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The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

http://infomotions.com/alex/?cmd=names&ltr=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
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/aufram.html

Washington State University

Early African American Literature
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html

University of Virginia Digital Collection

Early American Fiction

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/pubindex.html

University of Virginia Digital Collection

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

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-natam.html

University of Virginia Digital Collection

 

British Literature

British Library Online Gallery

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

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.

Middle English Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html

from the Oxford Text Archived housed at the University of Virginia

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

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html

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.

E-books by Women Writers

University of Virginia Digital Collection
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-women.html

 

 

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