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Book & Readers Resources
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Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet (Oxford University)
- A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
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Banned Books Online -
A representation of banned books, ranging from Ulysses
to Little Red Riding Hood, selected from the indexes of
the
On-line Books Page.
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Bartley.com: Great Books Online
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Bibliomania
- Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular
fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and
religious texts, including
Brewer's Phrase and Fable
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Reader's Handbook,
Webster's Dictionary,
The Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-India Terms,
Simonds History of American Literature, Roget's Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Quotations, more... A superb educational resource.
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Trace the
Bartlett's Famous Quotations
to the actual lines within the plays of Shakespeare.
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E-Editions
(University of California Press) - Offers electronic versions of over sixty books online.
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Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources (Library of Congress)
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ElectronicText Center
(University of Virginia) - "The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately
51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related
images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special
Collections books, museum objects, etc.)"
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Great Books by The
Electronic Literature Foundation - Provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature. There are 96 works by 18 authors in the library.
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Great Books Index
- An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation.
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Great Literature Online
- Typically add three or four new novels a week. Once a month, a new author is added.
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MIT Internet Classics Archive -
Includes 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors.
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National Academy Press
- Read over 2,500 books free online. Search by title, subject, content or by ISBN.
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The On-Line Books by John Mark Ockerbloom -
More than 14,000 English works in various formats that should be free for personal, noncommercial use.
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Online Literary Criticism Collection by the Internet Public Library - Contains 3756 critical and biographical websites about
authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or
by nationality and literary period.
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Online Texts Collection by the Internet Public Library - Contains over 12,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
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The Poetry Archives -
An archive of classical poetry.
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Project Gutenberg -
Search by titles or authors for books in the public domain, generally books published before 1923.
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University of Virginia's eBook Library - 1,600 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more.
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Women's Studies Reading Room
at the University of Maryland.
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2008 Summer Reading Program from June 8 - August 3