Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowLiterature Online is a single-point, online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 357,000 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference. LION's corpus includes the Annual Bibliography of Language and Literature (ABELL), as well as direct links to literary criticism and reference from an extensive collection of full-text literature journals.