Fiction

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• Little Magazines in Hesburgh Library
  
  Coverage: 20th century American
  This is a list of many of the avant-garde magazines or literary reviews known as “little magazines” to which Notre Dame provides access. ... []

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• Alexander Street literature
  
  A cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. Includes the collections: Black Short Fiction and Folklore, Black Women Writers, Caribbean Literature, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Latin American Women Writers, Latino Literature, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, and South and Southeast Asian Literature. ... []
• Bartleby.com: Great books online
  
  Provides a free-of-charge, full-text collection of selected literature, reference and verse. Includes works such as the Oxford Shakespeare, Columbia encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, the Harvard classics, Bartlett's familiar quotations, and Columbia gazetteer. ... []
• Black short fiction and folklore
  
  Contains thousands of stories, folktales, and works of short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.
• British Literary Manuscripts Online
  
  Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable. ... []
• Caribbean literature
  
  "a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. ... numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages."--Publisher's description. ... []
• Catholic library 99
  
  Provides a searchable database of HTML-encoded texts, including approximately 1000 titles from the 37-volume print version of works by Early Church Fathers, Aquinas' Summa Theologica, Longfellow's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, and Lew Wallace's Ben Hur. Usage info: Licensed for one concurrent user. ... []
• Deutsche Literatur von Lessing bis Kafka
  
  Call Number: HESB GEN PT 41 .D48 1997
  Unabridged German language texts by 58 authors with biographies and bibliographical notes.
• Early American fiction 1789-1875
  
  "the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period."--Home page. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Early English books online (see EEBO : Early English books online)
  
  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. ... []
• Early English prose fiction
  
  Contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• EEBO : Early English books online
  
  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. Access info: Content presented as images online, or can be downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. No plugins required to view images online. ... []
• EEBO TCP: Early English books online - text creation partnership
  
  Subset of Early English books online. SGML/XML encoded with full text searching capabilities. 200-300 titles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP is to contain 25,000 texts. ... []
• Eighteenth century fiction
  
  Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction, written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Gallica
  
  Collection of electronic texts, images, animation and sound files of French literature, maintained by the Bibliotheque nationale de France. ... []
• Italian Women Writers
  
  The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Our goal is to bring information on and texts by both famous and previously neglected Italian women writers to a wider audience of students, scholars, teachers, and the general public, and to preserve these often fragile texts for generations to come. ... []
• Jack Kerouac romnibus
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PS 3521 .E735 Z633 1995
  Multimedia presentation of the life and work of Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation author and poet, via text, photographs, graphics, sound, animation, and video; complete works and excerpted writings of Kerouac, archival materials, biographical information, interviews, and bebop music. ... []
• LION, literature online
  
  A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users ... []
• Little Magazines in Hesburgh Library
  
  Coverage: 20th century American
  This is a list of many of the avant-garde magazines or literary reviews known as “little magazines” to which Notre Dame provides access. ... []
• Nineteenth-century fiction
  
  Provides access to full text of 250 novels by more than 100 authors from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Scrittori d'Italia Laterza
  
  Coverage: 1910-1987
  The website "Scrittori d'Italia" makes freely available online digital reproduction of texts representing the entire series published by Laterza publishing house, and bearing the same title. Tthe printed series ran to 179 texts which appeared - a few in several editions - between 1910 and 1987, year of the final publication. ... []
• Si ku quan shu
  
  The Siku Quanshu represents a massive heritage from thousands of years of Chinese civilization. Includes more than 3,000 works of literature, classics, history and philosophy. Electronic edition of the print Wenyuange edition, compiled 1773-1782. Fully searchable by keyword, author, title, subject. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user. Access info: Requires Internet Explorer 5 or higher version browser (does NOT work with Netscape) ... []
• Victorian women writers project
  
  Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Access info: Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access. ... []
• Virginia Woolf
  
  Mode of access: CD-ROM in Reserve Book Room. Software has been installed on the "Windows XP -- CD Station" computer.
  Call Number: HESB RES Electronic PR 6045 .O72 1997
  "The complete works of Virginia Woolf including variant and hard-to-find editions. Over 12,000 manuscript images from the Henry W and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library and the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex"--Portfolio. ... []
• W.B. Yeats collection (1885-1995)
  
  Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the Works of W.B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors) have been used. ... []
• Women writers online
  
  Contains full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830. Also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. Has links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi. ... []
• World literature online (see Alexander Street literature)
  
  "... a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. ... features 14 collections and offers over 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels, along with more than 5,000 full-text plays and film scripts."--Home page. ... []
• Wright American fiction, 1851-1875
  
  "... a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1932 texts included (1731 unedited, 201 fully edited and encoded) by 945 authors"--Title screen. ... []
• 18th century fiction (see Eighteenth century fiction)
  
  Provides the complete text of 96 works of prose fiction, written in the British Isles between 1700 and 1780, including Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. ... []
• 19th century fiction (see Nineteenth-century fiction)
  
  Provides access to full text of 250 novels by more than 100 authors from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period. ... []