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- Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on
the Internet
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"a catalog of books and other works on the Internet"
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
- American Literature
Hypertexts
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University of Virginia's collection of some 40 major works by Thoreau, de
Tocqueville, Jefferson, Twain and others.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/hypertex.html
- Avalon Project
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Yale Law School's archive of legal documents, treaties, charters and constitutions.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
- Banned Books
On-Line
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"special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or
censorship attempts... ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood"
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
- Bartleby.com
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Free searchable database of reference
books.
- Bibliomania
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A small collection of Reference, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry.
http://www.bibliomania.com
- CARRIE: An Electronic LIbrary
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From the University of Kansas (predominantly indexes texts on other servers).
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html
- A Celebration of Women
Writers
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"provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical
information about women writers, and complete published books written by women."
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/#A_Section
- Concordances of Great Books
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Over 500 classic books, fully searchable and word-indexed.
http://www.concordance.com
- Eighteenth Century Resources
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"covers significant and reliable Internet resources that focus on the
eighteenth century -- let's say Milton to Keats. The collection includes information
on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from
around the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on
eighteenth-century topics. The site is aimed especially at scholars and students"
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/
- The Electronic Literature Foundation
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"The mission ... is to produce advanced electronic texts to be used by
students, scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is to
provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature available in several
languages and/or editions, with forums for communication regarding these works, for
all types of readers."
http://elf.chaoscafe.com/
- The English Server
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"The English Server is a progressive student-run cooperative which has been
publishing humanities texts to millions of readers online since 1990. Today it
distributes over eighteen thousand works, including classics and new writing,
representing a wide range of topics in the arts and humanities."
http://eserver.org/
- The ETEXT Archives
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"home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from
the political to the personal." Provides archives of many newsgroups and 'zines'
in addition to books.
http://www.etext.org/
- Internet Classics Archive
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"an award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and
Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary."
http://classics.mit.edu/
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval
Studies
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"The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in
medieval studies [including] connections to databases, services, texts, and
images"
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
- The Litrix Reading Room
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Litrix Reading Room is edited by Stan Jones, a mystery novelist and book-lover in
Anchorage, Alaska. The Reading Room devotes a section to the literature of the North.
http://www.litrix.com/readroom.htm
- MemoWare
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Includes a large collection of e-books for the Palm Pilot and other PDAs
http://www.MemoWare.com/
- The Online Books Initiative
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This collection is a bit of a grab-bag, not well maintained, but with come useful
material. "this is a first, small step in creating massive full-text on-line
libraries" ... yes, well ...
http://ftp.std.com/obi/
- An Online Literature Library
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this is a personal effort by one individual, who's aim is therefore quality rather
than quantity.
http://www.literature.org/
- The Online Medieval and Classical
Library (DL SunSITE)
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"a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and
Medieval civilization" Impressive.
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/OMACL/
- Oxford Text Archive
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"contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek,
Latin, English and a dozen or more other languages. It contains collections and
corpora of unpublished materials prepared by field workers in linguistics. It contains
electronic versions of some standard reference works. It has copies of texts and
corpora prepared by individual scholars and major research projects worldwide. ...
there are over 1300 titles in its catalogue."
http://ota.ox.ac.uk
- Perseus Project Home Page
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"a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient
world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological
tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like
vase painting."
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
- Project Bartleby
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"publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of
charge"
http://www.bartleby.com/
- Renascence Editions
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"is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the
years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799."
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
- Samizdat Express
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a different, deliberately low-tech approach: required etexts can be supplied on
diskette to order.
http://www.samizdat.com/catalog.html
- SETIS: Australian Literature
Database
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the publically-accessible collection of the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image
Service at the University of Sydney Library
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/
- The Shakespeare Web
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"an interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular
understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works."
http://www.shakespeare.com/
- Universal Library
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Experimental project hosted by CMU.
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/
- Univesrity of Toronto English Library
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UTEL consists mainly of a large database of electronic texts. The texts that have
been selected to be included in UTEL are English language texts that are potentially
useful to students, especially undergraduate students, of English literature...
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/
- The University of Virginia
Electronic Text Library
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"electronic texts and images are available to University of Virginia users; a
good number are freely available to any Internet user. ... All texts are marked up in
various forms of SGML, and are converted automatically to HTML each time a user
selects a text or performs a search."
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
- Woldwide Piracy -- eTexts
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A collection of works devoted to freedom, etc.
http://www.piracy.com/works/
- Wiretap
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an archive of many classic works.
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/
- French
Electronic Texts
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A local directory of French language sites.
http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/french/etext.html
- ARTFL Project
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Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
- Association des Bibliophiles Universels
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The Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU) ... offers French public domain
texts
http://www.cnam.fr/ABU/
- ATHENA
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"Books, Literature, Arts, Science, Mineralogy" Specialises in Swiss and
French language texts
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
- BitBlioteca
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Mainly Spanish texts, but also English and French
http://www.analitica.com/bitblio/bitblio.htm
- CELT Project
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"The CELT project aims to produce an online database of contemporary and
historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts."
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/
- Le Chateau
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Les rayonnages de la bibliothèque vous proposent plus de 100 livres électroniques
: les textes de la littérature classique francaise en Hyperlivres.
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/
- Italian Literature in HTML
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Classic and contemporary texts of varied genre.
http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE
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Works in German: "Mit dem Projekt Gutenberg-DE ermöglichen wir eine ganz neue
Form des Zugangs zur Literatur. Unsere Leser können Bücher 'online' lesen, nach
bestimmten Büchern suchen oder in Bibliotheken stöbern."
http://gutenberg.aol.de/gutenb.htm
- Progetto Manuzio (Liber
Liber)
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"... il progetto Manuzio consiste nella fondazione di una biblioteca di testi
elettronici, accessibili gratuitamente via Internet."
http://www.liberliber.it/
- Project Runeberg
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Nordic Literature
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/
- REESWeb : Russian and East European Studies
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has good links to sites with Russian and Eastern European texts.
http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/
- 19th-Century German Stories
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Features works with illustrations and translations by the Wilhelm Busch, the
Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Hoffman.
http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/for/menu.html