Electronic Text Archives

Hypertexts in American Studies - American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html

Bookstacks - Free online texts in several languages.
http://www.bookstacks.org/

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.htm

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.
http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/hglib.htm

Classic Book Library - A collection of online ebooks featuring mystery, science fiction and romance.
http://classicbook.info/

Fiction.us - Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.
http://www.fiction.us/

The Online Literature Library - A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.
http://www.literature.org/

FullBooks.com - A free online collection with thousands of books.
http://www.fullbooks.com/

Publicliterature.org - Contains novels, poems, and religious texts with audio.
http://publicliterature.org

Bibliomania - Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
http://www.bibliomania.com/

Classic Reader - A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.
http://www.classicreader.com/

Public Bookshelf - A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/

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/

World eBook Library - Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.
http://www.worldlibrary.net/

Classics at the Online Literature Library - Archived electronic texts indexed by author.
http://www.literature.org/authors/

Page by Page Books - Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

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/

Read Easily - Digital online library provides book lists by author or subject with a "set display" feature for the partially sighted and visually impaired.
http://www.readeasily.com/

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/

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/

The Spectator Text Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities - An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general.
http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectator/

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/

Learn Library - Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm

Free Electronic Books - Educational texts.
http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html

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/

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

Bartleby.com - Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.
http://www.bartleby.com/

PSU's Electronic Classics Series - Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm

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

Gruntose - Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
http://www.gruntose.com/

Master Texts - Collection of English literature.
http://www.mastertexts.com

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/

Medieval and Classical Library - Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.
http://omacl.org/

The Classics in ASCII - Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
http://www.textfiles.com/etext/

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

Read Print - A free online library with thousands of books.
http://www.readprint.com/

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.
http://members.tripod.com/~dglen/society.htm

Perseus Project - Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

The EServer - Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
http://eserver.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/

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/

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/

byGosh.com - 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.
http://www.bygosh.com

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

ClassicAuthors.net - Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
http://classicauthors.net/

Instinct.org Online Texts - Selected online texts on a variety of topics.
http://www.instinct.org/texts/