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There are many internet sites which provide access to electronic texts of works which are in the public domain. Many works of literature, philosophy, religion and classics are included, as well as items from many other areas. Most of the sites listed below not only contain the texts themselves, but also links to other similar sites.
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The American Verse Project
A collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
Christian Classics Electronic Library
Many historical texts of Christianity, arranged by author (also searchable), including the majority of the 38 volume Early Church Fathers.
Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia contains an on-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts, some of which are publicly available and others which are restricted to UVA's users.
European Literature in Languages other than English
This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
The Internet Classics Archive
An award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.
Internet Public Library Reading Room Online Texts
Here you'll find over 4000 electronic texts, organized by title, author or Dewey Decimal categories—and searchable too!
The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University.
NetLibrary provides links to ebooks available to St. Norbert College library patrons. Some of these materials are in the public domain and others have been purchased by St. Norbert.
The Online Books Page at CMU
This site makes available for free, non-commercial use, a repository of over 3,000 English-language works, plus an extensive list of links to many other e-text collections.
Project Gutenberg
Probably the most famous and oldest of all electronic text projects, Project Gutenberg has been making the texts of classic works that are in the public domain available for free to the public for many years, all through volunteer effort.
Shakespeare
The Bard's complete works, listed chronologically, by category and alphabetically, plus the whole collection is searchable.
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