Literature

221b Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes
Full text of 48 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic stories.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A variety of books and other documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. (University of Berkeley)

American Hypertexts
Classic, lost, and full hypertexts of American literature (University of Virginia).

American Verse Project
American poetry prior to 1920 (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press).

ATHENA: Authors and Texts
Thousands of entries sorted by author's name. Covers different time periods, languages, and subjects.

Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
Books by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Theodore Roosevelt and more than 40+ authors.

BIBLIOMANIA, The Network Library: Home PageContains reference works, fiction, non-fiction (science, economics), poetry, and Shakespeare.

British Women Romantic Poets
Poetry by British and Irish women written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California, Davis).

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Resource for Irish documents in literature, history, and politics (University College Cork, Ireland).

Classic Short Stories
Compilation of classic short stories by various authors.

Contemporary American Poetry Archive
Features out-of-print volumes of poetry by various authors (Supported by the Connecticut College Department of English and the Connecticut College Libraries).

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts
From Milton to Byron, many eighteenth-century works publicly available. Arranged by authors.

Eldritch Press
Mainly literature eBooks, includes some science and children's books.

Electronic Text Center Holdings
Humanities texts in over 10 languages. (University of Virginia)

English Online Resources
Includes Modern English Collection, Middle English Collection, and Old English Corpus.

The English Server
Collections in the Arts and Humanities fields with over 26,000 online works (Carnegie Mellon).

Free Library of Classics
Approximately 200 novels, children's classics, plays, historical documents, poetry, and short stories.

HTI Public Domain Modern English Collection
Use simple, boolean, or proximity searches. (University of Michigan)

Humanities Text Initiative
Various humanities related online texts.

Internet Classics Archive
Choose from over 440 works of classical literature (mainly Greek and Roman texts) from 59 different authors.

IPL New Media Fiction Collection
Arranged by title and genre, from adventure fiction to true stories. (Internet Public Library)

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
The Internet Public Library's collection contains over 2,400 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.

Labyrinth Library
Middle Engish texts, including Chaucer (Georgetown University).

Library Electronic Text Resource Service
Humanities related electronic texts.

Library of Southern Literature
Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in 100 of its most important literary works.

Light and Dust Poets
Modern visual poetry, essays, reviews, criticisms, and books.

Litrix Reading Room
Genres include horror, mystery, science fiction, westerns, american literature, etc.

Luminarium
Authors and their works from Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English literature.

Native American Texts
From the Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center at UVA. Some works include illustrations.

Online Literature Library
Provides index of authors, from Aesop to H.G. Wells.

Online Medieval and Classical Library
A collection of prominent classical and medieval works; browsable by title, author, genre, or language (University of Berkeley).

Perseus Project
Texts on the classical Greek ancient world - maintained by Tufts University, Department of the Classics.

Poetry Archives
Over 3600 poems by over 130 authors of classical poetry.

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem RenaissanceFeatures 16 authors of the Harlem Renaissance (Northern Kentucky University).

Poets' Corner
With 5,450+ works (includes full books) and over 635 poets this site provides a bit of everything; from the familiar to the obscure, medieval ballads to American Indian chants. Author, title, and subject indexes.

Reading Room
Select from hundreds of drama, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and romance works. (University of Maryland)

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Online
Complete works, in both genres, of books, short stories, poems, and plays.

Victorian Women Writers Project
Contains many related links on women, individual authors, other projects, etc. (Indiana University)