Electronic Text Archives Literature

This Open Directory Project category is for printed literary texts available on the Internet--links to Internet literature archive projects such as Project Gutenberg, for example, can be found here. If you are looking for--or wish to submit a site with or related to--literature originally published to the Internet, you may wish to browse the Arts: Online Writing category.

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• Project Runeberg - Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.
  
• Page by Page Books - Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
  
• The Online Literature Library - A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
  
• Adobe Sample eBook Library - Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed.
  
• Perseus Project - Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Hypertexts in American Studies - American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
  
• 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.
  
• Classic Book Library - A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.
  
• Gruntose - Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
  
• Instinct.org Online Texts - Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
  
• Read E-books in Computer, Mobile, Online or Offline - HTML collection of online classic e-books.
  
• Publicliterature.org - Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio.
  
• Medieval and Classical Library - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Read Print - A free online library with thousands of books.
  
• Making of America - A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
  
• 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 EServer - Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
  
• Bibliomania - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
  
• Literature of the Fantastic - A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
  
• Fiction.us - Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.
  
• Learn Library - Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• PDFreeBooks Library - A small collection of free public domain and copyleft books. Read online on iPaper or download free full text versions as PDF.
  
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
  
• Free Online Books - Caters books for online reading. Browsed through genres, authors and titles.
  
• Public Bookshelf - A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
  
• PSU's Electronic Classics Series - Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Free Electronic Books - Educational texts.
  
• 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.
  
• FullBooks.com - A free online collection with thousands of books.
  
• The Classics in ASCII - Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
  
• Classics at the Online Literature Library - Archived electronic texts indexed by author.
  
• World eBook Library - Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.
  
• WebLiterature - Extensive collection of online classic literature including novels, stories, poems, essays and non-fiction. The library has search and browse capabilities.
  
• Knowledge Rush - Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.
  
• Bartleby.com - Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
  
• ClassicAuthors.net - Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
  
• Yahshuan Archives - Akashic Infinitum - Preservs Books from world religion, sects, history, philosophy, health, self-help, self-sufficiency, biographies and old Children's materials. Including Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Gnostic writings.
  
• Read Easily - Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired.
  
• Kids4Classics - Free classic literature books, with kids picks highlighted.
  
• Master Texts - Collection of English literature.
  
  

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