English Writing & Literature: Books & eBooks
Searching for Books at BCC Libraries
Use the library catalog to find print books, electronic books, and streaming videos. The HELM Library Catalog allows BCC students to request books from any HELM Library through the catalog interface as long as the student has registered their BCC Campus Card.
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Try These Books
This is just a sampling of the books available to you in BCC Library System. Books may be located in Attleboro, Fall River, or New Bedford. The location is noted in the Call Number.
A Companion to the American Short Story by Call Number: PS 374 S5 C58 2010ISBN: 9781405115438Publication Date: 2010-03-15A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries.
Classical Arabic Literature by Call Number: PJ 7694 E1 C53 2013ISBN: 9780814770276Publication Date: 2012-12-01A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars.
Modern Minority by Call Number: PS 153 A84 L45 2013ISBN: 9780199915835Publication Date: 2013-01-18Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with the everyday.
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Library of Congress Classification System
BCC Libraries shelve books according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Titles for English can be found under the headings below. You can browse the shelves in the following call number ranges:
- P LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- P Philology and linguistics (General)PA Classical languages and literature
- PB Modern European Languages. Celtic languages
- PC Romance languages
- PD Germanic languages. Scandinavian
- PE English
- PF West Germanic (Dutch, German, etc)
- PG Slavic. Baltic, Albanian languages
- PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages
- PJ Oriental languages and literatures
- PK Indo-Iranian
- PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
- PM American Indian languages. Artificial languages
- PN Literature. Literary history and collections. Criticism
- PQ Romance literature
- PR English literature
- PS American literature
- PT Germanic literatures
- PZ Fiction
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