E-Books

Arden Shakespeare (1564-1616): Find any Shakespeare play, sonnet or poem. Find analyses and commentaries about Shakespeare’s works. View facsimiles of early printings of Shakespeare’s works.
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What is it? A collection of Shakespeare’s works accompanied by selected commentaries, analyses, bibliographies and glossaries.

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ARTFL (Coverage Varies): Locate the full-text version of classic French texts. Research French literature and language.
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What is it? Database of full-text French texts. Genre include:novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include: literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

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Cetedoc (Coverage Varies): Find the texts of early and medieval Christian Latin scholars and other figures. Learn about the uses of Christian Latin texts through history; search for Christian Latin texts based on author/religious figure, work, era, genre or discourse/quotation.
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What is it? Collection of Christian Latin texts spanning the late second century to the fifteenth century. Text and most search terms are in Latin; Help menu provides assistance in English.

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Corpus Montaigne (Coverage Varies): Search online full-text collection of Montaigne's works. Contains: Les Essais; La Teologie naturelle de Raymond Sebon (Translated by Montaigne).
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What is it? Full-text of the titles published while Montaigne was alive; Titles published posthumously by his daughter in law, Madame de Gourmay; The most famous editions published between 1603 and 1942 with notes; The best editions of the complete works in English, German, Spanish, Italian in modern spelling; Facsimile of all the Essais published while Montaigne was alive including the famous 1588 "edition de Bordeaux".

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1473-1700): Read the full text of books published in the English speaking world from 1473-1700. Research the social and cultural life, scientific discoveries, and history of this time period.
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What is it? Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Contains titles from Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

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Google Book Search (Coverage Varies): Find books containing obscure terms or phrases that may not appear in a library catalog. Search the full text of a book to find quotations or references. For books where the full text is not available, use the reference to find the book in a library.
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What is it? Google's tool for searching the full text of printed books that have been provided by publishers or scanned from major research libraries (Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, New York Public Library, and others). Out of copyright books may be viewed in their entirety, others may allow only a snippet to be displayed. For ones only available in snippet view, use the Find this book in a library link or search in FRANCIS to see whether we own the book.

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Women Writers Project (1400-1850): Search electronic reproductions of selected writings and works of women covering a period from 1400 to 1850.
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What is it? Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.

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