LitFinder

CUNY has a trial through August 31, 2010, to LitFinder.  This Gale databases provides the text of 150,000 poems, 7,100 short stories, 3,700 essays, 2,400 speeches, and 1,300 plays, as well as 2,300 biographies of writers and 1,800 illustrations.  LitFinder also indexes some literary works for which it does not have the rights to the text.  In these cases the database displays the titles of collections where the materials may be found.  Text from LitFinder also appears in search results in Literature Resources from Gale under the Primary Sources & Literary Works tab.