- The Internet Public Library
 - An excellent catalogue (with links) on online texts. - The On-Line Books Page - A directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
- ABU - A collection of 223 works in french by 76 authors.
- Academic Text Service
- African American Biographical Database - (Full text, with illustrations, of more than 40,000 biographies, 1790-1950)
- Akamac - e-texts on the history of economic and social thought. The edition of Marx is in German.
- Alex - Indexes over 700 books and shorter texts by author, title, and contents.
- Alexandria Digital Literature - Digital fiction available for purchase and download; also has a book/story recommender with a large database.
- ARTFL - While much of ARTFL is restricted material (1880 works) or only searchable (1369 works in italian), there are a series of older works that are open to the general public (10 works). Many of the open works are in French.
- Badosa EP (Electronic Publisher) - Site devoted to the spreading of literary unpublished texts. Short story, poetry and novel. Hypertext. In Spanish, Catalan and English. Audio files available. Includes "The Poetic Browser", a new way to look for contents. Also a big Directory of Literary Resources on the Internet. Since 1995. Free.
- Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - There are over 2500 works in HTML format with great strength in Jack London and american literature.
- Bibliomania - The collection contains the html version of 4 (3 more in process)reference works, 55 fiction works, 16 non-fiction works, and 5 poetry works.
- Books of the World - Free searches for all kind of books (new, old, antiquarian, electronic)in internet bookstores and libraries,links for researchers,free electronic books (public domain), online encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Books-On-Line - 8145 FREE books instantly available for downloading.
- British Museum - One hundred of the works are available on CD-ROM as well as on-line (although I have not been able to locate more than eight of them). These are digitized versions of some of the most famous of books.
- British National Corpus
- Browzer Books offers many free books and reports. - You will find a large assortment of books available from the Browzer Books site, many of them are free, ready to download.
- CARRIE: An Electronic Library - A directory of literally thousands online texts by a wide range of authors available throughout the internet.
- Celebration of Women Writers - A major focus of the Celebration is the development of 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.
- Chinese Electronic Books
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves! There is a 1998 edition CD-ROM. Several works are being added each month.
- Classics at the Online Literature Library - The Online Literature Library's archived electronic texts available online, indexed by author.
- CLICNET - Litt�rature francophone virtuelle. (Virtual literature for French speakers.) This site is in French with no subtitles.
- Cornell Electronic Text Center
- Corpus of Middle English - 42 Texts are available in the TEI Lite DTD SGML format.
- Darkzoo: A multi-viewpoint novel - Darkzoo is a new form of novel - one that can only be achieved using the Web. Here you can click to read a multiple viewpoint novel, or choose to read the same general story from a particular character's point of view. Each of the views is a complete story.
- Digital Libraries Initiative
- Digital Library Federation - The Digital Library Federation is an organization dedicated to developing the means of 'federating' distributed libraries of digital works
- Digital Library Resources - A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
- 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.
- Duke Papyrus Archive
- Early Canadiana On Line/Notre m�moire en ligne
- Editorial Letralia - Electronic editorial for HispanAmerican writers
- eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
- Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
- Electronic Text Service
- Ella and her sisters - A simple little fairy tale, turned inside out and a dash of salt added. The complete book by Melanie "Kid" Curry is on this page.
- EText Archive on CD-ROM
- The ETEXT Archives
- 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 . . . ."
- Historias Urbanas - Collection of short stories in Spanish, virtual exhibitions, the only place from where you can reach the real end of the net. But be carefull with your steps if you visit it.
- Humanities Text Initiative
- Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection - An excellent catalogue (with links) to online texts. Browse by title, author, and Dewey Decimal Classification. Searchable.
- The InterText Library
- Irish Literature - Irish e-texts to download.
- Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services
- 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
- Making of America
- "Merlyn" - **New Arthurian Adventure** "MERLYN" A novel by J.M. Smith Sorcery, Laughter, Tears, Terror, Unseen Dimensions, Legends, High Adventure FREE MANUSCRIPT! Get the prologue to Merlyn
- The Modern English Collection - History, Civil War, Best sellers 1900-1930
- Novels On-Line - Downloadable books, electronic literature - private-eye novel and gonzo trip through the Far East
- 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.
- Oxford Text Archive
- 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 - How to volunteer
- Project Gutenberg Index
- 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."
- Robbie: a Fictionalized Biography by Elizabeth Wynne - An all-new novel from emerging author Elizabeth Wynne. Complete in nineteen chapters, available online.
- The Saadhu Testament - The First English Electronic Novel by an Asian Author
- SCETI
- Short Stuff - Author and professional writer Lin Stone has a complete book posted on the web, free for reading, with absolutely no strings attached.
- 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.
- University of Arizona -- Image Projects
- Utopian Philosophy - Utopia is a better world vision. This web page consists of three short books on the subject of Humanity's achievement of Utopia. A Utopian Philosophy
- VIVA - The Virtual Library of Virginia
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