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Bartleby's
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verse" |
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Bible
Gateway -- "a tool for reading
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other languages |
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Bible
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Bibliomania
-- "more than 2000 classic texts" |
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The Complete Works of William
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The
English Server Drama Collection --
"collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and
links to other sites concerned with theatre" |
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English
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works of and about fiction collected from our members,
contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain" |
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Folklore and Mythology Electronic
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D. L. Ashliman |
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Google
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millions of books; "Find in a Library" links to the SSU Catalog |
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Literature On-Line -- collections of
online texts of well-known authors with brief chronologies of
their lives |
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ibiblio
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The Internet Sacred Text
Archive -- "the
largest freely available archive of online books about religion,
mythology, folklore and the esoteric" |
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Luminarium: Anthology of English
Literature
-- full text and commentary of literatures from the early middle
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On-Line
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Representative Poetry On-line
-- collection of poetry from Caedmon to
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