List of Full-Text in the Aether
For the convenience of Alexandrian Free Library curators and patrons
who may sometimes wish to find texts online, without consulting
Professor Google, we make so bold as to share our list of Aetheric
collections of texts.
Great Thanks are due, from all who may make use of this resource, to Mr. Steadman Kondor, of Caledon Mayfair, for annotating the links, and making the list fit to be seen in public
Please be aware that not all sources listed are in the public domain - some may be fitter to link to, than to copy from.
Gentlebeings, Your Servant
JJ Drinkwater
Librarian of Caledon
Big/General Sources
The Free Library, by Farlex
Since 2003, The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily. Over 4.5 millions articles and books.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
The OpenLibrary project
An opensource project of the Internet Archive. Goal is to list every book -- whether in-print or out-of-print, available at a bookstore or a library, scanned or typed in as text. They provide pointers to Gutenberg texts as well as Internet Archive scans as well as Amazon downloads or library borrowing.
http://www.openlibrary.org/
Thousands of Full-Text Free Books.
More books online: Business, Nations and Countries, How Products are Made, Science, Films, Children's Health, Surgery, Mental Disorders, Illnesses.
http://www.fullbooks.com/
Bibliomania
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts: Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books.Read Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories and Contemporary Articles and Interviews. Study Guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers. Research our Reference Books, Dictionaries, Quotations, Classic Non-fiction, Biographies and Religious Texts. Buy the books personally read and recommended by Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
PageByPageBooks.com
Page by Page books is committed to bringing you a wide selection of the best public domain books available, all in an easy to read format. Pages can be bookmarked, for you to return later to continue reading a text. Almost all the texts on this site are in the public domain, however Page By Page Books has copyright to the HTML versions and editorial changes to the books on our site.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com
Internet Archive: Text Archive
The Open-Access Text Archive, a collection open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Footnote
Repository for original historical documents. For eg. FBI Case files, Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, World War Two Japanese photographs, Pennsylvannia State Archives
http://www.footnote.com/
Project Gutenberg
The first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. OVer 25,000 free books in the Online Book Catalog, and over 100,000 titles at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center
Online text and resources that serve the University community's teaching and research needs in the areas of humanities.
http://etext.virginia.edu/
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/subjects/ [Browsing the collection by subject]
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html [Guide to the University's available digital resources]
University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books.
The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History. Works are gradually being updated to reflect our current standards, including revamped and improved style sheets, and a "license". While the works are, to the best of our knowledge, in the public domain in Australia (copyright laws vary around the world, so check your local laws), the license is intended to forestall queries about the use of these works. We use a Creative Commons license, which permits non-commercial use without permission.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/index.html
Online Books Page
Founded and edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site. More than 30,000 English works in various formats.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/book-criteria.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Making of America (MOA)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Digital Book Index
This provides links to more than 142,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. Many are available free, while others are available at very modest cost. Reference Books, Literature & Languages, History, Social Sciences, Medicine & Health, Math & Science, Philosophy & Religion, Law, The Arts, Childrens eBooks, and other selections
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm
More Specific Sources
George Orwell's Library
Collection of his works including novels, essays, articles, reviews and poems.
http://www.orwell.ru/library/index_en
TIMEA's text collection
Contains over 25,000 pages from travel guidebooks, museum catalogs, travelogues, and other works documenting travel in the Middle East, particularly Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All materials are in the public domain. The texts are encoded in TEI-Lite to facilitate searching and analysis. In addition, place names that match names included in the NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) are automatically marked up and transformed into links to a list of related items in TIMEA's collections.
http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/5251
http://dspace.rice.edu/handle/1911/5251
Indiana University: Reference Department Electronic Texts and Images Collection.
Includes The Chronicle of the Drum by William Makepeace Thackeray, Les Contemporaines by Restif de la Bretonne, Hill coolies by John Scoble, Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors by Max Tilke, The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/
[dead link]
http://www.cyberphile.co.uk/~taff/taffnet/mabinogion/fulltales/fullindex.htm
Tales from the Mabinogion, or the books of the Mabinogi, Medieval Welsh Legends
Each tale tells of members of the Welsh Royal households, but these personages are embodiments of the ancient gods and goddesses of the land. Over the years, the ancient themes have become entangled with the more modern veneer of royalty and Christian references.
Gaslight Electronic Text and Discussion Site
Gaslight is an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. The current readings and selected ones from the past are available
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/
Artserve, Australian National University
Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia. Includes books and essays by Michael Greenhalgh.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/books_and_papers/classical_tradition_book/
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Kellscraft Studio's Web Text-ures: Public Domain Books On-Line.
All of the books listed here are out-of-print, public domain books. The focus is on books published prior to 1923 in the U.S. and many have wonderful illustrations. Many of these illustrators are not popularly known, but still deserve recognition and credit for the works presented in many of the books listed here. Some of these artists were never given credit in the books for their work, and are only listed here by the signatures on the illustrations.
http://www.kellscraft.com/textcontents.html
(inactive)
http://www.uiowa.edu/borges/bsol/pdf/fishburn.pdf
UbuWeb
A completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.... Freed from profit-making constraints or cumbersome fabrication considerations, information can literally "be free": on UbuWeb, we give it away and have been doing so since 1996. We publish in full color for pennies... UbuWeb posts much of its content without permission; we rip out-of-print LPs into sound files; we scan as many old books as we can get our hands on; we post essays as fast as we can OCR them... We've won many prestigious internet awards and are acknowledged web-wide as the definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry. UbuWeb is on the syllabus of countless schools; we've gotten queries from Ph.D. candidates seeking information to third-graders researching a paper on concrete poetry.
http://www.ubu.com/
How The Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis, with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author.
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
Camden House: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Illustrated with the original artwork; The largest collection of Holmesian graphics online; Sounds from various adaptations of the Canon; Music, musicians and composers in the Canon; The non-Canonical Tales; Miscellany for Windows - wallpapers and screensavers; Essays and articles of Sherlockian interest.
http://www.camdenhouse.ignisart.com/
The Walter Scott Digital Archive
An Edinburgh University Library online resource. It is designed around the extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held in Special Collections. We hope that in time this website will become the main source of information on the life and work of Sir Walter Scott on the web. Includes complete works and commentary, biography, image collection, forthcoming events, recent publications, correspondence, and more.
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/
In Parentheses
In Parentheses is devoted to distributing texts, translations, and commentaries from a wide variety of areas and disciplines in an elegantly presented form: Arthurian Series, Chinese Drama Series, Medieval Canadian Series, Medieval Castilian Series,Old French Series, Medieval German Series, etc.
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/
Luminarium
Anthology of English Literature
Medieval through Restoration texts
http://www.luminarium.org/
Literature of the Fantastic
This library is designed to provide a source of public domain fantasy, science fiction, and horror works. The page is maintained by James D. Macdonald
http://www.sff.net/people/DoylemacDonald/lit.htm
The Literary Gothic
The Literary Gothic is a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20. Its target audience is all students and fans of the Gothic, regardless of age, academic level, profession, or just about anything else.
http://www.litgothic.com
Project Gutenberg: Bookshelf
Subcategories from Project Gutenberg, including: Children's Bookshelf, Countries Bookshelf, Crime Bookshelf, Periodicals Bookshelf, Religion Bookshelf, Science Bookshelf, Wars Bookshelf.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf
Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive (history / images /essays)
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Bibilodyssey (images / science)
Eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints: tagged, annotated, summarised.
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
Dr Widgner's Library (general)
A collection of copyright-expired and generally out-of-print books which Dr Widgner has proofed and posted to Project Gutenberg for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. They may be copied or published with or without credit to either Dr Widgner or Project Gutenberg under the terms and minimal restrictions outlined in the headers of each individual file.
http://gutenberg.net.au/widger/home.html
The Benson John Lossing Memorial Web site (History)
Provides general access to some of the more interesting historical works of the nineteenth century. Men like Lossing (1813-1891), Col. William Leete Stone (1792-1844) and his son, also William Leete Stone (1835-1908), while they did not have the advantage of having been "academically trained", gave us a legacy of historical writing which preserved aspects of our collective past that would otherwise have died with the participants.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/
Edward Lear Home Page
All things Edward Lear including: life and travels, bibilographies, early essays, complete limericks and a selection of songs and stories, picture story collections, Edward Lear's Art, Essays on Lear & the Limerick.
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/
Representative Poetry Online
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912, and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
Vintage American Books
A group of members in Scribd.com, who share uploads of PDF vintaage American books. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (19th century edition), Christmas Comes But Once A Year, The Girl That Goes Wrong, Sex and Religion Pamphlet (c1929), etc.
http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/8-vintage-american-books
Arthur's Classic Novels
4000 Classic Novels available for free download, at Arthur Wendover's website: Classics such as novels by L M Alcott, J Austen, H de Balzac, Bronte Sister, E R Burroughs. Genres such as Top Ten Novels 1910, Top Twenty Horror, Top Westers, Top Twenty Sci-fi.
http://arthurwendover.com/
Knowledgerush.com
Provides a web form to submit a book, short story, or other literary work to the Knowledgerush Directory. You can submit any complete and free work that is available on the internet in HTML, PDF, or text. We will not catalog a work that cannot be read for free or is not in an approved format. That said, we will catalog a teaser short story or other work that may get readers interested in your "for profit" work. Includes articles, original and classic poetry, Reading Lists, Message Boards.
http://www.knowledgerush.com/
Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts - Bebilotheca Palatina
Welcome page to digitiased Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina. Plus further links to digitizaiton and manuscripts on the Internet
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/welcome.html
Internet Sacred Text Archive home
The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. A site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
http://www.sacred-texts.com
The Modernist Journals Project
resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study." individual issues of British and American periodicals from 1910 and 1911, literary journals from the 1890s to early 1920s, biographical
sketches of artists and writers, books, articles, and related material. From Brown University and the University of Tulsa.
http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8082/exist/mjp/index.xml
Great Thanks are due, from all who may make use of this resource, to Mr. Steadman Kondor, of Caledon Mayfair, for annotating the links, and making the list fit to be seen in public
Please be aware that not all sources listed are in the public domain - some may be fitter to link to, than to copy from.
Gentlebeings, Your Servant
JJ Drinkwater
Librarian of Caledon
Big/General Sources
The Free Library, by Farlex
Since 2003, The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily. Over 4.5 millions articles and books.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/
The OpenLibrary project
An opensource project of the Internet Archive. Goal is to list every book -- whether in-print or out-of-print, available at a bookstore or a library, scanned or typed in as text. They provide pointers to Gutenberg texts as well as Internet Archive scans as well as Amazon downloads or library borrowing.
http://www.openlibrary.org/
Thousands of Full-Text Free Books.
More books online: Business, Nations and Countries, How Products are Made, Science, Films, Children's Health, Surgery, Mental Disorders, Illnesses.
http://www.fullbooks.com/
Bibliomania
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts: Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books.Read Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories and Contemporary Articles and Interviews. Study Guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers. Research our Reference Books, Dictionaries, Quotations, Classic Non-fiction, Biographies and Religious Texts. Buy the books personally read and recommended by Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
PageByPageBooks.com
Page by Page books is committed to bringing you a wide selection of the best public domain books available, all in an easy to read format. Pages can be bookmarked, for you to return later to continue reading a text. Almost all the texts on this site are in the public domain, however Page By Page Books has copyright to the HTML versions and editorial changes to the books on our site.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com
Internet Archive: Text Archive
The Open-Access Text Archive, a collection open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Footnote
Repository for original historical documents. For eg. FBI Case files, Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, World War Two Japanese photographs, Pennsylvannia State Archives
http://www.footnote.com/
Project Gutenberg
The first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. OVer 25,000 free books in the Online Book Catalog, and over 100,000 titles at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center
Online text and resources that serve the University community's teaching and research needs in the areas of humanities.
http://etext.virginia.edu/
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/subjects/ [Browsing the collection by subject]
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html [Guide to the University's available digital resources]
University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books.
The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History. Works are gradually being updated to reflect our current standards, including revamped and improved style sheets, and a "license". While the works are, to the best of our knowledge, in the public domain in Australia (copyright laws vary around the world, so check your local laws), the license is intended to forestall queries about the use of these works. We use a Creative Commons license, which permits non-commercial use without permission.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/index.html
Online Books Page
Founded and edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site. More than 30,000 English works in various formats.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/book-criteria.html
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Making of America (MOA)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books with 19th century imprints.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/
Hathi Trust Digital Library
As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, HathiTrust (pronounced hah-tee) brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision.
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listcs;colltype=pubDigital Book Index
This provides links to more than 142,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. Many are available free, while others are available at very modest cost. Reference Books, Literature & Languages, History, Social Sciences, Medicine & Health, Math & Science, Philosophy & Religion, Law, The Arts, Childrens eBooks, and other selections
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm
More Specific Sources
George Orwell's Library
Collection of his works including novels, essays, articles, reviews and poems.
http://www.orwell.ru/library/index_en
TIMEA's text collection
Contains over 25,000 pages from travel guidebooks, museum catalogs, travelogues, and other works documenting travel in the Middle East, particularly Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All materials are in the public domain. The texts are encoded in TEI-Lite to facilitate searching and analysis. In addition, place names that match names included in the NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) are automatically marked up and transformed into links to a list of related items in TIMEA's collections.
http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/5251
http://dspace.rice.edu/handle/1911/5251
Indiana University: Reference Department Electronic Texts and Images Collection.
Includes The Chronicle of the Drum by William Makepeace Thackeray, Les Contemporaines by Restif de la Bretonne, Hill coolies by John Scoble, Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors by Max Tilke, The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/etext/
[dead link]
http://www.cyberphile.co.uk/~taff/taffnet/mabinogion/fulltales/fullindex.htm
Tales from the Mabinogion, or the books of the Mabinogi, Medieval Welsh Legends
Each tale tells of members of the Welsh Royal households, but these personages are embodiments of the ancient gods and goddesses of the land. Over the years, the ancient themes have become entangled with the more modern veneer of royalty and Christian references.
The earliest text of any part of the Mabinogion is dated in the mid-thirteenth century, but the style and content indicate that it probably took its current form some 200 years before this.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031012030540/www.cyberphile.co.uk/~taff/taffnet/mabinogion/fulltales/fullindex.htmGaslight Electronic Text and Discussion Site
Gaslight is an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. The current readings and selected ones from the past are available
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/
Artserve, Australian National University
Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia. Includes books and essays by Michael Greenhalgh.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/books_and_papers/classical_tradition_book/
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Kellscraft Studio's Web Text-ures: Public Domain Books On-Line.
All of the books listed here are out-of-print, public domain books. The focus is on books published prior to 1923 in the U.S. and many have wonderful illustrations. Many of these illustrators are not popularly known, but still deserve recognition and credit for the works presented in many of the books listed here. Some of these artists were never given credit in the books for their work, and are only listed here by the signatures on the illustrations.
http://www.kellscraft.com/textcontents.html
(inactive)
http://www.uiowa.edu/borges/bsol/pdf/fishburn.pdf
UbuWeb
A completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.... Freed from profit-making constraints or cumbersome fabrication considerations, information can literally "be free": on UbuWeb, we give it away and have been doing so since 1996. We publish in full color for pennies... UbuWeb posts much of its content without permission; we rip out-of-print LPs into sound files; we scan as many old books as we can get our hands on; we post essays as fast as we can OCR them... We've won many prestigious internet awards and are acknowledged web-wide as the definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry. UbuWeb is on the syllabus of countless schools; we've gotten queries from Ph.D. candidates seeking information to third-graders researching a paper on concrete poetry.
http://www.ubu.com/
How The Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis, with illustrations chiefly from photographs taken by the author.
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
Camden House: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Illustrated with the original artwork; The largest collection of Holmesian graphics online; Sounds from various adaptations of the Canon; Music, musicians and composers in the Canon; The non-Canonical Tales; Miscellany for Windows - wallpapers and screensavers; Essays and articles of Sherlockian interest.
http://www.camdenhouse.ignisart.com/
The Walter Scott Digital Archive
An Edinburgh University Library online resource. It is designed around the extensive Corson Collection of Walter Scott material held in Special Collections. We hope that in time this website will become the main source of information on the life and work of Sir Walter Scott on the web. Includes complete works and commentary, biography, image collection, forthcoming events, recent publications, correspondence, and more.
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/
In Parentheses
In Parentheses is devoted to distributing texts, translations, and commentaries from a wide variety of areas and disciplines in an elegantly presented form: Arthurian Series, Chinese Drama Series, Medieval Canadian Series, Medieval Castilian Series,Old French Series, Medieval German Series, etc.
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/
Luminarium
Anthology of English Literature
Medieval through Restoration texts
http://www.luminarium.org/
Literature of the Fantastic
This library is designed to provide a source of public domain fantasy, science fiction, and horror works. The page is maintained by James D. Macdonald
http://www.sff.net/people/DoylemacDonald/lit.htm
The Literary Gothic
The Literary Gothic is a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, "classic" Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20. Its target audience is all students and fans of the Gothic, regardless of age, academic level, profession, or just about anything else.
http://www.litgothic.com
Project Gutenberg: Bookshelf
Subcategories from Project Gutenberg, including: Children's Bookshelf, Countries Bookshelf, Crime Bookshelf, Periodicals Bookshelf, Religion Bookshelf, Science Bookshelf, Wars Bookshelf.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf
Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive (history / images /essays)
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Bibilodyssey (images / science)
Eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints: tagged, annotated, summarised.
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
Dr Widgner's Library (general)
A collection of copyright-expired and generally out-of-print books which Dr Widgner has proofed and posted to Project Gutenberg for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. They may be copied or published with or without credit to either Dr Widgner or Project Gutenberg under the terms and minimal restrictions outlined in the headers of each individual file.
http://gutenberg.net.au/widger/home.html
The Benson John Lossing Memorial Web site (History)
Provides general access to some of the more interesting historical works of the nineteenth century. Men like Lossing (1813-1891), Col. William Leete Stone (1792-1844) and his son, also William Leete Stone (1835-1908), while they did not have the advantage of having been "academically trained", gave us a legacy of historical writing which preserved aspects of our collective past that would otherwise have died with the participants.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/
Edward Lear Home Page
All things Edward Lear including: life and travels, bibilographies, early essays, complete limericks and a selection of songs and stories, picture story collections, Edward Lear's Art, Essays on Lear & the Limerick.
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/
Representative Poetry Online
Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912, and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
Vintage American Books
A group of members in Scribd.com, who share uploads of PDF vintaage American books. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (19th century edition), Christmas Comes But Once A Year, The Girl That Goes Wrong, Sex and Religion Pamphlet (c1929), etc.
http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/8-vintage-american-books
Arthur's Classic Novels
4000 Classic Novels available for free download, at Arthur Wendover's website: Classics such as novels by L M Alcott, J Austen, H de Balzac, Bronte Sister, E R Burroughs. Genres such as Top Ten Novels 1910, Top Twenty Horror, Top Westers, Top Twenty Sci-fi.
http://arthurwendover.com/
Knowledgerush.com
Provides a web form to submit a book, short story, or other literary work to the Knowledgerush Directory. You can submit any complete and free work that is available on the internet in HTML, PDF, or text. We will not catalog a work that cannot be read for free or is not in an approved format. That said, we will catalog a teaser short story or other work that may get readers interested in your "for profit" work. Includes articles, original and classic poetry, Reading Lists, Message Boards.
http://www.knowledgerush.com/
Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts - Bebilotheca Palatina
Welcome page to digitiased Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina. Plus further links to digitizaiton and manuscripts on the Internet
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/welcome.html
Internet Sacred Text Archive home
The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. A site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
http://www.sacred-texts.com
The Modernist Journals Project
resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study." individual issues of British and American periodicals from 1910 and 1911, literary journals from the 1890s to early 1920s, biographical
sketches of artists and writers, books, articles, and related material. From Brown University and the University of Tulsa.
http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8082/