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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The Journal to Stella https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97s/
eBooks Shakespeare and Music https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35721
eBooks 'Spenser, Johnson, and Shakspeare' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks The Preface to Shakespeare https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/
eBooks 'A Talk for Twelfth Night' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
eBooks On 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/machen/arthur/dog-and-duck/
eBooks Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lang/andrew/shakespeare-bacon-and-the-great-un…
eBooks 'Massinger, Milton, and the Italian Theatre' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Milton' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Masques' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Ben Jonson on Translation' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Ben Jonson, Feltham, and Randolph' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks 'Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare' https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/disraeli/isaac/curiosities/
eBooks The Preface to Shakespeare https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/
eBooks Woolf on Behn https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/
eBooks The Sonnets https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/sonnets/
eBooks Modern Fiction https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91c/
eBooks Mrs Dalloway https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91md/
eBooks The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (vol 1) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Mayor of Casterbridge https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Far From the Madding Crowd https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Woodlanders https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Return of the Native https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Chamber Music https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/chamber-music/
eBooks Jacob’s Room https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91j/
eBooks Night and Day https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91n/
eBooks The Voyage Out https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91v/
eBooks Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/b42o/
eBooks A Room of One's Own https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/
eBooks Finnegans Wake https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8f/
eBooks Ulysses https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8u/
eBooks A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8p/
eBooks Dubliners https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8d/
eBooks Poems, on several occasions https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The royal captives: a fragment of secret history https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The farmer's boy; a rural poem https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The earl of Essex. A tragedy https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poems on several occasions https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A Memoir of Mrs. Behn https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/b42m/
eBooks The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/b42r/
eBooks Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister; with the history of their adventures. In three parts. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Villette https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Shirley https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Jane Eyre : an autobiography https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The professor https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Oval Portrait (Life in Death) https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/p74r/
eBooks The Pit and the Pendulum https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/p74pi/
eBooks The Fall of the House of Usher https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/p74fa/
eBooks Bleak House https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54bh/