Books on the Internet

Book Information

Bookstores

Classics

Foreign Language

Other Texts

Poetry

Publishers

Religion

American Literature Hypertexts (Univ. of Virginia)  

The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)  
Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government 

Bartleby Library (Columbia University)  
Accurate online text of major out of copyright works 

Bibliomania: The Network Library  
Reference, Fiction and Non-Fiction 

Books and Authors (Denver Post Online)  
First chapters of dozens of recent books 

CMU On-line Books Page  
Search or browse by author or title, and browse new book and subject list 

Computer and Internet Related Online Books  

Dr. Jack Cross's Electronic Archive (Oxford)  
PDF versions of classic books, library manuscript guides and Dr. Cross's books 

Drama Collection (English Server)  
Plays, screenplays and discussions of drama and dramatic productions 

Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia Library) SGML-encoded electronic texts (access to some limited to Univ. of Virginia users). Primarily English, also includes some French, Latin, and German texts 

Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources 
Library of Congress Links to text sites 

English Server (CMU) Major Humanities Text Collection. Browse or search by topic--location and keyword searchable 

Etext Archives (etext.org)  
An independent archive containing a variety of electronic texts including mirror of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Archives and selected legal documents and essays 

Fiction (English Server)  
Novels and short stories; alphabetical by author 

Historical Text Archive (Mississippi State University 
U.S. and World history texts

  Internet Public Library Online Texts (University of Michigan
More than 3,700 titles searchable by author, title or Dewey classification number 

LION - Web Access 
dates of coverage vary. (Chadwyck-Healey) Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 250,000 full-text works of English and American literature. Includes several literary databases of poetry, plays and fiction as well as general reference works and links to other Internet sites. Also included are features such as the Writer-in-Residence and LionHeart, a set of 1000 English-language love poems. 

Macmillan Computer Publishing (mcp.com)  
Online texts of recent computer-related books. Registration required 

Making of America (University of Michigan)  
Focusing on American social history 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. This online collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. 

McGraw-Hill bet@books  
Full text versions of selected emerging technology titles 

National Academy Press  
Most of their books are available free online

  On-line Books Page (CMU)  
Search or browse by author or title, and browse new book and subject list of over 650 works in English 

Oxford Text Archive Catalogue  

PastMasters - Philosophy Full-text Databases  
represents the largest collection of electronic texts in philosophy in the world. Currently access is provided to the following nine databases: The Complete Works of Aristotle, Revised Oxford Translation, edited by Jonathan Barnes, published by Princeton University Press, 1984, British Philosophy 1600-1900, The Complete Works and Selected Correspondence of David Hume, The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke, Nietzsches Werke: Historich-kritische Ausgabe, The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, The Continental Rationalists : René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Benedict de Spinoza, and The Works of George Santayana.

Classics Texts

Classics web links including texts (Univ. of Kentucky)  

Latin Bookcase (Georgetown)  
Search and browse; arranged by source. Includes Classical Greek texts that influenced Latin traditions 

Library of Congress Greek / Latin Classics Internet Resources
Comprehensive collection of Greek and Latin classics 

Project Libellus (Univ. of Washington)  
Classical languages, alphabetical by author

Foreign Language Texts

Association des Bibliophiles Universels (France) Public Domain French texts 

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (University College Cork) Texts from Ireland 

Chateau Online texts by Rimbaud, Proust, Balzac, Baudelaire, La Fontaine and others 

EuroDocs (Brigham Young University)  
Primary historical documents from Western Europe. 

European Literature - Electronic Text Collections  
Extensive links maintained by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Western European Specialists Section. 

Gallica: 19th Century France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)  
Major project with already more than 2,000,000 pages and 10,000 images and sound files online. 

International Etext Projects (Linköping Univ.)  
Project Runeberg's compilation of foreign language text projects encompassing a number of languages and genres. 

Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia/University of Pittsburgh)  

Project Runeberg (from Linköping Univ.) Classic Nordic Literature in Swedish, Danish, Norweigan, Icelandic, and Finnish 

Russian and East European Texts (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Numerous links to documents on the Internet

Poetry

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Religious Texts

Bible Gateway  
The Bible in German, French, Latin, Spanish, Swedish and Tagalog 

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913 Edition) Christian Classics

  Ethereal Library (Wheaton College)  
Subject/Author index divided into fiction, non-fiction, and reference; features a Hymn and Choral archive 

Islamic Texts  MetaPage (MSA @ University at Buffalo)  
Introductory texts and FAQs, the Qu'ran and translations in English, Turkish and Indonesian, various interpretive texts, and other related documents. Also books from other religions with comparative texts. 

Judaism Reading List (Ohio State) Pointing the Way: Christian Literature on the Internet (ICLNet)  
Includes various Bibles and books (by title), articles, sermons, bible studies/devotionals, news sources, newsletters/periodicals, creeds/ confessions, and miscellaneous texts. 

Religio (Univ. of Jena)  
Sects and cults in Germany and worldwide

Subject Text Collections

Banned Books Online Berkeley Digital Library Project  
Mostly California state government publications 

Documenting the American South  
Full text diaries, autobiographies, narratives on slavery and other resources 

Hanover College Historical Texts Project  
Primary sources for use in history and humanities courses 

Herbal Medicine Texts  
Hyperizons Hypertext fiction 

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Philosophy text collection 

Medieval Drama Links (Sydney Higgins)  

Medieval Studies Online Reference Book (ORB) (Rhodes College)  

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade (Dean Rudy)  
Includes full text books, letters and other archival material 

On-line Children's Stories (Calgary)  
Alphabetical by title 

Shakespeare - Editions and Adaptations (LION)  
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

Short Story Search  
Texts of short stories and other short works on the web. 

Soil and Health Library (Steve Solomon)  
Online books on alternative agriculture and alternative health 

Southern Literature (University of North Carolina)  
A Digitized Library of Southern Literature: Beginnings to 1920 

Spunk Press (Netherlands)  
Anarchist and related texts 

Texas History (Lone Star Junction)  

William H. Calvin - Home 

Page (University of Washington)  
Online books and articles on "brains, evolution and where we're heading"

Publishers, Bookstores and Book Information Sites

Publishers:

Directory of Publishers and Vendors (AcqWeb)  

Publishers' Home Pages - United States  

Publishers' Home Pages - World Wide

Online Bookstores (New Books):  

AcqWeb (Vanderbilt University)  

Acses (searches multiple sites)  

Amazon.com Books  

Amazon.de (German Books)  

Asian Bookshops  

Australian Online Bookshop  

Balogh Scientific Books (Natural History)  

Barnes and Noble  

Book Stores and Searchers (Books A to Z)  

BookFinder.com (searches multiple sites)  
Formerly MX BookFinder 

Bookpool Discount Technical Books  

Books.com  

BookServe  

Borders Books  

Co-op Online Bookshop (Australia)  

Internet Book Shop (British Books)  

Internet Book Shop Italia (Italian Books)  

NHBS (Natural History) Waterstone's

Online Bookstores (Used and Antiquarian Books):

Advanced Book Exchange  

Alibris Formerly Interloc 

Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America  

Bibliocity Bibliofind  

Bibliophile Bookshelf (Auldbooks)  

BookFinder.com (searches multiple sites)  
Formerly MX BookFinder 

BookWire - Antiquarian Booksellers  

Independent Booksellers - U.S. (CIBON)  

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers  

Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers Network

Powell's Books (Portland, Oregon)  

Virtual Book Shop  

Yahoo - Books: Antique, Rare and Used

Book Information Sites:  

American Authors on the Web  
Experimental project to present the pages of old books as they actually appear 

Book Awards, Reviews and Lists (Eugene Public Library)  

Book Lovers Page (Piet Wesselman)  

Book Web (American Booksellers Association)  

BookWire  
Extensive book industry information and links. Sponsors include Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. 

British and Irish Authors on the Web  

Contemporary Authors (Gale Literary Databases)  
Full Text author biographies from Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Also selected text from Contemporary Literary Criticism 

Great Books Home Page (Malaspina University-College)  

Internet Book Information Center - IBIC  
Mega book information site, with book news/opinion and many links 

Internet Road Map to Books (Knowledge Site)  

Literary Calendar  
Search by date for important historic literary events such as the publication of a book or the birth or death of an author with links to relevant sites. 

New York Review of Books New York Times Book Review
Registration required 

Publishers - Directory of Publishers and Vendors (AcqWeb)  

Universal Library Project (CMU) WritersNet  
Online directory of selected published writers and literary agents

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