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Essays

English Literature Essays. From Literature-Study-Online
A structured guide to a wealth of sites helpful in the study of English Literature. Ian Mackean's  English Literature Essays page publishes essays on a wide variety of authors and aspects of literature, some by himself and others by lecturers and students from all over the world, and it also links to his English Literature Discussion Forum.

English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay.
Four centuries of the development of English prose are illustrated by 24 works from 17 authors, ranging from those best known for the essay, like Addison and Hazlitt, to those, like Jonson and Coleridge, whose poetic spirit infuses all their writings. Harvard Classics

The Essay, Wikipedia entry.

Essay eTexts at Project Gutenberg.

Essayinfo
Information on writing essays, tips.

Essaypage
More than 20,000 essays on all topics.

Great essayists

The English essayists: a comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin.
Internet Archive. Downloadable texts.

Wikipedia list of literary essayists.

Calasso, Roberto

Calasso, Roberto. Roberto Calasso, Wikipedia entry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Project Gutenberg

Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson in free audio format. LibriVox.

The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. RWE.org

Montaigne, Michel de

Montaigne. Works by Michel de Montaigne at Project Gutenberg.

Essays by Montaigne at Quotidiana.org

Essays, plain text version. Project Gutenberg

Essays. Searchable HTML version.

Zeldin, Theodor

Zeldin, Theodor, Theodore Zeldin website project Oxford Muse.

Theodore Zeldin, Wikipedia entry.

Gypsy Scholar. Plagiarism Index

List of essayists, Wikipedia entries.

One Hundred Great Essays, by Robert Diyanni.
Student resources.

Plagiarism, software

EVE2 Plagiarism Detection for Teachers

Glatt Plagiarism Program

Gypsy Scholar. Plagiarism Index

Turnitin plagiarism software.

Copyscape
A search engine to locate duplicated materials on the internet.

PlanetPapers
Free literature essays.

Project Muse
Project Muse's mission is to excel in the broad dissemination of high-quality scholarly content.
Project Muse is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

Reference Generator
The Harvard Bibliography Reference Generator generates references in a correct form.