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This Open Directory Project category is for printed literary texts available on the Internet--links to Internet literature archive projects such as Project Gutenberg, for example, can be found here. If you are looking for--or wish to submit a site with or related to--literature originally published to the Internet, you may wish to browse the Arts: Online Writing category.
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Gruntose
Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana.4
5,231,225
NA
2,740
81
4
Master Texts
Collection of English literature.4
5,084,242
NA
16,800
1,090
NA
Bartleby.com
Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.8
15,273
NA
8,400,000
180,000
7
The Online Literature Library
A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.8
193,467
NA
727,000,000
62,500
73
Page by Page Books
Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.7
118,870
NA
223,000
45,200
47
byGosh.com
Free, online illustrated children's stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories.3
406,610
NA
46,900
5,380
175
Literature Project
A collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays. Site offers online chapter-indexed hypertext that can be easily read and searched and each piece includes downloadable e-text of the work.6
588,782
NA
14,400
5,190
290
Literature Online
Links to third party sites, plus literary and reference databases including English and American poetry, drama, and prose, and The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Requires paid subscription.7
324,893
NA
36,400
712
176
Classic Reader
A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories.7
152,986
NA
230,000
14,200
74
Public Bookshelf
A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.6
126,087
NA
93,900
27,700
39
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