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Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/

"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."

Author: Eric Lease Morgan (eric_morgan@ncsu.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Arts & Humanities--Philosophy--Western

Keywords: Books; Electronic Texts

Bibliomania

http://www.bibliomania.com/

This site, though still under construction, is a good resource for online texts ranging from Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray". It contains fiction, non-fiction, and poetry sections, with a limited reference section.

Author: Data Text Publishing (antony@datatext.co.uk)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Literature; On-line Texts

Bragi

http://www.bragi.com/

"Bragi is an online collection of freely available classical literature." Works are classified by author and by title, and a search tool is provided.

Author: Bragi (webmaster@bragi.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)

http://www.ccel.org/

Contains complete versions in electronic format of numerous non-fiction classic Christian books including 38 volumes of the most important writings from the first 800 years of the church, writings by St. Augustine, John Calvin, George Fox, Martin Luther, and others. Fiction authors include Chesterton, Dostoevsky, MacDonald, and Tolstoy. Links to Biblical reference sites are also included.

Author: Harry Plantinga (whp@wheaton.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Arts & Humanities--Religion & Theology--Faiths & Denominations--Christianity

Arts & Humanities--Religion & Theology--Sacred & Other Religious Texts

Keywords: Bible

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/works.html

This is a server of the complete works of William Shakespeare, provided by The Tech-MIT. The HTML versions of these plays, and the links, are Copyright © 1995.

Author: Jeremy Hylton

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Authors--Shakespeare

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Directory of Digitized Collections

http://thoth.bl.uk/

"This site aims to offer a listing of major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programmes worldwide. It is hoped that this will provide a single focal point of information on digitized collections. This site will act as the 'Memory of the World' virtual library offering direct access to those collections, where permission to link has been granted." Search or browse the database.

Author: UNESCO Information and Informatics Division (a.abid@unesco.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

The English Server Drama Collection

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/drama/

A collection of both long and short English drama plays and criticism (complete scripts) that includes authors like: Shakespeare (complete works,) Shaw, Johnson, Gay, Moliere, Biggs and Sophocles. Also has links to other theater sites.

Author: Carnegie-Mellon Unversity (webmaster@eserver.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Drama & Performance (Theater & Stagecraft)

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Scripts; Plays; Theatre

The English Server Fiction Collection

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/fiction/

Collection of online fiction texts. Includes short stories and novels by authors like: Alcott, Bronte, Bulfinch, Cather, Crane, Dickens, Dreiser, Elliot, Twain, Hardy and Fielding (among others.) Also has criticism.

Author: Geoff Sauer, Martha Cheng (webmaster@eserver.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Fiction; Short Stories; Texts; Criticism

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Resource providing links to mythology texts. Arranged aphabetically, users can browse everything from popular fairytales to Russian ghost stories.

Author: D. L. Ashliman (dash@vms.cis.pitt.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Social Sciences--Customs, Etiquette, Folklore--Mythology & Folklore

Great Literature On-Line

http://www.mostweb.cc/Classics/

Online versions of literary works with background information about the authors. Also a book news and reviews section.

Author: Great Literature On-Line (webmastr@underthesun.cc.)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Hyperizons - Hypertext Fiction

http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html

Original hypertext fiction; reviews and criticism of hypertext fiction; hypertext converted from print; other Web sources.

Author: Michael Shumate (mshumate@acpub.duke.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Hypertext

ibiblio

http://www.ibiblio.org/

"Home to one of the largest 'collections of collections' on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies." There's a little of something for everyone here -- a good place to browse.

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

The Internet Classics Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/

Includes the more famous, as well as some lesser known authors of Greek and Roman literature. Inluded are full texts are their works, with contextual information (such as when it was written). One can also see other readers' opinions and thoughts on the works and respond to them or post their own. A search engine is provided.

Author: Daniel C. Stevenson (classics@classics.mit.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Literature by Time Period

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Arts & Humanities--Philosophy

Keywords: Greek authors and literature; Roman authors and literature

Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ)

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

"Aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The core collection for the project are runs of at least 20 consecutive years of: Three 18th-century journals: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; Three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine."

Author: Electronic Libraries Programme (elib@jisc.ac.uk)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

IPL Online Texts Collection

http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 18,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. The collection contains various online books, stories, essays, poems, articles, dramas, letters and speeches that are freely available over the Internet.

Author: The Internet Public Library (ipl@ipl.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

IPL Other Online Texts Collection

http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/other.html

"While the IPL's Online Text Collection is the most comprehensive directory to online texts available, there's still a lot of stuff that we have yet to add to our collection. You may wish to look through this listing to find other collections and directories for online texts."

Author: The Internet Public Library (ipl@ipl.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

KnowledgeRush Book Directory

http://www.knowledgerush.com/

Large directory of popular literary works and historical documents available on the Web. Includes biographies of some authors and can be browsed by author, genre, or title.

Author: KnowlegeRush.com (franco@knowledgerush.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Luminarium

http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

Medieval, Reniassance and 16th Century literary texts. Entries for each author include: works, biography, criticism, quotations and links. Texts are from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th ed.

Author: Anniina Jokinen (anniina@luminarium.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Medieval; Renaissance; Texts; Literature

The On-line Books Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

A fairly complete listing of various sources for online texts, including Project Gutenberg, and specialty and foreign language sites. Recommended because its index is searchable.

Author: John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Electronic Texts

People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/

"Presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people (LGBT). It includes hundred of original texts, discussions, and (soon) images, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world. In addition to texts, the site includes other aides to help you study, or just make sense of LGBT history - note especially the guide to online bibliographies and the onsite bibliography (which is the most up-to-date and complete bibliography of LGBT history available)."

Author: Paul Halsall

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender

Keywords: Homosexuality; Resources; Bibliography

The Realist Wonder Society

http://www.bonus.com/bonus/card/realistwonder.bottom.html

The Realist Wonder Society calls itself: "A Whistle-Stop of Imagination Between Way Stations of Reality," and its claim is confirmed by a marvelous collection of fairy tales and fables, fantastic art, and discussion of fantastic films. The emphasis is on fairy tale-related materials. The site is worth visiting if only for its inventive and beautiful design.

Author: Chuck Duffie (nakamura@rrnet.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts--Drawing

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Social Sciences--Customs, Etiquette, Folklore--Mythology & Folklore

Keywords: fables; art; film; wonder; fairy tales; screenplays

Representative Poetry On-line

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html

"The second version of Representative Poetry On-line includes over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century." Poems are indexed and can be browsed by poet name, date, title, or first line. They can also be searched by keyword. Also contains works on poetry criticism.

Author: Ian Lancashire (ed.) and the Department of English (University of Toronto)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: poetry

Short Stories at east of the web

http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

A growing collection of classic and newly-written short stories made available on the Web. Stories are organized by theme: fiction, romance, crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humor, horror, hyperfiction, children's, and non-fiction. Includes works by many famous authors.

Author: East of the Web (feedback@eastoftheweb.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Writings (Original Works)

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: Short story

Sonnet Central

http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/sonnet.htm

Sonnet Central is "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors." The site mainly concentrates on sonnets from Great Britain but other areas are represented as well.

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Keywords: poetry; poems; sonnets

The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP)

http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp/

The project was developed in order to provide digital texts of Victorian women writers. The collection is medium sized, but is still growing. The site would be useful for someone looking up information on sometimes obscure articles, poems, etceteras. Includes dates of original publication, birth and death dates of the authors, and links to electronic versions of journals from the period, societies which study this subject, other electronic text projects, and related sites.

Author: Perry Willett (PWILLETT@indiana.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Literature by Time Period

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Victorian; Authors; Feminist

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