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Bibliomania - http://www.bibliomania.com/
Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. |
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. |
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Classic Reader - http://www.classicreader.com/
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. |
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Making of America - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. |
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The EServer - http://eserver.org/
Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. |
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Literature Online - http://lion.chadwyck.com/
Links to third party sites, plus literary and reference databases including English and American poetry, drama, and prose, and The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Requires paid subscription. |
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The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) - http://www.childrenslibrary.org/
Provides free access to children's books from around the world. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission. |
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Classics at the Online Literature Library - http://www.literature.org/authors/
Archived electronic texts indexed by author. |
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Page by Page Books - http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. |
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Adobe Sample eBook Library - http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/library/
Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed. |
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The Spectator Text Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities - http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectator/
An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. |
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Public Bookshelf - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
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ClassicAuthors.net - http://classicauthors.net/
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. |
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World eBook Library - http://www.worldlibrary.net/
Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only. |
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Access: The Great Books - http://www.anova.org/
A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature. |
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Selected Sources for Electronic Texts - http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/etexts.html
Provides links to electronic texts and archives in a variety of formats ranging from plain text to digital audio and digital braille. Compiled by the National Library Service. |
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ArmenianHouse.org - http://armenianhouse.org/
A private nonprofit project to convert into electronic format and publish the Armenian literary heritage. Also provides information on Armenian culture, history, religion. |
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PSU's Electronic Classics Series - http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
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Literature Project - http://www.literatureproject.com/
A collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays. Site offers online chapter-indexed hypertext that can be easily read and searched and each piece includes downloadable e-text of the work. |
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WebLiterature - http://www.webliterature.net
Extensive collection of online classic literature including novels, stories, poems, essays and non-fiction. The library has search and browse capabilities. |
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E-texts and Women's History - http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020199.htm
From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history. |
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Classic Book Library - http://classicbook.info/
A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance. |
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Bookstacks - http://www.bookstacks.org/
Free online texts in several languages. |
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Medieval and Classical Library - http://omacl.org/
Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. |
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Classical Authors Directory - http://authorsdirectory.com/
Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature enhanced with annotations from the Encyclopedia of the Self. |
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Master Texts - http://www.mastertexts.com
Collection of English literature. |
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Learn Library - http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. |
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Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com/
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
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http://www.cooo.net/ - http://www.cooo.net/
Contains the full text of a number of English-language works including novels by Dickens, H G Wells, James Joyce and Robert Stevenson, as well as translated works. |
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Read Easily - http://www.readeasily.com/
Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired. |
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byGosh.com - http://www.bygosh.com
Free, online illustrated children's stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories. |
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Kids4Classics - http://www.kids4classics.com/
Free classic literature books, with kids picks highlighted. |
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Read E-books in Computer, Mobile, Online or Offline - http://www.cmadras.com
HTML collection of online classic e-books. |
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PDFreeBooks Library - http://pdfreebooks.org
A small collection of free public domain and copyleft books. Read online on iPaper or download free full text versions as PDF. |
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Hypertexts in American Studies - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. |
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The Classics in ASCII - http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. |
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Instinct.org Online Texts - http://www.instinct.org/texts/
Selected online texts on a variety of topics. |
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The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel - http://members.tripod.com/~dglen/society.htm
For theories on the status of the contemporary novel, reviewing texts in print form, with an eye toward the form's evolution via hypertexts and immersive environments. |
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Yahshuan Archives - Akashic Infinitum - http://salmun.cwahi.net/
Preservs Books from world religion, sects, history, philosophy, health, self-help, self-sufficiency, biographies and old Children's materials. Including Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Gnostic writings. |