Literature Resources: Web Resources

Short Stories, Classic Literature, Shakespeare, Christmas Stories, Poems, Speeches, Essays & Letters

19th century British literature.

Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.

This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.

Collection of "classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy, history, etc..

Provides access to classic texts as well as contemporary reference works,

Collection of classic and contemporary original plays and screenplays. Also includes discussions of drama and dramatic productions.

Major humanities text collection hosted by Iowa State University.

Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and compiled by D.L. Ashliman, this site contains links to numerous folktales from throughout the world.

This digital library concentrates on Latin American and Iberian works in the humanities.

Browse for books by author's last name or by category. Includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations. (E-texts, UVa)

Provides access to many important literary works of medieval and classical civilization. Search with keywords, or browse by title, author, genre or original language.

Works by British women writers of the 19th century.

Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. (Indiana University)