The Internet Public Library
– Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.
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.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts – Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Bartleby.com – Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
Bibliomania – Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
Blackmask Online – 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.
Bralyn E-text Archive – E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.
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.
Classic Book Library – A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.
Classic Reader – A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children’s stories.
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.
ClassicAuthors.net – Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
The Classics in ASCII – Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
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.
Electronic Texts and Publishing – Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress.
The EServer – Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
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.
Fiction.us – Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.
The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) – 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.
Knowledge Rush – Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia.
Learn Library – Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
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.
Literature of the Fantastic – A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
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.
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.
