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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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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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Project Runeberg - http://runeberg.org/
Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature. |
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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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The Online Literature Library - http://www.literature.org/
A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. |
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Adobe Sample eBook Library - http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/library/
Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed. |
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Publicliterature.org - http://publicliterature.org
Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio. |
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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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The Spectator Text Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities - http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectator/
An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. |
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ArmenianHouse.org - http://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. |
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PSU's Electronic Classics Series - http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
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Selected Sources for Electronic Texts - http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/etexts.html
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. |
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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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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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Free Electronic Books - http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html
Educational texts. |
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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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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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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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Knowledge Rush - http://knowledgerush.com
Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. |
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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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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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Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com/
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
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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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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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Bookstacks - http://www.bookstacks.org/
Free online texts in several languages. |