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  • Alex Catalogue--The Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts is a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
  • American Fiction 1851-1875 -- full-text of the works outlined in Lyle Wright's 1957 bibliography.  Consists of novels, romances, short stories, and tall tales.  Includes over 1,700 works that have been digitized by Indiana University's Digital Library Program.  Searchable.
  • Baen Free Library -- Sci-fi titles full-text online.
  • Bartleby.com -- full-text of classic literature, nonfiction, short stories, verse, plays and a selection of reference works.
  • Bibliomania -- full-text of classic literature, nonfiction, short stories, and plays.
  • British Library Treasures -- digitized manuscripts including a 700 year old Qu'ran and Leonardo's notebooks, plus more
  • ChapterOne-- the first chapters of over 130 current fiction and non-fiction titles, updated weekly. 
  • Chinese Cultural Studies: Texts
  • deGrummond Children's Literature Collection
  • Eldritch Press -- As the page states "Here are free, accessible books. Read them and go in peace." A wide range from American and British to Russian and French in English translation.
  • Electronic Literature Foundation(ELF)--produces advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature. 
  • Electronic Text Collection--from University of Virginia, including a Native American text collection, and an African-American text collection
  • Emory Women Writers Resource Project--a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century.
  • Eserver's Fiction Collection-- 50 authors from Alcott to Melville to Woolf, full-text.
  • Gutenberg Bible --fully digitized by the British Library, searchable, it includes history and background info.
  • Hyperizons: hypertext fiction--You may search for hypertext fiction by author, title or publisher and the site also includes links to theory & criticism, markets for and background about the genre.
  • Internet Archive: Texts -- Over one million books have been committed to the Text Archive. Currently over twenty-seven thousand are available.
  • Internet Public Library of Online Texts--this one is searchable not only by author and title, but by Dewey classification.
  • John Donne  -- Full-text of all the poems and more.... Also an annoying soundtrack for the first few moments.
  • Jules Verne Virtual Library -- full-text of all his works in both French and English.
  • ManyBooks.net -- not only can be read online, but are easliy downloadable to Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, or Symbian cellphone.
  • net Library--full text books for SAU faculty, staff, and students only.
  • On-Line Book Page--12,000 free, public domain full text books, most in HTML format.courtesy of Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Project Gutenberg--the most ambitious program on the net to get all the important world literature online
  • SCETI--Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image from the University of Pennsylvania provides the scholarly community with web access to virtual facsimiles of original texts, documents, and sources from Penn's collections. These include printed books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, broadsides, ephemera, and recorded sound.
  • Victoria Women Writers Project -- digitized full-text of works by 19th century British women writers.


Last modified
May 20, 2008
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