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ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Formerly History E-Book. Fulltext of scholarly titles in American, European, and Middle Eastern history.
An online collection of approximately 3,700 books of high quality in the humanities. These titles are offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty-seven learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the MPublishing Division of the University of Michigan Library.

The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. These are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
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Early American Fiction 1789-1875 This link opens in a new window
Full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories of the time period.
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. This unique collection of American fictional prose is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Virginia Library, and published by ProQuest in collaboration with the University of Virginia.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Collection of full text ebooks, both titles purchased by Walker Library and titles available through subscription.
Adobe Digital Editions software (free download) is required in order to download an ebook onto your computer for offline reading.

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Ebook Central (ProQuest) (formerly Ebrary) This link opens in a new window
Ebook collection spanning all academic subject areas. Includes only titles purchased by Walker Library (no subscription-only titles).
Adobe Digital Editions software (free download) is required in order to download a complete Ebrary book onto your computer.

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ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) This link opens in a new window
A large digital collection of full-text searchable 18th century books.
EEBO (Early English Books Online) This link opens in a new window
Page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700.
Content includes digitized images of all the works listed in these key bibliographic records of English literature: The Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); The Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); The Thomason Tracts; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements, as well as original almanacs, pamphlets, musical scores, prayer books and other intriguing primary sources. See ProQuest's EEBO LibGuide for more content details and a user guide.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new window
Complete texts of 96 works of English prose, 1700 to 1780, by writers from the British Isles.
Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the collection also contains two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 with AAS and LCP Supplements This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in America, 1639-1800. Includes Series I: Supplement from American Antiquarian Society, 1652-1800 and Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800
More about Evans, the AAS Supplement, and the Library Company of Philadelphia supplement.
LION (Literature Online) This link opens in a new window
Find online texts of poetry, fiction, and drama.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new window
Texts of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903.
Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontës feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.

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