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Literature
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Biographies of literary figures and overviews of their work; literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines; more than 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches, and plays, from all time periods and from around the world. Partially provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Reference books covering writers and their works, classical literature, phrase and fable, literary terms, and much more. This is a subcollection of Oxford Reference.
Provides literary works throughout history, including full-text novels, plays, essays, short stories, speeches, poems, and classic nonfiction. For offline reading, you can save works to Google Drive or OneDrive, or email to a Kindle. This is a subcollection of Gale Literary Sources. Provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Masterplots plot summaries; literary characters; critical surveys of long and short fiction; literary categories such as manga, dystopia, and Southern Gothic; plus Critical Insights books on authors and works.
Consists of the literature overviews published by Scribner, especially of American and British writers. This is a subcollection of the Gale eBooks and Gale Literature. Provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Consists of the books published by Twayne, providing a unique perspective on the most important authors—their works and their lives and times. This is a subcollection of the Gale eBooks and Gale Literature. Provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Hundreds of always-available ebooks for in-browser reading, with no downloading needed and no waiting lists. Provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library.
A project of the Internet Archive to provide a collection of scanned library books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed for COVID-19.
Great works of literature, reference and verse with a search engine.
An encyclopedia covering mythology, folklore, and religion.