Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Electronic Text Archives
See also: This category in other languages: - Features free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Adobe Digital Editions software is needed. - Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. - A private nonprofit project to convert into electronic format and publish the Armenian literary heritage. Also provides information on Armenian culture, history, religion. - Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. - Free online texts in several languages. - Free electronic books to read online. - A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. - Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. - Archived electronic texts indexed by author. - From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history. - Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format. - Educational texts. - Caters books for online reading. Browsed through genres, authors and titles. - A site with 1000s of free e-books (in pdf format) of the classics and other out of copyright books - Large free and searchable collection of classic books, novels and poems. - A free online collection with thousands of books. - Collection of free downloadable ebooks in a variety of popular formats and categories. - Classic English literature published in blog format, one chapter per book per day. - Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. - American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. - Selected online texts on a variety of topics. - Free classic literature books, with kids picks highlighted. - Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. - Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. - 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. - Contains a searchable collection of timeless literature classics. - 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. - 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 fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites. - A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. - Aims to provide the complete works of Shakespeare along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search, annotation, word frequency, etc.) in an open knowledge package that allows for easy deployment, redistribution and reuse. - A small collection of free public domain and copyleft books. Read online on iPaper or download free full text versions as PDF. - Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. - Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. - Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world. - Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature. - A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. - Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio. - Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired. - 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. - Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. - Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. - Provides free access to children's books from around the world. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission. - Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library. - A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. - 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. - Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only. - Preservs Books from world religion, sects, history, philosophy, health, self-help, self-sufficiency, biographies and old Children's materials. Including Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Gnostic writings. - 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. - HTML collection of online classic e-books.
