A huge archive of e-texts created by volunteers. Index of texts available, newsletters, articles, and information on volunteering.

Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.

University of Michigan`s online humanities text archives.

A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format.

Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.

Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

Classic Christian books in electronic format.

Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.

Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.

Site contains Project Gutenberg etexts, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, literature and other non-copyrighted material.

A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children`s stories.

A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature.

A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.

A free online library with thousands of books.

A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.

Books in the public domain, available in HTML. Also offers online access to books in PDF, by subscription, for individuals and institutions.

Collection of etexts with a focus on Australian writers and works. Also includes timelines for explorers and historical events.

Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Hosted by Victoria University of Wellington. John Cawte Beaglehole Letters, Modern New Zealand Texts Collection, Print History Project and the New Zealand literary journal Sport.

Free, online illustrated childrens stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children`s stories.

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.