On the free Internet, these sources may help you with your literature assignment.

American Authors on the Web http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

American Collection http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/americanwritinggateway.htm

American Literature on the Web
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
From the site: "This set of American literature resource pages [maintained by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies] is mainly a collection of links to sites on the Internet especially dealing with American literature and its social, cultural contexts. It includes homepages and documents on over 300 authors and electronic texts of their works. I have also included literary indexes which contain pointers to individual author sites, electronic texts or other related materials."

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com
From the site: "Bartleby.com offers full-text access to many classic works literature. Bartleby has also partnered with numerous reference sources such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and the World Factbook to present an exhaustive collection of primary source material."

ClassicReader.com - Read, search and annotate classic literature http://www.classicreader.com/

Gale's Literary Index http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LitIndex

Great Books Five Star Sites http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/fivestar.htm

The IPL Literary Criticism Collection http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

A Literary Index http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
From the site: "Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers--Newark, Literary Resources is just what its name implies, an extensive collection of links and resources on the net. For information specific to the eighteenth century visit Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources page."

NovelGuide: Novel Analysis http://www.novelguide.com/novelanalysis.html

Literary Movements http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/litfram.html

Literary Resources on the Web http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

LitLinks http://www.smpcollege.com/litlinks/home.htm

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature--A Research and Reference Guide http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
The Perseus Digital Library provides electronic text for many literary classics - in many cases offering various translations and document comparisons.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net/index.shtml
From the web site: "Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts). Thanks to ibiblio, the Public's Library and Digital Archive, for hosting the main eBook distribution site and these Web pages. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use."

SchoolWork.org Literary Criticism and Biography http://www.schoolwork.org/books.html

SparkNotes.com http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english/

Voice of the Shuttle: Literature http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3

For online text and author biography see the following:

Rivendell's American Literature http://www.watson.org/rivendell/literatureamerican.html

Brief Timeline of American Literature http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1910.htm