Dominicana Online’s Virtual Library Substantially Increases Access to Dominican Literary Works

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) have recently added an impressive list of publications to Dominicanaonline.org’s Virtual Library, which provides the global community access to a wide repertoire of the best Dominican literature in Spanish. The Library currently features 30 literary works.

 

The initiative seeks
to foster intellectual growth and promote appreciation of Dominican culture. In addition to providing equal access to library materials, the Virtual Library’s digitalized volumes allow for numerous users to read the same book, article or document simultaneously. Restriction free access to all literary works makes the Virtual Library an invaluable teaching tool for classroom instructors.

 

Digital volumes may be read,
downloaded and printed at no cost to the reader. All documents form part of the public domain.

 

The site’s user friendly “search” feature allows users to search for materials by subject (action, science fiction, drama, children’s literature, social studies, education, geography, history, politics, religion, other) or by genre (biography, short story, essay, poetry, novel, report, document,
other). The “advanced search” option allows users to also search for texts by title, ISBN, author, editor, year or content.

 

The portal section “Recommendations” provides readers access to literary critiques of the Library’s volumes. Moreover, the section “Reader Favorites” features a list of the texts most frequently read by portal users.

 

Books featured on Dominicanaonline.org include:

 

Cosas Añejas – Cesar Nicolás Penson

De las Letras Dominicanas – Rufino Martínez

De Soslayo – Rafael
Damirón

Dominicanismos – Manuel A. Patin Maceo

 

Al Amor de Bohío – Ramón Emilio Jiménez

Al Amor de Bohío – Tomo II – Ramón Emilio Jiménez

Bani, o Engracia y Antoñita – Francisco Gregorio Bilini

Cachón – Miguel Angel Monclús

Cañas y Bueyes – Francisco Mocoso Puello

Carnavá – Angel Hernádez Acosta

Cartas a Evelina
– Francisco Moscoso Puello

El Derrumbe – Frederico García Godoy

El Terrateniente – Manuel A. Amiama

Enriquillo – Manuel de Jesús Galván

Espigas Historicas – Victor Garrido

Guanuma
– Frederico García Godoy

La Fantasma de Higüey – Francisco Javier Angulo Guridi

La Sangre una Vida Bajo la Tiranía – Tulío M. Cestero

Masacre Pasa a Pie – Freddy Prestol Castillo

Montero – Pedro Francisco
Bonó

Narraciones Dominicanas – Manuel de Jesús

Over – Rámon Marrero Aristy

Páginas Olvidadas – Gastón F. Deligne

Sueña Pilarin … — Abigail Mejia

 

Antología Poética de Domingo Moreno Jimenes – Manuel Mora Serrano