Electronic Texts

The On-line Books Page A searchable index of English-language books in electronic formats. Project of John Mark Ockerbloom at U. Penn.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Contains public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Search for texts, plus search the contents of texts. On-the-fly creation of pdf files with your choice of type.

The Modern English Collection from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.

Litrix Reading Room A selection of public-domain works in html format.

Project Bartleby Archive at Columbia University Collection of fiction and major poets. Also contains non-fiction works, including a growing collection of classic reference tools.

Page By Page Books Public domain classics in html format, page by page. A good site to use when you want to read in bits and pieces over time, "bookmarking" your place.

Internet Poetry Archive Selections from contemporary poets -- sound, text, commentary.

Shakespeare's Complete Works in html format.

Literature for Children A digitized "collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950." More than 550 titles by some 300 authors. Browse by author or title. Searchable.

eBookLocator Browse top sellers or search by author, title, publisher, ISBN, subject or keyword.