Other Lists of Literature Available On the Internet

his list of literature points to sites across the internet that archive literary works of all shapes forms or fashions. These works could be located on web pages, gophers or ftp sites. I would like to thank both the people who put their time and effort to make these works available on the internet and the people who provided these links in an organized fashion for easier access.

he text below each link describing the site was copied from that site.

• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet

  Alex is/was an informal research project whose purpose was to explore the possibilitites creating catalogs of Internet-based electronic texts. Originally conceived by Hunter Monroe in 1993-4, the catalog contains roughly 2,000 entries mostly on gopher servers. Maintenance of the Alex Catalog has been suspended until adeqate funding and/or a systematic method for collecting electronic texts can be obtained.

• ATHENA

  Several lists with links to more than 3000 e-texts (philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc.).

• BiblioBytes

  Have you ever gotten a book from thousands of miles away and started reading it minutes later? For free? Now you can. And the company that's doing it is BiblioBytes. Here at BiblioBytes we hope to offer you the best and most complete selection of electronic books available on the Internet, which you can read instantly-- right now-- without waiting for shipping or credit card processing. Any time. Any place. No matter.

• Biblomania

  Bibliomania brings to the Net works of reference, fiction, and non-fiction. They work to provide a major collection - chosen perhaps to reflect the range of titles you might find in a good public library. They initially work on titles in the public domain... however truly valuable information - in most fields - is up-to-date information, and we are in negotiation with a number of content providers, and will soon bring to the site a range of valuable reference resources.

• Books Online

• Book Stacks - Electronic Library

  The Electronic Library is provided as a free public service for the dissemination of electronic books (ebooks). They have thousands of titles available in a variety of subject areas. Everything from the complete works of William Shakespeare to scripts by Monty Python. All ebooks are believed to be copyright-free or used with permission.

• The Christian Classics Ethereal Library

  Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves!

• The CMU Online Books

  Look here for an index of thousands of on-line books, and for common repositories of on-line books and other documents.

• Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts

  Early Modern Literary Studies (ISSN 1201-2459) is a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum. Reviews in EMLS evaluate recent work as well as academic tools of interest to scholars in the field. EMLS is committed to creating on-line resources and to maintaining links to the most useful and comprehensive internet resources for Renaissance scholars.

• The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia

  The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia combines an on-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts (some of which are publicly available) with a library-based Center housing hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text.

• The English Server at CMU

  The English Server is managed by students, faculty and staff in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University. It has been publishing humanities texts to readers online for seven years, today offering over ten thousand texts in many disciplines.

• The Eris Project

• Humanities Text Initiative

  In the fall of 1994, the efforts of several organizations at the University of Michigan brought about the inception of the Humanities Text Initiative. Building on Michigan's ground-breaking efforts since 1990 in providing online access to full text, the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI)is an umbrella organization for the acquisition, creation, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the University's capabilities in the area of online text.

• The Internet Classics Archive

  WELCOME to the Internet Classics Archive, an award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary. THE ORIGINAL electronic sources for the works (in plain text) are also available online. Most of the works provided via the Classics Archive are located within the site; the remaining come from the Perseus Project. More information about authors in the archive and other classical writers is available.

• The Library Scrolls

  All of the books listed here are "e-texts"; public domain texts put upon the internet with the idea of making them available to anyone. I have featured some titles here that I have appreciated through my life, as well as ones which are considered 'classics'. The electronic libraries that they came from may be found below, and contain far more texts than I can feature on this page.

• Litrix Reading Room

  Litrix Reading Room is edited by Stan Jones, a book-lover in Anchorage, Alaska. (This is why the Reading Room devotes a section to the literature of the North.) As you've probably realized by now, all books currently available in the Reading Room are either out of copyright or the copyright holder has allowed free electronic distribution. This makes it possible for us to provide them free of charge to readers.

• The Luminarium

  This site combines three sites created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one. "Luminarium" is the labor of love of Anniina Jokinen. The site is not related to any institution, is sponsored by no-one, nor does it generate any profit. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Sixth Edition, has been the main authority consulted for accuracy of dates and details. Many of the materials collected here reside elsewhere. Quality and accuracy are concerns, and all materials are checked regularly. However, "Luminarium" cannot be held responsible for materials residing on other sites.

• The Online Book Initiative

  The OBI is a project to make a large collection of freely redistributable text available in a common format for others to do with as they like.

• An Online Literature Library

• The Perseus Project Home Page

  Perseus is an evolving digital library which currently focuses upon the ancient Greek world. Planning for Perseus began in 1985. The Perseus Web site has been growing since spring 1995. Planning has also begun to expand Perseus into Roman materials.

• Project Bartleby

• The Project Gutenberg Master Index

  This is a completely unofficial list of the Project Gutenberg electronic texts. Most of these texts are in the public domain; all have extensive legal "small print" at the top. The links point to copies at CERN of the "official" sources at UIUC.

• Project Libellus

  Project Libellus was created in order to provide those on the Net with text of classical works. These works have been left untranslated, and are formatted with TeX. Commentaries, Teaching Aides, and limited utilites are also here.

• Reading Room at the University of Maryland

• Representative Poetry

  The electronic Representative Poetry includes English poetry from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century. The first version (Dec. 15, 1994) is based on the third edition of Representative Poetry (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962-63, reprinted with corrections 1967), a historical collection of some 730 poems by about 80 poets from Wyatt to Swinburne.

• The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research

  The Voice of the Shuttle was woven by Alan Liu; new links are added every few days.

• Wiretap Electronic Text Archive

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library

• Yahoo-Literature

• World Civilzations Reader

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