Literature
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African American Women Writers the 19th Century - includes texts and resources, from the collections of the New York Public Library.
African-American Texts from the Modern English Collection - from the Electronic Text Center at UVA.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - contains 1800 entries for on-line books and shorter texts.
alt.etext ArchiveAmerican Hypertexts - online texts of American literature: Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain, and more.
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Bartleby.com: A National Digital Library. - featuring the works of Teddy Roosevelt and the Oxford Book of English Verse.
Bibliomania - a major library of fiction, reference, and non-fiction
Biblioteka - collection of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Tibetan, and European texts translated into Russian. In Russian.
Blackmask Online - devoted to public domain mystery novels.
BookValley.com - library of classic novels, literatures, and fictions.
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CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts - online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics; a continuation of the CURIA project.
Classic Short Stories - collection of classic short stories: Balzac, London, Poe, Thurber and many others.
Concordances of Great Books - over 200 full texts with complete word indexes.
Corpus Of Modern English Texts - a collection of texts for use in research and teaching. We have many Scottish texts which are not available elsewhere.
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Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920 - includes the texts of works by such 19th century Southern authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Chesnutt and others.
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Eldritch Press - electronic text site that hosts public-domain ebooks.
Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures - includes texts, course materials, syllabi, and lesson plans.
Electronic Text CenterFree Library of Classics - full texts of classical novels, plays, poetry, short stories, children's books, stories, and historical documents.
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FreeLit - HTML formatted books supported by a dictionary, search engine, and discussion group.
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Gibson Digital Library - Project Gutenburg mirror site, with links to many national online libraries.
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Internet Classics Archive - offers 375 works by 30 classical authors, in English translation, browsable and supported by a search engine
Internet Library of Early Journals - digital archive of 18th and 19th century journals, including The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Internet Public Library Catalog - directory of over 4000 online texts, browsable and searchable by author, title, and Dewey Decimal Classification.
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Kirkpatrick Library - personal collection of literary classics.
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Labyrinth Library - Middle English texts including works of Chaucer.
Lady Liberty: The Changing Face of American Freedom - a collection of images, poems, and essays documenting how Americans have perceived the Statue of Liberty, Lady Freedom, and other female American icons.
Law in Popular Culture Etext Collection - law-related fiction including short stories, novels and The Newgate Calendar, from the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas.
Le Chateau - electronic collection of French literature including Rimbaud, Proust, Balzac, Baudelaire, and La Fontaine.
Libros en Red - online literature in Spanish, and links to magazines and other sites with web-published and electronic literature. Maintained by the Autonomous University of Mexico.
Litrix Reading Room - collection of online texts grouped by genre, including a section on literature of the North Country.
Luminarium - collection of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English literature.
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Marxists Internet Archive - provides a large archive of material from Marxist writers such as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Pablo, Debs, Shachtman and more.
Mission Creep Online Publishing - online anthology of humor, comics, stories, poetry, and art (with an emphasis on artists from the Philadelphia area).
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Naked Word - public domain e-books and e-texts in plain text and HTML format.
National Academy Press Reading Room - full books, free for the reading, first page to last. Available in a variety of formats.
National Library of Canada Electronic Collection - incorporates formally published Canadian online books and journals.
Native-American Texts From the Modern English Collection - from the Electronic Text Center at UVA.
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Online Book InitiativeOnline Literature Library - a personal project that includes Voltaire, Dickens, Milton, Lewis Carroll and more.
Online Medieval and Classical Library
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Project Gutenberg - library of electronically stored books,mostly classics, that can be downloaded for free and viewed off-line.
Pawn To King's Four - titles compiled from numerous electronic book publishers.
Project Runeberg - electronic editions of classic Nordic literature and art.
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Russian Classical Library - collection of texts by Russian writers and poets.
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Siku Quanshu Electronic Library - collection of classic texts compiled in the Qing Dynasty.
Southwestern U.S. Classics Online - full text books online concerning Texas and the Southwestern US. From the Lone Star Junction.
Stony Run - several texts from 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, plus some poems by the page author.
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Thomas Jefferson Online Resources - from the Electronic Text Center of UVA.
Texts about the American Civil War from the Modern English Collection - from the Electronic Text Center at UVA.
Texts by Women Authors from the Modern English Collection - from the Electronic Text Center of UVA.
Twain Enterprises - includes collection of literary and non-fiction public domain documents, as well as original writings.
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Unforgettable Letters - a collection of letters, including love letters, presidential letters, and letters to Santa, from the U.S. Postal Service.
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Wonderland.org - literary classics.