English Literature: Electronic Books

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UT Austin Books

Major Text Sites

Updated 10/12/09

Audiobooks (NetLibrary) (UT Austin users)

1,300 titles.

Bartleby.com

Includes the Columbia Encyclopedia and other reference books, the Harvard Classics and poetry collections

Digital Book Index

Search or browse 79,000 free online books by title keyword, author, subject

Early English Books Online, 1475 - 1700 (UT Austin users)

96,000 books and other printed materials published in the English language.

EBL (Ebook Library) (UT Austin users)

EBL (Ebook Library) is a collection over 50,000 books from all subject areas featuring content from 179 worldwide publishers. Two thousand titles are added every month.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 1701-1800 (UT Austin users)

English and foreign language books and ephemera published in the U.K. from 1701 to 1800.

Of related interest is the Eighteenth Century Journals database (UT Austin users)

Encyclopedias (UT Austin users)

General interest encyclopedias

epubBooks

Download ebooks and book excerpts

eScholarship Editions (California Digital Library)

More than 500 books available to the public

EServer.org (Iowa State University)

Major humanities text collection

Gale Virtual Reference Library (UT Austin users)

Dozens of reference sources in many subjects.

Google Book Search

Google's book search engine. Use the Advanced Search to specify words in title, author, date or publisher. Brief excerpts from many books are included, showing the location of your search terms within a book. The complete text of many public domain books (published before 1923) are included. Google Books can be used as a full text index to locate many printed books owned by the University of Texas Libraries

Hathi Trust Digital Library

Digital repository with more than 446,000 volumes in the public domain

History E-Book Project (UT Austin users)

500 frequently-cited history books, from selected university presses

Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan)

Internet Archive

One of the largest collections of public domain eBooks.

Literature Online (LION) (UT Austin users)

More than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources

Making of America (Cornell University)

Making of America (University of Michigan)

Making of America is a digital library of books and journal articles in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Merck Manuals

Medical reference information

Modern English Collection (University of Virginia)

MyiLibrary (UT Austin users)

Our subscription includes selected titles from Oxford University Press

netLibrary.com (UT Austin users)

An online collection of more than 50,000 titles in all subject areas are available online to UT Austin users. Included are scholarly, reference and professional works from leading university, academic and professional publishers. Reference Books are also available in the NetLibrary Reference Center. (UT Austin users)

Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)

Search or browse by author or title, and browse new book and subject list

Open Library

The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online.

Open-Access Text Archive (Internet Archive)

Oxford Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art) (UT Austin users)

The Oxford English Dictionary (UT Austin users)

Oxford Music Online (Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians) (UT Austin users)

Oxford Reference Online (UT Austin users)

More than 100 subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas

Oxford Text Archive

Several thousand electronic texts in a many languages

PastMasters - Philosophy Full-text Databases (UT Austin users)

Full text of major philosophical works including the works of Aristotle, Plato, Hume, Locke, Nietzsche, British Philosophy 1600-1900, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, The Continental Rationalists: René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Benedict de Spinoza, and the works of George Santayana

Posner Memorial Collection (Carnegie Mellon University)

622 books including landmark titles in the history of western science, the decorative arts and literature

Project Gutenberg

More than 20,000 eBooks

Reference Books Online (UT Austin users)

Commonly used reference books available online to UT Austin users

Smithsonian Institution Libraries - Digital Collections

STAT!Ref Medical Reference Books (UT Austin users)

Some additional medical reference titles are in STAT!Ref Expanded (UT Austin users)

SunSITE Digital Collections (University of California at Berkeley)

Universal Library Project (CMU)

University of Chicago - Electronic Open Stacks

University of Texas at Austin - Online Books from The University of Texas at Austin

More Links to Digital Libraries:

Digital Library Projects (Wikipedia)

International Etext Projects (Linköping Univ.)

Classics Texts

Bulfinch's Mythology (Project Gutenberg)
Digital Scriptorium: The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts
Encyclopedia Mythica
Library of Congress Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources Comprehensive collection of Greek and Latic classics
Oxford Classical Dictionary (UT Austin users)
Perseus Project: Ancient Greek and Latin texts with morphological links to text tools, English translations and secondary sources. Also includes the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, the complete works of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's Play and Ancient Sources, Frazer's Summary of Apollodorus' Handbook of Greek Mythology and Sources for Thucydides Research: Modern Scholarship on the Ancient Historian
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Perseus)
Project Libellus (University of Washington): Classical languages, alphabetical by author
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (UT Austin users): Updated quarterly. Contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, plus historiographical, lexicographic, and scholiastic texts from the period between 600 and 1453. The canon amounts to approximately 80 million words of text. A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some work titles that appear in Greek.
University of Chicago - Online Texts

Computer Books

ebrary Computers, Engineering and Applied Sciences Collection: This database is in test. This collection includes more than 2,000 full text books covering all areas in computing, engineering and applied sciences. The majority of the titles in this collection were published in the last four years. The Ebrary reader, a small 700K ActiveX software application, must be downloaded onto a desktop in order to view the PDF books. Users can print multiple pages. ActiveX works best with Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser.
Electronics Engineering Books (Freebookcentre)
InformIT: Online eBooks
netLibrary.com: Online books from major computer book publishers including O'Reilly, Macmillan Computer Publishing and Que. (UT Austin users)

World Literatures

ARTFL Project (University of Chicago): Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language maintains a database of nearly 2,000 texts, searchable by word, word root, prefix, suffix and inclusive dates. PhiloLogic displays the bibliographic information and page number for each occurrence and can sort the results on screen by date, author name, keywords and other fields.
ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle (France): Public Domain French texts
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College Cork): Texts from Ireland
Ceska Citanka [Czech Library]
Electronic Text Center Collections (University of Virginia): Texts in Apache, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Tibetan
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (ACRL/WESS): Extensive links to literary texts in Western European languages other than English. Maintained by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Western European Specialists Section.
Gallica: 19th Century France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France): Major project with already more than 2,000,000 pages and 10,000 images and sound files online
Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia/University of Pittsburgh)
Maksim Moshkov's Library: Fiction, poetry, politics, philosophy and other texts in Russian. Contains 17,000 text files
National Diet Library - Electronic Library Project: Pilot online projects in Japanese
Project Runeberg (from Linköping Univ.): Classic Nordic Literature in Swedish, Danish, Norweigan, Icelandic, and Finnish
South Slavic Literature Library: Includes texts from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia and Macedonia
Translations From Russian (Russica)
Virtual Library of Polish Literature
World's Literature (Griffe.com): Major world authors

Literature in English

Literature Online (LION): 250,000 full text works of English and American Literature. (UT Austin users)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library): Fiction, poetry, biography, autobiography and essays, fully keyword searchable
Anthology of Middle English Literature 1350-1485 (Anniina Jokinen)
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Each entry contains personal information, a list of principal works and further readings about the author and critical response to their work. (UT Austin users)
Early English Books Online, 1475 - 1700: This collection includes online versions of more than 96,000 books and other printed materials published in the English language from 1475 through 1700. To browse a book, click on the camera icon in your search results. To view an entire book, click on the box next to a book title in your search results. Then click on "Marked List" in the banner to go to the download page. (UT Austin users)
English Literature - 16th Century Renaissance 1425-1603 (Anniina Jokinen)
English Literature - Early 17th Century 1603-1660 (Anniina Jokinen)
English Server Fiction Collection: Novels and short stories; alphabetical by author
EServer.org (Iowa State University): Major humanities text collection. Browse or search by topic--location and keyword searchable
Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan)
Hyperizons: Hypertext Fiction
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (UT Austin users)
Library of Southern Literature (University of North Carolina): A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1924
Literature Online - LION (UT Austin users): More than 250,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources
Middle English Collection (University of Virginia): 40 titles, most of which are publicly-accessible
Modern English Collection - AD 1500-present (University of Virginia): Browse by subject: African American, including Letters from Liberia; Native American; American Civil War; Salem Witch Trials; Thomas Jefferson; Edgar Allan Poe; Mark Twain; William Shakespeare; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Women Writers; Young Readers; Literature in Translation; Best Sellers, 1900-1930; UVa Special Collections. 2,722 titles including 17,518 manuscript and book illustrations (including covers, spines, page images), many of which are publicly accessible
Old English Corpus (UT Austin users)
Poetry Online
Resources for English and American Literature (University of Texas Libraries): Includes links to electronic books and web sites with electronic texts
Shakespeare Resources (University of Virginia Library)
Short Stories (East of the Web)
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 (Indiana University): Online collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Includes 1752 texts by 845 authors

Philosophy and Religion

Bahá'í Library Online
Bible Gateway: The Bible in forty languages
Catholic Encyclopedia: 1913 edition with some newer additions
Chabad Literature: Archive of Chabad literature, including full books, articles, and commentary
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Wheaton College): Books from a variety of viewpoints and traditions. Also see their What's New page
Internet Sacred Text Archive: Electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics
Islamic Books Library (AlIslam.org)
Jewish Encyclopedia: Text of the 1901-1906 edition
Past Masters: Full Text philosophy texts including Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Berkeley, British Philosophy: 1600-1900, Calvin, Continental Rationalists, Dewey, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Ockham, Peirce, Plato, Political Philosophy, Santayana, Sidgwick and Wittgenstein. (UT Austin users)
Philosophy Text Collection (Eserver.org)
Secular Web Library
Zoroastrian Archives

Poetry

Literature Online (LION): Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900, and much 20th century poetry. (UT Austin users)
American Verse Project (Univ. of Michigan): Volumes of American poetry prior to 1920
Bartleby Verse: American and English Poetry 1250-1920: An important public domain collection
British Women Romantic Poets Project
English Poetry Database 600-1900: More than 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland from 600 to 1900. (UT Austin users)
Poetry Index of Canonical Verse (CMU): Search the poems by title, author and keyword
Twentieth Century American Poetry: 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. (UT Austin users)
Twentieth Century English Poetry: 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. (UT Austin Users)