Electronic Text Archives

» 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/

» 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/

» Adobe Sample eBook Library
   Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed.

   
   http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/library/

» 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/

» 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.

   
   http://armenianhouse.org/

» 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.

   
   http://www.cooo.net/

» Bartleby.com
   Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

   
   http://www.bartleby.com/

» Bibliomania
   Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.

   
   http://www.bibliomania.com/

» Bookstacks
   Free online texts in several languages.

   
   http://www.bookstacks.org/

» Classic Book Library
   A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.

   
   http://classicbook.info/

» Classic Reader
   A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.

   
   http://www.classicreader.com/

» ClassicAuthors.net
   Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.

   
   http://classicauthors.net/

» 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.

   
   http://authorsdirectory.com/

» Classics at the Online Literature Library
   Archived electronic texts indexed by author.

   
   http://www.literature.org/authors/

» 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

» 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

» Fiction.us
   Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.

   
   http://www.fiction.us/

» Free Electronic Books
   Educational texts.

   
   http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html

» FullBooks.com
   A free online collection with thousands of books.

   
   http://www.fullbooks.com/

» Gruntose
   Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.

   
   http://www.gruntose.com/

» Hypertexts in American Studies
   American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.

   
   http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

» Instinct.org Online Texts
   Selected online texts on a variety of topics.

   
   http://www.instinct.org/texts/

» Knowledge Rush
   Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.

   
   http://knowledgerush.com

» Learn Library
   Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.

   
   http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm

» 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.

   
   http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/

» 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/

» 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/

» 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.htm

» Making of America
   A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

   
   http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

» Master Texts
   Collection of English literature.

   
   http://www.mastertexts.com

» Medieval and Classical Library
   Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.

   
   http://omacl.org/

» PSU's Electronic Classics Series
   Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

   
   http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm

» Page by Page Books
   Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.

   
   http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

» Perseus Project
   Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.

   
   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

» Project Runeberg
   Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.

   
   http://runeberg.org/

» Public Bookshelf
   A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.

   
   http://www.publicbookshelf.com/

» Publicliterature.org
   Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio.

   
   http://publicliterature.org

» Read Easily
   Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired.

   
   http://www.readeasily.com/

» Read Print
   A free online library with thousands of books.

   
   http://www.readprint.com/

» 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.

   
   http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/etexts.html

» The Classics in ASCII
   Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.

   
   http://www.textfiles.com/etext/

» The EServer
   Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.

   
   http://eserver.org/

» The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
   Provides free access to children's books from around the world. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission.

   
   http://www.childrenslibrary.org/

» The Internet Archive: Million Book Project
   Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library.

   
   http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks

» The Online Literature Library
   A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.

   
   http://www.literature.org/

» 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

» 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.

   
   http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectator/

» World eBook Library
   Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.

   
   http://www.worldlibrary.net/

» 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.

   
   http://www.bygosh.com