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Selected Directory of Free Electronic Text Repositories

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
    “The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a [searchable] collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.”
  • Bibliomania
    "Bibliomania offers . . . a superb educational resource with the full text of classic world literature and important non-fiction texts supported by an extensive reference section. [Their] study guides provide the best in current academic analysis and the Well Red magazine the best in contemporary reviews, articles and interviews.”
  • Blackmask Online
    A private enterprise offering 12649 books online ranging in genre from western, pulp fiction, folklore, and nautical, searchable by author and title.
  • BoondocksNet Editions
    Offers “etexts of complete books on imperialism, literature, political cartoons, photographs, and reform movements, by authors ranging from Jane Addams and George Ade to Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain.” Indexed by author and title as well as by “Special Collections” like “Labor History and Literature” and “Imperialism and War.”
  • The Camelot Project
    “Hosted by the University of Rochester, The Camelot Project is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.” Comprehensive and searchable.
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library
    "Classic Christian books in electronic format” from St. Augustine to John Wesley.
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    Hosted by MIT, the site offers not only Shakespeare’s complete works but also a search engine and discussion forums.
  • Directory of Digitized Collections
    United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Libraries Portal offering an extensive list of links to online literature from all over the world.
  • The English Server Drama Collection
    The “site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works . . .,” from Aristophanes to Ibsen, and includes a brief criticism section.
  • The English Server Fiction Collection
    The “site offers works of and about fiction collected from our members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain” and includes short fiction, novels, poetry, magazines, and criticism.
  • Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
    Hosted by the University of Pittsburg, the site offers full texts of and commentary on myths and folklore organized by both categories (animal brides, folk tales about hairless men, mother and child, etc.) and authors (Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, etc.).
  • Great Books Online
    “The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.”
  • Ibiblio: The Public’s Library and Digital Archive
    Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. Ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
  • The Internet Classics Archive
    Hosted by MIT, this site offers “441 [searchable] 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.”
  • The Internet Library of Early Journals: A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals
    The site is “a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.”
  • The Internet Public Library
    Hosted by the University of Michigan, the IPL bills itself as “the first public library of and for the Internet community.” Offers a vast array of resources, including literature by time period, a reference center, and reading rooms for magazines and newspapers.
  • KnowledgeRush Book Directory
    This repository of popular classics like 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Dracula, and Anna Karenina is searchable by author, title, and genre and includes some historical documents and biographies.
  • Luminarium
    Extensive and glitzy, the site includes period art and music to present literature of the Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century and includes quotations from, information on the life and works, and additional sources for most authors. Aesthetically appealing and scholarly.
  • The Online Books Page
    Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, the site offers over 20,000 texts searchable by author, title, or subject. Includes a “Celebration of Women Authors” and banned books. Links to other sources, including Project Guttenberg.
  • An Online Library of Literature
    Offers a limited list: Aesop, Bronte, Cather, Twain, and the like.
  • Page by Page Books
    “Most sites with online books have the whole book on one page, forcing you to wait while the whole thing downloads. Even worse, if you don't read the whole book in one sitting, how do you keep track of where you are? Do you really want to have to look through thousands of lines to find where you left off? Some sites are better in that they put one chapter per page. Even this is hard. What if you get interrupted in the middle of the chapter? How do you bookmark it? To fill this void, PageByPageBooks.com was created. Read a little or a lot, sneak in a few pages over lunch then read some more after dinner, no matter how much you read at a time, you can bookmark it and come back to exactly the right place.”
  • People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans History
    Hosted by Fordham University, the site “presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world.”
  • The Perseus Digital Library
    Hosted by Tufts University, “Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.” The site offers some interesting coverage: Greek and Latin classics; papyri; English Renaissance and London literature; California, Upper Midwest, and Chesapeake literature; and the history of science.
  • Project Guttenberg
    "[T]he Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts),” Project Guttenberg offers the most comprehensive list of pre-1923 literature, from the classics (Shakespeare, Dante, Poe) to less high-brow favorites like Carroll, Doyle, Burroughs). Volunteers select and type the offerings.
  • Questia: The Online Library
    “Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 [searchable] access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.” “To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs.”
  • Representative Poetry Online
    Hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries, this indexed site offers searchable lists of poets, titles, first lines, and keywords; a timeline, calendar, glossary of poetic terms and forms; and poetry criticism, bibliographies, and links.
  • Short Stories at East of the Web
    In addition to classic authors (Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton), this rare site also offers contemporary authors organized by theme: children’s, crime, fiction, horror, humor, non-fiction, romance, sci-fi, and hyperfiction. Fully searchable. Infrequent pop-ups.
  • Sonnet Central
    Sonnet Central is “an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors. . . . All of the sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work.”
  • The Victorian Women Writers Project
    “The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.” Hosted by Indiana University.
  • ReadingLinks.com "started in May 2001, is a joint project of Myron Tuman and Karen H. Gardiner" and "is dedicated to changing how college students access the general interest reading materials that have been so widely used in freshman composition and other lower-division courses" by "collecting at this one site the very best readings, on a huge variety of topics, that are freely distributed on the Web, although often in scattered and hard to find places."

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