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The library has more than 13,000 electronic books that
cover a broad range of topics. Users can read the books
online, print out pages, or copy and paste sections into their
own documents.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Full-text versions of Western philosophy, American literature,
and British literary works here. Authors include Edmund Burke,
Lewis Carroll, and Willa Cather. The site is browsable by
author, title, and date, and users can search for and display
texts from the collection, as well as search the content
of located texts.
American Verse Project
Developed at the University of Michigan, this project provides
the full-text electronic online version of more than 170
volumes of American poetry written prior to 1920. The opening
page of the site offers various search options, from keyword
and phrase searching to proximity searching to author
browsing. Both well-known poets such as Carl Sandberg and
Ralph Waldo Emerson and lesser-known poets such as Lizette
Woodworth Reese and Mary Eliza Perine Tucker are included. The
project is ongoing with a list of hundreds of volumes
forthcoming.
Bartelby
This extensive Web site contains full-text verse, fiction,
nonfiction, quotations, and reference works. Famous authors
include T.S. Eliot, Charles Darwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Sinclair Lewis, John Milton,
Theodore Roosevelt, and Bernard Shaw.
Galileo Internet Resources
This extensive gateway provides links to more than 100 Web
sites that provide electronic journals and texts. Subject
areas covered are General; Classics and History;
Constitutions, Laws, and Treaties; Economics; Literature,
Drama, and Poetry; Women Authors; Foreign Language Works;
Mythology and Folklore; Philosophy; and Religion.
HTI Public Domain Modern English Collection
The full-text works of more than 350 authors are found in this
collection, which focuses on works by British and American
writers from Ben Johnson to Maya Angelou. The texts come from
a variety of sources on the Internet, including the Oxford
Text Archive, Project Gutenberg, and the Online Book
Initiative. In addition to using various searching techniques,
users may browse the collection or perform a word or phrase
search of several designated literary pieces simultaneously.
Though not updated since 1997, this site is well organized and
offers full-text versions of significant British and American
literature.
The Internet Public Library - Online Texts Collection
This database contains links to more than 18,000 titles that
can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal
Classification. They also can be searched by keyword. Titles
are included for online books, stories, essays, poems,
articles, dramas, letters, and speeches.
The On-Line Books Page
A searchable database of more than 14,000 online books by
author or title. All of the titles listed are freely available
on the Internet due to a lapse in copyright, the copyright
holder has granted permission for inclusion, or the
copyrighted work is allowed online under special licenses
granted by law. (All books will appear in the online catalog
of a major library such as the Library of Congress.)
Online Medieval and Classical Library
The full text of more than 35 important literary works of
Classical and Medieval civilization make up this collection.
It includes text in Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Middle English,
Old Norse, and Middle High German. Keyword searching
capabilities are available, as is browsing texts by title,
author, genre or language. In addition, users can link to
other relevant sites such as the Online Reference Book of
Medieval Studies, The Labyrinth Guide to Medieval Studies on
the Web, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and the Project.
Project Gutenberg
This site contains books that are currently out of copyright;
generally, this means books
published before 1923. The site includes works from
Shakespeare, Dante, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll
among others. Alice in Wonderland, Aesop's Fables,
The Bible, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, and
Roget's Thesaurus are representative of the titles
offered on this site, which also contains various almanacs,
dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
University of Virginia - Electronic Text Center
The Center's holdings include 51,000 humanities texts in 12
languages, with more than 350,000 related images. Thousands of
these texts are available for free to the general public over
the Internet. Other titles are available only to students of
the University of Virginia. The site is browsable by area of
interest and author's last name. A large selection of titles
is available to the public in the following English
collections: The Middle English Collection, Shakespeare
Resources, Religious Resources, Special Collections electronic
texts, British Poetry 1780 - 1910, Documenting the African
American Experience, and Michigan Early Modern English
Materials.
