English literature
Need to get a break from all the business reading? UBC Library has purchased many of these collections were every student can incorporate non-academic e-reading into their school life.
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ebrary Canadian Publisher CollectionContains a large number of fiction literature from Canadian publishers
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British Literary ManuscriptsFacsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
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Early English Prose FictionOver 200 complete works of English prose fiction from the period 1500 to 1700 by writers from the British Isles. Includes novels, stories, tales, jest-books, and satires.
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English DramaMore than 1800 works by over 500 named authors and over 300 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13th century through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the 19th century.
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Naxos Spoken Word LibraryNaxos provides online streaming access to over 400 audio books, comprising over 1,100 works and stories. Categories range from classic fiction to Shakespeare to selected children's works.
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Shakespeare / Editions and Adaptations of ShakespeareIncludes eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66; 24 original printings of individual plays; selected apocryphal plays; over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques.
