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Book Review Digest Plus
Description: Index to book reviews of English language fiction and non-fiction.
Full Text: All records include a summary of the book and excerpts from reviews. Select full text is available.
Coverage: 1983+
Updates: Daily.
Contemporary Poets
Description: Biographical and bibliographical entries on 800 of the most important contemporary English-language poets. Each entry includes
a critical essay on the poet's work.
Full Text: All articles are fulltext.
Coverage: Based on the print version of the 2001, 7th edition of Contemporary Poets.
Essay and General Literature Index
Description: Index to essays published in anthologies and collections.
Full Text: Citations only, no full text.
Coverage: 1985+
Updates: Annually.
Essay/Speech/Play Finder
Description: Database of essays and discursive writing published in the 20th century and focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Also includes
the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and full-text for selected plays and dramatic works.
Full Text: Several thousand full text essays are included, along with author biographies and pictures.
Updates: Quarterly
FirstSearch
Description: Collection of bibliographical and directory databases.
Includes the following databases:
Full Text: Includes a limited number of full text journal articles.
Coverage: Varies depending upon the database.
Updates: Daily.
Granger's World of Poetry Online
Description: An index to poetry with full text for over 250,000 poems and citations for over 200,000 additional poems. Also contains short biographies of many poets,
commentaries on best-known poems, full-text of selected reference works on poetry, and a glossary of poetry terms.
Literature
Patchogue-Medford Library Web links. Chosen and annotated by professional librarians.
Literature Resource Center
Description: Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of over 120,000 authors from all time periods and literary forms.
Full Text: Select full text is available from several hundred
literary journals plus critical and biographical information.
Updates: Monthly.
Magill onLiterature Plus
Description: Literary criticism and plot summaries for the most studied works of world literature, as well as biographical
and critical information on over 1,500 notable authors.
Full Text: All entries are full text.
Coverage: Contains the complete text of 62 volumes in Salem Press' Magills series with the
the addition of Masterplots and Magill Book Reviews.
Updates: As new volumes are published in the series.
NoveList
Description: A reader's advisory service for adult and young adult fiction.
Coverage: Fiction titles only.
Updates: Daily.
NoveList K-8
Description: A reader's advisory service for children's and young adult fiction from grades K-8.
Coverage: Fiction titles only.
Updates: Daily.
Poem Finder
Description: Searchable database of poems with selected biographies and criticism.
Full Text: Includes full text for over 100,000 poems.
Updates: Quarterly
Short Story Index
Description: Index to short stories written or translated into English that have appeared in collections and journals.
Full Text: Selected full text is available for approximately 1,600 stories.
Coverage: Indexing 1984+
Updates: Annually.
Story Finder
Description: Searchable database of thousands of full text short stories along with author biographies and story explanations.
Full Text: All stories are full text.
Updates: Quarterly
Twayne's Author Series
Description: Critical introductions to the work of several hundred of the most-studied American, British, and world authors
Full Text: All profiles are full text.
Updates: Updated as new volumes are published in the series.
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Jane Austen
"Fan site operated by a volunteer committee; links to discussion groups, e-texts, bibliography, biography, academic articles, other fan sites, and so forth; search device by keyword; Jane Austen Information Page has a staggering number of
links." Literature and the Internet, pg. 71
The Essays of Francis Bacon (1601)
"E-text versions of Bacon's essays with a page of links; glossary of archaic words and
phrases." Literature and the Internet, pg. 71
Samuel Beckett Resources and Links
"Huge page of links to sites about Beckett, sponsored by GeoCities; links to the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Beckett, interviews, e-texts, online bookstores, videos, audios, festivals, and net search." Literature and the Internet, pg. 72
Lewis Carroll- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Complete e-text version in the Online Literature Library. "Literature and the Internet, pg. 77
The Dickens Project
"Scholarly consortium at the California State University- Stanislans; links to institutional business and Dickens sites." Literature and the Internet, pg. 83
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
"Part of a personal page created by Paul P. Reuben (Department of English, California State University); themes in Dickinson's poetry and study questions for class." Literature and the Internet, pg. 83
Frederick Douglass
"Biography of Douglass by Sandra Thomas; links to the slave years, the beginnings of an abolitionist, the Rochester years, the Civil War years, life after the Thirteenth Amendment, chronology, and further reading. "Literature and the Internet, pg. 84
Ralph Ellison
"Ellison bibliography, some items of which are linked; part of an American Literature index compiled by Roger Blackwell Bailey. "Literature and the Internet, pg. 85
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary Home Page
"Remarkable site devoted to Fitzgerald, with bibliographies, a chronology, e-texts, photographs, essays, articles, and even recordings of Fitzgerald reading; sponsored by the University of South Carolina; reviewed in Choice "Literature and the Internet, pg. 86
The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
Huge links site with (it seems) every conceivable connection to James listed; written by Robert D. Hathaway, professor of English, State University of New York- New Paltz." Literature and the Internet, pg. 92
Constructing Franz Kafka
"Large and varied list of links for Kafka, predominantly in English. "Literature and the Internet, pg. 93
Michel de Montaigne
"Biography and timeline for Montaigne." Literature and the Internet, pg. 97
Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
"One of the sites on African-American women writers produced by Anniina Jokinen, whose web pages are remarkably attractive and useful; links to
biographies, bibliographies, interview, and other sites." Literature and the Internet, pg. 98
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog "words" with a tale to tell."
Classic Reader
ClassicReader.com, is a site where you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and more.
Indigenous Peoples Literature "(I)s a non-profit educational resource and collaboration dedicated to the indigenous peoples of the world and to the enrichment it can bring to all people."
New York State Lit Tree
"(It was) created to serve NYSCA-funded organizations with literary
programs, their curators, and the poets and writers they present. The site
offers in-depth information about the organizations and their curators as
well as detailed schedules, thereby serving as a learning center and
clearing house for those involved in literature-based presentation."
The Norton Anthology of English
Literature
The online companion to the print texts.
Online Library of Literature
Full-text of classical authors including Poe, Mary Shelley, Carroll,
Dickens, etc.
On-line English Grammar
Perhaps you wanted to know why adjectives are invariable? This would be one
of the places that you could find out.
Project CROW
Project Crow is a website for American Literature surveys. It provides links as a resource for online teaching and learning of American literature.
PubList.com
"PubList.com provides quick, free access to publication information
for over 150,000 domestic and international magazines and journals."
Library Journal, April 15, 2000.
Voice of the Shuttle
English Literature includes works written in English, taught in English and
American Literature Departments.
Whichbook.net
An interesting way to choose a new book. Use a slider to decide how
much of a particular theme you want in your book. Gives you a list of
suggestions. Can be limited to Audio Books or Large Print titles only.
Warning: lists titles available in the UK, however some may also be
available here in the US. Check with your
local librarian for
availability.
Chapter A Day
"Each weekday members receive an excerpt from a popular book in their e-mail. After the first 2-3 chapters have been sent, the club moves on to a new title." Computers for Libraries, September 2001. The site introduces new books and encourages reading.
Poetry Portal
"Poetry Portal is a directory or guide to the internet poetry world, a
simple-to-use and comprehensive overview of what's currently online."
Project Gutenberg
Contains a searchable database of over 1,000 full-text books, available to be read over
your computer or in some cases your handheld device.
Representative Poetry On-Line
An academic index for poetry resources.
Advanced Book Exchange
"Worlds largest source of out of print books, over 5300 booksellers,
15 million titles listed. "
Alibris
"Alibris was created to enrich and expand the industry with the first
and only Web store dedicated solely to selling hard-to-find books."
Amazon.Com Inc.
"The Earth's Biggest Bookstore"
Biblio.com
Brings together over 5000 independent booksellers on one site.
BookCloseOuts.com
"5 million bargain books."
BookFinder.com
"Book shopping search engine that scans bookseller databases to find
new, used, rare and out of print books"
Book Sale Finder
This site provides a national directory of book sales by non-profit groups, mainly friends of library organizations. Listed by state and Canadian province.
Powell's Books
"The largest used and new bookstore in the world"
Award Winning Books
A new page with links to award-winning books. If you click on the author
or title of a prize winning book, a search of the Suffolk County catalog will be automatically
performed.
Books A to Z: Banned Books and Censorship
Provides links to information resources on banned books. Includes list of the most popular banned books of
the 1990's.
Nobel Laureates
A listing of all of the Nobel Laureates, including the Nobel Laureates in literature.
Publishers Weekly Bestseller List
A publishing industry list of bestsellers.
USA Today Books
USA Today's frequently updated list of the 150 best selling books in the United States.
E-Books and Online Reading (Back to Top)
Electronic Text
Collections in Western European Literature
"This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European
languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are
included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves
of interest. Collections are listed more or less in order of size; individual
authors are listed alphabetically."
Florida State University
Libraries: Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection
A collection of children's picture books dating from the late 1800's to the early 1900's.
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and
Stories
"(C)omplete of Andersen's 168 tales, in the chronological
order of their original publication."
Grimm's Fairy Tales
"This (online ebook)209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm."
Literature @ SunSITE
"The Digital Library SunSITE is building a collection of digital texts that
can be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study."