TWU Libraries

Website--Books & Electronic Texts

Book Reviews

• Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson Web)
  
• Booklist
• Books in Print [Bowker]
  Includes book reviews for individual titles. Access restricted to TWU.
• How to Write a Book Review
• New York Review of Books
• Writing Book Reviews

Electronic Text Collection

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  Allows search, browse by author, title or file name.
• American Literary Classics American Literature Hypertexts [Univ. of Virginia]
• Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
  Classic and contemporary Italian literature.
• ARTFL Project [Univ. of Chicago]
  Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language maintains a database of over 1,800 texts, searchable by word, word root, prefix, suffix and inclusive dates.
• Association des Bibliophiles Universels (France) ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle
  Public Domain French texts.
• The Avalon Project [Yale Law School]
  Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government
• Bartelby Library [Columbia University]
  Accurate online texts of major out of copyright works
• Bibliomania: The Network Library
  Reference, Fiction and Non-Fiction
• CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts [Cork, Ireland]
  Contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives
• Eldritch Press
  Free, accessible HTML books, many illustrated and annotated.
• English Server
  Major humanities text collection. Browse or search by topic, location and keyword.
• English Server Drama Collection
  Plays, screenplays and discussions of drama and dramatic productions.
• English Server Fiction Collection
  Novels and short stories; alphabetical by author.
• Etext Archives
  An independent archive containing a variety of electronic texts.
• Great Books Index
  Ken Roberts' guide to online editions of great books. Not associated with Great Books of the Western World.
• Historical Text Archive
  U.S. and World history texts.
• Humanities Text Initiative
• Individual Literature Collections [via LION]
  Access restricted to TWU.
• Internet Public Library Books Collection
  Over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification.
• Library of Southern Literature
  Electronic texts of the 100 most important literary works on the American South. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• National Academy Press
  Most of their books are available free online.
• On-Line Books Page
  Search or browse by author or title, and browse new book and subject list of over 16000 works in English.
• Oxford Text Archive
• Project Gutenberg
  A huge library of electronically stored books, mostly classics.
• Project Runeberg [Lynkoping Univ.]
  Classic Nordic Literature in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Finnish.
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography [HTML format]
• Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
  19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.

Classical Greek and Latin Texts

• Classics Etexts
• Armarium Labyrinthi: Labyrinth Latin Bookcase
  Search and browse; arranged by source. Includes Classical Greek texts that influenced Latin traditions.

Poetry

• American Verse Project [Univ. of Michigan]
• EServer Poetry Collection: Canonical Verse
  Alphabetically listed by author.

Miscellaneous Text Collections

• Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library
  Full text alchemical works.
• Banned Books Online
• Comics.com
• Spunk Library
  Anarchist and alternative texts.
• World War One Document Archive

Publishers, Bookstores and Book Information Sites

• Advanced Book Exchange [abebooks.com]
  Out-of-print and antiquarian books database.
• AlexLit: Alexandria Digital Literature
  Ebooks and eReader hardware.
• Amazon.com Books
  Online bookstore with database of more than 2 million current titles.
• Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
  Links to antiquarian book dealers and catalogs.
• Association of American University Presses
• Barnes and Noble.com
• Bibliofind
  Used and antiquarian books for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world.
• NewPages Alternatives in Print and Media Includes independent publishers, bookstores, and university presses.
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
  Links to U.S. and International publishers.
• WHSmith
  British database with 1.4 million UK and US titles.