http://www.gutenberg.net/

The most comprehensive full-text site on the web. 

 

http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
The second most comprehensive full-text site on the web.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/

NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, is a free-of-charge

cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress.

 

http://www.gh.cs.su.oz.au/~matty/Shakespeare/Shakespeare.html

 

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html

 

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html

 

http://classics.mit.edu/

 

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature  
by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

 

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.

 

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

(killer site – all KINDS of folktales… from the above to Hans C Andersen

 

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Native-American.html

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html

(Partially restricted, but worthwhile)

 

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center

 

http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/ret/ret.html

A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions
of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts,
and of plain transcriptions of such works,
published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period.

 

http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Romantic/r-index.html

Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, and Blake abound in this resource for the Romantic period in literature. Read online texts, and use the links.

 

http://webpages.shepherd.edu/maustin/authors/defoe.html

Peruse the biography of this English writer, and find links to texts of "Moll Flanders," "A Journal of the Plague Year," and other stories.

 

http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/misc/NAetext.html

Covers titles on a wide range of topics, including several related to spirituality, myth, and legend.

 

http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/books/GrimmFairy

This electronic text contains 209 tales collected by the brothers Grimm.

 

http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Johnson

Features a collection of electronic texts and other resources for English author Samuel Johnson.

 

http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/classics/claslink.html#special

This Library of Congress Web site is a collection of resources dealing with the ancient classics. It includes links to electronic texts, Web sites from university departments and other Web sites related to the study of ancient Greece and Rome.

 

http://www.literature.org

The Online Literature Library features a collection of complete electronic texts from writers such as L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, John Milton, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne and others.

 

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/Virtual_Library/Medieval_Studies.html

This site provides Internet resources for Medieval studies. It offers electronic texts, pedagogical tools, organizational information and links to a variety of academic resources.

 

http://underthesun.cc/Classics

 

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/werewolf.html

Provides electronic text samples of folklore and mythology on the werewolf.

 

http://www.ifla.org/II/etext.htm

Find links to journals, and textual abstracts in areas such as preprint archives, electronic media, and electronic text research.

 

http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/Bronte/Wuthering/

Electronic text of C19th gothic classic "Wuthering Heights" and the doomed romance between Heathcliff and Catherine.

Also includes - - -

Websters Unabridged Dictionary 1913 ~ A substantial and valuable resource, take a look.

 

http://www.bibliomania.com/   <--- This site ROCKS
Bibliomania is the leading online literature library with hundreds of searchable full text classics: a superb educational resource.

 

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/chaucer.htm

Offers links to electronic text editions of Chaucer's greatest works, plus plot summaries and study notes. Also find books about the author.

 

http://www.library.upenn.edu/

Link to the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image. Linger over the Reference Shelf.

 

http://eserver.org/

The EServer at Carnegie Mellon has been online for ten years; today we offer 27,241 works online. Browse or search our collections, talk on our mailing lists and live chat line, or join our teams of volunteers publishing to Internet readers. EXAMPLE BELOW

http://eserver.org/fiction/default.html

 

 

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html

The Bronte Sisters, etc….

 

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/org/Medieval/www/src/docs/periodbook.html

Features electronic texts of such works as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Canterbury Tales," "Troilus and Criseyde," and "Beowulf

 

http://iq.orst.edu/phil302/e-text.html

Follow links to the electronic texts of the major 17th and 18th-century philosophers organized by nationality.

 

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/century.18.html

Massive list of links to the works of such authors as Voltaire, Rousseau, Beaumarchais and Diderot. Includes electronic texts and criticisms.

 

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jjd23/arthur/

Compilation assembles a variety of links dealing with the legends. Find access to scholastic works, general resources, and electronic texts.

 

http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlsetxt.html

Offers links to electronic texts of C15th, C16th, and C17th works. Authors include Francis Bacon, John Donne, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell.

 

http://w3.wo.sbc.edu/Students/Shaheen96/RenPoetry.html

Resource materials and electronic texts of works by male and female Renaissance poets. Includes a list of library collections and journals.

 

http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf_full.html

This Web site is an archive of science fiction texts saved from various Usenet newsgroups. The texts include bibliographies, book and movie reviews, electronic newsletters and other material.

 

http://davinci.marc.gatech.edu/catholic/scriptures/saxon-bible.html

Various electronic Old-English texts of biblical literature.

 

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

The On-Line Books Page.  Links to books that can be read online. 

 

http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/

The University of Pennsylvania's Schoenberg Center for Electroninc Text and Image

 

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