Primary English E-Books

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Also Known as: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
American publications from 1639 to 1800. Browsable by subject, genre, author, etc....   [more]

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
Also Known as: shaw shoemaker
The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides publishe...   [more]

ECCO 18th Century Collections Online
Also Known as: ECCO, Eighteenth century collections online
"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-tex...   [more]

EEBO: Early English Books Online
Also Known as: Early English Books Online; Short Title Catalogue; Wing; Pollard and Redgrave
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented...   [more]
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EEBO: Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured ...   [more]
Holdings: 1470-1700

Evans TCP
Also Known as: Evans Early American Imprint Collection, Evans Text Creation Partnership, Evans Digital Collection TCP
The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text...   [more]

Furness Shakespeare Library - English Renaissance in Context
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Proquest One Literature (formerly Literature Online - LION)
Also Known as: LION
LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. Separate databases are English Poetry (1100-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), African-American ...   [more]
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Important English E-Books

"Clotel" by William Wells Brown: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
Also Known as: Clotel by William Wells Brown: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
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African Writers Series
Key texts of modern African literature with an emphasis on the history of post-colonial writing. Release Seven of this online edition includes over 230 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictio...   [more]

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
Contains the volume's substantial textual apparatus. All print content is included in the Web version.

Mark Twain Project Online, launched in 2007, is produced by the Mark Twain Papers and Proje...   [more]
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Avant Garde Critical Studies
- from Ingenta Connect
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Holdings: 2004-

Bloomsbury Collections: Classical Studies & Archaeology
Also Known as: Bloomsbury Classics Collections, Bloomsbury Classical Studies and Archaeology, Ancient History Archive
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Cambridge Companion to the African Novel
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Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Also Known as: Cambridge Companions Online
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Cambridge History of African American Literature
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Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
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Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: A Digital Library of Latin Literature
The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) is a collaborative project among scholars from a variety of disciplines with the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the...   [more]
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Critical Insights: Gwendolyn Brooks
Also Known as: Critical Insights , Gwendolyn Brooks
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Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Also Known as: Critical Insights , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- from publisher website
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Critical Insights: James Baldwin
Also Known as: Critical Insights , James Baldwin
- from publisher website
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Critical Insights: Toni Morrison
Also Known as: Critical Insights , Toni Morrison
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Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
Also Known as: DOE Corpus
Fulltext of all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts. Texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial sentences. Units are retrieved through string, boolea...   [more]
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English Broadside Ballad Archive
Also Known as: EBBA
From the site: "In May 2003, EBBA set its sights first on digitizing the largest extant collection of English broadside ballads published in the 17th century: the five volumes of ballads collected by ...   [more]
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Folger Digital Texts
Also Known as: Shakespeare's Plays from Folger Digital Texts
Reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare's works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, Folger Digital...   [more]
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Herman Melville's "Typee": A Fluid Text Edition
Also Known as: Herman Melville's Typee: A Fluid Text Edition
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Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
- from Alexander Street Press
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John Donne Sermons
The text of this electronic archive is based on the ten-volume Sermons of John Donne, edited by George Potter and Evelyn Simpson and published by University of California Press between 19...   [more]
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Also Known as: NAWLD
Fulltext of letters and diaries, published and manuscript, of American women during the Colonial period through 1950. Biographical information is provided for each writer. Primary source materials are...   [more]

Oxford Handbooks Online: Literature
Includes all Oxford handbooks in Literature, searchable online across volumes and topics, both as complete works or as individual chapters. ...   [more]
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Also Known as: OSEO
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Also Known as: Parliamentary Rolls
Eight million words of text, translation and introductions, recording all surviving records of English Parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII covering the years from 1272 to 1504. Includes scholarly ...   [more]

Past Masters Philosophy Fulltext
Also Known as: PastMasters
British Philosophy 1600-1900 (Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, others)
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Philological Museum, The
A site devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British, published under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham. This site consists of two parts: Library of Huma...   [more]
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Shakespeare Editions and Adaptations
Also Known as: Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and relat...   [more]

The Bible in English (990-1970)
Contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah transla...   [more]

William Godwin's Diary
Also Known as: William Godwins Diary , The Diary of William Godwin
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Related English E-Books

Black Drama: 1850 to present, second edition
Also Known as: Black Drama Online
- from Alexander Street Press
Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The dat...   [more]

Early English Prose Fiction
Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700. ...   [more]