Literature

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Documenting the American South
DocSouth includes books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews and songs related to southern history, literature, and culture.

Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

Greenwood Digital Collection
This large collection of ebooks includes literary criticism about many contemporary authors.

Literary Reference Center
Provides scholarly articles and criticism, biographies, author interviews, a history timeline, and the full text of public domain novels, short stories, and poems. 

NextReads
Sign up for our e-newsletters and get great book suggestions by email. We'll deliver reading lists right to your inbox along with new gems, bestsellers, and related titles. You'll also be able to check immediately whether the items are available at your local Library or whether they've been checked out.

NoveList
A readers' advisory service which provides author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more for all genres of fiction. More info...

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
Contains modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century.

Twentieth Century American Poetry
Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets from the last century.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry
A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 British poets from 1900 to the present day.

WorldCat
Check here to see what other libraries around the world carry. If you want to borrow a book which Durham County Library does not own, come to any reference desk of any Durham County Library branch to fill out an interlibrary loan form and we will try to borrow the book from another library system.

Last Update: August 28, 2012