World Literature Generally
African
Asian
South American
European (Other than British)
E-texts

WORLD LITERATURE GENERALLY

Contemporary Post Imperial and Post Colonial Literature in English – called the Postcolonial Web, this international effort is a great resource on literature written in English outside the United States and Great Britain . There are pages on themes, context, and authors by continent in post colonial tradition writing in English. The Great Britain pages contain links to expatriate authors from other nations who live or lived in Great Britain .
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/index.html

Edsitement – this is a great website about the humanities generally, where you can find links to particular topics of interest and you can tailor them to your level of knowledge.  There is a tab on each topic page that allows you to pick web sites that are appropriate for high school students.  There are “folder tabs” at the center of the links pages; make sure you have clicked on websites, not lesson plans.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

The Humbul Gateway , International Resources for the Humanities– online resource out of Great Britain with a wide range of links to humanities topics, including world literature. There are web pages devoted to French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, and Slavic and East European Studies. The links under different language or region studies include primary and secondary sources in English as well as other languages and you can click on any of the choices (projects, learning, secondary sources, for example) to reach valuable links. Don’t be discouraged if the first links you see are to sites written in French!  This is a really fine resource.  Be sure and check out the new sites each week at the bottom of each link page, since some of these won’t be in the search engines yet.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/index.html

The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection  - nearing 5000 links to critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.  The sections on Canadian, French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, Latin American, Chinese and Japanese literature are broken up by eras. The sections on other literatures, though comprehensive, are not, including Middle Eastern, Scandanavian, Latin, Greek, Polish, Czech, Romanian, South East Asian, Indian, Caribbean , Australian and New Zealandic, and African. http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/litcrit/

Introduction to Post Colonial Studies - Emory University pages on postcolonial literature throughout the world, including author links and analysis.  Short overview of modern world literature written in English.  There are references to a lot of literature that you probably won’t read in high school, but the overview still is useful.   The “Terms and Issues” section is a great place to start if you are looking for topics for a paper, because it lays out some of the central issues in postcolonial literature. 
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Intro.html

Labyrinth - invaluable Medieval Studies collection out of Georgetown , an academic site with on the culture, history, art and literature of the Middle Ages arranged by topic and by culture. There is a search engine which you can reach at the hyperlink http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/search.html  and there is a short page for K-with links for K-12 students at http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/pedagogical/k12/k12.html . Don’t be afraid to use the University level links, though, because this is one of the best sites on Medieval literature.
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

The Literary Encyclopedia – huge database of literary materials that can be searched in a variety of ways – for a single author (“One Person”) or a topic (“One Topic”) or a culture (“A Group of People”), for example.  Although there are many listings unfinished, it is still one of the most comprehensive literature sites, with encyclopedia-like entries on the topics, authors, and works, and links to other online resources.
http://www.litencyc.com/

Literary Resources on the Net - Other National Literatures – a very short list of links from Jack Lynch's great literature links pages. If you are looking for something related to literature, the pages compiled by Jack Lynch are usually a good place to start, although he admits this page is not one of his best – and he is right.  
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/other.html

Literature Resources for the High School and College Student  
http://www.teleport.com/~mgroves/

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - a comprehensive academic site with its own web pages on medieval culture, history, art and literature and extensive specialized and general links.  The work here is written by medieval period specialists, so it can be advanced.
http://orb.rhodes.edu/

Study Guides for Various Works of World Literature - from Professor Paul Brians at Washington   State University . The guides change periodically, but they are always useful in providing information about authors and movements in world literature (and English and American literature) and in suggesting possible topics for papers.  These are less an overview and more a collection of information, like individual lectures or notes from a lecture, with questions and answers.  
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/guides_index.html

Voice of the Shuttle - links for literature in languages other than English.  The American challenge to the Humbul Gateway, this is a comprehensive humanities site out of the University of California at Santa Barbara with well-organized links to resources including world literature written in English and written in languages other than English (and they are categorized that way).  There is a search engine, or you can use the frame to the left of the page to find your topic.  When you click on a category, you will get an annotated list of online resources describing what you will find on the listed web pages.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Voices from the Gaps - Women Writers of Color - pages with biographical and critical information about North American women writers of color, including Canadian, Mexican, Caribbean and Central American authors and links to other web pages about the authors.
http://english.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm

AFRICAN

Africa, South of the Sahara . Literature – annotated links to sites with information on African literature or African authors. Some sites in French, but most links are to sites written in English.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lit.html

African Literature on the Internet - an index to African literature in English and French on the Internet. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/aflit.html

African Post Colonial Literature in English - information catalogues by country  - tremendous resource broken out by authors, themes, issues, and countries.   
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/misc/africov.html

African Writers and Their Literature - introduction to African literature with extensive links to African culture resources by region, from the  University of Alberta.
http://www.slis.ualberta.ca/cap99/omollel/afwrithome.html

African Writers Index – broken out by country, this list of authors has basic information about a wide range of authors and is useful in finding information about less prominent African authors                     http://www.geocities.com/africanwriters/Countries/AuthorsAlgeria.html

African Writers: Voices of Change - excellent page with biographies of important writers and links
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/africana/voices.html

Quarterly Black Review of Books - section on African literature, periodically inactive
http://www.qbr.com

World Literature, African - links pages to African authors from the Open Directory, the web catalogue
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/African/

ASIAN

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library – links page to all sorts of Asian Studies links, somewhat difficult to use because of the variety of the resources catalogued there
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

South Asian Women Writers – short descriptions of various authors and links, if available, to other web pages with information about the authors 
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/SAW.books.html

World Literature , China – links pages to Sun Tzu and Chinese literature from the Open Directory, the web catalogue                                                                                                                     http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Chinese/

World Literature, Indian – links pages to Indian authors from the Open Directory, the web catalogue                   http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Indian/

Miracle Plays and Mysteries
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/10348a.htm

Electronic Text Library - out of the University of Virginia; many texts limited to UVa users.  There are lots of texts available to all users, too.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

French Literature Online E-texts (in English)    
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Concorde/2515/etexts.html

The Great Books of Western Civilization -  E-texts  
http://www.athens.net/~lnoles/gbk/index.html

Online Books Page: Free online texts of over 2000 books.  
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL

Project Gutenburg - texts on line (the opening pages are attractive, but the texts are in FTP format therefore not attractive to read)
http://promo.net/pg/