The Internet Public Library
Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.

Gruntose
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.

The Litrix Reading Room
A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.

The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel
For theories on the status of the contemporary novel, reviewing texts in print form, with an eye toward the form's evolution via hypertexts and immersive environments.

Master Texts
Collection of English literature.

Bartleby.com
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

The Online Literature Library
A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.

Page by Page Books
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.

SearchEBooks
Specialized search engine for searching the full text of thousands of online books available on the web.

The Transformation Story Archive
An electronic archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations.

Learn Library
Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums.

byGosh.com
Free, online illustrated childrens stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories.

Blackmask Online
A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format.

Literature Project
A collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays. Site offers online chapter-indexed hypertext that can be easily read and searched and each piece includes downloadable e-text of the work.

Literature Online
Links to third party sites, plus literary and reference databases including English and American poetry, drama, and prose, and The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Requires paid subscription.

Hypertexts in American Studies
American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain.

Bootlegbooks
Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry.

Electronic Library of the Bath House
Primary historical texts and relevant secondary sources pertaining to the bizarre Roman Emperor Elagabalus and related subjects. An offbeat, fascinating introduction to Imperial Roman history, starting on the fringe. Texts in HTML format.

Literature of the Fantastic
A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites.

Instinct.org Online Texts
Selected online texts on a variety of topics.

E-texts and Women's History
From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history.

Medieval and Classical Library
Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization.

Bralyn E-text Archive
E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture.

Electronic Texts and Publishing
Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress.

Classic Reader
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.

PSU's Electronic Classics Series
Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Virtual Library
Internet archive providing selected fiction and essays in text format. Also features Russian-language section.

Free Electronic Books
Educational texts.

Oxford Text Archive
2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available.

Public Bookshelf
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.

Access: The Great Books
A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature.

The Classics in ASCII
Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com.

Knowledge Search
An online books search engine.

Perseus Project
Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world.

The EServer
Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links.

Wordtheque
Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

ClassicAuthors.net
Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors.

OwlEyes
As well as other literature-education resources, the site provides brief biographical notes on various canonized authors along with links to a selection of online texts by each.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in 19th-century American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction.

World eBook Library
Books in the public domain, available in HTML. Also offers online access to books in PDF, by subscription, for individuals and institutions.

ArmenianHouse.org
A private nonprofit project to convert into electronic format and publish the Armenian literary heritage; provide as much information on Armenian culture, history, religion and also on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, and Artsakh (Nagorno - Karabakh Republic) as possible; and help young authors to publish and promote their works on the Internet. Russian and Armenian versions also available.

Read Print
A free online library with thousands of books.

Library of Southern Literature
There is a collection of approximately 100 texts in HTML and XML. Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in its most important literary works.

Classical Authors Directory
Portraits, biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors. 1258 online books of classical literature enhanced with annotations from the Encyclopedia of the Self.

Bibliomania
Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.