Electronic Texts

E-text (from “electronic text“; sometimes written as etext) is a general term for any document that is read in digital form
  1. 18th Century E-text Resources
  2. Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
  3. Alive and Free – A page of links to recent works (free) on-line from living authors: Books, Book Excerpts, Long Fiction/Non-Fiction.
  4. American Hypertexts – online texts of American literature: Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more.
  5. Banned Books On-line
  6. Bibliomania – “The Best Classic Books and Reference on the Web.”
  7. Bibliophiles Universels Library – etexts in French
  8. Blake, William Archive – An electronic archive of Blake’s works with high quality images of his texts, paintings, drawings, and commercial illustrations.
  9. Candlelight Stories
  10. Children’s Literature Web Guide
  11. Christian Classics Ethereal Library – The library provides classic Christian books in electronic format.
  12. ClassicBookshelf.com – “We offer free electronic classic books in a new Java format which makes them far easier to read on a computer screen than any other electronic book existing today.”
  13. Constitution of the United States, The
  14. Electronic Beowulf, The – “The Third Edition of Electronic Beowulf is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations.”
  15. Elements of Style, The – by William Strunk
  16. eserver.org – collections in the arts and humanities
  17. Great Writers and Poets
  18. IPL Online Texts Collection – over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification.
  19. Internet Classics Archive, The. – searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary
  20. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The
  21. Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  22. Franz Kafka
  23. Library of Congress
  24. Literature Network, The – over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes.
  25. Manualgo.com – “Manualgo.com is designed to provide free services and resources, including thousands of online PDF manuals, user guides and handbooks that you can download for free for your personal use.”
  26. Most Frequently Banned Books in the US in the 1990s
  27. National Academy Press Reading Room – 1000+ books , free for the reading, first page to last. Available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
  28. netLibrary – ‘The World’s Largest Collection of Electronic Books.”
  29. Online Books Page, The
  30. Online Literary Criticism Collection – over 1043 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
  31. Online Literature Library
  32. Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 – 1900
  33. Perseus Project – Tufts University digital library focusing on the ancient Greek world.
  34. Phrase Finder – Handy source provides the meanings and origins of more than 3,000 English language phrases.
  35. Project Bartleby – Columbia University
  36. Project Gutenberg – “Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.”
  37. Project Muse – access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins Univ. Press’s 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
  38. Project Wittenberg – Lutheran etexts
  39. ReadPrint – This site offers free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
  40. William Shakespeare – Complete Works
  41. Short Stories at East of the Web – this site is dedicated to new, previously unpublished fiction, as well as to classic short stories .
  42. Shakespearean Insult Generator
  43. Spark Notes – Created by Harvard University students and alumni, SparkNotes is a collection of free online study guides to approximately 100 literature classics. Each SparkNote contains sections on context, characters, overall summary, chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for collaborative learning.
  44. University of Virginia Electronic Text Library, The
  45. Victorian Women Writers Project
  46. VIVA: Virtual Library of Virginia
  47. Voice of the Shuttle – English Literature Page
  48. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
  49. William Wordsworth – Complete Poetical Works.