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World Literature

Use this guide to identify research tools and strategies for the study of literature from around the world, excluding the United States and Great Britain.

Find Books & eBooks

Looking for a classic? Lots of literature (mainly pre-1923) can be found online.

Try

Step-by-step instructions

1. Open HENRY

2. Access the Advanced Search

3. Change the drop-down menu to Subject

4. Enter the Country followed by the word Fiction and click search
(ex: Israel -- Fiction; Korea -- Fiction)

Or search the Notes. 

  • Searches the table of contents of anthologies of literature and criticism.

Need a book the library does not own?

You can request the book through Interlibrary Loan.  Info and a downloadable form are available here!

To search for books available in other libraries, try using

WorldCat -- Search the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries to locate books and identify citation information.

OR

Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections.

NOTE: Users do not need to identify a library that owns the book. Simply provide the appropriate information on the form and library staff will do the rest!

Locating Literary Works in Databases and on the Web