About Lit Finder
Access to full text poems, essays, speeches, plays, stories and more.
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Key features
LitFinder spans history and geography to offer the works of more than 80,000 authors from over 660 nationalities. LitFinder immerses readers in more than:
- 135,000 full text poems;
- 850,000 additional poem citations and excerpts;
- 6,500 full text stories and novels;
- 3,800 full text essays from the 16th-20th centuries;
- 1,250 full text plays;
- 2,400 full text speeches;
- 2,350 author biographies;
- 1,800 photos and illustrations.
More information
There are four searches to choose from in Lit Finder:
- Basic Search: enter a keyword, title, author or subject line into a single search box;
- Advanced Search: search from a list of more than 25 terms, such as: name of work, character name, literary movement/genre;
- Person Search: allows the user to search on specific attributes, such as gender or nationality;
- Work Search: find the full text version of poems, plays and stories with information about that written work.
