"Classics" in VitalSource^TM Library

The VitalSource^TM Library provides students and teachers an array of original-source materials across disciplines, across genres, and across reading levels. Search, annotate, and work with your library whether you are online or not.

Thousands of works

The Library currently features over 3000 of the best known "classic" works from around the world. Novels, poems, plays, essays, paintings, reilgious and historical documents, and much more.

Advanced searching

You can search every word of individual works, your own collections of works, or even whole sections of the library in seconds. For example, choose the "Russian Literature" folder and search through all of your Russian novels for where the authors meantion "slavery" or "punishment"; search all of Shakespeare for places where "power" and "love" occur in the same paragraphs or stanzas; or try searching periods of history by choosing a decade from the 1800s and searching on an idea like "growth."