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Books in the public domain, available in HTML. Also offers online access to books in PDF, by
subscription, for individuals and institutions.
http://worldebooklibrary.com/
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Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum
period through Reconstruction.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
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OwlEyes
As well as other literature-education resources, the site provides brief biographical notes on
various canonized authors along with links to a selection of online texts by each.
http://owleyes.org/
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ClassicAuthors.net
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
http://classicauthors.net/
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
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Wordtheque
Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.
http://www.wordtheque.com/
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The EServer
Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry,
fiction, non-fiction; links.
http://eserver.org/
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Perseus Project
Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
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Knowledge Search
An online books search engine.
http://ksearch.f2o.org/
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CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library
An extensive link resource, listing texts archived at various locations all across the internet.
Also has a searchable database feature.
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/
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The Online Books Page
Features over 10,000 online books free to the public.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
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The Classics in ASCII
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
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Access: The Great Books
A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides.
Linked to other sites related to the study of literature.
http://www.anova.org/
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Public Bookshelf
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
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Oxford Text Archive
2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
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Free Electronic Books
Educational texts.
http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html
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Virtual Library
Internet archive providing selected fiction and essays in text format. Also features
Russian-language section.
http://www.online.webzone.ru/elib/index.html
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PSU's Electronic Classics Series
Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
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Classic Reader
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.
http://www.classicreader.com/
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Electronic Texts and Publishing
Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers,
compiled by the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html
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Bralyn E-text Archive
E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/
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Medieval and Classical Library
Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
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Classical Authors Index
Online index of classical fiction and nonfiction, with links to search engine searches for each
author.
http://www.selfknowledge.com/
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E-texts and Women's History
From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that
illuminate women's history.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020199.htm
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Instinct.org Online Texts
Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
http://www.instinct.org/texts/
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Literature of the Fantastic
A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htp
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Electronic Library of the Bath House
Primary historical texts and relevant secondary sources pertaining to the bizarre Roman Emperor
Elagabalus and related subjects. An offbeat, fascinating introduction to Imperial Roman history,
starting on the fringe. Texts in HTML format.
http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/hglib.htm
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Bootlegbooks
Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry.
http://www.bootlegbooks.com
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WebCab Library
Collection of public domain e-texts in html, text, or downloadable in zip format, in literature,
humanities, religion, science, and reference.
http://www.zuppa.co.uk/
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Hypertexts in American Studies
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
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Literature Online
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.
http://lion.chadwyck.com/
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Literature Project
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.
http://www.literatureproject.com/
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Ditigized Library of Southern Literature
There is a collection of 53 texts in HTML and SGML.
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/southlit/southlit.html
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Blackmask Online
A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of
literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format.
http://www.blackmask.com/
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byGosh.com
Free, online illustrated childrens stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century,
out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories.
http://www.bygosh.com
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Learn Library
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm
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The Transformation Story Archive
An electronic archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations.
http://tsa.transform.to/
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SearchEBooks
Specialized search engine for searching the full text of thousands of online books available on the
web.
http://www.searchebooks.com
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Page by Page Books
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
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Bibliomania
Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general
non-fiction and reference works.
http://www.bibliomania.com/
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The Online Literature Library
A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
http://www.literature.org/
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Bartleby.com
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
http://www.bartleby.com/
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Master Texts
Collection of English literature.
http://www.mastertexts.com
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The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel
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.
http://members.tripod.com/~dglen/society.htm
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The Litrix Reading Room
A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.
http://www.litrix.com/
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Gruntose
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
http://www.gruntose.com/
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The Modern English Collection
History, Civil War, Best sellers 1900-1930
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
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The Internet Public Library
Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference
materials with special sections for youth.
http://www.ipl.org/
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