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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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Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
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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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Searchable quotations site, provided in electronic format by Project Bartleby at Columbia University.
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Hundreds of searchable full-text works of writing.
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Free online texts in several languages.
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E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.
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A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.
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A large collection of full-length classic stories for online reading.
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Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
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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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From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history.
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A collection of historical texts and secondary materials relating to the life of the bizarre Roman Emperor Elagabalus.
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Educational texts.
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Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
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American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
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Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
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Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.
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Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
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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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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.
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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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Links to etexts by some of the earliest innovators of this genre.
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A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
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Collection of English literature.
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Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
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Projekt som samlar och digitaliserar litteratur som saknar upphovsrättsskydd.
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A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
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A free online library with thousands of books.
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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.
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Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
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Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
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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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Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library.
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Features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines and reference materials.
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A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.
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A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
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Íslenskar fornsögur í enskri þýðingu.
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"The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora."
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An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world, including archaeology, atlas, texts and translations, text tools and lexica.
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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.
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An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general.
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Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.
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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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Հայկական գրադարան։ Հայ գրականություն, հայ ժողովրդի պատմություն, կրոն, և ընդհանրապես Հայաստանին ու հայերին վերաբերող նյութեր։