 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Literature of the Fantastic - http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htm A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites. |
 Hypertexts in American Studies - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. |
 Public Bookshelf - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/ A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
 The Classics in ASCII - http://www.textfiles.com/etext/ Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. |
 Read Print - http://www.readprint.com/ A free online library with thousands of books. |
 Bartleby.com - http://www.bartleby.com/ Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. |
 The Internet Archive: Million Book Project - http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library. |
 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. |
 Perseus Project - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world. |
 Fiction.us - http://www.fiction.us/ Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format. |
 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. |
 Classic Reader - http://www.classicreader.com/ A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. |
 Learn Library - http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. |
 Instinct.org Online Texts - http://www.instinct.org/texts/ Selected online texts on a variety of topics. |
 The Online Literature Library - http://www.literature.org/ A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. |
 Classics at the Online Literature Library - http://www.literature.org/authors/ Archived electronic texts indexed by author. |
 The Internet Public Library - Reading Room - http://www.ipl.org/div/reading/ Online public library provides directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth. |
 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. |
 Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com/ Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
 Knowledge Rush - http://knowledgerush.com Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. |
 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. |
 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. |
 BBMania - 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. |
 ClassicAuthors.net - http://classicauthors.net/ Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. |
 The EServer - http://eserver.org/ Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. |
 Page by Page Books - http://www.PageByPageBooks.com/ Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. |
 Project Runeberg - http://runeberg.org/ Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature. |
 Classic Book Library - http://classicbook.info/ A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance. |
 Library of Southern Literature - http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/ There is a collection of approximately 100 texts in HTML and XML. Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in its most important literary works. |
 PSU's Electronic Classics Series - http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Bibliomania - http://www.bibliomania.com/ Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. |
 Free Electronic Books - http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html Educational texts. |
 Free Online Books - http://www.freeonlinebooks.org Caters books for online reading. Browsed through genres, authors and titles. |
 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. |
 cmadras.com - http://www.cmadras.com HTML collection of online classic e-books. |
 Kids4Classics - http://www.kids4classics.com/ Free classic literature books, with kids picks highlighted. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Bookstacks - http://www.bookstacks.org/ Free online texts in several languages. |
 Medieval and Classical Library - http://omacl.org/ Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. |
 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. |
 World eBook Library - http://www.worldlibrary.net/ Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only. |
 FullBooks.com - http://www.fullbooks.com/ A free online collection with thousands of books. |
 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. |
 Publicliterature.org - http://publicliterature.org Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio. |