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The Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/
Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth. |
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Perseus Project - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world. |
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Bartleby.com - http://www.bartleby.com/
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. |
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The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) - http://www.childrenslibrary.org/
Provides free access to children's books from around the world. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission. |
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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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Library of Southern Literature - http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
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. |
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Hypertexts in American Studies - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. |
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Classic Reader - http://www.classicreader.com/
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. |
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Page by Page Books - http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. |
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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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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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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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Free Electronic Books - http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html
Educational texts. |
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Knowledge Rush - http://knowledgerush.com
Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. |
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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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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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Master Texts - http://www.mastertexts.com
Collection of English literature. |
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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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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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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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Public Bookshelf - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
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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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Classic Book Library - http://classicbook.info/
A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance. |
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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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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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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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Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com/
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
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Fiction.us - http://www.fiction.us/
Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format. |
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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. |