Electronic Text Sources

  • Bartleby.com "Great Books Online" This site provides full text versions of works by most of the well-known writers and many excellent reference books (Gray's Anatomy, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, an encyclopedia, a dictionary, a thesaurus, a book of English usage, and Oxford's complete works of Shakespeare) in a very user-friendly format.
  • Bibliomania "Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts." This site covers a wide variety, from classic fiction, short stories, drama, and poetry, to non-fiction and reference books.
  • British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 "An Electronic Collection of Texts from the Shields Library University of California, Davis." This is a fairly small archive, but it is very well organized and documented.
  • The Brown Women Writers Project is one of the pioneering efforts to make the work of early women writers available.  Once at the site, click on "Women Writers Online."
  • A Celebration of Women Writers This site includes links to e-texts by hundreds of women writers, searchable by name, book title, century, and country.
  • Eighteenth-Century E-Texts This site is an extensive archive of Eighteenth-Century e-texts searchable by author's name and maintained by Jack Lynch.
  • Electronic Text Center This site belongs to the University of Virginia Library. This is an extensive database organized by subjects.
  • The English Server "The EServer's primary function is to publish texts in the arts and humanities. Our collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music." This site covers a huge variety of topics.
  • The Internet Classics Archive An archive of works by mainly classical Greek and Roman scholars including Aristotle, Plutarch, Homer, Euripides, Euclid, Xenophon, Hippocrates, Socrates, and Confucius.
  • The Luminarium This site covers medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth-century writers. It includes very detailed information about each writer in addition to the texts.
  • Project Gutenberg Free access to hundreds of books and plays in downloadable text files. Most are pre-1923 because of copyright laws.