Contents:
Digital Projects
| North American Literature
| British Isles, Pre-18th Century
| British Isles, 18th Century to Date
| World Literatures: General
| Literature by Country/Region
| Literature by Format/Genre: Audio/Video
| Children's Literature | Poetry | Sacred Texts
Selected Digital Centers & Projects
- Abacci Books [a database based on Project Gutenberg title list coupled with Amazon.com reviews (when available); free download of e-texts]
- AlexCatalogue of Electronic Texts [public domain, American and English Literature and Western Philosophy] (infomotions.com)
- Digital Initiatives at the Ohio State University (OSU)
- Electronic Text Center Collections (UVA)
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Emory)
- Humanities Text Initiative (UMich)
- Institute for Learning Technologies (Columbia)
- International Children's Digital Library (UMd)
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Luminarium [medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century] (luminarium.org)
- Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project (Stanford)
- Project Gutenberg [massive site!] (promo.net)
- PSU's Electronic Classics Series [downloadable]
- University of Michigan Digital General Collection [description from database: "Books from the University of Michigan collection, scanned for preservation purposes. At present, there are 26,095 volumes in the General Collection," June 29, 2006]
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections [contains literature collections of James Joyce materials, Beowulf, Athenaeus, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Southey, Edith Nash, and Nordic literature in translation]
- Women Writers Project (Brown)
- Women Writers Project (Brown) (Penn State Users Only)
- Yale University Library Digital Collections
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North American Literature
- African American Poetry (Penn State Users Only)
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL)
- African American Writers: E-Texts (James Madison)
- Afro-American Almanac: Afro-Books (toptags.com)
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [public domain, American and English Literature and Western Philosophy] (infomotions.com)
- Ambrose Bierce Project [timeline, biography, full-text works, bibliography of scholarship, war photographs]
- American Anthology, An, 1787-1900 [description from website: "1740 selections by 573 authors comprise an unparalleled verse anthology in its concentration on representing a century of poetic culture rather than selecting the laureates only."] (Stedman, Edmund Clarence; Bartleby.com)
- American Authors (Gonzaga)
- American Authors on the Web (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)
- American Drama (1714-1915) (Penn State Users Only)
- American History Through Literature 1820-1870 [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)
- American History Through Literature 1870-1920 [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)
- American Hypertexts (UVA)
- American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900 [includes literary periodicals] (Penn State Users Only)
- American Poetry Database (Penn State Users Only)
- American Verse Project (UMich)
- Antique Books in Fascimile (antiquebooks.net)
- Best Seller Lists (caderbooks.com)
- Bestsellers 1900-1930 from the Modern English Collection (UVA)
- Canadian Literature Archive (UManitoba)
- Canadian Poetry (Penn State Users Only)
- Canadian Poetry (UToronto)
- Canadian Poetry Archive (collectionscanada.ca)
- CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive
- Charles Chestnutt Digital Archive (Berea)
- Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts [Native American texts, collected by Harry Hoijer, originally pub. 1938, University of Chicago Press] (UVa)
- Civil War Letters and Diaries (Penn State Users Only)
- Classic African American Literature (edchange.org)
- Classics at the Online Literature Library (literature.org)
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (UMich)
- Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [searchable database with full text] (UMich)
- Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry (Penn State Users Only)
- Digital DuBois (UMass Amherst)
- Digital Library of Appalachia (Appalachian College Association Central Library)
- Documenting the American South (UNC)
- Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 (Penn State Users Only)
- Early American Fiction, 1789-1875: Publicly-Accessible Collection (UVa)
- Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans, 1639-1800 [facsimile] (Penn State Users Only)
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819 [facsimile] (Penn State Users Only)
- Early Americas Web Gateway ["a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820" (website, 3/22/2007)] (UMd)
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (Penn State Users Only)
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project [includes some writings by Native American women]
- eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive
- Eskimo Folk-tales, collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and edited by W. Worster, [London, 1921] (sacred-texts.com)
- Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writers (puritansermons.com)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary [includes bibliographies, biography, quotes, criticism with full text of some of FSF's writings] (University of South Carolina)
- Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites (SUNY New Paltz)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (hwlongfellow.org)
- John Dewey: Democracy and Education (Columbia)
- Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening (PBS)
- Library of Southern Literature (UNC)
- Life and Works of Herman Melville (melville.org)
- Literature @ SunSITE (sunsite3.berkeley.edu)
- Literature Post
- Making of America [19th century imprints] (UMich)
- Making of America [Antebellum through Reconstruction] (Cornell)
- Mark Twain in His Times (UVa)
- Mimi: American Literature "e-texts" [18th-19th century] (Keele)
- Modern English Collection (UVA)
- Mostly Menfolk and a Woman or Two: a Virtual Exhibit of 18th and 19th African-American Literature (ibiblio.org)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (ibiblio.org)
- Native American Anthology (WSU)
- North American Slave Narratives (UNC)
- Oxford Book of American Essays (bartleby.com)
- Page By Page Books
- Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, 1917-2000 [fiction, drama, poetry, biography, history] (SHSU)
- Representative Poetry Online [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" recipient for 2005-06] (UToronto)
- Sally-Anne: American Literature "e-texts" [20th century] (Keele)
- Selected Poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) (UToronto)
- Slave Narratives [Museum of the African Diaspora; introduction by Maya Angelou]
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project (Dartmouth C)
- Stephen Crane Society (WSU)
- Storytellers: Native American Authors Online (hanksville.org)
- Truth of a Hopi: Stories Relating to the Origin, Myths and Clan Histories of the Hopi, by Edmund Nequatewa, 1936 (sacred-texts.com)
- Twentieth (20th) Century Alabama Authors (Auburn)
- Twentieth Century American Poetry (Penn State Users Only)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (UVa)
- Walt Whitman Archive (UNL)
- Web of American Transcendentalism [texts, roots & criticism, ideas & thoughts, bibliographies & web links for Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Channing, Parker, Alcott, Very, Cranch, Brownson, Peabody, and others] (VCU)
- Willa Cather Electronic Archive (UNL)
- Women's Studies Reading Room (UMd)
- Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (rwe.org)
- World of Jack London [includes selected short stories, poems, and plays in full text] (www.jacklondons.net)
- Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) (CIC/IU)
- Writing Black (Keele)
- Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress [images] (memory.loc.gov)
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British Isles: Pre-18th Century
- Aberdeen Bestiary [images] (Aberdeen U)
- Aelfric's Homilies on Judith, Ester, and the Maccabees (S.D. Lee, Oxford)
- Anthology of Middle English Literature (luminarium.org)
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [public domain, American and English Literature and Western Philosophy] (infomotions.com)
- Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (UWisc)
- Beowulf in Hypertext [with old text, translation, commentaries] (McMaster)
- British Library Treasures in Full: Caxton's Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
- Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
- Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (sacred-texts.com)
- Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Perseus, Tufts)
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT)
- Netserf: the Internet Connection for Medieval Resources (netserf.org)
- Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (UMich)
- Early English Books Online (Penn State Users Only)
- Early English Prose Fiction, 1500-1700 (Penn State Users Only)
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare(Penn State Users Only)
- Edmund Spenser Home Page [biography, bibliography, full texts, Spenserian Stanza Competition, links]
- Electronic Beowulf (UKy)
- English Drama, 1280-1915 (Penn State Users Only)
- English Emblem Book Project (PSU)
- English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-166) (luminarium.org)
- English Poetry, 2nd Edition (Penn State Users Only)
- ERIC: English Renaissance in Context (UPenn )
- Everyman: the Text (luminarium.org)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (Harvard)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1343-1400) (luminarium.org)
- George Herbert (1593-1633) (luminarium.org)
- Internet Shapespeare Editions [full text and facsimile] (UVictoria)
- Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama [a collection of links relating to the history, mythology and all things Ireland, with many links to full-text literary resources](luminarium.org]
- John Donne (1572-1631) (luminarium.org)
- John Milton's A Maske or Comus (UMd)
- Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature (Georgetown)
- Labyrinth Library: Middle English Bookcase (Georgetown)
- Life of King Edward the Confessor [MS. Ee.3.59] (Cambridge)
- Medieval and Renaissance Drama (NeCastro, UMaine)
- Middle English Compendium (Penn State Users Only)
- Middle Engish Plays (luminarium.org)
- New Chaucer Society (Washington University, St. Louis)
- Old English Corpus (Penn State Users Only)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Literature at SunSITE)
- Oxford Shakespeare (yahooligans.yahoo.com)
- Perseus: Renaissance Materials (Tufts)
- Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (UVa)
- Renaissance Electronic Texts (UToronto)
- Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 (UOregon)
- Representative Poetry Online (UToronto)
- RLG Cultural Material [includes medieval and Renaissance manuscripts] (Penn State Users Only)
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) (luminarium.org)
- Sir Francis Bacon (luminarium.org)
- Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature, 1485-1603 (luminarium.org)
- Sonnet Central (sonnets.org)
- TEAMS Middle English Texts (URochester)
- Thomas Carew (1594-1640) (luminarium.org)
- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) (Chris Cleary)
- Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Bella Millett)
- Works of Milton (luminarium.org)
- Works of Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471) (luminarium.org)
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British Isles: 18th Century - To Date
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [public domain, American and English Literature and Western Philosophy] (infomotions.com)
- Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (UMass)
- Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Columbia)
- Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience (UMich)
- Blake Digital Text Project (UGa)
- British Women Playwrights Around 1800 (UMontreal)
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (UCD)
- British Poetry, 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (UVa)
- Bronte Sisters Web (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)
- Charles Dickens (Ritva Raesmaa, Finland)
- Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online [publications, manuscripts, biography] (darwin-online.org.uk)
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (Penn State Users Only)
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Penn State Users Only)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Poems and Sonnets (UMd)
- Internet Library of Early Journals (18th and 19th Century) (Oxford)
- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
- John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Columbia)
- Jane Austen Information Page (pemberley.com)
- John Locke: Second Treatise of Government (Columbia U)
- Literary Gothic (litgothic.com)
- Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project (Dalhousie)
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (home-1.worldonline.nl)
- Middle English Collection (UVA)
- Milton Reading Room (Dartmouth)
- Modern English Collection [1500-] (UVA)
- Newton Project
- 19th Century British and Irish Authors (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)
- Nineteenth Century Fiction (Penn State Users Only)
- Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dundee)
- Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 (UOregon)
- Representative Poetry Online (UToronto)
- Romantic Circles Electronic Texts (UMd)
- Rossetti Archive
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive (UVa)
- Selected Poetry of George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824) (UToronto)
- Sherlock Holmes - 221 Baker Street [48 original Holmes stories in full text] (221bakerstreet.org/)
- Spectator, Tattler, and 18th Century Periodicals (Rutgers)
- SwinburneProject (IU)
- Tennyson Page: Poems (Chandler, SFSU)
- Thomas Gray Archive [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" recipient for 2003-04] (Alexander Huber, ed., Oxford)
- Tristram Shandy Web
- Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 [description from website: "1,274 works by 343 authors represent the full course of one of the great literary ages of English verse"; poetry](Stedman,Edmund Clarence; Bartleby.com)
- Victorian Literary Studies Archive (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)
- Victorian Texts in the Victorian Web (victorianweb.org)
- Victorian Women Writers' Project (IU)
- William Blake Archive (blakearchive.org)
- Women Romantic Era Writers (Adriana Craciun, Birkbeck, ULondon)
- Women's Studies Reading Room (UMd)
- Wordsworth Variorum Archive
- Works of Jane Austen (austen.com)
- Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web (britishlibrary.net)
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World Literatures: General
- 100 Great Books in the Public Domain (Knowledgerush)
- Aesop's Fables (aesopfables.com)
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [public domain, American and English Literature and Western Philosophy] (infomotions.com)
- Athena: Authors and Texts (un2sg4.unige.ch)
- Banned Books Online (UPenn )
- Bartleby.com Great Books Online
- Bibliomania ["more that 2000 free texts, study guides, and reference resources"]
- Black Drama (Penn State Users Only)
- Books Published on the English Server
- Celebration of Women Writers (UPenn )
- Classic Bookshelf
- ClassicReader.com
- College-Bound Reading List (Knowledgerush)
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University [images]
- eBooks @ Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project [mostly English language, some French]
- English Server (Eserver) Fiction Collection [mostly English, some non-English]
- Eserver Drama Collection
- Great Books Index (books.mirror.org)
- Great Literature On-Line (classicauthors.net)
- Great Writers (Wesselman, Book Lovers)
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Full Text (Fordham)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Literary Texts [includes full-text sources, selected texts, and a history of religious figures] (Fordham)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham)
- Knowledgerush: Authors [mostly English language]
- Knowledgerush: Books [mostly English language]
- Library of Humanistic Texts (Birmingham, UK)
- Literature Online [full texts of over 330,000 literary works, of key literary reference works, and of several dozen journals, plus indexing of others sources] (Penn State Users Only)
- Literature Post [mostly English language] (literaturepost.com)
- Literature Project (literatureproject.com)
- Literature.org: Classics at the Online Literature Library [mostly English language] (literature.org)
- LiTgloss [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06] (UBuffalo)
- Malaspina Great Books Core Reading List
- Middle School Reading List (knowledgerush.com)
- Modern English Collection [1500-, includes world literature in translation] (UVA)
- The Modern World
- netLibrary
- netLibrary (Penn State Users Only)
- Online Books Page (UPenn )
- Online Library of Liberty [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" award recipient for 2005-06]
- Oxford Text Archive
- Project Gutenberg (promo.net/pg)
- Prize-winning Books Online [Newberry, Pulitzer, Nobel] (UPenn )
- Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre [large collection of short stories from around the world] (ee.1asphost.com)
- Turning the Pages [images] (British Library)
- Universal Library (CMU)
- Wordtheque: Word by Word Multilingual Library
- World's Literature (griffe.com)
- Yahoo! Directory > Arts > Humanities > Literature > Authors > Playwrights
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World Literatures: By Country/Region
Africa:
Ancient World:
Australia:
Balkans:
China:
Czechoslovakia:
Europe [general]:
France:
Germany:
Greece:
- Greek Mythology Link [collection of Greek myths retold by Carlos Parada, with extensive image archive as well]
Iceland:
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Italy:
Japan
Latin America
Near/Middle East
Netherlands:
Persia [Iran]
Poland:
Russia:
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Spain:
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Audio/Video
- Archivox [archive of 256 audio files of French literature in French]
- Favorite Poem Project [Sponsored by Boston University and the NEA, this site includes videos of 50 diverse Americans reading their favorite poems.]
- HarperAudio! [audio readings of famous authors such as Poe, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickinson, and many others]n(town.hall.org)
- Internet Poetry Archive [audio of seven poets' works, including Margaret Walker and Czeslaw Milosz; commentaries also available] (ibiblio.org)
- LibriVox [free audio books in the public domain]
- The Paris Review [readings]
- PENNsound: Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (UPenn)
- Poetry Archive [poetryarchive.org, not for profit organization with charity status]
- Poetry Out Loud [audio]
- Poets on Screen [850+ clips of poets reading their own work and the works of others, arranged alphabetically by poet and poem title] (Penn State Users Only)
- Sites with Literary Audio [links to many audio readings, mostly poetry] (UBuffalo)
- South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress, New Delhi Office
- Stories on Stage Audio Library (chicagopublicradio.org)
- SwissEduc: Upcoming Programs on Literature on Television and Radio [upcoming programs that will be broadcast via television, internet, and radio; primarily about authors listed on the SwissEduc Reading List]
- Wired for Books [Recorded for broadcast by CBS Radio, this site includes full length interviews and readings by many famous literary figures; a "Best of the Humanities on the Web" Award recipient for 2005-6 from the National Endowment for the Humanities]
- Writer's Almanac [archive of poems read aloud daily by radio personality Garrison Keilor; with literary and historical notes] (Minnesota Public Radio)
Children's Literature
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Poetry Not Included Elsewhere
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Sacred Texts
- Bible: Revised Standard Version (UMich)
- Bible: King James Version (UMich)
- Die Bible: Martin Luther Translation (UMich)
- Bible in English (Penn State Users Only)
- Book of Mormon (UMich)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org)
- Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (Penn State Users Only)
- The Dine: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians, by Aileen O'Bryan, 1956 (sacred-texts.com)
- ECanon: Online Search Engine for Canonical Texts
- Indigenous People's Literature
- Internet Sacred Texts Archives (J.B.Hare)
- Iroquois Book of Rites (sacred-texts.com)
- Judaica Electronic Texts (UPenn)
- Koran [M. H. Shakir's translation of the Holy Qur'an] (UVa)
- Myths of the Cherokee, collected by James Mooney, 1897-98) (sacred-texts.com)
- New Testament [Rheims, 1582](UMich)
- Scrolls from the Dead Sea: an exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [images] (ibiblio.org)
- Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library Literature Collection
- Treasures in Full: The Gutenberg Bible (British Library)
- Truth of a Hopi: Stories Relating to the Origin, Myths and Clan Histories of the Hopi, by Edmund Nequatewa, 1936 (sacred-texts.com)
- Turning the Pages (British Library)
- Unbound Bible (unbound.biola.edu)
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