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Reviews and Critical Writings

• New York Times Book Review--The site includes the daily contents of the newspaper, up-to-the-minute breaking news, weekly features and original reporting. Along with a search index of reviews going back to 1980, it contains gems such as RealAudio recordings of Vladimir Nabakov reading from his novels. (Requires a free, one-time registration.)

• The New York Review of Books--This estimable chronicle has gone online with a weekly selection from its print offerings. Audio readings by esteemed authors Robert Silvers, Jason Epstein, Susan Sontag, Jonathan Miller, Darryl Pinckney, Joan Didion, Alma Guillermoprieto, James Fenton, and Elizabeth Hardwick are also available.

• The Online Literary Criticism Collection--Collect evaluative or explanatory writings about works of literature world wide. It contains 3265 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. It also provides a list of good starting places for finding online critical writing.

• A Guide to Critical Reading--Outline what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction. It contains the following major sections: analysis of poetry , analysis of fiction , analysis of prose in fiction ,as well as helpful advice on how to write an analytical essay . Prepared by English Professor John Lye at Brock University.

• Literary Criticism--From English server.

World Literature--large, general-purpose collections (in English)

• The Complete Works of Shakespeare--Publicly accessible. Search the complete works

• Great books Online--A collection of more than 10,000 English works
• Search Listings by Author and Title
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• Browse by Author
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• Browse by Subject
• Browse Serial Archives

• The English Server--Offers 27,241 works in the arts and humanities online. Mostly scholarly and secondary materials.
  • English Novels And Short Stories--Searchable.
  • English And American Poetry-- Searchable.

Project Gutenberg--A place where you can 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.
• Complete List of Authors (ZIPped)
• complete List of Titles (ZIPped)
• Access Project Gutenberg
  • Via Web site at promo.net
  • Via master FTP server at UIUC (direct access to texts; load may be heavy)
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• Project Bartleby--Provide free unlimited access to literature, reference and verse.
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Verse

• Online Book Initiative--A large freely re-distributable collection of text and related materials ranging from Shakespeare and The Bible to novels, poetry, standards documents, etc. (Direct ftp access, organized alphabetically by author, no searchable index)