Full-Text Books

Selected Web sites compiled by Jan Sauer, Reference & Instructional Services Librarian

General Collections

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet : One of the original gopher sites; many translations of classical works; not being updated any longer.
Bibliomania: searchable full-text for fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry and some major religious and reference works.
Carrie : Links to world literatures from University of Kansas.
Columbia University: Bartleby Library: Noted for its complete Bartlett's Famous Quotations, 9th ed.
Electronic Text Center; University of Virginia : English, French, German, Japanese & Latin; some restricted.
Electronic Text Collections : Mega List of links from the Library of Congress.
The English Server at CMU: Good literary and cultural theory as well as history, philosophy, drama and more.
IPL Reading Room: Online Texts : Arranged a la Dewey Decimals.
On-line Books Page : features over 10,000 "significant" texts linked from stable sites.
Oxford Text Archive : a site for downloading locating and downloading electronic texts.
Project Bartleby: Great books online, English and American literature.
Project Gutenberg : Html or ftp to your desktop.
Voice of the Shuttle : Highly respected site from UC Santa Barbara.
Yahoo's Literature Collection : Another list of sites.

Specialized Collections

Avalon Project: Collection of documents in law, history and diplomacy from Yale.
Banned Books On-line: Want to read some books that have been censored throughout history; they're here.
Celebration of Women Writers: A very nice collection of links to writings by women.
Children's Literature Web Guide : Lots of out-of-copyright stuff for kids and resources for parents.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library : From Wheaton College--early Church Fathers; major Christian treatises.
CRS4 : Italian Lit. from the Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia.
Documenting the American South: A collection of sources on southern history from the University of North Carolina.
Eighteenth-Century E-Texts : Excellent site put together by Jack Lynch for 18th Century resources.
Eighteenth-Century Studies on The English Server : Very pretty; good collection from a Sauer.
Internet Classics Archives : The Greeks--from MIT.
Making of America: Books and journals from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.
National Academy Press: Mainly science material. Books can be read online in a variety of formats (DocuWeb, html, or pdf); many of these items are also available for purchase.
Online Medieval and Classical Library : Search engine or browsing list of old stuff via Berkeley.
Perseus Project : Major collection of classical texts in English and Greek from Tufts.
Project Runeberg : Nordic Literature.
Victorian Women Writers Project : Lots of noncanonical texts.

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Last updated: 12/14/2000. kpw