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» The Internet Public Library  
Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.
http://www.ipl.org/
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» Access: The Great Books 
A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature.
http://www.anova.org/
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» Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts 
Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
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» 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.
http://armenianhouse.org/
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» BBMania 
Contains the full text of a number of English-language works including novels by Dickens, H G Wells, James Joyce and Robert Stevenson, as well as translated works.
http://www.cooo.net/
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» Bartleby.com 
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
http://www.bartleby.com/
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» Bibliomania 
Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
http://www.bibliomania.com/
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» Bookstacks 
Free online texts in several languages.
http://www.bookstacks.org/
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» Bralyn E-text Archive 
E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/
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» Classic Book Library 
A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.
http://classicbook.info/
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» Classic Reader 
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.
http://www.classicreader.com/
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» ClassicAuthors.net 
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
http://classicauthors.net/
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» Classical Authors Directory 
Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature enhanced with annotations from the Encyclopedia of the Self.
http://authorsdirectory.com/
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» E-texts and Women's History 
From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020199.htm
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» Electronic Library of the Bath House 
Primary historical texts and relevant secondary sources pertaining to the bizarre Roman Emperor Elagabalus and related subjects. An offbeat, fascinating introduction to Imperial Roman history, starting on the fringe. Texts in HTML format.
http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/hglib.htm
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» Fiction.us 
Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.
http://www.fiction.us/
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» FullBooks.com 
A free online collection with thousands of books.
http://www.fullbooks.com/
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» Gruntose 
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
http://www.gruntose.com/
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» Hypertexts in American Studies 
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
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» Knowledge Rush 
Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.
http://knowledgerush.com
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» Learn Library 
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm
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» Library of Southern Literature 
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.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/
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» Literature Online 
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.
http://lion.chadwyck.com/
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» Literature Project 
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.
http://www.literatureproject.com/
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» Literature of the Fantastic 
A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htm
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» Making of America 
A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
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» Master Texts 
Collection of English literature.
http://www.mastertexts.com
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» Oxford Text Archive 
2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
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» Page by Page Books 
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
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» Perseus Project 
Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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» Project Runeberg 
Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.
http://runeberg.org/
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» Public Bookshelf 
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
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» Publicliterature.org 
Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio.
http://publicliterature.org
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» Read Easily 
Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired.
http://www.readeasily.com/
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» Read Print 
A free online library with thousands of books.
http://www.readprint.com/
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» Selected Sources for Electronic Texts 
Provides links to electronic texts and archives in a variety of formats ranging from plain text to digital audio and digital braille. Compiled by the National Library Service.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/etexts.html
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» The Classics in ASCII 
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
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» The EServer 
Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
http://eserver.org/
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» World eBook Library 
Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.
http://www.worldlibrary.net/
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» 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.
http://www.bygosh.com
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