Books and Reading

Online texts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts∞
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.

Australian Literary & Historical Texts Database∞
SETIS is the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library. Part of this project is the Australian Literary & Scholarly Text Database.

Bartleby Project∞ (this site used since 1997 for books added)
A digital library of full text classics of literature that are out of copyright. Has plays, poetry and novels.www.bartleby.com (to 1996, now an archive)

Belinus Press∞
Offers a large number of full text works and other resources related to fairy tales, mythology, folklore and spiritualism. Particularly good in it's coverage of Celtic Folklore and Fairy Tales and Fables (offers a link to all of Aesop's Fables).

Bibliomania∞
Free online literature, with more than 2000 classic texts, book notes, author biographies, book summaries, study guides and reference books.

Duke Papyrus Archive∞
The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about, and images of, nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

Online Books Page∞
Site indexes over 12,000 books that are online, full text, free and not copyrighted. Can search by author and title.

Works of the Bard∞
Collected works of Shakespeare. Keyword search of text available with links to other Shakespeare sites.

Quotations & Phrases

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations∞
Passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources from the 9th edition (1901) of Bartletts. Keyword search or by author (in chronological order of birthdate).

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & 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”.

Resources

Allreaders∞
Site that allows you to search for a book by any element of plot, theme or character. Useful for those "What book should I read next?" enquiries.

Bookbrowser∞
Created by librarians! Fiction reading lists by genre, series, region, topic, etc. Also has a list of pseudonyms, links to author sites and reviews.

Literary Resources on the Net∞
Links to literary pages by categories and nationalities.

Mystical Unicorn∞
Lists hundreds of pseudonyms of authors.

Reviews

Booklist∞
American Library Association site for book (also electronic media) reviews for adults and children. Site includes the Reference Books Bulletin and author interviews.

Study guides

Pink Monkey∞
A study aid site that offers 100 Barrons Booknotes and 200 Monkey Notes book summaries, searchable by keyword or browseable by title or author. Free registration is required.

Spark Notes∞
Online study guides prepared by graduates of Harvard University includes 1984, Hamlet, Heart of Darkness, The Handmaid’s Tale etc.

Miscellaneous

Australian Literature On Line∞
National Library’s site with comprehensive links to all Australian literature sites on the Internet.

Bibliofind∞
World’s largest inventory of old, used and rare books for sale by 3,000 booksellers around the world. Search across the entire database by keyword, editions, publishers, illustrators, etc. Inbuilt currency conversion for prices.

Bookwire∞
Information source for links to booksellers, publishers, libraries and it has book awards, current book news, book reviews, author information.

Children's Literature Web Guide∞
Book awards, best sellers, links to children’s authors and other useful web sites related to books for children and young authors.

The Literary Gothic∞
Lit Gothic is a "guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20." Browse by author or title. There are e-texts, essays, annotated links (Resources), and a Community of discussion groups and organizations about the literary supernatural.

Ozlit∞
The site for Australian literature. Books and writers database, news, poetry, section for young readers.

Publishers' Catalogues∞
Index of all the known World’s publishers with links to their online catalogues.

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