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Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
The full-text of numerous reference books, dictionaries, language usage books, and classic works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare"...the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare." Based on the Complete Moby (tm) Shakespeare. Complete works can be searched.

Google Books  Search the full text of books, find full text of the books where copyright laws allow, see a few pages, or find where you can purchase or borrow the particular book. Google is working with publishers and libraries to provide access to as many books as possible.

Gutenberg-e  A collaboration between Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association that promotes electronic publication of prize-winning scholarly books. Besides the text of the books extra features include hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and related Web sites.

Internet Archive: Text ArchiveAn open access archive of over a million texts.

Internet Public Library: Online TextsA list of links to specific books and free electronic book and text collections.

National Academies PressThe National Academies Press is providing free online access to 4,000 of their books in a wide variety of subject areas from the sciences to public policy.

Online Books PageAn index to over 30,000 free books on the Web.

Project GutenbergAbout 27,000 public domain books (mostly pre 1923) are available for free in various formats, mostly plain text and HTML. Light literature (Zane Grey), heavy literature (Moby Dick), history and reference books are included. In English and 50 other languages. Links to Wikipedia entries on authors.

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