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This Open Directory Project category is for printed literary texts available on the Internet--links to Internet literature archive projects such as Project Gutenberg, for example, can be found here. If you are looking for--or wish to submit a site with or related to--literature originally published to the Internet, you may wish to browse the Arts: Online Writing category.

Subcategories

• Poetry
• Project Gutenberg
• Religion and Spirituality
• Science Fiction
• Universities

Resources in This Category

• Adobe Sample eBook Library

  http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/library/
  Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed.

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

  http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
  Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

• ArmenianHouse.org

  http://www.armenianhouse.org/
  A private nonprofit project to convert into electronic format and publish the Armenian literary heritage. Also provides information on Armenian culture, history, religion.

• Bartleby.com

  http://www.bartleby.com/
  Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

• Bibliomania

  http://www.bibliomania.com/
  Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.

• Bookstacks

  http://www.bookstacks.org/
  Free online texts in several languages.

• byGosh.com

  http://www.bygosh.com/
  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.

• Classic Bookshelf

  http://www.classicbookshelf.com/Reader/index.htm
  Free electronic books to read online.

• Classic Reader

  http://www.classicreader.com/
  A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.

• Classics at the Online Literature Library

  http://www.literature.org/authors/
  Archived electronic texts indexed by author.

• cmadras.com

  http://www.cmadras.com/
  HTML collection of online classic e-books.

• E-texts and Women's History

  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020199.htm
  From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history.

• Fiction.us

  http://www.fiction.us/
  Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.

• Free classic e-books

  http://www.freeclassicebooks.com/
  A site with 1000s of free e-books (in pdf format) of the classics and other out of copyright books

• Full Text Archive

  http://fulltextarchive.com/
  Large free and searchable collection of classic books, novels and poems.

• FullBooks.com

  http://www.fullbooks.com/
  A free online collection with thousands of books.

• Getfreeebooks.com

  http://www.getfreeebooks.com/
  Collection of free downloadable ebooks in a variety of popular formats and categories.

• Gruntose

  http://www.gruntose.com/
  Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.

• Hypertexts in American Studies

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
  American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.

• Instinct.org Online Texts

  http://www.instinct.org/texts/
  Selected online texts on a variety of topics.

• Learn Library

  http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm
  Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.

• Library of Southern Literature

  http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
  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.

• Literature Collection

  http://www.literaturecollection.com/
  Contains a searchable collection of timeless literature classics.

• Literature of the Fantastic

  http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htm
  A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.

• Literature Online

  http://lion.chadwyck.com/
  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.

• Literature Project

  http://www.literatureproject.com/
  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.

• Making of America

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
  A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

• Medieval and Classical Library

  http://omacl.org/
  Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.

• Page by Page Books

  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
  Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.

• PDFreeBooks Library

  http://pdfreebooks.org/
  A small collection of free public domain and copyleft books. Read online on iPaper or download free full text versions as PDF.

• Perseus Project

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
  Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.

• Project Runeberg

  http://runeberg.org/
  Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.

• Public Bookshelf

  http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
  A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.

• The Classics in ASCII

  http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
  Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.

• The EServer

  http://eserver.org/
  Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.

• The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)

  http://childrenslibrary.org/
  Provides free access to children's books from around the world. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission.

• The Internet Archive: Million Book Project

  http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks
  Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library.

• The Online Literature Library

  http://www.literature.org/
  A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.

• The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel

  http://dglen.tripod.com/society.htm
  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.

• World eBook Library

  http://www.worldlibrary.net/
  Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.

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