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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks Rasselas https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/rasselas/
eBooks Samuel Johnson https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets; ... (v.2/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets; ... (v.4/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets; ... (v.3/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The lives of the most eminent English poets... (v. 1/4) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Beggar's Opera https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / illustrated by Gustave Doré [1798] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/coleridge/samuel_taylor/rime/
eBooks Lyrical Ballads, with other poems https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wordsworth/william/lyrical/
eBooks Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97g/
eBooks MacFlecknoe : a poem https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Dunciad https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/pope/alexander/dunciad/
eBooks Lady Susan https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93l/
eBooks Northanger Abbey https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93n/
eBooks Sense and sensibility https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93s/
eBooks Pride and prejudice https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93pr/
eBooks Mansfield park https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93m/
eBooks Emma https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93e/
eBooks Persuasion https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93p/
eBooks The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/hamlet/
eBooks The works of Thomas Middleton (Vols 1-8) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The town and country jester; or, a new fund of genuine wit and good humour https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Elegant extracts ... https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Camilla https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burney/fanny/camilla/
eBooks Cecilia https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burney/fanny/cecilia/
eBooks Evelina https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burney/fanny/evelina/
eBooks Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay (v. 2) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Woman and Labour https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schreiner/olive/woman/
eBooks The Story of an African Farm https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1441
eBooks The Case is Altered https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/jonson/ben/case_is_altered/
eBooks The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marlowe/christopher/tambur2/
eBooks The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/marlowe/christopher/tambur1/
eBooks Memories and portraits : memories of himself, selections from his notebook. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Robert Louis Stevenson : his work and his personality https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Introductions to Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Miscellanies in prose and verse https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Poetry in Context: The First World War Poetry Digital Archive (article) Stuart Lee, Katharine Lindsay https://english.heacademy.ac.uk/2016/04/24/magazine-wordplay-issue-2/
eBooks The William Blake calendar, selected by T. Wright. https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A Modest Proposal ... https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/swift/jonathan/s97m/
eBooks Poems upon several occasions, : English, Italian, and Latin, with translations, https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The history of the renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britain; ... (v 2) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The history of the renowned Prince Arthur, King of Britain; ... (v 1) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks La Mort d'Arthure .. (v 1) https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Morte Darthur https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks Canterbury tales https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks A treatise on the astrolabe : addressed to his son Lowys https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks William Blake, a critical essay https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks
eBooks The Poems of William Blake https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks