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 Aesop's Fables
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Fables attributed to Aesop (C6th BC) in modern English translation; Fables of Jean de la Fontaine (late C17) in modern English and original French; modern fables by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914); also Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. |
African-American Authors |
Classic texts from the University of North Carolina by 6 C18 and C19 pioneering African-American writers. |
African-American Literature |
African-American Literature from Univ. of Virginia |
African-American Writers |
Collection of African-American writers from James Maddison University. |
Alex Catalogue |
Classic works of English Literature 700CE-present day; American Literature 1700CE-present day; Works on Western Philosophy 400BC-present day. Titles from over 120 Authors. |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen in Engish translation. |
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
Originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, in approximately 890CE, and subsequently added to by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 12th Century. Modern English translation. |
Apple Bookshop |
Classic British and American fiction to buy as e-texts. |
Athena e-texts |
Classic English and French Language e-texts from Univ. of Geneva. |
Jane Austen |
Jane Austen's quaint "History" of England, written when she was 16, other juvenilia and poems. |
Jane Austen |
The most comprehensive collection on the web of etexts of works by and about Jane Austen, including the six great novels. |
Authors Online |
About 300 e-books from contemporary authors to purchase online. |
Bartleby |
Over 300 classic texts and standard works from all periods; Reference, Fiction and Non-Fiction, plus a large collection of verse anthologies. |
The Bible |
Wide range of e-text Bibles and study aids from a non-denominational source. |
Bibliomania |
"Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays". You will find here all Shakespeare's plays; novels by Charles Dickens, James Joyce and Jane Austen; the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and short stories by Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe. Also on-line study guides and reference works. |
Books on Line |
Claims over 27,000 on-line books. Searchable by Dewey DC, Author/Title and Keyword. |
British Official Publications Archive |
Vast repository of government publications. Search by keyword, or browse by subject or by date (1688-date). Focuses on about 23,000 key documents from a total output of over 250,000 items. |
British Poetry |
British Poetry from 1780 to 1910 from the Univ. of Virginia (also some titles outside this period). |
Bronte Sisters Web |
Works of the Bronte Sisters from Nagoya University. |
BYU Eurodocs |
Primary Documents on European History from Brigham Young University, arranged by country. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Complete text of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400?) in Middle English, with interlinear translation in modern English, plus extensive study materials from Harvard University. Also material by authors who influenced, or who were influenced by Chaucer. |
Children's Library |
Over 500 titles from the International Children's Digital Library (Univ. of Maryland) and 400 titles from the Literature for Children Collection (Univ. of Florida) |
Chinese Classical Texts |
Links to major collections of classical Chinese texts from the Internet Public Library. |
Christian Books |
Classic texts from the Jesus Army Vaults. |
Christian Classics Ethereal Library |
Major collection of etexts in English translation of classic Christian texts from Origen (AD183-254) and St Augustine (AD345-430) onwards. |
CELT |
Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) from University College, Cork. |
Corpus of Middle English Prose & Verse |
Substantial collection of middle English texts on modern English translation from University of Michigan. |
Charles Dickens |
Pretty well everything about Dickens with copious links to e-texts of his works. |
Digital Book Index |
Combined index to over 90,000 etexts (over 50,000 free) in different formats, held in hundreds of collections. The best site to use if you are hunting for the on-line version of a particular title. |
Early Journals |
Digitised facsimiles of a minimum 20-years run of six key early journals, such as Gentleman's Magazine (1731+) and Notes and Queries (1849+) |
Economic Thought |
Works illustrating the history of economic thought from Ehime Univerity, Japan. |
E-book Jungle |
Wide range of material from a web-based e-book publisher, arranged under over 80 subject heads. |
E-books UK |
Contemporary writing to buy from ebooks.uk.com. |
Eserver Books |
Major book-length texts, ancient and modern, from the University of Washington, incl. the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe (125 titles). |
Eserver Drama Collection |
Classic and Classical drama from Sophocles to Shaw. |
Eserver Fiction |
Famous novels from the University of Washington, incl. Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Scott. |
E-text Archives |
E-zines, e-fiction, e-non-fiction, e-poetry from a web-based alternative publisher. |
Euclid's Elements |
The Elements of Euclid (BC325-BC265), one of the most influential works of science in the history of humankind, have been studied over 24 centuries in the original Greek, Arabic, Latin, and many modern languages. |
Eurodocs |
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe: Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations from Brigham Young University. |
Fiction Classics |
Classic fiction from Apuleius to James Joyce, from the eServer at Iowa State University. |
Folklore and Mythology |
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts from the University of Pittsburgh. |
The Gaskell Web |
Works of Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) from Nagoya University. |
Globusz Publishing |
A wide range of books to read or download free, including many classic and well-known titles. |
John Gower |
Selections from the works of John Gower (1325?-1403) in Middle English, with modern English glosses, from Harvard University. |
Great Books and Classics |
Large collection classic literature from the earliest times to the twentieth century, with a useful chronological index. |
Great Books Index |
Collection of classic literature by over 100 authors. |
Great Literature Online |
Collection of classic literature over 130 authors, with a good biographical timeline for each author. |
Brothers Grimm |
Fairy Tales of Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm in English tanslation. |
Hamlet on the Ramparts |
Detailed study guide to Hamlet from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shakespeare Project. Five texts of Act1 Scenes4-5 compared. Access to the remaining parts of the archive is restricted for copyright reasons. |
Mr Holmes |
Selection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. |
Internet Classics Archive |
441 works of classical Greek, Roman and Oriental literature by 59 different authors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Internet Poetry Archive |
Poetry by Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, Richard Wilbur from University of North Carolina. |
Internet Public Library |
Large collection of e-texts from Internet Public Library, hosted by University of Michigan, includes an index by Dewey DC. |
Irish Literature |
Oscar Wilde, G.B.Shaw, Jonathan Swift, J.M.Synge, Bram Stoker, Brendan Behan etc. All the best of Ireland. |
Henry James website |
Major website with over 50 of Henry James's approx.90 works in etext. |
Labyrinth Library |
Links to a large range of Latin, Old English, Middle English, French, Italian and Spanish Texts and Collections from Georgetown University (Washington DC). |
William Langland |
Text of Piers Plowman, attrib. to William Langland (1332?-c1400) with guide to further study from Harvard University. |
Leader in Lieder |
Text of 29,000 songs from over 40 nations. Most foreign language songs are accompanied by an English translation, some a German translation (some both). |
Literary Heritage, West Midlands |
Large collection of e-texts of West Midlands local authors, including Arnold Bennet and Mrs Henry Wood. |
Locke's Essay... |
John Locke's classic "Essay concerning human understanding" of 1689. |
Luminarium Anthology |
Large collection of standard works of English Literature 1350-1660, with extensive study materials on over 60 authors. |
Magna Carta |
Magna Carta from the British Library. Original manuscript (with on-line magnifying glass) and modern English translation. (Text also available from Project Gutenberg) |
Million Books Project |
Target of 1 million books on line by 2005, from the Internet Archive. |
On-line Dictionaries |
Wide range of foreign language and other dictionaries searchable on-line. |
On-line Literature Library |
E-texts from over 30 classic authors from literature.org |
Online originals |
Contemporary writing in e-books to purchase from a web-based publisher. |
Open Source Books |
Books contributed by the internet community from the Internet Archive. |
Oxford Text Archive |
Over 2,500 texts in 25 languages from the Oxford Text Archive. Indexes by author and title keyword. Access to some texts may be restricted for copyright reasons. |
Penguin Books |
ePenguins to buy. New titles each month. |
Perseus Digital Library |
430 Greek and Roman texts, 79 English Renaissance texts (incl. Shakespeare and Marlowe) and 35 texts on the History of London from Tufts University, Massachusetts. |
Philosophers |
900 links to the works of philosophers, with drop-down menus by philosopher and topic. |
Philosophy@large |
Large collection of philosophy e-texts from the University of Liverpool. |
Project Gutenberg of Australia |
Ausralian site of major collaborative archive with over 10,000 works available. On-line indexes and browse lists by author and title. For copyright reasons, availabilty of texts may be different on the US and Australian sites. |
Project Gutenberg (US) |
US site of major collaborative archive with over 10,000 works available. On-line indexes and browse lists by author and title. For copyright reasons, availabilty of texts may be different on the US and Australian sites. |
Questia |
Claims to be the world's largest on-line library, with about 50,000 books and nearly 500,000 journal articles. Access is by subscription (about 120 dollars a year when we checked) and there are free books which are changed each week. |
Renascence Editions |
Online Repository, from the University of Oregon, of about 200 works printed in English 1477-1799. |
Representative Poetry Online |
2,900 English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today, from the University of Toronto. Access by wide range of indexes. |
Sir Walter Scott |
Over 300 freely available e-texts of works by Sir Walter Scott. |
William Shakespeare |
Complete works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from Massachussetts Institute of Technology. |
William Shakespeare |
Comprehensive study site on William Shakespeare (1564-1616). |
Short Story Classics |
Classic short stories from the eServer at Iowa State University. |
Sonnet Central |
A huge archive of early English sonnets, Elizabethan sonnets, sonnets from the seventeenth century, the Romantic Era, Victorian, World War I and early twentieth century sonnets. |
Edmund Spenser |
Links from the University of Cambridge Faculty of English to the works of Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599). |
Hester Thrale |
Major etext collection of the writings of Mrs Thrale. |
UCE School of English |
About 20 key texts from Univerity of Central England at Birmingham on the history and sociolinguistics of the English Language. |
Universal Library |
Classics (300+ items), The Making of America Collection (1700+ items), On-Line Books Collection (8000+ items) and the Thousand Books Collection, All from Carnegie Mellon University. |
Univ.Adelaide e-books |
Large range of standard e-texts by classic authors in literature and philosophy from Homer and Confucius to Orwell and Nietzsche. |
Univ.Pennsylvania On-line Books Page |
Links to 20,000 on-line books from the University of Pennsylvania. Special indexes to formerly "Banned Books" and to works by winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
Univ.Toronto English Library |
Works by over 350 prose authors and poets from the University of Toronto. Access to some texts may be resticted for copyright reasons. |
Univ.Virginia Etext Center |
1,800 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more. |
Victorian Ghost Stories |
15 classic victorain ghost stories - all by major writers. |
Victorian Women Writers Project |
Works by over 40 Victorian women writers, with a further 80 authors proposed or in preparation. |
Vindolanda Tablets Online |
Online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England. |
Virgil's Aeneid |
John Dryden's classic translation of Virgil's Aeneid (19BC). |
WESSweb W. European Lit. |
Links to collections of e-texts in Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse & Icelandic, Portuguese, Romanian, Provençal, Spanish and Swedish languages from Western European Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, USA. |
Wikibooks |
Free open content textbooks. There are currently over 120 textbooks in various stages of development. |
