or film which share parallel themes
  are suggested.
• Finally, at the end of the site we are given a
  list of discussion questions that a teacher may
  wish to ask her class. I thought that these could
  be especially helpful if someone was trying to
  develop a lesson plan.

39
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.go.com./WebDir/Arts_and_Humanities/Book
  s_and_
• Literature/All_authors/S_U/Steinbeck_Jo
  hn/Grapes_of_
• Wrath_The
• This web page is helpful and short. It doesnt
  have any real information on the piece, it is
  simply a list of web pages that are related to
  Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath. Many of these
  proved to be helpful and all of the sites
  provided seemed to be of the more academic
  variety.

40
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//home.pacific.net.au/greg.hub/grapes.html\
• This page was by far the best that I could find
  on Steinbeck and his novel. In fact, I think it
  was one of the best sites that I have ever come
  across for any novel. The thing is absolutely
  huge! There are several special features included
  in this site.
• One of these is the fact that a summary is given
  of the piece, but it is very detailed and can be
  linked to by chapter. This breaking down of the
  book into smaller segments creates room for a
  lot more detail. Also, if you are focusing on a
  particular portion of the novel, you dont have
  to scroll through everything else to reach it.
• There is also a forum area available where
  questions or comments can be posted and responded
  to. From the amount of material in there, it
  seemed that the place was actually pretty busy.

41
The Grapes of Wrath

• One of the neatest features of this web site was
  that besides having several critical essays and
  discussions of theme available, it actually
  provided a format for which to write a paper.
  There are several different topics which are
  given such as imagery and when you select one,
  it will link you to an outline that will have
  questions already arranged in a nice, coherent
  package. While it is obviously not necessary to
  follow the outline, the questions that they
  contain are very good starting points when you
  are beginning to write your paper.
• There is also a section in which one can read a
  variety of book reviews over the novel and see
  what the critics thought of Steinbecks work when
  it was first published.
• A variety of other links provide historical
  information on the author as well as the piece,
  and even explore various related topics such as
  the Depression, Woody Guthrie, and Operation
  Grapes of Wrath. Various links to other Internet
  web sites are also provided.

42
The Grapes of Wrath

• http//www.awerty.addr.com/grapes2.html
• This site would be helpful in gathering
  background information. It provides character
  overviews as well as a fairly detailed summary of
  the plot. One of the things that I thought made
  this site stand out a little is the fact that it
  has a section for commentary in which some of the
  writing techniques are given attention

43
The Grapes of Wrath
http//www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html
This web site turned out to be the official site
for the San Jose State Colleges Center for
Steinbeck Studies. As a result, roughly about
half of it deals with the classes and
administration of the center. However, there is
still valuable information to be gained from
here. One of the main things that I liked about
this site was that interpretations of its text
are available in French or Spanish as well. This
would allow people who were not native English
speakers to also access the information
presented. As far as content is concerned, there
are a few areas which might prove to be
helpful. There is a list provided of Steinbecks
life works along with the year in which they were
published. Also, there is a fairly detailed
biography of his life which includes time lines,
pictures, and other visual aids. Several
recommended web sites are also given. Many of
which seemed to be fairly developed sites with
good information.    
44
Beloved
http//www.az.com/andrade/morrison/start.html
This site was fairly decent for being a non
academic site. It is posted by a fan of
Morrisons, and she makes a point of stating that
she is not an authority. However, the site does
examine the use of symbolism in the text of
Beloved with suporting citations from the text
itself. Also, there is a list of frequently asked
questions which she responds to rather well. The
bottom line? This site is a good one to get your
wheels turning about the book. If you are doing
an official academic paper, however, you might
want to find a source with more credibility.
45
Beloved
http//www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorriso
n/beloved.htm There wasnt much meat to this
site, unfortunately. A few critical essays are
provided which offer a pretty good insight into
the text. The only thing that I really considered
worthwhile, however, were that the links this
site offers to other sites are pretty decent and
would probably yield more information than this
site.
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Beloved
http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/mmaynard/Morrison/biog
raph.html This was one of the better sites that
I found over Beloved. For starters, this was the
first site that I ran across that actually had
personal background information on Morrison
herself. Also, there are a number of critical
reviews available over her works that could prove
useful in research. There is also a section
that gives historical information into the
background of Beloved, as well as a time line
showing major events in history that would have
happened around the time the novel would have
taken place. Several parallel themes are also
discussed and are explored using citations from
the text as well as other sources. Internet links
are also given to other sites that might yield
information.
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Beloved
http//wcuvax1. Wcu.edu./amiller/smith/Bio.htm
This site also includes a personal biography into
the life of Toni Morrison. Internet links are
also provided to other sites containing
biographical information. A brief overview of
the book itself is also given along with other
site links about the actual piece. However,
neither set of links is something to wrote home
about.
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Beloved
http//www.homework-online.com/beloved/index.asp
This was an incredibly good site with lots of
useful information. A detailed summary is
presented of the novel along with an extensive
character analysis. There is also a lengthy
section which examines many of the complex themes
which weave in and out of the novel. Likewise,
there is also a section that is dedicated to the
use of symbols in the piece as well as the
structure of it as a whole. These areas not only
delve deeper into the text than most of the other
sites, but they provide a really unique outlook
on the book itself. Another feature that I
really enjoyed was the fact that there is an
entire section that is devoted to Morrisons
writing style and structure, which is an area
that most of the other sites just barely touched
on.
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Research and Interpretation
The Internet, besides being the place to check
your e-mail, can be extremely useful when trying
to gather information about great books. Most
books have some site dedicated to help you
further your knowledge about what you had read or
what you want to read. Going to any search
engine and typing in the name of the book can
lead you to many sites that could either be the
site you were looking for or something totally
unrelated to Moby Dick, but rather a site that
should be blocked by Parental Control. The
problem with researching great books on the
Internet is sorting through the helpful and the
helpless. When going to research on a novel on
the Internet, the usual guidelines should be
followed such as .org, .gov, and .edu are
usually more reliable sources, always check why
the site is in existence, and who is the author.
It is easy to find a commercial site that is a
homepage of your best friends high school
brother that contains a work copied from another
website word for word on the criticism of Moby
Dick being a symbol for soap. Basing your
central argument on these findings dont quite
hold up. There are good sites out there and
finding them doesnt require a day of surfing,
but just a careful and judgmental eye.

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Useful Sites for Research

• These following sites are all excellent sites in
  helping you research a great book on the
  Internet.
• http//lang.nagoya-.ac.jp/matsuoka/AmeLit.html
• http//www.novelguide.com/novelanalysis.html
• http//www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/lit.html
  litcrit
• http//www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html
• http//www.teleport.com/mgroves/index.shtml
• http//www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
• http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/daniel/amlit/index.ht
  ml
• http//www.sparknotes.com/lit/.dir/