Literature Resource Guide

This guide provides information on resources related to the Literature Collection. It includes a selection of print and electronic resources in the State Library which relate to this subject, as well as some useful web links.

General browsing collection

A good starting point is to browse the shelves in the Information Centre where ready reference material such as encyclopedias and dictionaries are available. General works are also for available for browsing in the Redmond Barry Reading Room . Books and other materials are classified under the following Dewey numbers:

080	Quotations, general collections
800	Literature
808.81	Collections of poetry
808.8245	Monologues
808.831	Short stories
808.85	Collections of speeches
808.86	Collections of humor and satire
809.02	Literature--medieval period--history and criticism
813	American fiction in English
821.008	English poetry--collections
822	English drama
822.33	William Shakespeare
823	English fiction
831	German poetry
832	German drama
833	German fiction
839.1	Yiddish literature
839.36	Afrikaans literature
841	French poetry
842	French drama
843	French fiction
851	Italian poetry
852	Italian drama
853	Italian fiction
861	Spanish poetry
862	Spanish drama
863	Spanish fiction
871	Latin poetry
872	Latin dramatic poetry and drama
873	Latin epic poetry and fiction
881	Classical Greek poetry
882	Classical Greek dramatic poetry and drama
883	Classical Greek epic poetry and fiction
891.1	Indo-Iranian literatures
891.2	Sanskrit literature
891.3	Middle Indic literatures
891.4	Modern Indic literatures
891.5	Iranian literatures
891.6	Celtic literatures
891.7	East Slavic literatures Russian literature
891.8	Slavic (Slavonic) literatures
891.9	Baltic and other Indo-European literatures
892.5	Hebrew literature
892.71	Arabic poetry
892.72	Arabic drama
892.73	Arabic fiction
894.351	Turkish poetry
894.353	Turkish fiction
895.11	Chinese poetry
895.12	Chinese drama
895.13	Chinese fiction
895.4	Tibetan literature
895.61	Japanese poetry
895.63	Japanese fiction
895.71	Korean poetry
895.72	Korean fiction
895.9921	Vietnamese poetry
895.9923	Vietnamese fiction
896	African literatures
897	Literatures of North American native languages
898	Literatures of South American native languages
899	Literatures of non-Austronesian languages of Oceania, of Austronesian languages
899.15	Australian Aboriginal literatures
899.2	Austronesian literatures
899.221	Bahasa Indonesia literature
899.28	Bahasa Malaysia literature
899.442	Maori literature