A Collection of Great Literature Online - Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
A Treasury of Books Online - Links to novels and plays online, with background and comments.
Aether Madness
Akamac - Among other things, Marx's Das Kapital is available in English and English-German bilingual versions, in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file-format. This site also includes an extensive, alphabetically-sorted directory of online e-text resources of all sorts.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - Include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy." Provides somewhat custom-formattable .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files.
American Sunday Schools Book Digitization Project - "The Michigan State University Libraries Digital Sources Center and the Central Michigan University Libraries propose to digitize 121 American Sunday school books from the Russel B. Nye Popular culture Collection and the Clarke Historical Library."
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - A "gateway" page for e-text resources hosted by or associated with the project--there are over 2500 works in HTML and other formats with great strength in Jack London and American literature.
Bibliomania - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
Blackmask Online Ebooks - 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.
Books-On-Line - A searchable and browseable database-directory of online electronic texts covering a broad range of interests, from established literary classics to computer how-to manuals.
Bookvalley - Classic literatures, and fiction.
Bootlegbooks - Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry.
Bragi - Online text of selected book titles, including Wells, Verne and Twain.
CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library - An extensive link resource, listing texts archived at various locations all across the internet. Also has a searchable database feature.
Celebration of Women Writers - " . . . on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works. We choose works from a range of areas to indicate the variety of interests of women writers." Includes links to texts both historic and contemporary, hosted both on-site and off; links to websites related to specific authors and their writing are also provided in many instances.
Cent mille milliards de poèmes
Chatville - William V. Mason's online book containing twelve stories based on the lives, loves, and lovers of the real people behind those chatroom names.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic Christian books in electronic format.
Classic Short Fiction Online - Selected classic short stories in html format. Authors include Hawthorne, Jackson, and Poe.
Commonplace Book, The
Computer and Internet Books - Searchable index to free on-line editions of computer and internet related books.
Cornell Electronic Text Center - Not an online text archive but more an informational resource on the subject of electronic texts; includes information on and links to electronic texts, including various online archives both large and small, more general and more specific.
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography - An extensive archive of Middle-English electronic texts (none of which are translated into modern English, however), including works by Chaucer and the ubiquitous Anonymous.
Daoist Scriptures - "A large collection of Chinese Taoist literature. Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu." Includes various translations (by different translators) into English.
Darc Ages - A unique epic adventure novel, now available to read for free on the Internet. Illustrated.
Directory of Electronic Text Archives
Disc-Us Books, Inc. - bookseller/publisher of ebooks in print, cdrom, download: authors of all categories: fiction, nonfiction, romance, mystery, suspense, religion, cookbook, new age, memoir, true crime, pop-culture
Ditigized Library of Southern Literature - There is a collection of 53 texts in HTML and SGML.
Download hundreds of virtual books, many free, directly to your computer! - All genres, many exclusive titles not available elsewhere, including fiction, non-fiction, humor, instructional, inspirational, poetry, books for children, and many more.
Drama Electronic Books - Classic and contemporary plays online. Many ebooks available: Aristophanes, Ibsen, Johnson, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Synge, Wilde, and others.
Duke Papyrus Archive
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.
Early Canadiana On Line/Notre mémoire en ligne
eBooks - E-Books in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese. Plus e-zines, software and web design tutorials and manuals.
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
Electronic Books - Information guide on e-books, e-book technology and reading devices.
Electronic Library
Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia - Online text collections.
Electronic Text Service
Electronic Texts and Publishing - Library of Congress electronic texts and publishing resources.
English Server, The
Etexts - Index of online etexts on the internet.
FreeLit - Free books formatted in HTML and supported by a search engine, discussion group, and a dictionary.
Fright Library - A collection of primarily dark fantasy and horror texts online, from a wide variety of authors--some texts are hosted locally, others linked from archives off-site.
From Internet to Gutenberg - Written by Humberto Eco.
Gaslight - " . . . was conceived in 1993 to be a discussion list on the Internet. Its purpose is to provide a different story each week for discussion, modeled on the Hounds of the Internet discussion list about Sherlock Holmes. Unlike Hounds, however, Gaslight's stories are not readily available to most listmembers, so they are prepared before reading as electronic texts (etexts). This site is to aid in distributing the etexts and to post any notable discussions . . . ."
Grand Library - Portal for digital books available online, with thousands of books to read for free.
Great Books of Western Civilization
Humanities Text Initiative
Hypertexts in American Studies - "50+ hypertexts . . . . Includes works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, Parkman, Twain, Lewis and Clark, Frederick Jackson Turner and Alexis de Tocqueville."
Index of the Online Book Initiative
Instinct.org Online Texts - Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
Internet Classics Archive - Repository of searchable works of classical literature.
Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection - An excellent catalogue (with links) to online texts. Browse by title, author, and Dewey Decimal Classification. Searchable.
Irish Literature - Irish e-texts to download.
Knowledge Rush - Site contains Project Gutenberg etexts, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, literature and other non-copyrighted material.
Learn Free - Online self-help and instructional VidBooks (electronic books) on leisure and educational topics: sports, exercise, travel, health, hobbies, culture, home and family. Includes text, photos, and streaming video.
Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services
Literature of the Fantastic - A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
Literature Online Home Page - Over 210,000 links to third party sites, plus 12 extensive literary and reference databases including English and American Poetry (over 200,000 poems), English Drama (4,000 plays), Early English Prose Fiction and The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Litrix Reading Room Sci-Fi Section - A selection of public-domain e-texts by various authors.
Making of America
Master Texts - Collection of English literature.
Matt's Digital Book Shelf - Digital ASCII texts of interesting, everything from Sun Tzu to how to pick locks, and, cattle mutilations.
Medieval and Classical Library - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.
Mysticism Texts - Mysticism throughout the ages.
Novels On-Line - Downloadable books, electronic literature - private-eye novel and gonzo trip through the Far East
On-Line Books - Directory of books that can be freely read on the internet.
Online Books FAQ
Orange St. Press Classics - Public Domain classic literature and humanities texts in Adobe Portable Document Format. Free for downloading, reading online or offline, and printing.
Owl-Eyes - Dubs itself "The #1 site for classic literature." 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.
Oxford Text Archive - 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.
Petals of Life Publishing - Fiction of all genres and nonfiction published in electronic (PDF) and paperback formats.
Project Bartleby Archive - The 45 electronic texts are made available free to the public for educational purposes.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg - How to volunteer
Project Gutenberg Index
PublishingOnline.com - ". . . a Seattle-based team of writers, publishers, university professors and Internet professionals who . . . offer digital books that you can purchase and download to your computer or e-book instantly." A commercial site, needless to say.
Read It CoNNECTED - " . . . full online texts [and links to related sites] for free viewing in a simple, easy to use format. Primarily Classical or Classic literature, all translated into English."
Reading on the Web - Information for webdesigners and writers of internet documents, explains how people read on the web and how documents should be structured in order to obtain the best possible results.
Reading Place - Features an mix of classic and new literature online, including poetry, short stories, children's section, essays, memiors, anecdotes, historical American documents.
Robbie: a Fictionalized Biography by Elizabeth Wynne - An all-new novel from emerging author Elizabeth Wynne. Complete in nineteen chapters, available online.
Romeo and Juliet
SCETI
Scholarship from California on the Net (SCAN)
Seventh-day Adventist Bible Prophecy Books - Full text of many books.
Shakespeare Stack Project - Macintosh hyperCard editions of the works of William Shakespeare, with annotations.
Short Story Search
Technology Reshapes Reading - Article explains how people are changing their reading habits due to the influence of the Internet and technology in general.
TeleRead
Texts & Contexts
The Audionica Technical On-line Bookstore - Buy on-line books about DSP, digital and audio signal processing, acoustics and psycoacoustics, numerical analysis, and sound synthesis.
The Blue Fairy Book - Online plain-text of Andrew Lang's collection of fantastic stories from around the world.
The ETEXT Archives
The Internet Public Library - An excellent catalogue (with links) on online texts.
The InterText Library
The Litrix Reading Room - A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre, etc.
The Modern English Collection - History, Civil War, Best sellers 1900-1930
The On-Line Books Page - A directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
The Online Books Page
The Online Literature Library - A small (comparatively) but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
The Saadhu Testament - The First English Electronic Novel by an Asian Author
The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel - 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.
The Transformation Story Archive - An electronic Archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations.
The Unpublished Words - A place for teens to "publish" their stories online so that other people can read them, written by teens, for teens.
The World eText Library - Read books on-line, download texts, or select a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, or other references. Searchable, browsable database.
Third Millennium Message - Expanding universe: new theory of 4-dimensional static model but allowing formation of galaxies. Puts a new face on physics. New theory on light and gravity.
Twain Enterprises at Villa Gruntose - "Contains a collection of electronic texts (including the entire Sherlock Holmes canon) . . . ."
University of Arizona -- Image Projects
University of Maryland Reading Room - Includes an extensive archive of electronic texts available online--fiction, drama, poetry, non-fiction, etc.
Unofficial Internet Book List
Vision of the Artists - Online index, 471 authors, 1285 books, classical fiction and nonfiction literature and classic philosophy linked to Encyclopedia of the Self.
Vita Sexualis - Human sexuality manual translated from Polish by the author's son. Topics include: puberty, menstruation, menopause, frigidity, impotence, marriage, homosexuality, prostitution, and venereal diseases.
VIVA - The Virtual Library of Virginia
Washington University Library - Electronic Texts & Documents - Amazing depth of historical subjects available
What is the Future of the Book in the Digital Era - Transcript of a round table discussing different concerns such as shortage of paper, distribution, penetration of audiovisual media, literacy, and the new form this durable medium may take.
Yahshuan Archives - Online collection of books related to various world religions, philosophies, mythology, meditation, historical and traditional documents.