Courses:

Joseph Conrad
 
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/index.html
--Part of The Victorian Web: literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria. Contains good biographical sketch, chronology, cultural context; essays on Conrad imagery; information on initial publication context of Heart of Darkness.
 
http://www.unityspot.com/arthurs/conrad.html
--eText collection of Conrad novels.
 
http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/congo_conrad031221.html
--Part of website about the Congo reform movement in England. This is a letter written by Conrad in 1903 to British Consul Roger Casement, in support of him and the cause for reform in the Congo.
 
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/conrad.html
--A collection of links related to Heart of Darkness.
 
http://members.tripod.com/~JTKNK/
--Joseph Conrad Foundation, contains essays on Conrad and his works; list of theses and dissertations and some abstracts.
 
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/conrad/
--Joseph Conrad Society of UK, with essays on Conrad that also appear in their society journal.
 
http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Conrad/
--Website with collection of user-submitted essays on Conrad.
 
http://conrad-centre.w.interia.pl/pages/home_en.html
--Joseph Conrad Study Center and museum in Ukraine. This site contains photographs of Conrad, his family, friends and contemporaries, and places in his life. Good biography and chronology.
 
 
Rudyard Kipling 

http://www.kipling.org.uk/
--The Kipling Society. Contains good biography, with some pictures of his house. Also, a collection of his poems.
 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1457/
--Full text of a few of his poems, analysis of selected works.
 
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/
--Resources dealing with "The White Man's Burden," such as editorials, cartoons, essays and other material published around 1899 in response to the poem. Also links to other Kipling topics.
 
http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/rudyard-kipling.html
--eText of all his novels and poems.
  
http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/
--eText of "Just So Stories" with original illustrations done by Kipling from the first edition of the book.
 
 
Ford Madox Ford
 
http://www.rialto.com/fordmadoxford_society/
--Webpage of the Ford Madox Ford society.
 
 
William Faulkner

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
--Excellent website with good biography, his works, analysis, information about his hometown, glossary of Faulkner characters and terms.
 
http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner/wf/index.htm
--Faulkner foundation; webpage with pictures of Rowan Oak, Faulkner's house.
 
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.html
--Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech.
 
http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/
--Center for Faulkner Studies, Southern Missouri University. Mostly information on the center. 'Teaching Faulkner Archives' section has some essays on his works.
 
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/
--Mississippi writers page with good biography and pictures from his life.
 
http://www.usask.ca/english/faulkner/
--Hypertext version of The Sound and the Fury. The site includes critical articles, an innovative "chronological" option for the very non-linear Benjy's section, and graphs that show many interesting details of Benjy's psychology. Also interesting is the presence of certain intertexts alluded to or otherwise mentioned in the novel, such as the original canticle by Saint Francis that Quentin refers to when he talks about "Little Sister Death."
 
 
ISAAC Babel 

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/babel.htm
--Short biography and some links.
 
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSbabel.htm
--Short biography of Babel.
 
http://www.sovlit.com/rasskazy/dolgushov.html
--eText of "The Death of Dogushov."
 
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Egfreidin/Publications/Babel.htm
--Good biography, Babel photo album, assorted essays.

Vladimir Nabokov
 
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov.html
--Articles on Nabokov, reviews of his works. Site includes RealAudio of Nabokov reading excepts of his works in New York 1964.
 
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/
--Random House page on Nabokov centennial. Includes brief biography, and essay on Lolita.
 
http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/nabokov/
--Download of audio clip of Jeremy Irons reading except from Lolita.
 
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/nabokov_s_metamorphosis.htm
--Nabokov's lecture on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." Includes scan of first page of Nabokov's teaching copy of the book, with notes scribbled on it.
 
http://www.nabokovmuseum.org/en/gallery/13/
--Gallery of Nabokov photos.
 
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
--Great biography with pictures of Nabokov and his home; essays; works, and audio files of Nabokov's readings at Harvard.
 
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/
--CNN.com 1999 celebration of the author, including biography, archive of reviews and related Time Magazine articles, and an in-depth look at Lolita.
 
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/nabokov/
--"Nabokov Under Glass" online gallery of images based on an exhibition drawn from the Vladimir Nabokov Archive of the Berg Collection of English and American Literature; contains scans of manuscripts, lecture notes, and other Nabokov documents.
 
 
James Joyce 

http://www.2street.com/joyce/
--Essays, photgraphs, audio files; maps of Joyce locations.

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/
--Website of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Good biography and gallery of Joyce pictures.
 
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_links.html
--Very large collection of James Joyce links, organized in categories such as maps, pictures, multimedia, timelines. Can be a little confusing, but worth a look.
 
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/
--A nice site with essays, images, audio, and other multimedia, including music inspired by Joyce.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce.html
--A collection of New York Times articles on James Joyce.
 
http://www.grand-teton.com/service/Persons_Places/
--An extensive glossary of people and places, real and imaginary, associated with Joyce and his works.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/seidel/joyce/
--Created by the Joyce scholar Michael Seidel, this wonderful site includes audio versions of many of the songs referred to and sung in Dubliners and Ulysses.

Virginia Woolf
 
http://jollyroger.com/zz/yna3d/VirginiaWoolfhall/live/chat.cgi
--A chatroom.
 
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/workshop97/Gribbin/frames.html
--Collection of essays on Woolf and modernism.
 
http://www.riverman.fsbusiness.co.uk/vw.html
--Collection of links to articles on Woolf.
 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/malcolmi/vwframe.htm
--"Virginia Woolf's Psychiatric History" A detailed description of Woolf's personality, history of illnesses, breakdowns, etc.


Franz Kafka
 
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
--A short biography of Kafka.
 
http://www.kafka.org/
--Kafka works in German.
 
http://members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Philo/Kafka/kafka.html
--Brief paragraphs on Kafka and existentialism.
 
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/
--Nice biography on Kafka, assorted essays and articles, pictures.
 
http://jollyroger.com/zz/yna3d/FranzKafkahall/shakespeare1.html
--Forum/message board for Kafka topics.