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 Full-text at site ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle -- French language public domain texts from the Association des Bibliophiles Universels. 
 Links to other sites Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet  -- While no longer updated, Alex was an attempt to catalog full-text books which were available on the Internet. At this site, you can use a search engine to look for the book.
 Full-text at site Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, Table of Contents 
 Full-text at site American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library  -- From the Library of Congress. Includes Photographs, Documents, Motion Pictures, and Sound Recordings.
 Full-text at site Art Studio Chalkboard: a technical resource for artists and art students  -- Instructional information on Drawing and Painting as well as Responses to visitor questions.
 Full-text at site ARTFL Project: Multi-lingual Bibles
Links to other sites Full-text at site ATHENA  -- Athena edits and posts some works on its site, mostly in French, but most of the works listed are for external links to books in English, French, Italian and other languages. There is also a section which lists science works, often from the past -- so if you want to read Galileo in Italian, this is your starting point.
 Full-text at site Baker Street Connection -- Full text of many of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.
 Full-text at site Bartleby.com
 Full-text at site Bibliomania: the Network Library 
 Full-text at site Bodleian Library -- Digital Library Projects [University of Oxford] -- Images of ancient manuscripts, early automobile catalogs, early journals, etc. If you are interested in what the British were saying during the American Revolution, check out the Annual Register (also available at the UCF Library, General Collection D2 .A7).
 Links to other sites Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature 
 Links to other sites The Book Stack: An index to on-line books
 Full-text at site Books.com: Electronic Library
 Full-text at site Bulfinch's Mythology
 Full-text at site Camelot Project  -- Lots of text, images and bibliographies for the study of King Arthur and his circle.
 Full-text at site The Catholic Encyclopedia
 Full-text at site CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts -- "Irish documents in literature, history and politics." 
 Full-text at site CETE: Centre d'Edition de Textes Electroniques -- In French.
 Full-text at site Christian Classics Ethereal Library 
 Full-text at site Classic Short Stories 
 Links to other sites ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuelle -- In French.
 Full-text at site Collected Works of Shakespeare (The Works of the Bard)  -- A searchable collection of the full text of Shakespeare's works.
 Full-text at site Columbia University Project Bartleby 
 Full-text at site The Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
Links to other sitesSearch the Complete Works of Shakespeare -- This site, though separate, searches the full text of the above site, showing the search terms in context of the original text. 
 Full-text at site The Documents Room
Full-text at site Links to other sites Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
 Full-text at site Edgar Allan Poe -- Works
 Full-text at site The Edmund Spenser Home Page 
 Full-text at site Electronic Labyrinth -- This study discusses hypertext literature and compares it with older literary formats. The document itself uses hypertext to such an extent that it resembles a linked set of encyclopedia articles.
 Full-text at site The Electronic Library of Mathematics -- Texts are in DVI and Compressed Postscript formats.
 Full-text at site Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia  -- Full text books (some may be restricted to UVa users only) in English, French, Japanese, and Latin. Included in the English section are African American texts (look under Special Collections and other links), British poetry and religious texts.
 Links to other sites Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature 
 Links to other sites Electronic Texts & Primary Sources [Digital Librarian]
Full-text at site Links to other sites English Server 
 Full-text at site Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing!  -- Essays by Bill Johnson discuss storytelling in movies, books and plays.
 Links to other sites EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -- Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
 Full-text at site Freud  -- This is a single hypertext work by a single author.
 Full-text at site Gallica [Bibliothèque nationale de France]  -- 19th century works in French.
 Links to other sites Great Books Index
 Links to other sites The Great Books of Western Civilization -- Links to the full text of books, but also to pages of literary criticism and historical commentary on them.
 Full-text at site Human Text Initiative: Unrestricted Resources [University of Michigan]
 Full-text at site Hypertexts @ the University of Virgnia  -- Includes such items as The Federalist Papers, Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage , and the WPA's American Slave Narratives.
 Links to other sites Hyperizons: Theory and Criticism of Hypertext Fiction -- An annotated bibliography of essays, many of which are linked from this site.
 Full-text at site ILTweb Academic Resources: Digitexts (Columbia University) 
 Full-text at site The Internet Classics Archive  -- This site offers about 400 Greek and Roman texts in English translation.
 Full-text at site Internet Wiretap Books Gopher or Full-text at site Internet Wiretap Classics Gopher  -- These two pages from the same site offer many of the same works. However, there are enough differences between the two that both should be consulted. Neither covers everything.
 Full-text at site Maksim Moshkow's Library -- In Russian.
 Full-text at site National Academy Press -- Books are offered for sale or for online reading from page images.
 Full-text at site Online Books [Virginia Tech]
 Links to other sites On-line Books Page  -- A searchable index to 9000+ online books. Also links to English language, foreign language and specialty online book sites.
Links to other sitesBanned Books On-line -- A list of titles selected from the the On-line Books Page.
 Full-text at site Online Book Initiative 
 Full-text at site The Online Literature Library 
 Full-text at site The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) 
 Full-text at site The Oxford Text Archive 
 Full-text at site Perseus Project Home Page  -- This major site offers ancient Greek texts (in Greek and English translation) and images from art and archaeology, as well as modern scholarship in the form of lexica, essays and encyclopedia articles. Future plans include the addition of materials on Rome and Shakespeare.
 Full-text at site Project Gutenberg  -- Get the full text of books via ftp from this official site.
 Full-text at site Project Runeberg Presents Nordic Art and Literature:
Links to other sitesRelated Major Electronic Text Projects -- Lists of other electronic text sites, including many foreign sites.
 Full-text at site Representative Poetry On-line -- 1,650 English poems.
 Full-text at site The Robin Hood Project
 Full-text at site STARN: Scots Teaching And Research Network 
 Full-text at site SunSITE Digital Collections  -- A site with several unique collections, including: 
  1. Online Medieval and Classical Library 
  2. The Jack London Collection 
  3. Literature@SunSITE 
  4. The California Heritage Collection 

 Full-text at site TEAMS Middle English Texts
Full-text at site Links to other sites The Victorian Web Overview  -- Unlike most full text sites, the text is not from old public domain sources, but rather has been created or gathered specifically for this project by Brown University. There are also significant numbers of links to external sites.
 Full-text at site The Victorian Women Writers Project
Full-text at site Links to other sites Women's Studies Database: Reading Room -- Includes fiction and non-fictional resources.
 Full-text at site The Works of Willa Cather
 Links to other sites Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Electronic Literature:Collections 



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