Sites Providing Full-Text Copies of Literary Works
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Project Gutenberg | ||||||||
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Univ. of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center Modern English Text Collection | ||||||||
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Publicly Available Early American Fiction Collection Texts (also from the University of Virginia) | ||||||||
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Academy of American Poets | ||||||||
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Electronic Texts (mostly American) | ||||||||
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library Digital Library Collections, Digital Schomburg) | ||||||||
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Documenting the American
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Early Americas Digital Archive (The full text of Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge is one of the resources to be found here.) | ||||||||
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American Verse Project ("The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.") | ||||||||
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Online Books Page This site links to many other sites. | ||||||||
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manybooks.net offers "Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader." This site helps you keep something worthwhile to read in your pocket, thus increasing your knowledge, your patience, and your enjoyment of life. The books come in a number of formats, and the Help page will assist you with figuring out what program you may need to use to read the files on your particular device. If you carry a phone, why not keep some books handy? | ||||||||
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MobileRead is recommended by ManyBooks. It appears to offer texts in various e-reader forms. | ||||||||
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Full Texts of American Periodicals This page accumulates links to sites that do not require a sign-in and allow you to search the full texts of American periodicals published before 1920. | ||||||||
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | ||||||||
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The Works of the Bard | ||||||||
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About.com: Classic Literature E-texts | ||||||||
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Classic Short Stories | ||||||||
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Two Hundred Years of Palmetto Poets (South Carolina poets) | ||||||||
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PSU's Electronic Classics Site | ||||||||
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Voices from 19th-Century America | ||||||||
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Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls | ||||||||
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers "Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress." |
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