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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 

 
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Seated figure with head resting on hand.

Proposed statue of Shakespeare, in Melbourne (detail) by Samuel Calvert.