Online Literary Texts

Links

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  A searchable online collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
  
  
• Bartleby.com Great Books Online
  Provides online access to select reference books, verse, fiction, and nonfiction.
  
  
• Bibliotheca Augustana
  Index to full-text works dating from the 8th to the 20th century.
  
  
• Digital Book Index
  Searchable index of 102,000 electronic books, many of which may be downloaded free of charge. Log-in required.
  
  
• Digital Library SunSITE: Literature at SunSITE
  Texts to view, print, or download.
  
  
• Early American Digital Archive
  Provides access to "a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in opr about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."
  
  
• Electronic Literature
  Database provides a "descriptive guide to 2130 works, 1097 authors, and 161 publishers." Entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction in electronic format.
  
  
• Electronic Text Center - the Modern English Collection
  "This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."
  
  
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
  This site lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Grouped by language; collections are listed according to size, individual authors are arranged alphabetically. Produced by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
  
  
• Electronic Texts
  Site contains links to electronic versions of texts by seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century authors.
  
  
• E-Library of Literature
  Includes criticism, essays, poetry, drama, translations in numerous languages.
  
  
• Great Books
  A compilation of over 240 authors and their works, chronologically arranged.
  
  
• Humanities Text Initiative
  "The Humanities Text Intitiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided online access to full text resources since 1994." The extensive range of searchable online texts inludes such subjects as English literature, philosophy, theology, history, and linguistics.
  
  
• InforM: Reading Room: Fiction
  Numerous online novels and stories maintained by the University of Maryland.
  
  
• Literature Collection
  A "multilayered grouping of works in literature and the humanities. From medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical, there is something for everyone. Diversity rules: there are texts translated from Nordic languages, and texts left untranslated from Spanish; poetry old and new; and a rich vein of information about the writer James Joyce."
  
  
• Modern English Collection
  This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest.
  
  
• Oxford Text Archive
  Currently, the OTA's holdings of high-quality, well-documented electronic texts include 2500 titles in 25 languages. These include the works of individual authorsm reference works, and a range of linguistic corpora.
  
  
• Rare Book Room
  Over 400 digitized texts, in a site constructed to allow the visitor to read some of the world's great books.
  
  
• The OnLine Books Page
  University of Pennsylania site featuring 25,000+ titles, plus news, features, and archives.
  
  
• Victorian Woman Writer's Project
  Established in 1995,this site contains a variety of work, including poetry, travel accounts, and political tracts.
  
  
• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
  "This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1752 texts included (1602 unedited, 155 fully edited and encoded) by 845 authors."