The Internet Public Library Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.
Gruntose Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.
Page by Page Books Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.
Learn Library Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.
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.
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.
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.
Literature of the Fantastic A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.
Oxford Text Archive 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.
Public Bookshelf A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.
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.
The Classics in ASCII Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.
Perseus Project Includes texts from the classical and Renaissance world.
The EServer Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
ClassicAuthors.net Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.
Making of America A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
Read Print A free online library with thousands of books.
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.
Bibliomania Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.
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.
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.
Logos Free Books - Wordtheque Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.
World eBook Library Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.
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.
Bookstacks Free online texts in several languages.
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.
