A Collection of Great Literature Online
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. |
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. |
Bartleby.com
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. |
Bibliomania
Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. |
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. |
Bookvalley
Classic literatures, and fiction. |
Bootlegbooks
Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry. |
Bralyn E-text Archive
E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture. |
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. |
Classical Literature Library
Online index of classical fiction and nonfiction, with links to search engine searches for each author. |
Ditigized Library of Southern Literature
There is a collection of 53 texts in HTML and SGML. |
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. |
Electronic Texts and Publishing
Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress. |
Free Electronic Books
Educational texts. |
Hypertexts in American Studies
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. |
Instinct.org Online Texts
Selected online texts on a variety of topics. |
Knowledge Rush
Site contains Project Gutenberg etexts, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, literature and other non-copyrighted material. |
Learn Library
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. |
Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services
Archive at Emory University. |
Literature of the Fantastic
A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites. |
Literature Online Home Page
Over 210,000 links to third party sites, plus 12 extensive literary and reference databases including English and American Poetry (over 200,000 poems), English Drama (4,000 plays), Early English Prose Fiction and The Annual Bibliography of English Langu |
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. |
Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in 19th century American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. |
Master Texts
Collection of English literature. |
Medieval and Classical Library
Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. |
Owl-Eyes
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. |
Oxford Text Archive
2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available. |
Page by Page Books
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. |
Public Bookshelf
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
Relic Books
Selected downloadable, ebooks of classic literature. |
SearchEBooks
Specialized search engine for searching the full text of thousands of online books available on the web. |
The Classics in ASCII
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. |
The ETEXT Archives
Searchable archive of texts of fiction, poetry, history, politics and religion. |
The Litrix Reading Room
A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre. |
The Modern English Collection
History, Civil War, Best sellers 1900-1930 |
The On-Line Books Page
Features over 10,000 online books free to the public. |
The Online Books Page
Index of online books, archives, and exhibits. |
The Online Literature Library
A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. |
The Transformation Story Archive
An electronic archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations. |
The World eText Library
Read books on-line, download texts, or select a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, or other references. Searchable, browsable database. |
Twain Enterprises at Villa Gruntose
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
Virtual Library
Internet archive providing selected fiction and essays in text format. Also features Russian-language section. |
WebCab Library
Collection of public domain e-texts in html, text, or downloadable in zip format, in literature, humanities, religion, science, and reference. |
