Literature library
Read, listen, and study literature
The full Literature Library is coming soon! Meanwhile, please check out these resources
Free books and collections
Read public-domain books, manuscripts, journals, and digitized library collections.
Project Gutenberg
A large, volunteer-proofread library of free public-domain ebooks.
Standard Ebooks
Carefully formatted, proofread editions of public-domain literature.
Internet Archive Texts
Millions of digitized books, periodicals, and historical texts.
Open Library
A searchable catalogue with borrowing access to many digitized books.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Digitized research-library holdings with extensive full-view material.
Digital Public Library of America
Search literary and cultural collections from libraries across the United States.
British Library Learning Resources
Free literary manuscripts, articles, and teaching collections from the British Library.
Library of Congress: Poetry & Literature
Author recordings, exhibitions, events, and national literary collections.
Poetry, drama, and literary study
Explore poems, performances, scholarly editions, interviews, and criticism.
Poetry Foundation
Poems, poet biographies, essays, podcasts, and educator resources.
Academy of American Poets
Poems, poet profiles, lesson plans, and the Poem-a-Day archive.
Poetry Archive
Recordings of poets reading their own work, with curated collections.
National Poetry Library
Catalogues, digital resources, exhibitions, and modern poetry collections.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare texts, performances, primary sources, podcasts, and teaching materials.
Perseus Digital Library
Greek and Roman texts, translations, dictionaries, and classical reference works.
The Victorian Web
A long-running scholarly resource on Victorian literature, history, and culture.
Modernist Journals Project
Searchable digital editions of magazines important to literary modernism.
The Paris Review Interviews
An extensive archive of writers discussing craft, process, and literary life.
Reedsy Learning
Free publishing and creative-writing courses from working professionals.
JSTOR Daily
Accessible literary and cultural essays connected to free scholarship in JSTOR.
The Poetry Society
Poetry programmes, competitions, learning resources, and contemporary work.
AP & IB references
Official course frameworks plus established text-analysis and revision companions.
AP English Literature and Composition
The official College Board course framework, skills, and exam resources.
AP English Language and Composition
Official rhetoric, composition, course-description, and exam materials.
IB Studies in Language and Literature
The official IB overview for Literature and Language A courses.
LitCharts
Theme, character, symbol, and quotation guides for widely studied texts.
SparkNotes Literature Guides
Study guides, summaries, analysis, and quizzes for frequently assigned works.
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