On-line Books

This page is an index of on-line books (full-text available). It also lists other repositories of on-line books and other documents.

See also The Internet Public Library and the Library of Congress On-Line Catalog, for a wealth of on-line resources.

General English Repositories

CMU English Server
CMU Hunt Library Repository (by subject; mostly Gutenberg texts)
CMU Universal Library Repository (by title; mostly National Academy Press texts)
Electronic Text Center at UVA and its modern English collection
Eris Project(large Gopher repository at vt.edu)
Project Gutenberg (see info and the mailing list)

Via master FTP server at UIUC (complete, may be heavily loaded)
Via Web site at promo.net
Via UMN Gopher server (incomplete; has search and some extras)

Humanities Text Initiative (at UMichigan)
Internet Wiretap book collection (Gopher server; more stuffhere)
Online Book Initiative (Gopher server at world.std.com; here'smore info)
Oxford Text Archive (UK FTP server; here'sinfo, a contents list, and a US mirror)
ATHENA (multilingual text index in Switzerland)
Etext.org archives (lots of e-zines and shorter or unpublished etexts)
The Bibliomania Library (by Data Text; in the UK)
Project Bartleby (at Columbia)
Book Stacks Library (lots of texts from other archives, in one place)
Humanum E-Text site (useful archive for East Asia and Oceania)
Samizdat Express (eclectic collection of texts and pointers)
The Naked Word (vintage fiction)
Links to Electronic Book and Text Sites (from OmniMedia)

Specialty or foreign-language repositories

American Memory (historical texts and other media: Library of Congress)
American Verse Project (at Michigan)
ATHENA French and Swiss texts.
ARTFL (French Language) project (at UChicago)
Association des bibliophiles Universels (public domain French texts; in France)
Bahá'i Writings Home Page (at bcca.org)
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (selected Eastern religion texts)
Biblioteca Virtual de Língua e Literatura (Brazilian Literature in Portuguese)
Bordeaux and Prague (illustrated artistic/theoretical fiction; at Freedonia)
Bulgarian Poetry Archive (at Columbia)
Camelot Project (Arthurian texts; at Rochester)
Chalidze Publications (w/ free historical and fiction books)
Children's Literature WWW Page (at Calgary)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (at Wheaton)
Computer and Internet Related Online Books (index at Earthlink)
Contemporary American Poetry Archive (at Connecticut College)
CURIA Irish Manuscript Project (from Cork, Ireland)
Cyber-Books (unpublished and prepublished; at starry.com)
Dansk Nationallitterfrt Arkiv (Danish literature; in Denmark)
Documenting the American South (historical texts; at UNC)
Finnish Electronic Library (in Hungary)
Fourth World Documentation Project (Indigenous studies; at halcyon.com)
Freethought Web Library (selected atheist and related literature; at infidels.org)
Historical Text Archive (at Mississippi State)
History of Economic Thought Archives (at McMaster)
The Internet Classics Archive (at MIT)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (at Fordham)
Italian Literature in HTML (from Italy)
Laurens Jansz. Coster (Dutch literature)
Kansas Collection (regional historical resources)
Literature and Medicine Database (at NYU)
MacMillan Online Books (computing-related reference books)
Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár (Hungarian texts)
Making of America (mid-19th century American texts)
Maksim Moshkow's Library (texts in Russian)
Marx-Engels Archive (at Colorado)
Math Book Collection (multilingual; at Cornell)
Mountain Men Diaries, Narratives, and Letters (at xmission.com)
National Academy Press (on-line science books and summaries)
Online Medieval and Classical Library (at Sunsite)
Perseus Project (classical Greek texts in translation; at Tufts)
Poet's Corner (nearly 2000 classic poems; at lexmark.com)
Pointing the Way: Christian Literature on the Internet (at ICLNet)
Progetto Manuzio (Italian literature) (from Italy)
Project Libellus (classical languages) (FTP from U-Washington)
Project Runeberg (Scandinavian) (from Sweden)
Project Wittenberg (Lutheran texts; at ICLnet)
Que's Digital Bookshelf (computer technology guides; part of MacMillan)
Restoration Movement texts (at mun.ca)
Rosicrucian Fellowship Archive (at cts.com)
Religio (Texts in German on religion; at thur.de)
Russian Literature on the Net (in Germany)
Selected Catholic source documents (courtesy spok)
Selected political documents (courtesy clamen)
Speculative Fiction Clearing House (courtesy jrrl)
Spunk Press (anarchist and related texts; in the Netherlands)
Star Thrower Publishing (modern and experimental online literature)
Still Waters free text archive (new and classic Calvinist texts)
US Army Training Digital Library (field manuals, etc.)
Voice of the Shuttle: Top andEnglish Literature (at UCSB)
Victorian Women Writers Project (at Indiana)
Western European Literature Collections (non-English) (list at Virginia)