Florida International University Libraries

Internet Resources for
Electronic Books and Other E-texts

 Florida International University Libraries
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These collections provide access to novels, short stories, plays, poetry, nonfiction, and historical documents available in their entirety on the Internet.

Most electronic texts are in the public domain (i.e. the texts are not protected by copyright law). Since copyright law protects a text until seventy year after the death of the author, few texts written in the twentieth century are available for free on the Internet.


[A]
[*]Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts


[*]The Academy of American Poets
Select FIND A POEM for text of almost six hundred poems


[*]American Literature Archive


[*]American Studies at the University of Virginia


[*]American Verse Project
American poetry prior to 1920


[*]The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Includes material from the ancient world to the 20th century


[B]
[*]Bartleby.com: Great Books Online


[*]Bibliomania: Free World Literature Online
Hundreds of searchable full text works


[*]Biblioteca Digital Cervantina
The complete works of Cervantes in Spanish (includes an English translation of Don Quixote)


[*]British Poetry 1780-1910
Hypertext archive of scholarly editions (includes other British poetry outside of the time period i.e. Beowulf, Paradise Lost


[*]British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832
[C]
[*]Complete Works of William Shakespeare


[*]Concordance of Great Books


[*]Contemporary American Poetry Archive


[*]Cornell University Library Math Book Collection


[D]
[*]The Divine Comedy
This site features three full text editions of Dante's Divine Comedy online: the original Italian text, an English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and an English translation by Rev. H.F. Cary (also includes maps and graphics).


[*]Documenting the American South
A collection of sources on Southern history and culture from the colonial period through the beginning of the 20th century (includes slave narratives)


[E]
[*]The Electronic Literature Foundation
World literature, with almost 100 works by 18 authors


[*]Electronic Text Center: English
English Online Resources (Some materials accessible to University of Virginia users only)


[*]Electronic Text Center: Other Languages
Other language materials (Spanish, German, French, Chinese, etc.)


[*]Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature


[*]EServer.org: Collections in the arts & humanities


[*]EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations


[*]Exploring Plato's Dialogues


[F]
[*]The Free Library of Classics
Over 200 of the world's most famous novels, plays, short stories, poems and historical documents in their entirety


[G]
[*]Great Literature Online


[I]
[*]Internet Classics Archive


[*]Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Full Text Sources


[*]The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection


[L]
[*]Litrix Reading Room


[M]
[*]Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction


[O]
[*]O. Henry Internet Series


[*]The On-Line Books Page


[*]Online Literature Library


[*]The Online Medieval & Classical Library


[P]
[*]Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Re-Published


[*]The Perseus Digital Library


[R]
[*]Representative Poetry On-line


[S]
[*]Sonnet Central
An archive of English sonnets, commentary, relevant web links, and a forum for poets


[V]
[*]Victorian Women Writers Project
Includes the literary works of British women writers of the late 19th century: their poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, and essays


[W]
[*]Women Romantic-Era Writers

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This page is maintained by: Susan Weiss, weisss@fiu.edu
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Last revised: March 22, 2001
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