| COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT |
A World of Books <http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/int-world.html> : From the Library of Congress, annotated surveys of noteworthy books from around the world
| DIGITAL LIBRARIES |
Books on the Internet <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Etext.html> :
Electronic Literature Directory <http://directory.eliterature.org/> : The Electronic Literature Directory provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. Search may be by type of electronic media, such as hypertext, recording, animated text, online generated text, and other multimedia.
| ELECTRONIC BOOKS |
Bibliomania <http://www.bibliomania.com/> : 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, and Reader's Handbook, Webster's Dictionary, The Koran, The Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-India Terms, Simonds History of American Literature, Dictionary of Synonymes, Dictionary of Quotations, Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Roget's Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Quotations, etc. Search for specific authors, titles, extracts, etc.
Classic Bookshelf <http://www.classicbookshelf.com/> : Readers using this site to read books can adjust the font to their comfort level through an innovative java applet. Using the applet at the bottom of the viewing window, users can control the text size, font, and background color, picking a combination that makes reading easiest.
Electronic Literature Directory <http://directory.eliterature.org/> : The Electronic Literature Directory provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. Search may be by type of electronic media, such as hypertext, recording, animated text, online generated text, and other multimedia.
The Online Books Page <http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html> : Index from the University of Pennsylvania includes more than 12,000 English works in various formats. All should be free for personal, noncommercial use. You can: Search the Listings by Author and Title, Browse the New Listings, Browse by Author, Browse by Title, Browse by Subject and Browse serial archives See also Books in progress or requested.
| ENGLISH LANGUAGE |
English Literature on the Web <http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html> : A webliography of literature sites, organized along the following topics: General / British Authors / E-text Archives / Medieval (& Anglo-Saxon) / 17th Century (& Renaissance) / 18th Century (& Restoration) / 19th Century (Romantics & Victorian) / 20th Century / American Authors
| LITERATURE |
AllReaders / All Readers <http://www.allreaders.com> : This site is a search engine for books. Search by any element of plot, theme, character, or setting. There are four basic search engines: sci-fi, romance, mystery / thriller and literature. Each of those presents different levels of questions allowing users to get to exactly the genre of book sought. More than 2,000 criteria are categorized. Along with the title there isl a list of the top 10 books with those specific matching characteristics.
The Baseball Index <http://www.baseballindex.org/> : The Baseball Index (TBI) is a catalog to baseball literature. It encompasses books, magazine articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs, poems, cartoons, advertising, or anything else that may be of interest to the baseball fan or researcher. It is an ongoing project of the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to catalog the entirety of baseball literature, from the earliest references to the present day. TBI is the creation of volunteers. Their hours of work and financial contributions have made your TBI research possible.
The Baseball Library <http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/> : Baseballlibrary.com is formed from two large references originally published as books: The Ballplayers & Baseball Chronology
Bibliomania <http://www.bibliomania.com/> : 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, and Reader's Handbook, Webster's Dictionary, The Koran, The Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-India Terms, Simonds History of American Literature, Dictionary of Synonymes, Dictionary of Quotations, Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Roget's Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Quotations, etc. Search for specific authors, titles, extracts, etc.
Books on the Internet <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Etext.html> :
Classic Bookshelf <http://www.classicbookshelf.com/> : Readers using this site to read books can adjust the font to their comfort level through an innovative java applet. Using the applet at the bottom of the viewing window, users can control the text size, font, and background color, picking a combination that makes reading easiest.
Electronic Literature Directory <http://directory.eliterature.org/> : The Electronic Literature Directory provides an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. Search may be by type of electronic media, such as hypertext, recording, animated text, online generated text, and other multimedia.
English Literature on the Web <http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html> : A webliography of literature sites, organized along the following topics: General / British Authors / E-text Archives / Medieval (& Anglo-Saxon) / 17th Century (& Renaissance) / 18th Century (& Restoration) / 19th Century (Romantics & Victorian) / 20th Century / American Authors
Free Book Notes <http://www.freebooknotes.com/> : FreeBooknotes.com is a comprehensive guide to free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 250 books.
Litengine <http://www.litengine.com/> : LitEngine is a highly selective literary search engine offering on-line information about this century's most important authors and poets. LitEngine has catalogued thousands of links to sites containing primary material by and about leading literary figures. Each writer's site is divided into major categories, including novels on-line, short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, photos, bios, etc.,
Literary Resources on the Net <http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/> : Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers -- Newark, this site is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics
NovelGuide / Novel Guide <http://www.novelguide.com/> : Novelguide.com is a free source for literary analysis on the web. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature through Chapter Summaries, Character Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
The Online Books Page <http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html> : Index from the University of Pennsylvania includes more than 12,000 English works in various formats. All should be free for personal, noncommercial use. You can: Search the Listings by Author and Title, Browse the New Listings, Browse by Author, Browse by Title, Browse by Subject and Browse serial archives See also Books in progress or requested.
Poetry Archives <http://www.emule.com/poetry/> : The Poetry Archive strives to be the largest collection of FREE classical poetry on the internet. Users can search through our database of poetry by author, title, and first line of poem.
Representative Poetry On-line <http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html> : Representative Poetry On-line, version 2.07, includes 2,200 English poems by over 340 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the verge of copyright in the twentieth century. The texts of the poems are normally based on the books or manuscripts in which they originally appeared.
Shakespeare's Sonnets <http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/> : All the sonnets are provided here, with descriptive commentary attached to each one, giving explanations of difficult and unfamiliar words and phrases, and with a full analysis of any special problems of interpretation which arise. Other features are added gradually as the site expands.
A World of Books <http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/int-world.html> : From the Library of Congress, annotated surveys of noteworthy books from around the world
| REVIEWS and PRODUCT GUIDES |
AllReaders / All Readers <http://www.allreaders.com> : This site is a search engine for books. Search by any element of plot, theme, character, or setting. There are four basic search engines: sci-fi, romance, mystery / thriller and literature. Each of those presents different levels of questions allowing users to get to exactly the genre of book sought. More than 2,000 criteria are categorized. Along with the title there isl a list of the top 10 books with those specific matching characteristics.
| Sports and Games |
The Baseball Index <http://www.baseballindex.org/> : The Baseball Index (TBI) is a catalog to baseball literature. It encompasses books, magazine articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs, poems, cartoons, advertising, or anything else that may be of interest to the baseball fan or researcher. It is an ongoing project of the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to catalog the entirety of baseball literature, from the earliest references to the present day. TBI is the creation of volunteers. Their hours of work and financial contributions have made your TBI research possible.
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