More places to get free books online.
| Project Gutenberg - probably the most famous of free book sources. |
| Bartleby.com - http://www.bartleby.com/ Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. |
| Oxford
Text Archive - http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available. |
| Perseus
Project - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world. |
| The
Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth. |
| 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. |
| Bibliomania - http://www.bibliomania.com/ Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. |
| 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. |
| The
EServer - http://eserver.org/ Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. |
| The
Online Literature Library - http://www.literature.org/ A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. |
| Medieval
and Classical Library - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. |
| Making
of America - http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. |
| Hypertexts
in American Studies - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. |
| SearchEBooks - http://www.searchebooks.com Specialized search engine for searching the full text of thousands of online books available on the web. |
| Read
Print - http://www.readprint.com/ A free online library with thousands of books. |
| Page
by Page Books - http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. |
| Classic
Reader - http://www.classicreader.com/ A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. |
| The
Litrix Reading Room - http://www.litrix.com/ A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre. |
| Wordtheque - http://www.wordtheque.com/ Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts. |
| Blackmask
Online - http://www.blackmask.com/ A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format. |
| Library
of Southern Literature - http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/southlit.html 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. |
| Public
Bookshelf - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/ A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. |
| Electronic
Library of the Bath House - http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/hglib.htm 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. |
| Electronic
Texts and Publishing - http://www.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress. |
| PSU's
Electronic Classics Series - http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
| Bralyn
E-text Archive - http://www.bralyn.net/etext/ E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture. |
| The
Transformation Story Archive - http://tsa.transform.to/ An electronic archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations. |
| Access:
The Great Books - http://www.anova.org/ A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature. |
| ArmenianHouse.org - http://armenianhouse.org/ A private nonprofit project to convert into electronic format and publish the Armenian literary heritage; provide as much information on Armenian culture, history, religion and also on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, and Artsakh (Nagorno - Karabakh Republic) as possible; and help young authors to publish and promote their works on the Internet. Russian and Armenian versions also available. |
| Instinct.org
Online Texts - http://www.instinct.org/texts/ Selected online texts on a variety of topics. |
| byGosh.com - http://www.bygosh.com Free, online illustrated childrens stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories. |
| Bootlegbooks - http://www.bootlegbooks.com Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry. |
| 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. |
| Free
Electronic Books - http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html Educational texts. |
| OwlEyes - http://owleyes.org/ As well as other literature-education resources, the site provides brief biographical notes on various canonized authors along with links to a selection of online texts by each. |
| Master
Texts - http://www.mastertexts.com Collection of English literature. |
| The
Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel - http://members.tripod.com/~dglen/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. |
| 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. |
| Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com/ Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. |
| Literature
of the Fantastic - http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htp A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites. |
| Learn
Library - http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. |
| World
eBook Library - http://worldebooklibrary.com/ Books in the public domain, available in HTML. Also offers online access to books in PDF, by subscription, for individuals and institutions. |
| The
Classics in ASCII - http://www.textfiles.com/etext/ Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. |
| ClassicAuthors.net - http://classicauthors.net/ Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. |
| Virtual
Library - http://www.online.webzone.ru/elib/index.html Internet archive providing selected fiction and essays in text format. Also features Russian-language section. |
| Classical
Authors Directory - http://authorsdirectory.com/ Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature enhanced with annotations from the Encyclopedia of the Self. |
| Knowledge
Search - http://svk.dotgeek.org/ An online books search engine. |
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