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The Internet Public Library     www.ipl.org Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.

Access: The Great Books  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.

Adobe Sample eBook Library  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.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts  www.infomotions.com/alex Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

ArmenianHouse.org  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.

Bartleby.com  www.bartleby.com Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

BBMania  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.

Bibliomania  www.bibliomania.com Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.

Bookstacks  www.bookstacks.org Free online texts in several languages.

byGosh.com  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.

Classic Book Library  classicbook.info A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.

Classic Reader  www.classicreader.com A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.

Classical Authors Directory  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.

ClassicAuthors.net  classicauthors.net Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.

Classics at the Online Literature Library  www.literature.org/authors Archived electronic texts indexed by author.

The Classics in ASCII  www.textfiles.com/etext Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.

The EServer  eserver.org Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.

E-texts and Women's History  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.

Fiction.us  www.fiction.us Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.

Free Electronic Books  onlinesapiens.com/books.html Educational texts.

FullBooks.com  www.fullbooks.com A free online collection with thousands of books.

Gruntose  www.gruntose.com Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.

Hypertexts in American Studies  xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.

Instinct.org Online Texts  www.instinct.org/texts Selected online texts on a variety of topics.

The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)  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.

The Internet Archive: Million Book Project  www.archive.org/details/millionbooks Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library.

Knowledge Rush  knowledgerush.com Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.

Learn Library  www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.

Library of Southern Literature  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.

Literature of the Fantastic  www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htm A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.

Literature Online  lion.chadwyck.com 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.

Literature Project  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.

Making of America  quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

Master Texts  www.mastertexts.com Collection of English literature.

Medieval and Classical Library  omacl.org Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.

The Online Literature Library  www.literature.org A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.

Page by Page Books  www.pagebypagebooks.com Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.

Perseus Project  www.perseus.tufts.edu Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.

Project Runeberg  runeberg.org Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.

PSU's Electronic Classics Series  www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Public Bookshelf  www.publicbookshelf.com A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.

Publicliterature.org  publicliterature.org Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio.

Read Easily  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.

Read Print  www.readprint.com A free online library with thousands of books.

Selected Sources for Electronic Texts  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.

The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel  members.tripod.com/~dglen/society.htm 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 Spectator Text Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities  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.

World eBook Library  www.worldlibrary.net Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.