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Digital Books on the Web: Literature
All Topics
American Literature
British Literature
Drama
Poetry
Short Stories
Women Writers
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The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://infomotions.com/alex/?cmd=names<r=A
A collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/-/frameset.html
Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays.
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/search
Over 20,000 free ebooks online. Includes audio books as well.
American Literature
American Authors
Washington State University
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/aufram.html
Early African American Literature
University of Virginia Digital Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html
Early American Fiction
University of Virginia Digital Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubindex.html
Hypertexts
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Links to hundreds of original works of literature important to American History.
For example: Jane Adams "Twenty Years at Hull House" W.E.B. DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk" etc.
Native American Literature
University of Virginia Digital Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-natam.html
British Literature
British Library Online Gallery
Turn the page online digital books from the originals including an early Jane Austen work, Blake’s notebook, Mozart’s theme book and DaVinci’s drawings.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Middle English Collection
from the Oxford Text Archived housed at the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
Modern English ETexts
by the University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
"contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."
Drama
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
MIT
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html
Shakespeare Resources
University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/shakespeare/
Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online
http://heniford.net/4321/
Poetry
Bartleby’s poetry selection
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
British Poetry 1780-1910
University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/57
"The official website of Academy of American Poets offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, almost 2,000 poems, and audio clips of 150 poems."
Short Stories
Short Stories at east of the web
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
Women Writers
African American Women Writers of the 19th century
New York Public Library
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
Celebration of Women Writers
Works about and by women; a celebration of women writers by the University of Pennsylvania; need to scroll down page for searches by specific categories ie. title, author, country, century.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html
E-books by Women Writers
University of Virginia Digital Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-women.html
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