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Books, Book Reviews & Literature Criticism
amazon.com Description: Find publication details on over 2.5 million books in and out of print, videos and CDs. Amazon also includes links to books from the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and France.Barnes and Noble Description: Books, textbooks, out of print books, music, and videos. Same-day delivery if you live in Manhattan and a good stock of academic titles. Book publishers' catalogs from around the world Description: Links to catalogs, libraries, and online bookshopsBooks In Print Description: Bowker's Books in Print has been the standard catalog for in-print books for over 100 years. This online version features brief book reviews, list of book awards, bestsellers through the years, short biographies of major writers, and a directory of publishers. Choice Reviews Description: full-text book reviews from CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries the primary source for librarians and faculty who select academic library books. This site contains the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library Description: carries 5,000 publicly accessible texts, with over 1,200 books in Web or Microsoft Reader Ebook format. Gale Literature Resource Center Description: Provides extensive critical analyses of authors and literary genres. Access to biographies, work overviews, bibliographies, themes, links to web sites, and full text articles is available. The LRC consists of Gale's Contemporary Authors (through volume 179 of the print series and Volume 64 of Contemporary Authors New Revision Series), the Dictionary of Literary Biography (through volume 202 of the print series), select criticism from Contemporary Literary Criticism (through volume 113 of the print series), the Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's Author Series (including Twayne's English Authors, Twayne's United States Authors, and Twayne's World Authors). Gallica Classique Description: An imposing collection of classic French texts from the National Library of France.International Children's Digital Library Description: This site will eventually contain over 10,000 children's books drawn from 100 cultures. Each book is presented in full-text with full color image. It requires Java and special software (6.2Mb) that can be downloaded from the site, along with a high-speed connection. The project was developed by the Internet Archive and the University of Maryland and sponsored by federal Institute of Museum and Library Services in partnership with other academic and government agencies.Internet Bookshop Description: Books from the United Kingdom, from WHSmith Online.New York Review of Books Description: An electronic version of the print edition. A fee is required to access some reviews.Online Books Page Description: Links to over 20,000 online full-text books. You can search by author or title, display a subject list by Library of Congress call number, or find links to banned books, books on special topics, or books in other languages. Compiled by John Mark Ockerbloom, digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Library.Out of Print Books: Abebooks.com Description: provides a good interface and direct links to dealersOut of Print Books: Alibris Description: this service lets you search for out-of-print books but does not provide links to dealer's catalogsOut of Print Books: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), Description: a professional organization for established booksellers, has a new site that will let you find book or find a member bookseller by name, speciality, or location. Out of Print Books: Bookfinder Description: Bookfinder is an out-of- print search engine that does a combined search of several online bookseller's sites, including Amazon, ABE, and others.Out of Print Books: International League of Antiquarian Book Dealers Description: The ILAB-LILA (Ligue Internationale de la Librairie Ancienne)has a seachable database of books and of bookdealers around the world. Out of Print Books: StrandOnline Description: The Strand Book Store, on Broadway at 12th St. in Manhattan, boasts that it has 18 miles of books, mostly used. Its inventory is now online at this siteOxford Text Archive Description: over 2500 electronic texts for scholarly use. Some are available for immediate download, others require submission of a form requesting their use for scholarship.SearcheBooks Description: Keyword searching across thousands of online books.Wired for Books Description: "Developed by the Ohio University Telecommunications Center, with the kind assistance of the Ohio Humanities Council, this site brings together a number of rather fine audio recordings of authors reading their own works, video recordings of a number of plays, and an extensive archive of author interviews conducted by Don Swaim from his national syndicated program, Book Beat, which was produced in the 1970s and 1980s. The site contains a number of great renditions of various works especially for children, including some fine readings of the stories of Beatrix Potter and a great performance of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as directed and narrated by Karen Chan. " -- Scout ReportWright American Fiction (1851-1875) Description: The Indiana University Digital Library Program plans to digitize every American novel published between 1851 and 1875. So far over 1,700 are available in full image and in text.
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