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/
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/
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/
Bookstacks - Free online texts in several languages. - http://www.bookstacks.org/
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) - Provides free access to children's books from around the world. Some books are public domain, others are used by author's permission. - http://www.childrenslibrary.org/
The Internet Archive: Million Book Project - Carnegie Mellon University project to compile digitized texts into a free, searchable digital library. - http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks
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/
World eBook Library - Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only. - http://www.worldlibrary.net/
Logos Free Books - Wordtheque - Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts. - http://www.logosfreebooks.org/
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
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/
Medieval and Classical Library - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. - http://omacl.org/
Classic Book Library - A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance. - http://classicbook.info/
Project Runeberg - Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature. - http://runeberg.org/
Knowledge Rush - Book lover community, vanity postings, directory of free ebooks, biographies, encyclopaedia. - http://knowledgerush.com
Bibliomania - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. - http://www.bibliomania.com/
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/
Read Print - A free online library with thousands of books. - http://www.readprint.com/
ClassicAuthors.net - Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. - http://classicauthors.net/
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/
The EServer - Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. - http://eserver.org/
The Classics in ASCII - Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. - http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
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/
Public Bookshelf - A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/
Oxford Text Archive - 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available. - http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
PSU's Electronic Classics Series - Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. - http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Classic Reader - A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. - http://www.classicreader.com/
Bralyn E-text Archive - E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture. - http://www.bralyn.net/etext/
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
Instinct.org Online Texts - Selected online texts on a variety of topics. - http://www.instinct.org/texts/
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.htp
Hypertexts in American Studies - American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
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/
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/
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. - http://www.bygosh.com
Learn Library - Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. - http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm
Page by Page Books - Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. - http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
The Online Literature Library - A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. - http://www.literature.org/
Bartleby.com - Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. - http://www.bartleby.com/
Master Texts - Collection of English literature. - http://www.mastertexts.com
The Litrix Reading Room - A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre. - http://www.litrix.com/
Gruntose - Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. - http://www.gruntose.com/