Literature and Poetry

Digital Book Index
This aims to index most major e-book sites, along with thousands of smaller specialised sites. Covers all major subjects. The majority of the books, texts and documents the site indexes are free
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/ about.htm

Enotes etexts
Nearly 200 full text classic works. Can be viewed as web pages or downloaded as pdfs
http://www.enotes.com/ guides/ etexts

Google Book Search
Full text books and parts of books. Includes recent works by arrangement with publishers as well as out-of-copyright works. Notable features: pdf files for out-of-copyright works; 'Advanced book search' link for detailed searching; 'Basic html mode' under 'Other editions' in menu enables you to click links
http://books.google.com/

Internet Archive
Click 'Texts' for a vast collection of old works of literature, history, science and more
http://www.archive.org/

Intratext
Full text of works from many the literatures of forty languages, with hypertext links to concordances. Some works are in the original language and some are in translation
http://www.intratext.com/

Just Free Books
Search across more than 450 web sites that provide free books online, including both texts and audio books. You can search by title, author or theme
http://www.justfreebooks.info/

Librivox
Free audio books. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain
http://librivox.org/

Logos Library
A huge collection of literary works, novels, technical and scientific texts, translations, monographs and more in 111 languages, 'index-linked word for word'. At the 'word' tab, search for a word in all the texts in a language, or in all the texts of an author, or in a particular title. At the 'author' tab, search for all an author's works in a selected language or in all languages. At the 'title' tab, search for a title in a selected language or in all languages. Search for texts by 'subject' area and by 'publisher' using the last two tabs
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/ index_en.html

Manybooks.net
Thousands of e-books in many formats including audiobooks. For classic literature, click 'Special collections'
http://manybooks.net/

Norton Anthology of English Literature
Literature topics arranged by period, texts for download, illustrations, links and much more
http://www.wwnorton.com/ college/ english/ nael/ welcome.htm

Novels Online
Transcripts of women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830. Some of rarest novels from the Chawton House Library
http://www.chawton.org/ library/ novels.html

Online Books Page
Find the full text of thousands of literary works.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/ books

Oxford Text Archive
Search several thousand electronic texts by author or title in various languages. Includes literary works and The Bible.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

People With a History - An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History
The history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people. Includes original texts, discussions, study guides and a bibliography. Covers all periods and all regions of the world
http://www.fordham.edu/ halsall/ pwh/

Planet ebook
Classic literature set out on screen as though you were reading a book. Pdf downloads
http://www.planetebook.com/

Project Gutenberg Catalog
Full text of classic works, taken from books out of copyright (roughly pre - 1923). Now adding other formats, such as audio books, recorded music and sheet music. At the 'Online book catalog', click 'Advanced search' then see the 'Category' menu for details
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Read Print
Free classic books in a clear layout
http://www.readprint.com/

The Literature Network
Searchable collection of over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. You can search for words and phrases in the works of a single author or across the whole collection at once
http://www.online-literature.com/

Shakespeare

Open Source Shakespeare
Includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works. There are also Shakespeare statistics and a concordance enabling you to search for any word or part of a word in the works
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/

Shakespeare Searched
Full text of the works plus the facility to search for characters, quotes and specific words. Also identifies specific themes in individual works or across all of them
http://shakespeare.clusty.com/

Shakespeare's Works
List of many sites giving full text and facsimiles of various editions. This is part of a site called 'Mr. William Shakespeare' and the Internet which includes many other Shakespeare resources
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ works.htm

The Oxford Shakespeare
The 1914 Oxford edition of the 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'
http://www.bartleby.com/ 70/

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