Literature Electronic Text Archives
Below are some useful links about Electronic Text Archives on Literature:
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- Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Electronic (218)
- Computers: E-Books (184)
- Reference: Libraries: Digital (80)
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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. |
| 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. |
| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. |
| 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. |
| Bartleby.com - Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. |
| 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. |
| Bibliomania - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. |
| Bookstacks - Free online texts in several languages. |
| 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 Book Library - A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance. |
| Classic Reader - A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. |
| 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. |
| Classics at the Online Literature Library - Archived electronic texts indexed by author. |
| The Classics in ASCII - Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. |
| The EServer - Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. |
| 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. |
| Fiction.us - Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format. |
| Free Electronic Books - Educational texts. |
| FullBooks.com - A free online collection with thousands of books. |
| Gruntose - Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
| Hypertexts in American Studies - American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. |
| Instinct.org Online Texts - Selected online texts on a variety of topics. |
| 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. |
| The Internet Archive: Million Book Project - Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library. |
| Knowledge Rush - Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. |
| Learn Library - Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. |
| 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 of the Fantastic - A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites. |
| 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. |
| Making of America - A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. |
| Master Texts - Collection of English literature. |
| Medieval and Classical Library - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. |
| The Online Literature Library - A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. |
| Page by Page Books - Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. |
| Perseus Project - Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world. |
| Project Runeberg - Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature. |
| PSU's Electronic Classics Series - Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
| Public Bookshelf - A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
| Publicliterature.org - Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio. |
| Read Easily - Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired. |
| Read Print - A free online library with thousands of books. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| World eBook Library - Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only. |