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Click on the book icon to view the full text. In most all cases, click on the Read button to access the full text. Literature, poetry, non-fiction, reference books Provides full text access to 19th and 20th century British, American, French, and Russian literature, including the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction . A strength of this site is its poetry collection. Each record includes a brief biographical sketch of the author through Columbia Encyclopedia , and a complete bibliographical citation including all details of original publication.