E-Books
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a full-text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain and written or translated into English.
Project at U of Michigan to put works of American poets of the 19th and early 20th century online.
… Bartleby.com—after the humble character of its namesake scrivener, or copyist—publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant.
Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world's greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare's plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe.
The British Women Romantic Poet's Project is producing an online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.
Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and basic information.
You will find three kinds of materials here:Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts created by the Confucian Etext Project; Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts from other sources, to some of which we have made minor improvements; and Information on and links to more information on the preparation and use of these texts.
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Documenting the American South includes nine thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture. Click on any of the collections below to access an index of materials limited to that collection.
The EServer (founded sixteen years ago, in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon as the English Server), attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, we offer 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. In addition to short and longer written works, we publish hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings.
A searchable archive of the full texts of books scanned from publishers and libraries. The site includes a discussion of what portions of materials are available for books that may still be under copyright protection: "you'll only see snippets of text directly around your search term. This snippet view is designed to help users ... make a decision about whether to go find a physical copy of the book." You can now find .pdf files of selected scanned books by choosing the "Full view books" option on the Google Book Search home page. Once you choose a book from the results page, click on the "download button". The PDFs are offered only for those books that fall into the public domain and are intended for personal use.
The Library also licenses the titles digitized by the ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. The ACLS History E-Book Project was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.
Medieval, Renaissance & 17th Century Texts
Over 50,000 titles are available from NetLibrary. There are links from the Barret Library online catalog to E-books in the collections. Off campus access to full text databases and online journals is provided through EZProxy for persons with permission to use the Rhodes campus network.
An encyclopedic compendium of resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Part of ORB, the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization
Welcome to the Poetry Archives, an educational resource to aid students, educators, and the curious. We have collected thousands of classical poems to help you recall fond memories or to help create new ones.
Nearly 2000 online editions are available through a partnership between University of California Press and California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Nearly 400 of the titles are open access, available to the general public; the rest are accessible to University of California faculty, staff, and students.
The Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.