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The EServer - http://eserver.org/
Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Bibliomania - http://www.bibliomania.com/
Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. |
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Medieval and Classical Library - http://omacl.org/
Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. |
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World eBook Library - http://www.worldlibrary.net/
Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only. |
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Access: The Great Books - http://www.anova.org/
A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature. |
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ClassicAuthors.net - http://classicauthors.net/
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. |
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Master Texts - http://www.mastertexts.com
Collection of English literature. |
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Knowledge Rush - http://knowledgerush.com
Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. |
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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. |
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Electronic Library of the Bath House - http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/hglib.htm
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. |
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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. |
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Public Bookshelf - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
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Free Electronic Books - http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html
Educational texts. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Instinct.org Online Texts - http://www.instinct.org/texts/
Selected online texts on a variety of topics. |
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Learn Library - http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. |
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Bralyn E-text Archive - http://www.bralyn.net/etext/
E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture. |
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The Classics in ASCII - http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. |
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Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com/
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Bookstacks - http://www.bookstacks.org/
Free online texts in several languages. |
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Fiction.us - http://www.fiction.us/
Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format. |
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Classic Book Library - http://classicbook.info/
A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance. |
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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. |
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Publicliterature.org - http://publicliterature.org
Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio. |
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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. |