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  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

    Collection of digital documents, including American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. Can read online as Local Copy or download as an ebook.

  • Bartleby Library Great Books On Line

    Many reference books published on the web

  • Bartleby Library of Reference and Verse

    Many famous poems online

  • 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.

  • E-Library of Literature

    Includes criticism, essays, poetry, drama, translations in numerous languages.

  • 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.

  • Great Books

    A compilation of over 240authors and their works, chronologically arranged.

  • Humanities Text Initiative

    "The Humanities Text Intitiative, a unitof the University of Michigan's DigitalLibrary Production Service, has providedonline 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.

  • LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame

    Profiles of journalists "who inspired us to get into this business by setting an example of telling the truth  whatever the cost and whatever the difficulties."

  • 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.

  • On-line Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania.

    Another source for e-texts which include plays, accessible by author, title and subject.

  • Online Books Page

    Serves as an index to more than 18,000 public domain books on the web, searchable by author, title, and subject.

  • 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

    Over 1500 books online

  • 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."

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