Electronic
Text Archives
Many texts like
Macbeth, Heart of Darkness, and Brave New World
are already available online, and more diverse and contemporary
works are being added all the time. Many of the these archives are
free to the public; others are available to libraries or individuals
through subscription.
Bibliomania.com
has over two thousand free e-books, poems, articles, short stories
and plays. It also offers study guides to popular works and reference
tools like dictionaries and religious texts.
The
William Blake Archive
provides a new model for literature studies in the twenty-first century.
Fantastically rich and scrupulously scholarly, it contains an extensive
collection of Blake's plates, in all of their multiple versions, along
with his complete published poems, manuscripts, drawings, and paintings.
All
of these are available to the public.
Internet
Public Library was created at the University of Michigan in 1995.
It has a growing collection of online texts, including reference tools
and subject collections. It also has a useful section for kids and
teens.
MIT
Internet Classics is a great source for online texts of classic
literature (441 texts from 59 different authors). Visitors can search
texts and interact with other visitors in a threaded discussion format.
Project Gutenberg
is the oldest and richest text archive on the web. Originally created
in 1979, Project Gutenberg's goal is "to make information, books
and other materials available to the general public."
It now has over 10,000 books.
The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center archives
tens of thousands of electronic texts and images. Thousands of these
texts and images are accessible to the public.
Other important literature archives and projects include:
