E-books for English and Drama

Literary texts

JISC Historic Books has the full text of over 350,000 books published in Great Britain from 1475-1900. It consists of 3 databases which can be searched individually or together:

• Early English books online (EEBO) 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. Full text.
• Eighteenth century collections online (EECO) Contains digital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. Full text.
• Nineteenth Century books from the British Library collection Gives full-text access to over 65,000 19th Century books, covering philosophy, history, poetry and literature.

There are links to various freely available sources of electronic texts in the guide Internet sites for English and Drama

Reference e-books

Oxford Reference Online This is a collection of Oxford University Press reference books on a variety of subjects including Literature. Titles covered include The Oxford Companion to English Literature; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms; A Dictionary of Writers and their Works and many others.

See our page on E-books for details of other collections that the Library subscribes to.