Some of my favorite pages.
Literature:
1. The Cambridge Dictionary of English and American Literature: http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
The best general source on the net.
2. The Great Books of the Western World Collection: http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
Chess:
1. Chess Stories: http://www.homestead.com/seventhrank/stories.html
Short stories with a chess theme (including one by your's truly).
2. Frank's Chess Page: http://www.amateurschach.de/
The center for Winboard engines.