Audio interviews, recorded by the BBC, now appear online in a collection called In Their Own Words.

These archived interviews, with legendary British novelists, takes visitors back to 1937; to a conversation with Virginia Woolf, then moves forward to interviews with...

• Aldous Huxley;

• JRR Tolkien;

• Doris Lessing;

• Martin Amis;

• VS Naipaul; and
  

• Salman Rushdie

...to name just a few.

Visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/ to listen to these recordings.

The Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project has what can only be described as an outstanding interactive resource that everyone who teaches Romeo and Juliet should probably bookmark.

Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet is an interactive display of the text of Romeo and Juliet. As learners read the document they can...

• click on any link in the text to view...
  • definitions;
  • images;
  • audio recordings; and
  • videos
    

...related to the content they're reading.

What could be more wonderful than the original manuscript? From the British Library Online Gallery , this manuscript is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician.

"Urged by friends to publish the story, Dodgson re-wrote and enlarged it, removing some of the private family references and adding two new chapters."

Take a closer look yourself at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/...

60 Second Recap provides book summaries in sixty second video segments.

60 Second Recap is a very new service still in its alpha phase of development; current book titles in its library are...

• Animal Farm
• Fahrenheit 451
• Frankenstein
• Great Expectations
• Hamlet
• Jane Eyre
• Lord of the Flies
• Of Mice and Men
• Pride and Prejudice
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Crucible
• The Great Gatsby
• The Scarlet Letter
• The turn of the Screw and
• To Kill a Mockingbird.

60 Second Recap could be the basis for a le...

LitCharts is an online service that provides outlines and summaries of classic literature.

Most of the outlines and summaries are ten pages, give or take a page or two.

LitCharts...

• colour code...
  • the themes addressed and
  • the symbolism 

...within a particular work. The colour coding makes it easy to quickly pick out the themes and symbols in each chapter of a book.

• can be...
  • viewed online,
  • downloaded as PDFs, or
  • accessed through iPhone applications.

Note: LitCharts provides n...