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LitFINDER (Poems, Stories, Essays, Plays, Speeches)
APPROPRIATE FOR: All ages
Lit Finder: Poems database is the largest, most comprehensive and most current available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for locating over five million lines of poetry.
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Lit Finder: Stories collection has been carefully selected to provide a representative, rich anthology of short stories. The stories have been chosen based on standard, library indexes and K12 curriculum lists from across the country. The database is constantly being updated and growing.
Essays is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama.
Plays: Over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression: including one-act plays, puppet plays, Harlinquinades, tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic, historical, children's and comedic plays. The collection includes many nationalities, all in English or English translations. Plays are analyzed for subjects, and also list all characters.
Speeches: From antiquity to modern times, these speeches represent the finest examples of recorded oratory. Speechmakers have commented on the milestones of history as well as the minutiae of everyday life. We are collecting the best and the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and categorizing them into easily searchable genres.
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Internet Resources for Literature
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Salt Lake City Reads Together
This is Salt Lake City's new book club, see what books are currently being read, suggest book titles for future selections.
One County, One Book The goal of "One County, One Book" is to have all Salt Lake County adults, new readers, students and families, reading the same book to create a countywide conversation and greater understanding. Books are available for check-out at all 18 county library branches and to pick
up and share with a friend in several county facilities.
Utah Storytelling Guild
After the first Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in 1990, four Utah storytellers got together to create the Utah Storytelling Guild. Since that day, the guild has grown and chapters have been created to offer local meetings for tellers to convein. The guild has fostered the art of storytelling in Utah.
Children's Literature Web Guide
Internet resources relate for children and young adults.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature
A Middle-School Librarian's personal cyber collection of materials found on the Web related to Children's Literature. The Reading Room has links to the classics, fairy and folk tales, stories & rhymes, magazines, professional journals. The Reference Shelf has links to children's authors and illustrators, articles, book lists, reviews, dragon stories--an annotated list, and more.
Today in Literature
A calendar of engaging stories about the great books, writers, and events in literary history. This site features a new original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history; read about stories that recently appeared on the site, and browse through a list of writers as well. Clicking on the names of any of the writers will bring up a number of stories about the selected author, although free registration is required to read the entire piece.
Digital Book Index
Access to more than 65,000 titles records. It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial eBooks from thousands of publishers and private publishing organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight. An extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines, Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on Writing & Style Guides. Search by author, title, author & title, subject, browse publishers´ lists. Where a price appears in a listing, this is the charge for the title from the publisher or distributor.
Google Book Search Just do a search on Google Book Search or on Google.com. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you'll see the Snippet View which, like a card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in context. You may also see the Sample Pages View if the publisher or author has given us permission or the Full Book View if the book is out of copyright. In all cases, you'll also see 'Buy this Book' links that lead directly to online bookstores where you can buy the book.
Bookwire
A comprehensive book industry web site with links to publications such as Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly, also contains interviews with authors, bestsellers lists, E-Books In Print, links to vendors, publishers, agents.
EServer.org
A unique website where 226 scholars, readers, artists and writers gather to share and discuss their works.There are 42 collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, they publish hypertext, audio and video recordings.
Online Literary Criticism Collection
from the Internet Public Library
Contains thousands of critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
New York Times Book Review
Over 50,000 book reviews dating back to 1996, feature articles, book reviews, best seller lists, reading groups.
BookBrowse
Bookbrowse carefully selects from the most interesting current books and provides you with multiple reviews and a substantial excerpt of each. Browse titles by genre, read a list of the year's Favorite Books, examine reading guides for a host of titles, and view a list of recent books featured on the site.
National Book Foundation
Their programs are the National Book Awards and National Book Month, always held in October.
Classic Reader
Read, search and annotate great works by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others, all in the public domain. They include fiction, non-fiction, children´s literature, poetry, Shakespeare, short stories and drama.
Celebration of Women Writers
A database and portal of materials by and about women authors. Contains online editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright books and links to specialty collections. Also biographical and bibliographical information.
Poetry Society of America
The PSA sponsors twelve annual awards contests, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding excellence in poetry by both new and established poets, also included are poetry resources for poetry colonies, conferences and festivals as well as poetry journals & literary magazines, and information on the Favorite Poem Project.
Electronic Poetry Center
A gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the Univ. of Buffalo and on the Web at large.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
An online index to over 60,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Literature Links Extensive links from the Internet Public Library
Yahoo!>>Literature Links
Links to authors, awards, banned books, bestsellers lists, electronic literature, poetry, history and plenty more.
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Online Books
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Microsoft Live Book Search Search Beta release
Google Book Search
Search inside books from A9.com, Google.com and MSN Live Search -- at the same time
Online Books Page
Go to the web site using this link to search for thousands of listings, or use the search box below. Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Choose from reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction.
Project Gutenberg
The oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Great place to find classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.
Open Library Sponsored by the Open Content Alliance.
Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project Bringing yesterday's classics to today's children. This is a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children.
Their focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain
in the United States. Titles
International Children's Digital Library
World's largest digital library for children. Eventually 10,000 texts from 100 cultures are planned, sending books to remote corners of the world and to homes where there aren't many books.
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
Possibly the largest collection of illustrated antique children's books on line.
Making of America (MOA)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Cornell University's contributions to MOA.
Internet Public Library Books Collection
Over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, title or Dewey classification, also searchable.
Internet Sacred Text Archive
An archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.
Digital Books Index
Digital Book Index provides links to more than 113,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 74,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. The topics include Reference books, Literature & Language, History, Social Sciences, Medicine and Health, Math & Sciences, Children's e-Books, Arts, Law, Philosophy & Religion. Free registration required.
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