Surf these sites: 1st Books Library -- Offers e-books for sale, and some titles for free, in a variety of formats including MS-Word, Adobe PDF, and Rocket E-Book. A Collection of Great Literature Online -- Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. Akamac -- e-texts on the history of economic and social thought. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts -- A collection of digital documents which includes items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. American Sunday School Books Digitization Project -- Michigan State University Libraries Digital Sources Center and the Central Michigan University Libraries proposal to digitize 121 American Sunday School books. Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE -- Program information, resources, and access to digital collections. Bibliomania -- Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. Blackmask Online Ebooks -- A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format. Books-On-Line -- A searchable and browseable database-directory of online electronic texts covering a broad range of interests, from established literary classics to computer how-to manuals. Bookvalley -- Classic literatures, and fiction. Bootlegbooks -- Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry. Bragi -- Online text of selected book titles, including Wells, Verne and Twain. CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library -- An extensive link resource, listing texts archived at various locations all across the internet. Also has a searchable database feature. Celebration of Women Writers -- " . . . on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works. We choose works from a range of areas to indicate the variety of interests of women writers." Includes links to texts both historic and contemporary, hosted both on-site and off, as well as links to websites related to specific authors and their writing. Christian Classics Ethereal Library -- Extensive collection of classic theological works from all periods of church history. Classic Short Fiction Online -- Selected classic short stories in html format. Authors include Hawthorne, Jackson, and Poe. Cornell Electronic Text Center -- Not an online text archive but more an informational resource on the subject of electronic texts; includes information on and links to electronic texts, including various online archives both large and small, more general and more specific. Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography -- This internet archive includes numerous Middle-English works by the infamous poet Anonymous, including "The Alliterative Morte Arthure" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"--note the texts, often heavily annotated, are in their original, Middle-English forms. Daoist Scriptures -- "A large collection of Chinese Taoist literature. Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu." Includes various translations (by different translators) into English. Disc-Us Books -- online bookstore for Disc-Us Books, featuring original and reissued quality titles by contemporary authors in all categories presented in trade paperback, CD-ROM and download formats. Ditigized Library of Southern Literature -- There is a collection of 53 texts in HTML and SGML. 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. Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia -- "The Center combines an on-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text." Etexts -- Index of online etexts on the internet. Gaslight -- " . . . was conceived in 1993 to be a discussion list on the Internet. Its purpose is to provide a different story each week for discussion, modeled on the Hounds of the Internet discussion list about Sherlock Holmes. Unlike Hounds, however, Gaslight''s stories are not readily available to most listmembers, so they are prepared before reading as electronic texts (etexts). This site is to aid in distributing the etexts and to post any notable discussions . . . ." Hypertexts in American Studies -- "50+ hypertexts . . . . Includes works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, Parkman, Twain, Lewis and Clark, Frederick Jackson Turner and Alexis de Tocqueville." Instinct.org Online Texts -- Selected online texts on a variety of topics. Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection -- An excellent catalogue (with links) to online texts. Browse by title, author, and Dewey Decimal Classification. Searchable. Internet PublicLibrary -- ) Irish Literature -- Irish e-texts to download. Knowledge Rush -- Site contains Project Gutenberg etexts, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, literature and other non-copyrighted material. Literature Online Home Page -- Over 210,000 links to third party sites, plus 12 extensive literary and reference databases including English and American Poetry (over 200,000 poems), English Drama (4,000 plays), Early English Prose Fiction and The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature Literature.org -- full text to some classic novels. Master Texts -- Collection of English literature. Mysticism Texts -- Mysticism throughout the ages. Novels On-Line -- Downloadable books, electronic literature - private-eye novel and gonzo trip through the Far East On-Line Books -- Directory of books that can be freely read on the internet. Orange St. Press Classics -- Public Domain classic literature and humanities texts in Adobe Portable Document Format. Free for downloading, reading online or offline, and printing. Owl-Eyes -- Dubs itself "The #1 site for classic literature." As well as other literature-education resources, the site provides brief biographical notes on various canonized authors along with links to a selection of online texts by each. Oxford Text Archive -- 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available. Petals of Life Publishing -- Fiction of all genres and nonfiction published in electronic (PDF) and paperback formats. Project Bartleby Archive -- National digital library with public domain literature via electronic-publishing media, for educational purposes. PublishingOnline.com -- ". . . a Seattle-based team of writers, publishers, university professors and Internet professionals who . . . offer digital books that you can purchase and download to your computer or e-book instantly." A commercial site, needless to say. Read It CoNNECTED -- " . . . full online texts [and links to related sites] for free viewing in a simple, easy to use format. Primarily Classical or Classic literature, all translated into English." Reading Place -- Features an mix of classic and new literature online, including poetry, short stories, children''s section, essays, memiors, anecdotes, historical American documents. Robbie: a Fictionalized Biography by Elizabeth Wynne -- An all-new novel from emerging author Elizabeth Wynne. Complete in nineteen chapters, available online. The Litrix Reading Room -- A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre, etc. The Modern English Collection -- History, Civil War, Best sellers 1900-1930 The Saadhu Testament -- The First English Electronic Novel by an Asian Author 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 Transformation Story Archive -- An electronic Archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations. The World eText Library -- Read books on-line, download texts, or select a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, or other references. Searchable, browsable database. Twain Enterprises at Villa Gruntose -- "Contains a collection of electronic texts (including the entire Sherlock Holmes canon) . . . ." University of Maryland Reading Room -- Includes an extensive archive of electronic texts available online--fiction, drama, poetry, non-fiction, etc. VIVA -- The Virtual Library of Virginia Washington University Library - Electronic Texts & Documents -- Amazing depth of historical subjects available Yahshuan Archives -- Online collection of books related to various world religions, philosophies, mythology, meditation, historical and traditional documents.
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