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• - Books in the public domain, available in HTML. Also offers online access to books in PDF, by subscription, for individuals and institutions.
  
• - A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.
  
• - Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
  
• - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.
  
• - Educational texts.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A 5-year project by the Internet Archive and the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab to use innovative software to develop a library specifically for children. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission.
  
• - Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A free online library with thousands of books.
  
• - Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
  
• - A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature.
  
• - Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
  
• - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
  
• - Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
  
• - Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
  
• - E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.
  
• - An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general.
  
• - From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Specialized search engine for searching the full text of thousands of online books available on the web.
  
• - A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
  
• - Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
  
• - Internet archive providing selected fiction and essays in text format. Also features Russian-language section.
  
• - Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
  
• - Collection of English literature.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry.
  
• - An online books search engine.
  
• - Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress.
  
• - Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature enhanced with annotations from the Encyclopedia of the Self.
  
• - Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world.
  
• - 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.
  
• - Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
  
• - A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
  
• - 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 R
  
• - A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
  
• - American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
  
• - Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.