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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/
Web Sites Electronic Text Archives:
» 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.
» Adobe Sample eBook Library
Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» Read Easily
Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired.
» 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.
» 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.