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Classical Authors Directory
Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature enhanced with annotations from the Encyclopedia of the Self.
ClassicAuthors.net
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
Classic Book Library
A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.
Library of Southern Literature
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.
The EServer
Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
Knowledge Rush
Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.
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.
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.
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.
Medieval and Classical Library
Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.
Free Electronic Books
Educational texts.
Oxford Text Archive
2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.
Project Runeberg
Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.
The Spectator Text Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general.
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.
World eBook Library
Listing of Internet Libraries. Offers PDF books to members only.
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.
Bralyn E-text Archive
E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.
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.
Classic Reader
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.
BBMania
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.
Fiction.us
Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.
Gruntose
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
A 5-year project by the Internet Archive and the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab to use innovative software to develop a library specifically for children. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Instinct.org Online Texts
Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
The Internet Public Library
Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.
Learn Library
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
The Online Literature Library
A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
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.
The Litrix Reading Room
A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.
Selected Sources for Electronic Texts
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.
Master Texts
Collection of English literature.
Page by Page Books
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
Perseus Project
Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world.
Public Bookshelf
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
Read Print
A free online library with thousands of books.
Literature of the Fantastic
A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
The Classics in ASCII
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
Wordtheque
Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.
PSU's Electronic Classics Series
Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Hypertexts in American Studies
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
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