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Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Find literary criticisms, author biographies, essays on topics and themes, synopses, videos, and more in this online collection from Harold Bloom.
Databases
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Find literary criticisms, author biographies, essays on topics and themes, synopses, videos, and more in this online collection from Harold Bloom.
FirstSearch
Online access to many OCLC FirstSearch databases including ERIC, MEDLINE, and WorldCat.
First Search GuideIf you are outside the library, you will need to use the following to log-in:
Authorization number: 100107379
Password: gxft#very
Illinois Library Catalog
OCLC catalog of materials in Illinois libraries. An OCLC database.
Use the following to log-in:
Authorization number: 100107379
Password: gxft#very
Literary Index
Locate critical or biographical material about authors, books, stories, or poems. Not full text, leads to critical sources.
Literature Resource Center
Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
LitFinder
Search 85,000 full-text poems, short stories, plays, speeches and essays. Can search by subject, author, and first/last lines.
Web Sites
A compilation of over 1,250 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority, all movies in this collection have been released as feature-length films in the United States, in English, since 1980.
BookPage is a monthly book review publication. The tone is upbeat and literate, focusing on bestsellers as well as new discoveries. All of the content from the print edition is posted on the web site.
Bestseller lists from Publisher's Weekly, NY Times, USA Today, Amazon, Barnes & Noble. Links to book awards, book reviews and reading lists.
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Files are available as mp3 or ogg format.
Free downloads of over 24,000 eBooks and audiobooks available in a variety of formats. A good source for classic literature.
Sign up for our e-newsletters and get great book suggestions by either email or RSS. We'll deliver reading lists right to you, and you'll be able to check immediately whether the items are on the shelf at the library or whether they've been checked out.
Sponsored by the Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism Collection. Find biographical and criticism information for over 100 authors and their works.
Providing timely information about fiction (all genres) and narrative nonfiction
Free online study guides for a variety of subjects including the the No Fear Shakespeare series. Also includes test preparation guides and tips for planning for college.
This site contains the complete works of William Shakespeare on-line, Bartlett's familiar Shakespearean Quotations, plus links to other Shakespeare sources.
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