Some places to obtain free e-books
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center - distributing a collection of more than 75.000 e-books (html and pdf) for free. Housing the effort of other volunteer organizations (Anglo-Saxon, European, Asian).
Project Gutenberg - 34.000+ e-books. Distribution and production, information about volunteering.
Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren (Dutch)
E-books libres et gratuits
The Internet Archive
Ibiblio (host to PG)
Internet Sacred Text Archive
The Online Library of Liberty
.. for an extensive list of sites that matter (600+, frequently updated) scroll further down this page for General: international - English/American - Europe - Asia ... Poetry, and the list is continued here. with Tech/science - Audiobooks - Greek/Latin & Medieval, &c.
If searching for something specific you can't locate after browsing - in the right bottom part of the screen you can see if someone is available for online help, if not the case you can leave message and email - or use the contact page or news / comments....
A Request : concerning HATHI TRUST - the books we needed right now have arrived (thanks Erica) - but there will be others, so anyone with a partner login is still very welcome - thanks!!!
Enjoy ... and, why not, participate?
I 'learned the trade' at Distributed Proofreaders about 10 years ago. There you can help proofreading even a page a day. After a while I decided to choose the books I wanted to put online from different sources and complete them on the whole. I also worked for some time in the posting team for PG, doing final checks on texts provided by other volunteers.If you want to help out here with the digitising, you're very welcome. No preliminary experience is needed, all necessary information is made available.
Do visit our Projects page! Some books are waiting...
... for you to proofread.
A challenge: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - Sir Isaac Newton (Translation: Andrew Motte - 1846). - But also somewhat lighter fiction is made available.
Hope to meet you soon,
Marc.
marcdh AT freeliterature.org - tw @FreeLitOrg
E-books, finished and published at PG - (before) - 2013: Sappho, A New Rendering by Henry de Vere Stacpoole (15-04) - Lost Diaries by Maurice Baring (15-04) - Yonder by E.H. Young (14-04) - The Narrow House and Narcissus by Evelyn Scott (14-04) - The Tiger-Slayer and The Gold-Seekers by Gustave Aimard (14-04) - The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge (07-03) - The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks (27-02) - The World of H.G. Wells by Van Wyck Brooks (27-02) - The Poems of Sappho by Sappho (transl. J.M. O'Hara) (22-02) - Three Plays (Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry VI, Right You Are! (If You Think So) by Luigi Pirandello (21-02) - The Trail Hunter, The Pirates of the Prairies and The Trapper's Daughter by Gustave Aimard (18-02)
News:
27-03-2013: New in links: Descarga Ebooks - miscellaneous collection of literature original Spanish and translated into Spanish to download for free.
18-03-2013: digitizing: Charles Baudelaire, Les poésies complètes (1922 ed.), vol. 1, vol. 2 and vol. 3 - and Les heurs longues (1914-1917) by Colette.
13-03-2013: David Hume - we digitize his complete Philosophical Works, a 1826 edition, which also shows the evolution in the earlier publications of his works - the four volumes are available for proofreading now: links to the scans: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3 and vol. 4.
11-03-2013: Making a PG ebook: The Law Inevitable (1921) by Louis Couperus - translation of "Langs de lijnen van geleidelijkheid" by A. Teixeira de Mattos. And we add the original Dutch too: Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid.
09-03-2013: digitizing Jules Verne's "Les enfants du Capitaine Grant" in English: the first American edition in one volume: (In Search of) The Castaways (1874, ill. with 170 engravings by Riou) - and also two volumes of a British edition: A Voyage Round the World (1876 - also with the engravings), vol. 1, South America, and vol. 2, Argentina. Very welcome for a round of proofreading! - and also found, at last!, part 3 of the British edition, New Zealand!!!
08-03-2013: digitizing for PG: Alessandro Manzoni's "I promessi sposi" - in original Italian (complete, final, 1845 edition) - in French: Les fiançés (1850, translation: Rey Dusseuil) and a second in English: The Betrothed (1900, the edition available at PG is a pre-1840 one.)
06-03-2013: making a PG e-book of: Narcissus (1922) and The Narrow House (1921) by Evelyn Scott - and: The Little Demon (1916) and The Old House and other Tales (1916) by Fyodor Sologub - care for a round of proofreading? let us know ... thanks!!!
05-03-2013: digitizing for PG: Bacon's Novum Organum by Sir Francis Bacon (1889 - ed. Thomas Fowler)
05-03-2013: digitizing for PG: Harmonielehre by Arnold Schoenberg (German, 1922 ed.) and Merlijn (naar het eenig bekende Steinforter Handschrift, 1892) by Jacob van Maerlant
04-03-2013: new in links: The Forgotten Books Page - where forgotten books are remembered - reviews and links. A Gem!!!
04-03-2013: making a PG e-book of: Diogenes Laertius' The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1895) and Complete Works, vol. IV of Lucian of Samosata (1905) (volumes I, II, III already available at PG)
03-03-2013: available for proofreading are: One Man's View, Cynthia, The Quaint Companions, The Man Who Was Good and To Tell You the Truth - all early 20th century fiction (1900-1922) by Leonard Merrick (much appreciated by a.o. H.G. Wells). - also: Stendhal's autobiographical work: Vie de Henri Brulard (1913) - vol. 1 and vol. 2
28-02-2013: digitizing for PG: Kierkegaard als Philosoph (German) by Harald Höffding.
26-02-2013: New in links: Kerala State Library - Rare Books Online: oldest Indian Public Library with online collection of rare English and Malayalam
23-02-2013: Making a PG e-book: Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (1919) by Karl Jaspers - ready for a first round of proofreading.
23-02-2013: digitizing for PG: La ville charnelle (1908), Poèmes lyriques (1904) et Matarka, le futuriste (1904) by Marinetti.
20-02-2013: ready for proofreading are: Sappho, A New Rendering (1920) by H. de Vere Stackpoole - and The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe (1917) by Dorothy Stimson.
16-02-2013: his birthday today - honouring Octave Mirbeau, we're making a PG e-book of some of his works in French and English: Calvary (1922 novel), A Chambermaid's Diary (1900), Le Calvaire (1887), La 628-E8 (1908) and Dingo (1913)
16-02-2013: Digitizing for PG: The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1922) and The World of H.G. Wells (1915) both by Van Wyck Brooks - and The Private Life of Galileo (compiled principally from his correspondence and that of his oldest daughter Maria Celeste) - want to help? let know, thanks!
02-02-2013: Interesting view and graphics about the future of printing at Education News: "You'll Never Print Again - (thanks Allison Morris). We (Free Literature) will also start in a little while with a second website - EduWorldwide - dedicated to free online education.
26-01-2013: Digitizing for PG: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1921 ed.) - let us know if you'd like to proofread, thanks!
15-01-2013: new in links: NASA also has a collection of free ebooks in different formats - enjoy!
07-01-2013: we are making a PG e-book of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Will to Power (vol I and vol. II) - translation by Anthony M. Ludovici (authorized ed. by Oscar Levi, 1910) - let us know if you want to help out! thanks!
07-01-2013: Happy New year to all! :) - and new in links: free e-books in French at In libro veritas - download public domain literature in pdf format & and possibility for self-publishing.
10-11-2012: via Infodocket on twitter: National Library of Denmark (Royal Library) Launches Experimental Digitization of Books on Demand Service.
02-11-2012: received this interesting link from Linda Hall from Masters in English - Top 25 Reading & Writing Resources for English Buffs - enjoy!
09-10-2012: new in links: Poetry: All the Classics - The "CompleteClassics" database contains 10,171 poems from 1,082 classic poets..
27-09-2012: to celebrate Banned Books Week - we make a PG ebook from A Burlesque Translation of Homer Thomas Bridges (1797) - up for a round of proofreading? let us know!
25-09-2012: Warriors of Old Japan and Other Stories by Yei Theodora Ozaki is available for proofreading - finished and available at PG.)
04-09-2012: preparing text to make a PG e-book from Les misérables by Victor Hugo, in an authorized English translation by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall - scans (pdf) available here - vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5. - and very welcome for a first or second round of proofreading...
More
Do visit our Projects page! Some books are waiting...
... for you to proofread.
A challenge: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - Sir Isaac Newton (Translation: Andrew Motte - 1846). - But also somewhat lighter fiction is made available.
Hope to meet you soon,
Marc.
marcdh AT freeliterature.org - tw @FreeLitOrg
E-books, finished and published at PG - (before) - 2013: Sappho, A New Rendering by Henry de Vere Stacpoole (15-04) - Lost Diaries by Maurice Baring (15-04) - Yonder by E.H. Young (14-04) - The Narrow House and Narcissus by Evelyn Scott (14-04) - The Tiger-Slayer and The Gold-Seekers by Gustave Aimard (14-04) - The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge (07-03) - The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks (27-02) - The World of H.G. Wells by Van Wyck Brooks (27-02) - The Poems of Sappho by Sappho (transl. J.M. O'Hara) (22-02) - Three Plays (Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry VI, Right You Are! (If You Think So) by Luigi Pirandello (21-02) - The Trail Hunter, The Pirates of the Prairies and The Trapper's Daughter by Gustave Aimard (18-02)
News:
27-03-2013: New in links: Descarga Ebooks - miscellaneous collection of literature original Spanish and translated into Spanish to download for free.
18-03-2013: digitizing: Charles Baudelaire, Les poésies complètes (1922 ed.), vol. 1, vol. 2 and vol. 3 - and Les heurs longues (1914-1917) by Colette.
13-03-2013: David Hume - we digitize his complete Philosophical Works, a 1826 edition, which also shows the evolution in the earlier publications of his works - the four volumes are available for proofreading now: links to the scans: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3 and vol. 4.
11-03-2013: Making a PG ebook: The Law Inevitable (1921) by Louis Couperus - translation of "Langs de lijnen van geleidelijkheid" by A. Teixeira de Mattos. And we add the original Dutch too: Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid.
09-03-2013: digitizing Jules Verne's "Les enfants du Capitaine Grant" in English: the first American edition in one volume: (In Search of) The Castaways (1874, ill. with 170 engravings by Riou) - and also two volumes of a British edition: A Voyage Round the World (1876 - also with the engravings), vol. 1, South America, and vol. 2, Argentina. Very welcome for a round of proofreading! - and also found, at last!, part 3 of the British edition, New Zealand!!!
08-03-2013: digitizing for PG: Alessandro Manzoni's "I promessi sposi" - in original Italian (complete, final, 1845 edition) - in French: Les fiançés (1850, translation: Rey Dusseuil) and a second in English: The Betrothed (1900, the edition available at PG is a pre-1840 one.)
06-03-2013: making a PG e-book of: Narcissus (1922) and The Narrow House (1921) by Evelyn Scott - and: The Little Demon (1916) and The Old House and other Tales (1916) by Fyodor Sologub - care for a round of proofreading? let us know ... thanks!!!
05-03-2013: digitizing for PG: Bacon's Novum Organum by Sir Francis Bacon (1889 - ed. Thomas Fowler)
05-03-2013: digitizing for PG: Harmonielehre by Arnold Schoenberg (German, 1922 ed.) and Merlijn (naar het eenig bekende Steinforter Handschrift, 1892) by Jacob van Maerlant
04-03-2013: new in links: The Forgotten Books Page - where forgotten books are remembered - reviews and links. A Gem!!!
04-03-2013: making a PG e-book of: Diogenes Laertius' The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1895) and Complete Works, vol. IV of Lucian of Samosata (1905) (volumes I, II, III already available at PG)
03-03-2013: available for proofreading are: One Man's View, Cynthia, The Quaint Companions, The Man Who Was Good and To Tell You the Truth - all early 20th century fiction (1900-1922) by Leonard Merrick (much appreciated by a.o. H.G. Wells). - also: Stendhal's autobiographical work: Vie de Henri Brulard (1913) - vol. 1 and vol. 2
28-02-2013: digitizing for PG: Kierkegaard als Philosoph (German) by Harald Höffding.
26-02-2013: New in links: Kerala State Library - Rare Books Online: oldest Indian Public Library with online collection of rare English and Malayalam
23-02-2013: Making a PG e-book: Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (1919) by Karl Jaspers - ready for a first round of proofreading.
23-02-2013: digitizing for PG: La ville charnelle (1908), Poèmes lyriques (1904) et Matarka, le futuriste (1904) by Marinetti.
20-02-2013: ready for proofreading are: Sappho, A New Rendering (1920) by H. de Vere Stackpoole - and The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe (1917) by Dorothy Stimson.
16-02-2013: his birthday today - honouring Octave Mirbeau, we're making a PG e-book of some of his works in French and English: Calvary (1922 novel), A Chambermaid's Diary (1900), Le Calvaire (1887), La 628-E8 (1908) and Dingo (1913)
16-02-2013: Digitizing for PG: The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1922) and The World of H.G. Wells (1915) both by Van Wyck Brooks - and The Private Life of Galileo (compiled principally from his correspondence and that of his oldest daughter Maria Celeste) - want to help? let know, thanks!
02-02-2013: Interesting view and graphics about the future of printing at Education News: "You'll Never Print Again - (thanks Allison Morris). We (Free Literature) will also start in a little while with a second website - EduWorldwide - dedicated to free online education.
26-01-2013: Digitizing for PG: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1921 ed.) - let us know if you'd like to proofread, thanks!
15-01-2013: new in links: NASA also has a collection of free ebooks in different formats - enjoy!
07-01-2013: we are making a PG e-book of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Will to Power (vol I and vol. II) - translation by Anthony M. Ludovici (authorized ed. by Oscar Levi, 1910) - let us know if you want to help out! thanks!
07-01-2013: Happy New year to all! :) - and new in links: free e-books in French at In libro veritas - download public domain literature in pdf format & and possibility for self-publishing.
10-11-2012: via Infodocket on twitter: National Library of Denmark (Royal Library) Launches Experimental Digitization of Books on Demand Service.
02-11-2012: received this interesting link from Linda Hall from Masters in English - Top 25 Reading & Writing Resources for English Buffs - enjoy!
09-10-2012: new in links: Poetry: All the Classics - The "CompleteClassics" database contains 10,171 poems from 1,082 classic poets..
27-09-2012: to celebrate Banned Books Week - we make a PG ebook from A Burlesque Translation of Homer Thomas Bridges (1797) - up for a round of proofreading? let us know!
25-09-2012: Warriors of Old Japan and Other Stories by Yei Theodora Ozaki is available for proofreading - finished and available at PG.)
04-09-2012: preparing text to make a PG e-book from Les misérables by Victor Hugo, in an authorized English translation by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall - scans (pdf) available here - vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5. - and very welcome for a first or second round of proofreading...
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Continuing links to e-books and more ...
GENERAL
last update: March the 27th, 2013.
International
Project Gutenberg - 34.000+ e-books in more than 60 languages (also an important collection of audiobooks).
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center - distributing a collection of more than 75.000 e-books (html and pdf) for free. Housing the effort of other volunteer organizations (Anglo-Saxon, European, Asian).
Project Gutenberg of Australia - About 2.000 titles. (Copyright regulations differ from US - life +50)
Gutenberg Canada - already more than 500 e-books available. (Check out copyright regulations for your country).
PG of Europe - (not really active anymore?) - 700 e-books available in 65 languages.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Project Gutenberg PrePrint Reading Room - Texts not quite ready for the collections.
ibiblio - (host to PG) - Home to one of the largest 'collections of collections' on the internet ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, literature, music and art.
The Internet Archive - Massive collection of 1.800.000 books in different formats - sub-collections from a.o. American and Canadian Libraries, Universal Library, Stephen Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library (more than 10.000 works), Children's Library, Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Internet Sacred Text Archive - The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the internet.
Google Books
ManyBooks.net - More than 26.000 e-books freely available from PG and other public domain and creative commons sources.
Dr. Widger's Library - 'A collection of copyright-expired and generally out-of-print books from my library and other collections, which I have posted to Project Gutenberg for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.' - International classics in translation, many illustrated and very nicely presented.
The Universal Digital Library - Million Book Collection - A project of the Carnegie Mellon University and the governments of India and China - much of the scanning is done in the latter two countries. The project includes many Chinese and Indian languages, as well as English.
Digital Asset Repository (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) - DAR acts as a repository for all types of digital material, thus archiving and preserving the digital media as well as providing public access to digitized collections through a web-based search and browsing facilities.
Blackmask / Munseys - Large and miscellaneous collection in different languages.
Great Books and Classics - Links to html online versions of many famous authors from before 1000 BC to the 20th century in different languages.
World Public Library - More than 750.000 e-books in pdf in 100+ languages in 125 collections.
Bookyards - Library to the world.
Creative Commons - A list of books available under a Creative Commons license.
Scribd - Publish on your website and read.
The Digital Book Index - Provides links to more than 148.000 full-text digital books from more than 1.800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities and various private sites - more than 120.000 of these documents are freely available.
UbuWeb - Vast resource for about anything.
Global Text Project - (Educational) - 'The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a website' ... - some books are already available on business, computing, education, health, humanities.
Wordtheque - Word by word multilingual library collection.
DayLit - Read books online - minutes a day of great reading in your inbox.
ETANA - Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives - Books, cuneiform tablets (Case Western Reserve University).
Wikimedia commons - A database of 6.307.335 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Publishing the Unpublishable (UBUWEB)
World Digital Library - (American Library of Congress and UNESCO) - Makes available on the internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Originala Literatura Esperanta
BookBoon.com - Free textbooks and travel guides.
Montclair Electronic Text Archive - 21-08-2012: moved to Rutgers University Libraries- Primary texts in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and English, and secondary texts in English (html, xml, DjVu).
Oxford Text Archive - Large collection of classics in Greek, Latin, English, and a few other European languages.
Hathi Trust - A "Shared Digital Repository". Very high potential. - and working on accessibility! -
IU, University of Illinois launch HathiTrust Research Center for computational access to archives (18-04-2011).
preterhuman.net - Large freely accessible collection of texts and books on many subjects.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use (Paul Halsall, ed., Fordham University).
Harvard University Library - Open Collections Program - A.o. Islamic Heritage Project with over 156.000 pages on a wide range of topics from the 10th through the 20th centuries CE from Harvards collections of Islamic manuscripts, published materials and maps.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - The largest repository of Ancient History Texts on the Web (ed. Paul Halsall, Fordham University).
Eighteenth Century E-Texts (Jack Lynch of Rutgers-Newark).
Carrie - A full-text Electronic Library (by Lynn H. Nelson, Em. Prof. of History, Kansas University) - a.o. Eurasia collection (European University Institute).
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
Ipl2 - Internet Public Library - Ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment ('Ask an Ipl2 librarian') - launched January 2010 and merges the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians Internet Index websites.
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature - Oxford University - Originals, translations and transliterations.
MemoWare - Large collection of e-books in different languages and formats, pdf and all kinds of mobiles.
QuranDownload.com - In 60 languages to download, read and listen to.
lernu! Library - Free Esperanto e-books.
The Alchemy Website - Hundreds of practical, philosophical, allegorical alchemy texts (different languages) and a lot of other material. Huge site by alchemy authority Adam McLean.
Electronic Literature Directory - A resource for readers and writers of born-digital literature. Created by the ELO it provides an extensive database listing electronic works, their authors and their publishers. - Descriptions and links to texts available.
Electronic Literature Organization - Lots of links and e-literature collection.
Sufi Portal - e-Books in English and German.
Islam Denounces Terrorism - Terrorism: the Ritual of the Devil and other free titles available as html online or pdf in download.
International Islamic Digital Library - 'An ambitious project to create a centralized repository of knowledge on Islam and Muslim communities, which is authoritative, comprehensible and reliable.' The Malaysian initiative comprehends books, manuscripts, multimedia, theses, articles and conference papers. Users need to register.
Dharmic Scriptures - Major part of the collection consists of the complete Veda's (950 pages in word) and 210 Upanishads.
The Himalayan Academy - Online documents: an abundance of contemporary and ancient knowledge on Hinduism, all available for free. Check out the Vedic Experience.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Large collection of significant Christian works. Especially in English, but with some Russian and Chinese e-texts, plus a few in Latin, Greek, French.
DharmaNet - Learning Center - Provides access to a large collection of Buddhist texts, and information about the whole range of Buddhist schools and traditions.
The Lied and Art Songs Text Page - An archive of texts used in 75.523 Lieder and other classical art songs.
IntraText Digital Library - Full-text digital library offering books and corpora as lexical hypertexts on Creative Commons license. Committed to accuracy, accessibility and tablet PC oriented cognitive ergonomics. Multilingual.
World Wide School - The Hart Library, which comprises of classic titles, including those of the PG collections.
The Sagely City of 10.000 Buddhas - Buddhist Text Translation Society Online.
Jacques Maritain Center (University of Notre Dame) - Aristotle et al., Readings for Philosophers and Catholics (J. Maritain, Raïssa Maritain, Ralph McInerny (his complete History of Western Philosophy), the Thomistic Revival, ... Lots of links to papers and texts in other collections (PG, Google) - A History of Medieval Philosophy by Maurice de Wulf - more links here - make sure to browse around this site and get used to the not very intuitive build:).
Jules Verne Virtual Library - Large collection, numerous languages.
The Anthology of Conceptual Writing (UBUWEB).
International Gita Society - The Bhagavad-gita in 14 languages.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales - 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1.500 illustrations - also discover over 1.600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 e-books.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections - The Literature Collection - The collection includes: texts from the medieval to the modern, in translation and the original languages, classic and contemporary poetry, and a 'rich vein of information on James Joyce'.
Wattpad - The World's most Popular e-Book Community - Read what you like, Share what you write.
Feminist Literature - Provides links to full texts of works of feminist literature available on the web.
Persian Literature in Translation (Packard Humanities Institute) - Over 100 works already available in full text, as well as several digitized secondary sources on Persian literature.
AtmaDharma.org - Library of Original Jain Literature and Jain Logic.
World of Tales - Stories for children, folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world.
International Children's Digital Library - A Library for the World's Children.
Online Books 4 Free - Your gateway to knowledge - links to 9.287 books.
The Warburg Institute Library Digital Collections - (University of London) - Makes available digitised editions of out-of-print texts related to Renaissance and Medieval topics. Copies can be downloaded as pdf.
Other Women's Voices - Translations of women's writing before 1700 - Offering information about, excerpts from and links to the work of well over a 100 women writers, dating from about 2200 B.C.E. to the end of the 17th century.
Libro - The Library of Iberian Resources Online - Recent but out-of-print university press monographs and texts that pertain to the history of medieval and early modern Spain.
Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) - e-Resources - Project run by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) that publishes several documents (books, journals, photographs, maps) on archeology as well as well as modern literature and languages in digital format. Section e-Books Collections contains the ALMA (African Language Materials Archive) Project, with a number of e-books written in African languages (including Bamanankan, Criol, Fula/Peul/Pular, Fulfulde, Jula/Dyula, Mandinka, Moore and Wolof).
The Digital South Asia Library - (Center for Research Libraries and University of Chicago) - Assembles information for scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users requiring reference materials about South Asia. Featured resources include: dictionaries, historical gazetteers, photographs, maps, statistics from the colonial period, bibliographies, journals, books, and links to websites.
E-Books Directory - 3.876 free e-books in 414 categories. Submit your own books.
Internet Accuracy Project (Working to improve the accuracy of reference sources, both online and off!)- Literature - Free books, short stories and poetry to read online.
Neotake - e-Book search engine, with 1.176.493 files indexed at this moment.
Bookrix - 9.073 free e-books to read online (short stories, novels, poems, and more ...)
MobileRead.com - About 17.000 e-books are available for download in different formats for mobile devices - full list can be downloaded in html here.
free-ebooks.gr - 1.840 e-books available for download in Greek, English, German, ... A miscellaneous collection.
Hinduism e-Books - Featuring a.o. the complete set of Sacred Books of the East (50 volumes) available for download (pdf at Scribd)) or to read online (htm). The series was issued by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910 and was edited by linguist and scholar of comparative religion F. Max Muller.
Feedbooks - A place to discover and publish e-books. Thousands of public domain books and also contemporary fiction (English, French, German, Spanish) to download in EPUB, PDF and Kindle.
Fiction - The Eserver Collection - Works of and about fiction collected from our members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.
Kabbalah Digital Library - One of the largest multi-language collections of ancient and modern Kabbalistic writings on the Internet. It is comprised of articles, books and interviews in text and multmedia formats.
The Complete Writings and Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Provides access to most, if not all, of the visual and written works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in order to support scholarly study of the artist. Works fine with Mozilla, Chrome, Safari - it does not with Internet Explorer or Opera.
Internet Indian History Sourcebook - (P. Halsall) - Subset of the three major online Sourcebooks, along with added texts and website indicators.
Internet Women's History Sourcebook - (P. Halsall) - Covering many aspect of the history of women from ancient through modern times.complete online full-text sources are organized by different countries. Each country's section features great women, women's oppression, the structure of women's lives, women's agency, feminism and gender construction.
The Jewish History Resource Center - Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History - "Over 6.000 links to websites in over 30 categories dealing with Jewish History have been visited by our team and have been found to be of value to those interested in Jewish History."
Free Shared Masonic e-Library - Site in English, French or Spanish - 428 documents from 69 contributors.
Access to Insight - Readings in Theravada Buddhism.
Digital Library of Arts and Letters - Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico, Gallup) - Miscellaneous multilingual collection.
cmadras.com - A mobile site for reading books directly on iphone, palm, pocket pc, smartphones and more.
Globusz Publishing - Free eBooks - classics and contemporary to download or read online.
LIBROdot.com - International digital collection in Spanish. "We have more than 11,000 titles, 1,000 authors from 60 different countries. We add NEW UNPUBLISHED books each week."
Arno-Schmidt-Referenzbibliothek - English and German books from the heritage library of Arno Schmidt, available for download in pdf - most 18th and 19th century literature.
Endless Satsang - some free spiritual books on this blog, downloadable (pdf)
Taggedzi - a cloud free e-book site designed to work with small-screen devices that don’t have the sorts of specs of smart-phones or tablets—for example, basic feature phones.
University of Virginia Library - Digital collections.
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics - Classic books and other works on constitutional government.
DigiLibraries.com: 20.000+ ebooks - worldliterature (fiction/non-fiction) in English translation, to download for pc or mobile, or to read online.
Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship (IAMPETH - International Association of Master Penmen - Eingrossers - Teachers of Penmanship)
English - American
Ibis Reader - New way to read online on smartphones, computers, tablets or netbooks.
The Online Library of Liberty - The Liberty Fund (founded 1960) is a private educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal society of free and responsible individuals. Books (pdf, htm, facsimile). Texts go back some 4.000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory.
Bartleby.com - Great Books Online.
Bibliomania - Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays absolutely free.
New Free Books - Links to free, legal, complete e-books still covered by copyright.
Online Magical Library - A number of e-books about magic in many cultures.
Page by Page Books - Read books online for free.
PublicLiterature.org - A collection of classic literature, in English, to read or listen to online.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 - 500 titles (from 2.000) are available to the general public - from academic presses on a range of topics including art, science, history, music, religion and fiction.
DjVu Editions - English classics in DjVu-format.
The Victorian Prose Archive - Eight canonical authors from the Victorian era: Matthew Arnold, T. Carlyle, J.A. Froude, F.W. Newman, J.H. Newman, Walter H. Pater (Complete works), J.J. Thomas, Oscar Wilde. (Maintained by A.J. Drake, Ph.D.)
Palimpsest onLine! - PSU's Electronic Classics Site - 140+ in pdf - originals by Pennsylvania State University and English classics - created and maintained by Jim Manis.
ChestofBooks - Read Books Online for Free.
BooksInMyPhone - java - Public domain & Creative Commons.
The Library of Congress - American Memory - Zora Neale Hurston plays, book collection 19th century American authors, periodicals, Walt Whitman notebooks.
Yahoo - Humanities - Literature - Links to collections.
DMOZ Open Directory - Society, Philosophy - Online texts.
Baen Free Library - 'Contemporary' sci-fi and fantasy - author Harry Flint and publisher Baen.
British History Online - Digital library containing some of the core primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Cornell University Library - Digital collections a.o. arXiv (science, mathematics), Cornell East Asia Series (some out-of-print books to download), Historical Math Monographs (512 titles), Historical Monographs Collection (441 monographs).
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (Cornell University) - HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance.
Luminarium - Anthology of English Literature (ed.Anniina Jokinen).
Knowledge Bank - University Libraries and Ohio State University.
Broadsides - The Word on the Street - National Library of Scotland, Digital Library.
EServer Books Collection - The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers.
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online.
Penn in Hand - (University of Pennsylvania) - Selected Manuscripts - "The site offers bibliographic information and digital facsimiles for selected collections of manuscript codices, texts, documents, papers, and leaves held by Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library as well as those privately owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C'53, WG'56)."
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image - (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) - Over 12.000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs are available for viewing. Also a Jewish sound archive (over 4.000 recordings) and the Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (2.531 scores ranging from ca.1790 to 1895).
ReadEasily - eBooks Online Library - Classics sourced from PG in nice html, for reading online, with special attention for the visual impaired, easily adjustable interface.
Elfwood - Huge non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and more (36.987 stories).
Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project - 'The largest collection of illustrated antique books online we think ...'
Read Print - Free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction (8.000) available to read online from almost 3.500 authors.
WebLiterature - Recent site that makes available about 7.000 titles of English classics - to read online.
tx2ph - (check 21-08-2012 - site not avvailable) Free e-books for cell phones - enables to progressively download classic literature to your mobile phone.
A Celebration of Women Writers - (ed. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Pennsylvania State University) - Extensive collection (3000 BC to 20th century).
web-books.com - 1.400+ English Classics in epub format for download.
The Gnostic Society Library - Contains a vast collection of primary documents relating to the Gnostic tradition as well as a selection of in-depth audio-readings.
Project Wittenberg - Works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans.
eOneill.com - Complete online texts of selected plays by O'Neill.
Infinity Plus - Publishes some original sci-fi, but mostly re-publishes short stories and some other shorter work. Also reviews, interviews and profiles;
Web Sources for Wars and World Military History - A large page of links to a wide variety of resources in this subject, from ancient times to the present.
Public Bookshelf - Read romance novels online for free.
BookGlutton - 'Social reading' website. 1.000 mostly classic titles available, with a lot of sci-fi. Online reading only.
Children's/Young Adult's Books Online - A variety of famous classic titles... - and more information on online literature at the home-page of BookSpot.
Antique Books - Searchable, readable digital editions.
Archive for the History of Economic Thought - (McMaster University) - E-text repository - extensive collection.
Arthur's Classic Novels - 4.000 classic novels.
British and Irish Authors on the Web - (Nagoya University, Japan).
The Magic Life - Free Novels Online and Free Cyber Books - Free novels to read online or download from contemporary authors in order to promote their work.
The Humanities Text Initiative - (University of Michigan) - Collections freely available to the internet community - large general and numerous sub-collections.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - Large collection of the University of Pittsburgh.
Scrollbox.org - Read books on your mobile device regardless of network connectivity.
BookRags - '... over 8.3 million pages of literary summary, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias and eBooks'.
David Chalmers - Philosophy (Consciousness) - important collection of online papers and links.
People with online papers on philosophy - (source: D. Chalmers).
Free Online Novels - Large collection of novels first posted on the web, and selected vintage, editor Jennifer Armstrong.
Secular Web Library - at infidels.org - atheist literature.
Pulp Fiction - Large collection 20's and 30's.
A Miniature Library of Philosophy - (marxist.org) - tracing the development of the ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words of 140 philosophers over 400 years.
John Locke Index - Collected works, and information (at McMaster).
Cory Doctorow's craphound - sf-writer and creative commons.
Baldwin Library of Children's Literature - (University of Florida Digital Collections) - The collection contains volumes published in the UK and US from the early 1700's, and numbers over 3.000 titles.
Victorian Women Writers - A guide to electronic texts.
The Hockliffe Project - Fully searchable catalogue of the Hockliffe Collection of early British children's books held at the Montfort University. A number of the books are fully digitized and images accessible. (Top left dropdown box: choose catalogue).
The Victorian Literary Studies Archive (Nagoya University, Japan) - Hosts electronic texts of works by: Charles Dickens, Gaskell, Gissing and the Brontë sisters.
G.K. Chesterton - Information, resources and single source for all the works.
Minor Victorian Poets and Authors - Online access to a number of previously unavailable works of minor 19th century writers.
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Makes available a.o. the complete works.
Small Beer Press - Some creative commons on this ... hmm interesting site.
Documenting the American South - Library of Southern Literature (sponsored by the University of North Carolina) - Books and images.
Suvudu - Free Book Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy books, movies, games.
Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia - The Modern English Collection - Large and miscellaneous, many texts available to the general public.
The Illustrated Shakespeare in DjVu - (ed. Verplanck 1847) - Also Spenser, other Elizabethan drama, ...
The Literary Gothic - (Jack Voller, Southern Illinois University) - An archive of electronic texts related to Gothic literature and ghost fiction throughout the high Gothic (1764-1820) - also some texts and resources relating to the post-Gothic period up to 1950.
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts - The Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish History, Literature and Politics - Large online collection in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French and English. Works range from early medieval through to 20th century.
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) - (Indiana University Digital Library) - Collection of 19th century American Fiction: 2.887 volumes by 1.456 authors.
Early America's Digital Archive (EADA - Maryland Institute for the Technologies (MITH) at the University of Maryland) - A collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Kentuckiana Digital Library Home - Search and browse over 550.000 digital images including historic newspapers, photographs, rare Kentuckiana imprints,...
Louisiana Digital Library - Contains a number of collections including the Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection.
Ohio State University Press - Open Access Initiative - 80 scholarly works freely available.
Oregon State University - Digital Collections.
Gutenberg-e - A program from the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. A series of historical monographs.
The Henry James' Scholar's Guide to Websites - Online and comprehensive collection of links, e-texts, critiques and primary sources.
manxnotebook (www.isle-of-man.com) - List of Available Full-Texts - Various books and/or documents relating to the Isle of Man, a.o. Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project - (Emory University, Atlanta) - Collection of texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth century.
Botanicus Digital Library - Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. 827 titles (books/journals) - 3.696 volumes - 1.575.419 pages - 210.428 links to protologues.
Sam Vaknin - Free books and reference works: psychology, economics, international affairs, philosophy and other topics as well as works of short fiction.
Digital Library of Georgia - Online project based at the University of Georgia Libraries, which works with a variety of libraries, museums and archives in Georgia to make cultural and historical research material available on the internet. A large number of digitised collections can be accessed through this portal, and all of them can be individually searched and browsed.
The University of Georgia Libraries - Facsimile Books & other digitally enhanced Works - DjVu and pdf to read online or download.
The University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections - This excellent online resource provides free online access to a number of resources relating primarily to the history of the US. Collections cover a wide range of topics (from children's literature and Fairy Tales - the de Grummond Collection - to the American Civil War and Civil Rights Movement).
Romantic Circles - Electronic Edition - Offers a searchable archive of texts of the Romantic Era. Mary and Percy Shelley and Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth,... (University of Maryland).
Literate Machine - Downloadable comics and e-books - Literate Machine is a community for the creators and fans of digital comic books, e-books, magazines, artworks and other digital media.
The Beck Center (Emory Libraries) - Produces, promotes and supports digital library collections, including digital image and electronic text sources. (E.g. The Great War, with a collection of poetry, ...)
Golden Age Comics - Free download of out-of copyright comics. Simple registration for forums.
The Plough - Free Christian e-books for download in pdf, a number also in EPUB and .prc.
Nicestories.com - Features original short stories submitted by non-professional writers on a variety of subjects, including mysteries, science-fiction & fantasy, romance, and humor.
Literature for Children - (Publication of Archival, Library and Museum Materials, State University Libraries of Florida) - Children's literature published largely in the US and UK from 1850 until after 1950.
Girlebooks - ebooks by the gals - Aims to make classic and contemporary works by female writers available to a large audience through the ebook medium. (A marvellous site with high quality e-books maintained by Laura McDonald.)
Cranky Librarian - More than 3.000 public domain books by 738 authors to read online and 1.569 artworks by 42 artists.
Digital Comic Museum - Library of free public domain digitazl comics from the Golden Age of comics.
Finding Free eBooks - Makes available legally contemporary and public domain literature in many formats.
Chawton House Library - Early Women's Writing (check 21-08-2012 - not available) - novels online - an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library Collection (htm to read or pdf to pdf to download).
The Philological Museum (University of Birmingham) - devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British.
Boston University Digital Collections
North-American Native
Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts - Apache texts to read online in English, Apache (download the font) or side by side (Harry Hoijer, University of Virginia).
American Indian Resource Directory - Indigenous People's Literature - numerous collection of poems and stories.
ANPA Tribal Writers Digital Library - (American Native Press Archives) - Out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives and First Nations people of Canada to readers worldwide. (Sequoyah Research Center, Arkansas).
French - creole
La Bibliothèque Tintamarre - Oeuvres louisianaises sur internet. Mostly 19th century texts in French and Louisianian creole.
Canada
Library and Archives Canada - Electronic Collection - A Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals.
Classics in the History of Psychology - York University, Toronto.
Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library - (University of Toronto) - Special Collections: a.o. Anatomia - The Barren Lands - Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides - ... - Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection - Papyri.
Gaslight - fine collection of tales of mystery, adventure and The Weird written between 1800 and 1919. Htm to read online.
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec - a.o. a collection of 1.500 books or musical pieces from Québec (19th and 20th centuries).
Europe
Europeana- Portalsite - National libraries of the 27 states of the European Union and about a thousand cultural organizations furnish material.
Michael - Miltilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe - You can find and explore digital collections, museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from across Europe. (21-08-2012: in transition - maintenance)
Michael Nederland - Michael Deutschland - Michael Italia.
The European Library 2.3 - Internet service that offers access to the collections of 47 national libraries - many digitized materials available online and for download.
WESSWEB - Online Text Collections in Western European Literature (maintained by James Campbell, University of Virginia).
EuroDocs - Online Sources for European history, from Albania to Vatican City. Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Omaha).
Manuscriptorium - European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage is a project for collecting and providing online access to historical resources European wide. It is basically a collective virtual library, gathering the holdings of numerous national and university libraries from Europe. Originally a project financed by the National Library of the Czech Republic, thanks to the ENRICH project it has now expanded to include 5 million digitised images (freely accessible after registration).
Western Europe
Austria
Austrian Literature Online - Digital library with more than 13.000 documents from the 11th century up to the present.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Ariadne - Dokumente online.
France
Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France - Over 1.000.000 books and documents accessible for free. Download in pdf. Also some English, German, Italian,...
E-books libres et gratuits - Groupe francophone internationale, avec comme partenaire la bibliothèque électronique de Québec.
Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes - Université de Tours.
Les classiques des sciences sociales - 7 collections disponibles regroupant 4.130 oeuvres originales de 1.189 auteurs différentes.
ABU - Association des Bibliophiles Universelles - French texts in the public domain (288).
CNUM - La Conservatoire numérique des Arts et Métiers.
19th Century French Literature - (A Globe-Gate Research Library).
ClicNet - La littérature française virtuelle - works available for online reading by Clicnet, or from sources like Gallica and ABU.
Molière - All plays online - French and English.
La bibliothèque électronique de Lisieux - Une collection de textes littéraires et documentaires du domaine public francophone par la Médiathèque André Malraux de Lisieux.
Maupassant par les textes - site de l'association des amis de Guy de Maupassant - Oeuvres intégrales et traductions.
Gustave Flaubert (Université de Rouen) - Oeuvres et information.
Oeuvres du Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) - All texts are available as html, in French and some also in English and Spanish.
Textes rares - Collection of images and transcriptions of rare French texts from the 15th through the 19th century
Collections de medica - Bibliothèque universitaire de médecine et d'odontologie, Paris - 7.000 textes intégraux en sept séries: Références - Epidémies, maux et maladies - Histoire de la médecine et de ses institutions - Collections - Corpus des médecins de l'Antiquité - Spécialités, doctrines et domaines - Médecins et savants.
University of Warwick - Digital Collections - French drama from 4 periods: Ancien Régime Drama (488), Revolutionary Drama (348), Empire Period Drama (416) and Restoration Drama (392).
Editions du Boucher - Littérature et essays en format pdf à télécharger.
Livres pour tous - Plus de 5.000 eBooks gratuits en ligne.
Voltaire - Oeuvres complètes.
Manuscripts of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - An electronic resource which can be downloaded from the website of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS).The resource consists of a collection of PNG images (22.520 files, 3.91 GB), providing a facsimile of the entire manuscript collection of the French writer and botanist in the library at Le Havre, France, plus images of the correspondence between Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Hennin, held in the library of the Institut de France. (AHDS no longer maintained - checking other possibilities - 05-06)
The ARTFL-project - University of Chicago (Public Databases). With complete online ed. of the Encyclopédie, complete searchable works of Montaigne,...
In libro veritas - download public domain literature in pdf format & and possibility for self-publishing.
Germany
ngiyaw e-books - Literatur Gedichte Romane Novellen Digitalisierte Frauenliteratur.
ELib.at - eLibrary Projekt - Ist ein Digitalisieringsprojekt und Repositorium bei dem alle mitmachen können - Texte für Forschung und Lehrung (Innsbruck Universität).
MATEO (Mannheimer Texte Online) - MARABU (Mannheimer Reihe Altes Buch) und CAMENA (Corpus Automatum Manhemiense Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum).
Digitale Bibliothek Universität Halle (Deutschland) - Digitalisierung von Werke des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts.
Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum - About 4.500 titles (German, French and English) to download for free.
Digitale Bibliothek (Technische Universität Braunschweig) - A.o. historical German children's books, dating from around 1840. - View and download in pdf.
Sophie - A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women - (Hosted at Brigham Young University) - 1740-1923 German texts and some English translations.
Digitalisierte Historische Kinderbücher - (Aus Universitätsbibiotheken Oldenburg und Braunschweig) - 392 überwiegend farbig illustrierte Bücher vor allem aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
Digitale Sammlungen der UB Bielefeld - Stellt eine Auswahl des 15. bis beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts aus ihrem Bestand als digitale Rekonstruktionen zur Verfügung - Shakespeare, Castiglione, Thomas More, Karl May...
Bibliothek Zeno.org - Der grössten deutschsprachigen Volltextbibliothek.
Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einen disziplinübergreifenden Kernbestand deutschsprachiger Texte aus der Zeit von ca. 1650 bis 1900 nach der Erstausgaben zu digitalisieren und als linguistisch annotiertes Volltextcorpus im Internet bereitzustellen. Zurzeit sind 352 Bücher im DTA online.
Die Bayerische Statsbibliothek (München) - Digitale Sammlungen - Digitalisierte Handschriften, Nachschlagewerke und Enzyklopädien, Quelleneditionen und -sammlungen, Zeitschriften.
MPIWG Digital Rare Book Library - Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - Berlin)
Netherlands - Belgium
Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren.
Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis - Een aantal bronnenpublicaties worden ook digitaal ter beschikking gesteld.
Project Laurens Jz. Coster - Public domain Dutch literature in general.
Het geheugen van Nederland - Digitalisering van het Nederlands cultureel erfgoed.
Ars Floreat - Dutch spiritual books to download for free - Plato, Spinoza, Marcus Aurelius - Katha Upanishad - Sankara - Baghavad Gita - Bijbel en Koran.
Digitale Bijzondere Collecties (Universiteit Utrecht) - Met collecties als Architectuurgeschiedenis (104 werken), Geschiedenis van de wiskunde (21 werken), Embleemboeken (115 boeken), Liedboeken en toneelteksten (219),
Letteren Online - Een digitale boekenkast - Almost complete collection Louis Couperus in Dutch, and some work by Frederik van Eeden, Marcellus Emants, Justus van Effen,...
Ursicula - Stichting A D & L en Ceneton presenteren met medewerking van de Maatschappij voor Nederlandse Letterkunde en de Bibliotheca Thysiana te Leiden een reeks digitale facsimiles van bekende en onbekende teksten uit de zestiende, zeventiende en achttiende eeuw.
Early Dutch Books Online - "Early Dutch Books Online geeft full-text toegang tot meer dan twee miljoen bladzijden in 10.000 boeken uit het Nederlandse taalgebied uit de periode 1781-1800" - full-text access to more than 2.000.000 pages in 10.000 books from the Dutch language area (1781-1800) - downloadable in text (mostly raw ocr), or scanned image in pdf. (I didn't detect any browse function as yet - collection accessible through search function (author, title, year, ...)
Switzerland
RERO DOC Bibliothèque numérique - Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale - Books (full-text): 1.245 in French, German,...1.523 journals, 2.685 theses and a number of miscellaneous prints.
e-rara.ch - The platform makes digitised rare books from Swiss libraries available to the general public, free.of charge.
Athena - E-texts edited at Athena (mainly French and Suisse authors) and links to over 10.000 books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. - multilingual (Geneva University).
Wales
Llyfrgell Owen - A library of Welsh language texts, in .txt format. Volunteers to enlarge the collection are welcome.
Nothern Europe
Projekt Runeberg - Classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.
Denmark
Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur - 70 traditional Danish authors from Andersen to Kierkegaard. Scanned facsimiles, plain text or downloadable files (XSQL)) for offline use.
Soren Kierkegaards Skrifter - Kierkegaard's published writings from 1851 and after together with the collected newspaper articles
Finland
Muisti Tietokanta - (check 21-08-2012: doesn't exist anymore?) - Muisti Database - Finnish Digital Library - (produced by Helsinki University Library, The National Archive of Finland, The National Board of Antiquities, The Finnish Literature Society, Turku University Library, and Abo Akademi University).
Projekti Lönnrot (Tapio Riikonen) - Finnish and Swedish e-books for download in text format.
Iceland
Netutgafan - Icelandic literature in ... Icelandic.
EGIL - The Electronic Gateway for Icelandic Literature - (Nottingham University) - Texts available include: Egil's Saga, Anecdotes of Olav the Black, Haco's expidition against Scotland, Thomas Percy's translations of runic poetry,...
Harpa Reinsdottir - Medieval Icelandic literature.
Icelandic Saga Database: very nice collection, multilingual to read online or download in different formats (also epub).
Norway
Henrik Ibsens Hand - Is a Web resource publishing electronic facsimiles of plays, poems, letters and other writings by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) in their original manuscript form.
Ivar Aasen-Tunet - Litteratur - Over 1.030 Norsk non-fiction and literary texts from 141 authors.
Sweden
Litteraturbanken - Large collection of Swedish literature, including most of Strindberg 'Samlade Verk'.
eBoklagret Omnibus - (check 21-08-2012 - doesn't exist anymore?) More than 840 works from 60 Swedish authors - pdf download.
Fornsvenska textbanken - Aims are to make Old Swedish texts more easily available on the internet, to allow users to download electronic editions of the texts, to make them searchable...
Eastern Europe
Armenia
ArmenianHouse.org - ArmenianHouse.org is an electronic library featuring a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related.
Bulgaria
Spiralata - Free e-books in Bulgarian.
LiterNet - Free Bulgarian e-literature - Bulgarian poetry and other literary resources available.
Slovoto - Virtual Library of Bulgarian Literature - Aims to provide a comprehensive virtual library of Bulgarian literature from the 9th century to the present day.Short stories, poetry, novels, articles - mostly in Bulgarian, some translated in English and some other languages, as is the introduction.
Estland
DSpace at Tartu University - (Estland) - Large and miscellaneous digital collection.
Hungary
The Hungarian Electronic Library - 998 books - 'Anyone, even with the simplest of methods and means can contribute', and a civil movement formed itself around it.
Digitalis Irodalmi Akadémia (Hungary) - (Digital Literature Academy) - THE site dedicated to Hungarian literature and Hungarian authors created by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture. Digitised works can be read in html online or downloaded in zip. A pity the site is only in Hungarian. Read description at Intute.
Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtar - Hungarian Electronic Library hosts a large number of texts of all kinds in the Hungarian language, including translations, arranged into five main categories: natural sciences; technology; social sciences; culture, arts and literature; reference.
Lithuania
Lithuanian Classic Literature Anthology
Poland
Bibliotheka Literatury Polskiej W Internecie - University of Gdansk - Polish literature online.
Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library - Covers cultural heritage, scientific and regional collections - digital copies of different forms of publications: books, journals and graphics.
Polska Bibliotheka Internetowa - Classic Polish literature and translations of literature from other nations. (checking 05-06)
STAROPOLSKA - Traditional Polish literature.
National Digital Library Polona
Serbia - Croatia
Free Balkan History e-Books - Istorija Balkana - over 1.200 e-books in pdf, mostly about the history of the Balkans. This site (in Serbo-Croatian) opened up in 2008 and is a free non-profit library. Registration required to join the community.
Projekat Rastko - Bibliotheka srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro.
Croatian e-Books - Classics of Croatian literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century.
Slovenia
Slovenska literatura na internetu - Slovenian texts - Copyright free Slovenian classic literature, with a few authorized modern items.
Romania
Free Romanian e-Books - Essays, Poetry, Drama, Translations and Art.
Russia
Electronic Publications Library - Works in Russian from Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoj in html to read online.
Free Belarusian E-Books - The Belarusian e-Library. Literature in Belarusian, and some in English and other translations.
Moshkov's Library - This Russian language website is a valuable primary source: 18.000 text files contain different works of Russian literature in the original and European literature in translation.
PalmPc.ru - e-Books in Russian for PalmPc.
RUSF - Russian sci-fi and fantasy available online.
Boris Berdichevsky's Library - Russian literature and some translations (Stevenson, Kipling, ...) in word, download in zip (last update 2007).
Biblioteka Komarova - Russian classics - Gogol, Dostojewski, Lermontov, ...
Biblioteka Jevgeni Peskin - Exists 17 years (last update 1998) - Russian classics.
Russian Virtual Library - 18th, 19th and 20th century Russian literature.
TarraNova - An archive of (contemporary) texts and translations, maintained by Sergej Tarasov and Andrej Novikov.
Risunok aquarel (Russian) - Classics, also Mandelstam, Pasternak, Sologub... - worthwhile.
Antologiia samizdata - Impressive resource which describes and makes available online Soviet samizdat and tamizdat texts (texts self-published or smuggled abroad to be published). Published by a democratic politician and former dissident, Viacheslav Igrunov, the anthology offers a selection of literary, political and academic texts which circulated in samizdat between 1950 and 1989, but may have been written earlier (e.g. poetry by FR Pavel Florensky).
Fundamentalnaia elektronnaia biblioteka - (feb-web.ru) - The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore is an ambitious project initiated by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Russian Ministry for Communications, which aims to make available the full-text primary and secondary literature pertaining to selected 11th to 20th century Russian literature and folklore. The site is partially available in English. Many texts are downloadable as pdf or jpeg.
Elektronnaya Biblioteka 'Im werden' - 'Being made' aims to make Russian literature widely available in electronic form. Founded in Moscow in 1988 with a manual typewriter and a print run of three handmade paper copies. New pdf and audio files are constantly added.
Daniil Kharms - Mainly Russian language online resource dedicated to the works of the writer (1906-1941), who was a founding member of the OBERIU circle and is considered to be one of the greatest Russian authors of fiction of the absurd. (Quite a lot of the shorter works are available in English translation, I noticed.)
Vavilon - sovremennaia russkaia literatura - publishes a wide range of contemporary Russian literature, as well as 'living classics', exploiting computer technology to present poetry and literary texts in new and innovative ways.
Russkoe literaturnoe nasledie on-line - Provides access to the full-text of the ninety-volume edition of Tolstoy's complete works which includes drafts, letters and diaries; dissertations on Tolstoy from the Russian State Library; plus scanned manuscripts, family photographs, and a bibliography of the contents of Tolstoy's personal library, preserved at Yasnaya Polyana.
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
Ukraine
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature - Classic texts of Ukrainian prose - University of Toronto, Prof. Maxim Tarnawski.
Bibliotheka Ukrainskoi Literaturoi - Largest Ukrainian library on the web. Classical literature, critical essays, modern poetry and prose.
Southern Europe
Italy
Letteratura Italiana Opera Omnia - Collection of Italian classics.
Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana - Novels, poetry, plays and other texts both classic and contemporary, in html to read online. (checking 21-08 - not available)
Letteratura dimenticata - Romanza e letteratura per l'infanzia.
Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani - (G. Bongi da Lucera).
eBookgratis - Free Italian e-books. Genres include: novels, poetry, classics, plays, biography, horror & fantasy (MS Reader format only).
ozoz - Classic texts in Italian, Latin and English in html, rtf, text and zip for download.
www.dramma.it - la casa virtuale della dramaturgia contemporanea.
e-Biblioteca - Italian classic literature and foreign literature. e-Books in MS Reader, pdf, text, rtf and html.
Pelagus - Letteratura Italiana Online - Selected classics of Italian literature, which can be read online.
Scrittori d'Italia Laterza - Online digital reproduction of texts representing the entire series published by Laterza publishing house. In total 125.000 pages have been digitized.
Romanzieri.com - bibliotheca di varia umanità - extensive collection, mostly Italian classics, foreign in translation, and some English, French,... linking a.o. to PG.
Italian Women Writers - (University of Chicago) - with 311 full-texts available.
Biblioteca Italiana - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - Freely accessible online library of cultural and literary Italian texts (1.700 from the public domain and encoded using XML-TEI).
BIVIO - Biblioteca Virtuale On-Line - Teste e immagini dell'umanesimo e del rinascimento - online library containing historical editions of rare historical, artistic, philosophical and philological texts and their most favoured translations. (Intute).
Letteratura Italiana - 342 classical works by 205 authors.
Wu Ming (the former "Q") - Italian writers' collective, mostly known for "Luther Blissett".(1999) - Works freely available online in different formats and languages (Italian, French, English, and even some in Dutch).
Liber Liber Biblioteca (progetto Manuzio) - Extensive digital archive of classic literature in Italian. Read online or download in pdf, rtf, txt.
eBookgratis.net - Distribuisci gratis in rete con noi le tue produzione.
Classici Stranieri - Facciamo una biblioteca multimediale. Meglio. - literature and music (a.o. PG texts)
Portugal
Bibliotheca Digital Camoes - Many Portuguese e-books in pdf.
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - biblioteca nacional digital - free download of works in the public domain.
Crestomatia de Quarta-Feira - Portuguese literary works, mostly prose or fiction. (checking - 21-08-2012 - not available)
Projecto Vercial - Portuguese classical literature
Spain
Badosa.com - Literary publisher - Free literary unpublished texts in Spanish and Catalan.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - biblioteca virtual de espanol.
Literatura Electronica Hispanica - Portalsite of 'Cervantes' - Brings together literary texts in Spanish written with the aim in mind of making the most of the internet, multimedia resources and interactive formats.
Biblioteca Historica - Universidad Complutense Madrid. Coleccion Digital Complutense - publishes full-text electronical editions of ancient books held in the library, theses and full-text journals published by the University of Madrid, Spain. Also a large (58.212) collection of books scanned by Google.
Proyecto Ensayo Hispanico - several hundreds of works available.
Obras Completas de Federico Garcia Lorca.
Cybertextos - Editiones interactivas de obras importantes de la literatura hispanica con texto, notas, concordancias ... also some English and French texts.
Textos Lemir - Textos de Literatura Espanol Medieval y del Renacimiento.
Fondo Antiguo - Universidad de Sevilla - Antique books in Spanish, French, some English ... to consult online.
Biblioteca Virtual Galega - Provides access to a substantial number of digitised texts by Galician authors, browsable by genre (narrative, drama, poetry, children's literature, essay, and so on.)
Ateneo de Madrid - Private association in arts, literature and sciences (existing since 1835 but still active). Impressive virtual library which provides digital versions of an important part of the collections.
El poder de la palabra - A vast electronic resource of poetic prose and a database of intellectuals, authors and artists. Literature - Art - Music - Architecture - Film. International, but in Spanish.
QBI - Banco de imagenes del Quijote (1605-1905) - Contenido actual: 465 ediciones y 14.757 imagenes. Offers more than 14.000 images of 400+ editions of Cervantes' work, some in languages other than Spanish.
Fonds ibériques anciens des bibliothéques de toulousaines - Offers digital versions of literary, cultural and religious texts written in the period between 15th and 18th century. Most in Spanish, although some are French translations.
FCMC - Biblioteca de obras clasicas en formatos digitales - libros gratuitos en soporte informatico - The Manuel Caragol Foundation for the Visually Impaired has made available a significant number of downloadable texts in Spanish HTML/Braille format, as well as a smaller section of texts in pdf format. Available are literary texts from 16th to 19th centuries. - 03-06-2011: looks like they are hosted by leelibros.com (Biblioteca de Sedice).
Memoria Digital de Canarias (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) - Vast digital collection of documentation and varied materials produced in or related to the Canary Islands, or authored by writers from the Canary Islands.
Biblioteca virtual Saavedra Fajardo - A project by the University of Murcia (Spain) in collaboration with international groups of researchers and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. The library's main focus is Hispanic intellectual history, and in particular political works and thinkers who write in Spanish. The vast amount of resources include: electronic versions of books (pdf), a bio-bibliographic catalogue, ...
Portal Biblioteca de Catalunya - The National Library of Catalonia was created in 1907 as a means to promote the study of Catalonia and preserve its bibliographic heritage. Since 2000 the library has been collaborating with other Spanish universities and the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes to make available electronic versions of more than 1.000 documents and manuscripts.
EumedNet - Biblioteca Virtual - 777 libros gratuitos de Economia, Derecho y otras Ciencias Sociales.
Fictitia - Ciudad de cuentos e historias. Prohibida la entrada a poetas.
LibrosGratisWeb - Spanish and foreign in translation - mostly download in PDF.
Libros Gratis - links to downloadable literature (not on site) - a lot of documentation and general information about authors and works.
TodoEbook.net - Spanish literature and world literature in Spanish to download in pdf.
Descarga Ebooks - miscellaneous collection of literature original Spanish and translated into Spanish to download for free.
Basque
Euskal testuen gordailua - Classical Bask literature (University of the Basque Country).
Klasikoen Gordailua - Depository of classic works. Managed by publishing house Susa and offers the opportunity to read on the web some works of Bask classic writers as well as some other classic texts.
Klasikoak - Classics of thought - This project aims to publicize the most important works of universal thought translated into Basque. You can read online and download works by Noam Chomsky, Miguel de Unamuno, Seneca, George Berkeley, Friedrich Nietzsche and others - Merged with the site Klasikoen Gordailua. (04-06-2011).
Teatro Testuak - Offers the opportunity to read some theatre texts written in Basque or translated into Basque, as well as theatre plays for children, short stories, monologues, etc.
Turkey
Uysal-Walker - Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. Turkish popular narratives to download in pdf (Texas Tech University).
Contemporary Turkish Literature - Extracts translated into English from novels, plays, short stories and various other forms of literature. (checking 05-06)
Arabic
Shia books (Arabic) - Maktabat ya-sub al-din - Access to online text-versions of over 3.000 books in Arabic. Despite the name, books in both Shiite and Sunni traditions.
Arabic Literature - Middle East and Islamic Study Collection (Cornell University) - Classic and modern.
Manuscripts Center @ The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Dr. Youssef Ziedan - A wealth of information on Arab and Islamic heritage and manuscripts. English and Arabic.
Nida' al-iman - Islamic website that provides electronic versions of a large number of both classical and contemporary texts in the islamic sciences. Along with an extensive digital library the site includes: the full text of the Qu'ran with associated audio files searchable and navigable by chapter and verse, a number of Hadith collections, a fatwa database that can be searched by topic and jurist, and an audio library of lectures on various topics. The site is available only in Arabic.
Al-waraq - Founded in 1998 by a group of academics in the United Arab Emirates. It aims to provide outstanding classical Arabic and Islamic works to the general public. The main categories of the site are: Heritage Library, Copyright Library, Qu'ran Library and Majalis Al-Waraq.
Al-Islam.org - Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project - '...the DILP is an effort to digitise important Islamic resources and make them available to the masses through the internet. Ultimately we aim to explore possibilities of bringing this digitised material together in a comprehensive Islamic Study Database.' Categories of resources available on this multilingual site are: 'Multimedia', 'Full length texts', etc.
Jewish
Ben Yehuda - Free e-books - Hebrew literature.
The David Simonsen Manuscripts - Royal Library of Denmark - Hebraic manuscript collection.
refoyls yidish veb-bletl - Yiddish and Hebrew texts - more than 50 Yiddish texts from around the world, differing format (html, .txt, gif). Includes searchable Yiddish dictionary and even a song database.
Jewish Virtual Library - The Tanakh.
Hebrew Books - Hundreds of Seforim (Hebrew books by Rabbi's).
Xophura - An archive on Assam and Assamese literature - Assamese songs, riddles, poetry and literature.
Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews - A multimedia archive of ballads and other oral literature in Judeo-Spanish.
Yiddish Prints (Jiddische Drücke) - An extraordinary online collection of more than 800 complete scans of Yiddish books held in the University Library in Frankfurt am Main.
Yiddish Children's Books - (Special Collections, Department Florida Atlantic University Libraries) - Collection avilable to read online.
Yiddish Sources - Portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish an Yiddish studies.
Center for Jewish History Digital Collections - A collection of illustrated Hebrew children's books.
The Ladino Digital Library - The Sephardi Studies Project (Stanford University).
JNUL Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) - already 1.100 works have been digitized, new works are added weekly.
SeforimOnline.org - This web site is dedicated to making old seforim of Rishonim and Acharonim available over the internet..
Latin America
Argentina
Literatura Argentina Contemporanea
Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina - More than 70 authors are represented here across a wide range in Spanish.
Libros Tauro (Argentina) - 4.000 e-books in Spanish.
Biblioteca Virtual Universal - More than 15.000 works (mostly Spanish) to download in pdf. Categories are: Biblioteca Educativa - Jovèn - Literaria - Técnica.
Brasil
eBooksBrasil - eBiblioteca Publica (books in MS Reader, Mobipocket, PDF, a.o. formats).
vBookStore (Brasil) Some 60 titles from 26 authors, public domain or with author's permission.
Usina de Letras - Brasilian literature community - 334.960 texts by 9.283 authors.
Biblioteca Digital de Literatura - Brasil - complete works accessible, found no browse function, only through search. 781 works available for download.
Dominio Publico (Brasil) - Machado de Assis (complete), Dante in Portuguese, Brasilian Children's Literature, Brasilian classical music, and more...
biblio.com.br - A Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura (Brazil).
Terra Virtual - Free e-books in Portuguese, Spanish, English and German.
Chile
Memoria Chilena - Historical literature about Chile.
Colombia
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango - The website for the Colombia's library offers digitised texts and links to external sites related to all fields within the arts and humanities (natural and social sciences are also covered). They have published online more than 215.000 pages of books, journals and PhD theses.
Libro Total - Cultural project initiated by SYC S.A. (a company from Bucaramanga) - a large number of classics available to read online in Spanish. Literature from all over Latin-America as well as European authors in translation. Some audiobooks, and hidden musical treasures as e.g. troubadour songs inspired by Dante's Comedy.
Dominican Republic
BibliotecasVirtuales.com - (Dominican Republic) - public domain world literature in Spanish to download in different formats, mostly pdf but also some in .doc.
Mexico
Biblioteca Juridica Virtual - Online library for the legal materials of Latin American countries. The site is provided by the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. A.o. a collection of over 2.000 Mexican law books grouped by legal subject area can be viewed in pdf.
Puerto Rico
Biblioteca Digital Ciudad Seva - Hogar electronico del escritor Luis Lopez Nieves - Created by the Puerto Rican author to facilitate the dissemination of literary studies on the internet. In addition to being a personal webpage, the site offers a vast collection of critical texts, short stories and poems in Spanish. A wide selection of full-text materials to read online.
Venezuela
La Bibliotheca - bibliotheca electronica (Caracas, Venezuela).
Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital - critical editions of classic titles in Latin American literature and civilization in pdf, and in Spanish.
Australia
National Library of Australia - Digital Collections - Manuscripts. Close to 9.000 items have been digitized and can be viewed freely online.
eBooks@Adelaide - Classic works of literature, philosophy, science, history and exploration and travel.
SETIS - Electronic texts and data collections held by the University of Sydney.
Australian Literature and Historical Texts at SETIS.
ANU Digital Collections - e-print repositiry (National University of Australia) - registration required for some collections at no charge.
gay-ebooks.com.au - (Former Blackwattle Press) - Features downloads in pdf: novels, verse and short stories.
Free Read - Free reading in Australia. '...regularly updated with links to Australian novels, poetry, biography, 'Federation' texts, short stories and other works by authors from Australia or who wrote about Australia.
New Zealand
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (Victoria University Library).
Early New Zealand Books - University of Auckland.
Asia
Buddhanet - Download a complete list of all e-books in pdf with detailed description.
ACIP - Asian Classic Input Project - Saves the ancient Buddhist and yoga scriptures by digitizing - volunteering is possible - about 3.400 texts in pdf available (Sanskrit, English, Tibetan).
Dvaita Text Resource - Hindu texts in Sanskrit - downloadable in pdf.
Theravada Text Archives - Old and new texts (Cambodia based).
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Digital Library - ... retrieves and restores works published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930 (New York University Libraries).
Bangla-Desh
Sachalayatan - Free Bangla e-Books - This online writer's community has a few books in pdf to read online or download (enable necessary font in browser).
Bhutan
BhutaneseLiterature.com - A community based literary website launched by a group of active, dedicated youths abroad in May 2009. Features poetry, essays, reviews and stories in Nepali and English (also Dzongkha will be included). Support is welcome here.
Cambodia
Khmer language books - (Digital Library for International Research) - 171 pdf's representing 50 books (11.960 pages) from the Collection of the National Library of Cambodia - Educational periodicals, Khmer schoolbooks and novels.
China
Chinese Literature Classics - with some in English translation.
New Threads Chinese Cultural Society - This electronic library is claimed to be the most complete web archive available of Chinese classic texts.
Chinese Classics - Pre-Quin philosophers, poetry, prose, biography, novels, commentary, ... to read online.
Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive - Pre-Qin - Song through Mid-Qing - Late Quing and Republic texts.
Lienü zhuan - (Anne Kinney - and former Chinese Text Initiative from UvA)
Academia Sinica - Taiwan, and its Chinese text retrieval system (in Chinese).
Hanquan database of ancient texts in Chinese - free, searchable database (one is asked to register) - Shisan jing (Thirteen classics), Pre-Qin philosophers, Quan Tang Shi, ... , Hong lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), Baisha quanji (complete works of Chen Xianzhang, ..., Ershiwu shi (25 stories).
MCLC - Resource Center - Modern Chinese Literature and Culture - (in collaboration with Ohio State University).
Classical Chinese Literature - Features seven classical Chinese texts in complicated characters, equipped with hyperlinks to each character's meaning and etymology. Texts include: the Tao Te Ching, the Analects, The Classic of Filial Piety...
Daoist Scriptures.
India
Dharmic Scriptures - Miscellaneous Sanskrit literature.
Digital Library of India - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. - Free access to many books in English and Indian languages.
DLI-blog - Where Knowledge is Free ...
giirvaaNi - Sanskrit classical literature. Selection of word for word transliterations and translations of some of the most important Sanskrit texts, some of which are not available elsewhere - the bharata savitri e.g. is not easily to find on the internet.
Thulika - Telugu Stories in English - and linking to Telugu.
Gaudiya Grantha Mandira - Collection of 568 important Sanskrit and Bengali texts that belong to the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition.
Shiva shakti mandalam - The inner wisdom of the Hindu Tantrik tradition.
ReadGujarati.com - Read free Gujarati srories, poetry, jokes and books online.
Sampada - An initiative to help grow Kannada literature and promote writing skills in Kannada language.
Vikasa Dhatri - 'Vikasa Dhatri offers Telugu e-books, audio books for free download. Stories, Novels, Poetry, Plays, Biography, Fiction and Non- Fiction and all types of books are made available in Vikasa Dhatri.' Free registration.
Kerala State Library - Rare Books Online: oldest Indian Public Library with online collection of rare English and Malayalam.
Indonesia
Project Madurai - 300 important Tamil texts - out of print books and contemporary authors - with distributed proofreading project.
Tamil Electronic Library - Tamil culture and literature.
Iran
Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives.
Virtual Library Pazand - Contemporary and classical literature in Farsi (also translations from world literature...)
Free Persian Books - Quite a large number of e-books (pdf to download) - and also links to 15 other sites for literature in Farsi.
Iraq
Iraq Virtual Science Library - provides free, full-text access to thousands of scientific journals from major publishers as well as a large collection of on-line educational materials. (Also added the Project Gutenberg collection to their resources.)
Japan
Aozora Bunko - (The Blue Sky Library) - Several thousands of Japanese works of fiction and non-fiction - out-of-copyright and works the authors wish to make public.
Japanese Text Initiative - (Sponsored by the Universities of Virginia and Pittsburgh) - A collaborative effort to make classical Japanese texts available on the WWW - to read online.
J-texts (Japanese) - An eclectic selection of e-texts and e-text sites. The focus is premodern work, especially historical texts and gunki monogatari.
National Diet Library - Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshukani - Japan's National Parliamentary Library. The Electronic Library provides a vast number of books, other documents and images online. About 55.000 books from the Meiji period can be accessed, and around 37.000 images appear in the Rare Books Image Database (both are Japanese-only). See Intute for further description.
The Japan P.E.N. Club Digital Library - Japanese novels, plays essays, poetry, non-fiction ... to read online or download in pdf - some in English translation.
Japanese Electronic Library - Classics in translation (J.-S. Mill, Marx, Shakespeare, ...)
Korea
Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean Literature Site
Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies - Archive - Korean classics in pdf.
Malaysia
Sejarah Melayu Library - '... perhaps the largest collection online of books and other documents on the history of the Malay archipelago and its surrounding region. Consisting of over 800 books, papers and articles in electronic pdf format, the library is divided into 7 broad sections.'
Myanmar
Online Burma/Myanmar Library - A collection of Burmese/Myanmar texts in html and pdf.
Pakistan
Awaz Sayeed's Urdu Literature Page - Short stories in Urdu and links to other literature.
Free Urdu Books - Books/novels by 10 authors, a.o. Allem ul Haq Haqqi, Farhat Ishtiaq, Ibn-e-Safi (with a best-selling series of spy-novels written from 1952 onwards) ... PDF download in Urdu.
Dawat-e-Islami - Pakistani publisher with many books in numerous languages to read online.
Singapore
BookSG (National Library of Singapore) - "BookSG is an online collection of digitised books and other printed materials held in the National Library Singapore, including rare and historical imprints, selected works from the British Library's Oriental & India Office Collection and works published in Singapore. "
Vietnam
BuddhaSasana (by Binh Anson) - Large amount of Buddhist texts n English or Vietnamese.
Africa
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu (Library of Congress, Exhibitions) - Islamic manuscripts from Mali.
Abubakar.imam.com - Some books in Hausa.
African Language Material Archive (ALMA) - Cooperative project of the Digital Library of International Research and the West-African Research Association - On this DLIR-page are links to ALMA-ebooks in a number of languages (including Bamanankan, Criol, Fula/Peul/Pular, Fulfulde, Jula/Dyula, Mandinka, Moore and Wolof) and associated author information. An expanded website with complementary African language materials including interviews, documentary video, translation work and biographies can be viewed at http://alma.matrix.msu.edu.
African Digital Library - free access for people living in Africa - registration required.
South Africa
www.poseidons.net - Links to some e-literature, some philosophy, some strange inventions and more ...nice design.
Montparnasse Café No 29 - Gennaio 2011 - Rivista online di poesia e arte
33 - Maggio 2011
(other issues available at issuu.com)
International
Project Gutenberg - 34.000+ e-books in more than 60 languages (also an important collection of audiobooks).
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center - distributing a collection of more than 75.000 e-books (html and pdf) for free. Housing the effort of other volunteer organizations (Anglo-Saxon, European, Asian).
Project Gutenberg of Australia - About 2.000 titles. (Copyright regulations differ from US - life +50)
Gutenberg Canada - already more than 500 e-books available. (Check out copyright regulations for your country).
PG of Europe - (not really active anymore?) - 700 e-books available in 65 languages.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Project Gutenberg PrePrint Reading Room - Texts not quite ready for the collections.
ibiblio - (host to PG) - Home to one of the largest 'collections of collections' on the internet ibiblio is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, literature, music and art.
The Internet Archive - Massive collection of 1.800.000 books in different formats - sub-collections from a.o. American and Canadian Libraries, Universal Library, Stephen Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library (more than 10.000 works), Children's Library, Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Internet Sacred Text Archive - The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the internet.
Google Books
ManyBooks.net - More than 26.000 e-books freely available from PG and other public domain and creative commons sources.
Dr. Widger's Library - 'A collection of copyright-expired and generally out-of-print books from my library and other collections, which I have posted to Project Gutenberg for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.' - International classics in translation, many illustrated and very nicely presented.
The Universal Digital Library - Million Book Collection - A project of the Carnegie Mellon University and the governments of India and China - much of the scanning is done in the latter two countries. The project includes many Chinese and Indian languages, as well as English.
Digital Asset Repository (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) - DAR acts as a repository for all types of digital material, thus archiving and preserving the digital media as well as providing public access to digitized collections through a web-based search and browsing facilities.
Blackmask / Munseys - Large and miscellaneous collection in different languages.
Great Books and Classics - Links to html online versions of many famous authors from before 1000 BC to the 20th century in different languages.
World Public Library - More than 750.000 e-books in pdf in 100+ languages in 125 collections.
Bookyards - Library to the world.
Creative Commons - A list of books available under a Creative Commons license.
Scribd - Publish on your website and read.
The Digital Book Index - Provides links to more than 148.000 full-text digital books from more than 1.800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities and various private sites - more than 120.000 of these documents are freely available.
UbuWeb - Vast resource for about anything.
Global Text Project - (Educational) - 'The project will create open content electronic textbooks that will be freely available from a website' ... - some books are already available on business, computing, education, health, humanities.
Wordtheque - Word by word multilingual library collection.
DayLit - Read books online - minutes a day of great reading in your inbox.
ETANA - Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives - Books, cuneiform tablets (Case Western Reserve University).
Wikimedia commons - A database of 6.307.335 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Publishing the Unpublishable (UBUWEB)
World Digital Library - (American Library of Congress and UNESCO) - Makes available on the internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Originala Literatura Esperanta
BookBoon.com - Free textbooks and travel guides.
Montclair Electronic Text Archive - 21-08-2012: moved to Rutgers University Libraries- Primary texts in Latin, Greek, Anglo-Saxon and English, and secondary texts in English (html, xml, DjVu).
Oxford Text Archive - Large collection of classics in Greek, Latin, English, and a few other European languages.
Hathi Trust - A "Shared Digital Repository". Very high potential. - and working on accessibility! -
IU, University of Illinois launch HathiTrust Research Center for computational access to archives (18-04-2011).
preterhuman.net - Large freely accessible collection of texts and books on many subjects.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use (Paul Halsall, ed., Fordham University).
Harvard University Library - Open Collections Program - A.o. Islamic Heritage Project with over 156.000 pages on a wide range of topics from the 10th through the 20th centuries CE from Harvards collections of Islamic manuscripts, published materials and maps.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - The largest repository of Ancient History Texts on the Web (ed. Paul Halsall, Fordham University).
Eighteenth Century E-Texts (Jack Lynch of Rutgers-Newark).
Carrie - A full-text Electronic Library (by Lynn H. Nelson, Em. Prof. of History, Kansas University) - a.o. Eurasia collection (European University Institute).
The Works of Flavius Josephus.
Ipl2 - Internet Public Library - Ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment ('Ask an Ipl2 librarian') - launched January 2010 and merges the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians Internet Index websites.
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature - Oxford University - Originals, translations and transliterations.
MemoWare - Large collection of e-books in different languages and formats, pdf and all kinds of mobiles.
QuranDownload.com - In 60 languages to download, read and listen to.
lernu! Library - Free Esperanto e-books.
The Alchemy Website - Hundreds of practical, philosophical, allegorical alchemy texts (different languages) and a lot of other material. Huge site by alchemy authority Adam McLean.
Electronic Literature Directory - A resource for readers and writers of born-digital literature. Created by the ELO it provides an extensive database listing electronic works, their authors and their publishers. - Descriptions and links to texts available.
Electronic Literature Organization - Lots of links and e-literature collection.
Sufi Portal - e-Books in English and German.
Islam Denounces Terrorism - Terrorism: the Ritual of the Devil and other free titles available as html online or pdf in download.
International Islamic Digital Library - 'An ambitious project to create a centralized repository of knowledge on Islam and Muslim communities, which is authoritative, comprehensible and reliable.' The Malaysian initiative comprehends books, manuscripts, multimedia, theses, articles and conference papers. Users need to register.
Dharmic Scriptures - Major part of the collection consists of the complete Veda's (950 pages in word) and 210 Upanishads.
The Himalayan Academy - Online documents: an abundance of contemporary and ancient knowledge on Hinduism, all available for free. Check out the Vedic Experience.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Large collection of significant Christian works. Especially in English, but with some Russian and Chinese e-texts, plus a few in Latin, Greek, French.
DharmaNet - Learning Center - Provides access to a large collection of Buddhist texts, and information about the whole range of Buddhist schools and traditions.
The Lied and Art Songs Text Page - An archive of texts used in 75.523 Lieder and other classical art songs.
IntraText Digital Library - Full-text digital library offering books and corpora as lexical hypertexts on Creative Commons license. Committed to accuracy, accessibility and tablet PC oriented cognitive ergonomics. Multilingual.
World Wide School - The Hart Library, which comprises of classic titles, including those of the PG collections.
The Sagely City of 10.000 Buddhas - Buddhist Text Translation Society Online.
Jacques Maritain Center (University of Notre Dame) - Aristotle et al., Readings for Philosophers and Catholics (J. Maritain, Raïssa Maritain, Ralph McInerny (his complete History of Western Philosophy), the Thomistic Revival, ... Lots of links to papers and texts in other collections (PG, Google) - A History of Medieval Philosophy by Maurice de Wulf - more links here - make sure to browse around this site and get used to the not very intuitive build:).
Jules Verne Virtual Library - Large collection, numerous languages.
The Anthology of Conceptual Writing (UBUWEB).
International Gita Society - The Bhagavad-gita in 14 languages.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales - 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1.500 illustrations - also discover over 1.600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 e-books.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections - The Literature Collection - The collection includes: texts from the medieval to the modern, in translation and the original languages, classic and contemporary poetry, and a 'rich vein of information on James Joyce'.
Wattpad - The World's most Popular e-Book Community - Read what you like, Share what you write.
Feminist Literature - Provides links to full texts of works of feminist literature available on the web.
Persian Literature in Translation (Packard Humanities Institute) - Over 100 works already available in full text, as well as several digitized secondary sources on Persian literature.
AtmaDharma.org - Library of Original Jain Literature and Jain Logic.
World of Tales - Stories for children, folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world.
International Children's Digital Library - A Library for the World's Children.
Online Books 4 Free - Your gateway to knowledge - links to 9.287 books.
The Warburg Institute Library Digital Collections - (University of London) - Makes available digitised editions of out-of-print texts related to Renaissance and Medieval topics. Copies can be downloaded as pdf.
Other Women's Voices - Translations of women's writing before 1700 - Offering information about, excerpts from and links to the work of well over a 100 women writers, dating from about 2200 B.C.E. to the end of the 17th century.
Libro - The Library of Iberian Resources Online - Recent but out-of-print university press monographs and texts that pertain to the history of medieval and early modern Spain.
Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) - e-Resources - Project run by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) that publishes several documents (books, journals, photographs, maps) on archeology as well as well as modern literature and languages in digital format. Section e-Books Collections contains the ALMA (African Language Materials Archive) Project, with a number of e-books written in African languages (including Bamanankan, Criol, Fula/Peul/Pular, Fulfulde, Jula/Dyula, Mandinka, Moore and Wolof).
The Digital South Asia Library - (Center for Research Libraries and University of Chicago) - Assembles information for scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users requiring reference materials about South Asia. Featured resources include: dictionaries, historical gazetteers, photographs, maps, statistics from the colonial period, bibliographies, journals, books, and links to websites.
E-Books Directory - 3.876 free e-books in 414 categories. Submit your own books.
Internet Accuracy Project (Working to improve the accuracy of reference sources, both online and off!)- Literature - Free books, short stories and poetry to read online.
Neotake - e-Book search engine, with 1.176.493 files indexed at this moment.
Bookrix - 9.073 free e-books to read online (short stories, novels, poems, and more ...)
MobileRead.com - About 17.000 e-books are available for download in different formats for mobile devices - full list can be downloaded in html here.
free-ebooks.gr - 1.840 e-books available for download in Greek, English, German, ... A miscellaneous collection.
Hinduism e-Books - Featuring a.o. the complete set of Sacred Books of the East (50 volumes) available for download (pdf at Scribd)) or to read online (htm). The series was issued by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910 and was edited by linguist and scholar of comparative religion F. Max Muller.
Feedbooks - A place to discover and publish e-books. Thousands of public domain books and also contemporary fiction (English, French, German, Spanish) to download in EPUB, PDF and Kindle.
Fiction - The Eserver Collection - Works of and about fiction collected from our members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.
Kabbalah Digital Library - One of the largest multi-language collections of ancient and modern Kabbalistic writings on the Internet. It is comprised of articles, books and interviews in text and multmedia formats.
The Complete Writings and Paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Provides access to most, if not all, of the visual and written works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in order to support scholarly study of the artist. Works fine with Mozilla, Chrome, Safari - it does not with Internet Explorer or Opera.
Internet Indian History Sourcebook - (P. Halsall) - Subset of the three major online Sourcebooks, along with added texts and website indicators.
Internet Women's History Sourcebook - (P. Halsall) - Covering many aspect of the history of women from ancient through modern times.complete online full-text sources are organized by different countries. Each country's section features great women, women's oppression, the structure of women's lives, women's agency, feminism and gender construction.
The Jewish History Resource Center - Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History - "Over 6.000 links to websites in over 30 categories dealing with Jewish History have been visited by our team and have been found to be of value to those interested in Jewish History."
Free Shared Masonic e-Library - Site in English, French or Spanish - 428 documents from 69 contributors.
Access to Insight - Readings in Theravada Buddhism.
Digital Library of Arts and Letters - Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico, Gallup) - Miscellaneous multilingual collection.
cmadras.com - A mobile site for reading books directly on iphone, palm, pocket pc, smartphones and more.
Globusz Publishing - Free eBooks - classics and contemporary to download or read online.
LIBROdot.com - International digital collection in Spanish. "We have more than 11,000 titles, 1,000 authors from 60 different countries. We add NEW UNPUBLISHED books each week."
Arno-Schmidt-Referenzbibliothek - English and German books from the heritage library of Arno Schmidt, available for download in pdf - most 18th and 19th century literature.
Endless Satsang - some free spiritual books on this blog, downloadable (pdf)
Taggedzi - a cloud free e-book site designed to work with small-screen devices that don’t have the sorts of specs of smart-phones or tablets—for example, basic feature phones.
University of Virginia Library - Digital collections.
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics - Classic books and other works on constitutional government.
DigiLibraries.com: 20.000+ ebooks - worldliterature (fiction/non-fiction) in English translation, to download for pc or mobile, or to read online.
Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship (IAMPETH - International Association of Master Penmen - Eingrossers - Teachers of Penmanship)
English - American
Ibis Reader - New way to read online on smartphones, computers, tablets or netbooks.
The Online Library of Liberty - The Liberty Fund (founded 1960) is a private educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal society of free and responsible individuals. Books (pdf, htm, facsimile). Texts go back some 4.000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory.
Bartleby.com - Great Books Online.
Bibliomania - Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays absolutely free.
New Free Books - Links to free, legal, complete e-books still covered by copyright.
Online Magical Library - A number of e-books about magic in many cultures.
Page by Page Books - Read books online for free.
PublicLiterature.org - A collection of classic literature, in English, to read or listen to online.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 - 500 titles (from 2.000) are available to the general public - from academic presses on a range of topics including art, science, history, music, religion and fiction.
DjVu Editions - English classics in DjVu-format.
The Victorian Prose Archive - Eight canonical authors from the Victorian era: Matthew Arnold, T. Carlyle, J.A. Froude, F.W. Newman, J.H. Newman, Walter H. Pater (Complete works), J.J. Thomas, Oscar Wilde. (Maintained by A.J. Drake, Ph.D.)
Palimpsest onLine! - PSU's Electronic Classics Site - 140+ in pdf - originals by Pennsylvania State University and English classics - created and maintained by Jim Manis.
ChestofBooks - Read Books Online for Free.
BooksInMyPhone - java - Public domain & Creative Commons.
The Library of Congress - American Memory - Zora Neale Hurston plays, book collection 19th century American authors, periodicals, Walt Whitman notebooks.
Yahoo - Humanities - Literature - Links to collections.
DMOZ Open Directory - Society, Philosophy - Online texts.
Baen Free Library - 'Contemporary' sci-fi and fantasy - author Harry Flint and publisher Baen.
British History Online - Digital library containing some of the core primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Cornell University Library - Digital collections a.o. arXiv (science, mathematics), Cornell East Asia Series (some out-of-print books to download), Historical Math Monographs (512 titles), Historical Monographs Collection (441 monographs).
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (Cornell University) - HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance.
Luminarium - Anthology of English Literature (ed.Anniina Jokinen).
Knowledge Bank - University Libraries and Ohio State University.
Broadsides - The Word on the Street - National Library of Scotland, Digital Library.
EServer Books Collection - The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers.
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online.
Penn in Hand - (University of Pennsylvania) - Selected Manuscripts - "The site offers bibliographic information and digital facsimiles for selected collections of manuscript codices, texts, documents, papers, and leaves held by Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library as well as those privately owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C'53, WG'56)."
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image - (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) - Over 12.000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs are available for viewing. Also a Jewish sound archive (over 4.000 recordings) and the Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (2.531 scores ranging from ca.1790 to 1895).
ReadEasily - eBooks Online Library - Classics sourced from PG in nice html, for reading online, with special attention for the visual impaired, easily adjustable interface.
Elfwood - Huge non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and more (36.987 stories).
Children's Books Online - The Rosetta Project - 'The largest collection of illustrated antique books online we think ...'
Read Print - Free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction (8.000) available to read online from almost 3.500 authors.
WebLiterature - Recent site that makes available about 7.000 titles of English classics - to read online.
tx2ph - (check 21-08-2012 - site not avvailable) Free e-books for cell phones - enables to progressively download classic literature to your mobile phone.
A Celebration of Women Writers - (ed. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Pennsylvania State University) - Extensive collection (3000 BC to 20th century).
web-books.com - 1.400+ English Classics in epub format for download.
The Gnostic Society Library - Contains a vast collection of primary documents relating to the Gnostic tradition as well as a selection of in-depth audio-readings.
Project Wittenberg - Works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans.
eOneill.com - Complete online texts of selected plays by O'Neill.
Infinity Plus - Publishes some original sci-fi, but mostly re-publishes short stories and some other shorter work. Also reviews, interviews and profiles;
Web Sources for Wars and World Military History - A large page of links to a wide variety of resources in this subject, from ancient times to the present.
Public Bookshelf - Read romance novels online for free.
BookGlutton - 'Social reading' website. 1.000 mostly classic titles available, with a lot of sci-fi. Online reading only.
Children's/Young Adult's Books Online - A variety of famous classic titles... - and more information on online literature at the home-page of BookSpot.
Antique Books - Searchable, readable digital editions.
Archive for the History of Economic Thought - (McMaster University) - E-text repository - extensive collection.
Arthur's Classic Novels - 4.000 classic novels.
British and Irish Authors on the Web - (Nagoya University, Japan).
The Magic Life - Free Novels Online and Free Cyber Books - Free novels to read online or download from contemporary authors in order to promote their work.
The Humanities Text Initiative - (University of Michigan) - Collections freely available to the internet community - large general and numerous sub-collections.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts - Large collection of the University of Pittsburgh.
Scrollbox.org - Read books on your mobile device regardless of network connectivity.
BookRags - '... over 8.3 million pages of literary summary, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias and eBooks'.
David Chalmers - Philosophy (Consciousness) - important collection of online papers and links.
People with online papers on philosophy - (source: D. Chalmers).
Free Online Novels - Large collection of novels first posted on the web, and selected vintage, editor Jennifer Armstrong.
Secular Web Library - at infidels.org - atheist literature.
Pulp Fiction - Large collection 20's and 30's.
A Miniature Library of Philosophy - (marxist.org) - tracing the development of the ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words of 140 philosophers over 400 years.
John Locke Index - Collected works, and information (at McMaster).
Cory Doctorow's craphound - sf-writer and creative commons.
Baldwin Library of Children's Literature - (University of Florida Digital Collections) - The collection contains volumes published in the UK and US from the early 1700's, and numbers over 3.000 titles.
Victorian Women Writers - A guide to electronic texts.
The Hockliffe Project - Fully searchable catalogue of the Hockliffe Collection of early British children's books held at the Montfort University. A number of the books are fully digitized and images accessible. (Top left dropdown box: choose catalogue).
The Victorian Literary Studies Archive (Nagoya University, Japan) - Hosts electronic texts of works by: Charles Dickens, Gaskell, Gissing and the Brontë sisters.
G.K. Chesterton - Information, resources and single source for all the works.
Minor Victorian Poets and Authors - Online access to a number of previously unavailable works of minor 19th century writers.
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Makes available a.o. the complete works.
Small Beer Press - Some creative commons on this ... hmm interesting site.
Documenting the American South - Library of Southern Literature (sponsored by the University of North Carolina) - Books and images.
Suvudu - Free Book Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy books, movies, games.
Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia - The Modern English Collection - Large and miscellaneous, many texts available to the general public.
The Illustrated Shakespeare in DjVu - (ed. Verplanck 1847) - Also Spenser, other Elizabethan drama, ...
The Literary Gothic - (Jack Voller, Southern Illinois University) - An archive of electronic texts related to Gothic literature and ghost fiction throughout the high Gothic (1764-1820) - also some texts and resources relating to the post-Gothic period up to 1950.
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts - The Free Digital Humanities Resource for Irish History, Literature and Politics - Large online collection in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French and English. Works range from early medieval through to 20th century.
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) - (Indiana University Digital Library) - Collection of 19th century American Fiction: 2.887 volumes by 1.456 authors.
Early America's Digital Archive (EADA - Maryland Institute for the Technologies (MITH) at the University of Maryland) - A collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Kentuckiana Digital Library Home - Search and browse over 550.000 digital images including historic newspapers, photographs, rare Kentuckiana imprints,...
Louisiana Digital Library - Contains a number of collections including the Sidonie de la Houssaye Collection.
Ohio State University Press - Open Access Initiative - 80 scholarly works freely available.
Oregon State University - Digital Collections.
Gutenberg-e - A program from the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. A series of historical monographs.
The Henry James' Scholar's Guide to Websites - Online and comprehensive collection of links, e-texts, critiques and primary sources.
manxnotebook (www.isle-of-man.com) - List of Available Full-Texts - Various books and/or documents relating to the Isle of Man, a.o. Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison.
Emory Women Writers Resource Project - (Emory University, Atlanta) - Collection of texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth century.
Botanicus Digital Library - Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. 827 titles (books/journals) - 3.696 volumes - 1.575.419 pages - 210.428 links to protologues.
Sam Vaknin - Free books and reference works: psychology, economics, international affairs, philosophy and other topics as well as works of short fiction.
Digital Library of Georgia - Online project based at the University of Georgia Libraries, which works with a variety of libraries, museums and archives in Georgia to make cultural and historical research material available on the internet. A large number of digitised collections can be accessed through this portal, and all of them can be individually searched and browsed.
The University of Georgia Libraries - Facsimile Books & other digitally enhanced Works - DjVu and pdf to read online or download.
The University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections - This excellent online resource provides free online access to a number of resources relating primarily to the history of the US. Collections cover a wide range of topics (from children's literature and Fairy Tales - the de Grummond Collection - to the American Civil War and Civil Rights Movement).
Romantic Circles - Electronic Edition - Offers a searchable archive of texts of the Romantic Era. Mary and Percy Shelley and Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth,... (University of Maryland).
Literate Machine - Downloadable comics and e-books - Literate Machine is a community for the creators and fans of digital comic books, e-books, magazines, artworks and other digital media.
The Beck Center (Emory Libraries) - Produces, promotes and supports digital library collections, including digital image and electronic text sources. (E.g. The Great War, with a collection of poetry, ...)
Golden Age Comics - Free download of out-of copyright comics. Simple registration for forums.
The Plough - Free Christian e-books for download in pdf, a number also in EPUB and .prc.
Nicestories.com - Features original short stories submitted by non-professional writers on a variety of subjects, including mysteries, science-fiction & fantasy, romance, and humor.
Literature for Children - (Publication of Archival, Library and Museum Materials, State University Libraries of Florida) - Children's literature published largely in the US and UK from 1850 until after 1950.
Girlebooks - ebooks by the gals - Aims to make classic and contemporary works by female writers available to a large audience through the ebook medium. (A marvellous site with high quality e-books maintained by Laura McDonald.)
Cranky Librarian - More than 3.000 public domain books by 738 authors to read online and 1.569 artworks by 42 artists.
Digital Comic Museum - Library of free public domain digitazl comics from the Golden Age of comics.
Finding Free eBooks - Makes available legally contemporary and public domain literature in many formats.
Chawton House Library - Early Women's Writing (check 21-08-2012 - not available) - novels online - an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library Collection (htm to read or pdf to pdf to download).
The Philological Museum (University of Birmingham) - devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British.
Boston University Digital Collections
North-American Native
Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts - Apache texts to read online in English, Apache (download the font) or side by side (Harry Hoijer, University of Virginia).
American Indian Resource Directory - Indigenous People's Literature - numerous collection of poems and stories.
ANPA Tribal Writers Digital Library - (American Native Press Archives) - Out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives and First Nations people of Canada to readers worldwide. (Sequoyah Research Center, Arkansas).
French - creole
La Bibliothèque Tintamarre - Oeuvres louisianaises sur internet. Mostly 19th century texts in French and Louisianian creole.
Canada
Library and Archives Canada - Electronic Collection - A Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals.
Classics in the History of Psychology - York University, Toronto.
Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library - (University of Toronto) - Special Collections: a.o. Anatomia - The Barren Lands - Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides - ... - Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection - Papyri.
Gaslight - fine collection of tales of mystery, adventure and The Weird written between 1800 and 1919. Htm to read online.
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales de Québec - a.o. a collection of 1.500 books or musical pieces from Québec (19th and 20th centuries).
Europe
Europeana- Portalsite - National libraries of the 27 states of the European Union and about a thousand cultural organizations furnish material.
Michael - Miltilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe - You can find and explore digital collections, museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from across Europe. (21-08-2012: in transition - maintenance)
Michael Nederland - Michael Deutschland - Michael Italia.
The European Library 2.3 - Internet service that offers access to the collections of 47 national libraries - many digitized materials available online and for download.
WESSWEB - Online Text Collections in Western European Literature (maintained by James Campbell, University of Virginia).
EuroDocs - Online Sources for European history, from Albania to Vatican City. Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations (Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Omaha).
Manuscriptorium - European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage is a project for collecting and providing online access to historical resources European wide. It is basically a collective virtual library, gathering the holdings of numerous national and university libraries from Europe. Originally a project financed by the National Library of the Czech Republic, thanks to the ENRICH project it has now expanded to include 5 million digitised images (freely accessible after registration).
Western Europe
Austria
Austrian Literature Online - Digital library with more than 13.000 documents from the 11th century up to the present.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Ariadne - Dokumente online.
France
Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France - Over 1.000.000 books and documents accessible for free. Download in pdf. Also some English, German, Italian,...
E-books libres et gratuits - Groupe francophone internationale, avec comme partenaire la bibliothèque électronique de Québec.
Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes - Université de Tours.
Les classiques des sciences sociales - 7 collections disponibles regroupant 4.130 oeuvres originales de 1.189 auteurs différentes.
ABU - Association des Bibliophiles Universelles - French texts in the public domain (288).
CNUM - La Conservatoire numérique des Arts et Métiers.
19th Century French Literature - (A Globe-Gate Research Library).
ClicNet - La littérature française virtuelle - works available for online reading by Clicnet, or from sources like Gallica and ABU.
Molière - All plays online - French and English.
La bibliothèque électronique de Lisieux - Une collection de textes littéraires et documentaires du domaine public francophone par la Médiathèque André Malraux de Lisieux.
Maupassant par les textes - site de l'association des amis de Guy de Maupassant - Oeuvres intégrales et traductions.
Gustave Flaubert (Université de Rouen) - Oeuvres et information.
Oeuvres du Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) - All texts are available as html, in French and some also in English and Spanish.
Textes rares - Collection of images and transcriptions of rare French texts from the 15th through the 19th century
Collections de medica - Bibliothèque universitaire de médecine et d'odontologie, Paris - 7.000 textes intégraux en sept séries: Références - Epidémies, maux et maladies - Histoire de la médecine et de ses institutions - Collections - Corpus des médecins de l'Antiquité - Spécialités, doctrines et domaines - Médecins et savants.
University of Warwick - Digital Collections - French drama from 4 periods: Ancien Régime Drama (488), Revolutionary Drama (348), Empire Period Drama (416) and Restoration Drama (392).
Editions du Boucher - Littérature et essays en format pdf à télécharger.
Livres pour tous - Plus de 5.000 eBooks gratuits en ligne.
Voltaire - Oeuvres complètes.
Manuscripts of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - An electronic resource which can be downloaded from the website of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS).The resource consists of a collection of PNG images (22.520 files, 3.91 GB), providing a facsimile of the entire manuscript collection of the French writer and botanist in the library at Le Havre, France, plus images of the correspondence between Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Hennin, held in the library of the Institut de France. (AHDS no longer maintained - checking other possibilities - 05-06)
The ARTFL-project - University of Chicago (Public Databases). With complete online ed. of the Encyclopédie, complete searchable works of Montaigne,...
In libro veritas - download public domain literature in pdf format & and possibility for self-publishing.
Germany
ngiyaw e-books - Literatur Gedichte Romane Novellen Digitalisierte Frauenliteratur.
ELib.at - eLibrary Projekt - Ist ein Digitalisieringsprojekt und Repositorium bei dem alle mitmachen können - Texte für Forschung und Lehrung (Innsbruck Universität).
MATEO (Mannheimer Texte Online) - MARABU (Mannheimer Reihe Altes Buch) und CAMENA (Corpus Automatum Manhemiense Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum).
Digitale Bibliothek Universität Halle (Deutschland) - Digitalisierung von Werke des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts.
Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum - About 4.500 titles (German, French and English) to download for free.
Digitale Bibliothek (Technische Universität Braunschweig) - A.o. historical German children's books, dating from around 1840. - View and download in pdf.
Sophie - A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women - (Hosted at Brigham Young University) - 1740-1923 German texts and some English translations.
Digitalisierte Historische Kinderbücher - (Aus Universitätsbibiotheken Oldenburg und Braunschweig) - 392 überwiegend farbig illustrierte Bücher vor allem aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
Digitale Sammlungen der UB Bielefeld - Stellt eine Auswahl des 15. bis beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts aus ihrem Bestand als digitale Rekonstruktionen zur Verfügung - Shakespeare, Castiglione, Thomas More, Karl May...
Bibliothek Zeno.org - Der grössten deutschsprachigen Volltextbibliothek.
Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einen disziplinübergreifenden Kernbestand deutschsprachiger Texte aus der Zeit von ca. 1650 bis 1900 nach der Erstausgaben zu digitalisieren und als linguistisch annotiertes Volltextcorpus im Internet bereitzustellen. Zurzeit sind 352 Bücher im DTA online.
Die Bayerische Statsbibliothek (München) - Digitale Sammlungen - Digitalisierte Handschriften, Nachschlagewerke und Enzyklopädien, Quelleneditionen und -sammlungen, Zeitschriften.
MPIWG Digital Rare Book Library - Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - Berlin)
Netherlands - Belgium
Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren.
Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis - Een aantal bronnenpublicaties worden ook digitaal ter beschikking gesteld.
Project Laurens Jz. Coster - Public domain Dutch literature in general.
Het geheugen van Nederland - Digitalisering van het Nederlands cultureel erfgoed.
Ars Floreat - Dutch spiritual books to download for free - Plato, Spinoza, Marcus Aurelius - Katha Upanishad - Sankara - Baghavad Gita - Bijbel en Koran.
Digitale Bijzondere Collecties (Universiteit Utrecht) - Met collecties als Architectuurgeschiedenis (104 werken), Geschiedenis van de wiskunde (21 werken), Embleemboeken (115 boeken), Liedboeken en toneelteksten (219),
Letteren Online - Een digitale boekenkast - Almost complete collection Louis Couperus in Dutch, and some work by Frederik van Eeden, Marcellus Emants, Justus van Effen,...
Ursicula - Stichting A D & L en Ceneton presenteren met medewerking van de Maatschappij voor Nederlandse Letterkunde en de Bibliotheca Thysiana te Leiden een reeks digitale facsimiles van bekende en onbekende teksten uit de zestiende, zeventiende en achttiende eeuw.
Early Dutch Books Online - "Early Dutch Books Online geeft full-text toegang tot meer dan twee miljoen bladzijden in 10.000 boeken uit het Nederlandse taalgebied uit de periode 1781-1800" - full-text access to more than 2.000.000 pages in 10.000 books from the Dutch language area (1781-1800) - downloadable in text (mostly raw ocr), or scanned image in pdf. (I didn't detect any browse function as yet - collection accessible through search function (author, title, year, ...)
Switzerland
RERO DOC Bibliothèque numérique - Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale - Books (full-text): 1.245 in French, German,...1.523 journals, 2.685 theses and a number of miscellaneous prints.
e-rara.ch - The platform makes digitised rare books from Swiss libraries available to the general public, free.of charge.
Athena - E-texts edited at Athena (mainly French and Suisse authors) and links to over 10.000 books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. - multilingual (Geneva University).
Wales
Llyfrgell Owen - A library of Welsh language texts, in .txt format. Volunteers to enlarge the collection are welcome.
Nothern Europe
Projekt Runeberg - Classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.
Denmark
Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur - 70 traditional Danish authors from Andersen to Kierkegaard. Scanned facsimiles, plain text or downloadable files (XSQL)) for offline use.
Soren Kierkegaards Skrifter - Kierkegaard's published writings from 1851 and after together with the collected newspaper articles
Finland
Muisti Tietokanta - (check 21-08-2012: doesn't exist anymore?) - Muisti Database - Finnish Digital Library - (produced by Helsinki University Library, The National Archive of Finland, The National Board of Antiquities, The Finnish Literature Society, Turku University Library, and Abo Akademi University).
Projekti Lönnrot (Tapio Riikonen) - Finnish and Swedish e-books for download in text format.
Iceland
Netutgafan - Icelandic literature in ... Icelandic.
EGIL - The Electronic Gateway for Icelandic Literature - (Nottingham University) - Texts available include: Egil's Saga, Anecdotes of Olav the Black, Haco's expidition against Scotland, Thomas Percy's translations of runic poetry,...
Harpa Reinsdottir - Medieval Icelandic literature.
Icelandic Saga Database: very nice collection, multilingual to read online or download in different formats (also epub).
Norway
Henrik Ibsens Hand - Is a Web resource publishing electronic facsimiles of plays, poems, letters and other writings by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) in their original manuscript form.
Ivar Aasen-Tunet - Litteratur - Over 1.030 Norsk non-fiction and literary texts from 141 authors.
Sweden
Litteraturbanken - Large collection of Swedish literature, including most of Strindberg 'Samlade Verk'.
eBoklagret Omnibus - (check 21-08-2012 - doesn't exist anymore?) More than 840 works from 60 Swedish authors - pdf download.
Fornsvenska textbanken - Aims are to make Old Swedish texts more easily available on the internet, to allow users to download electronic editions of the texts, to make them searchable...
Eastern Europe
Armenia
ArmenianHouse.org - ArmenianHouse.org is an electronic library featuring a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related.
Bulgaria
Spiralata - Free e-books in Bulgarian.
LiterNet - Free Bulgarian e-literature - Bulgarian poetry and other literary resources available.
Slovoto - Virtual Library of Bulgarian Literature - Aims to provide a comprehensive virtual library of Bulgarian literature from the 9th century to the present day.Short stories, poetry, novels, articles - mostly in Bulgarian, some translated in English and some other languages, as is the introduction.
Estland
DSpace at Tartu University - (Estland) - Large and miscellaneous digital collection.
Hungary
The Hungarian Electronic Library - 998 books - 'Anyone, even with the simplest of methods and means can contribute', and a civil movement formed itself around it.
Digitalis Irodalmi Akadémia (Hungary) - (Digital Literature Academy) - THE site dedicated to Hungarian literature and Hungarian authors created by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture. Digitised works can be read in html online or downloaded in zip. A pity the site is only in Hungarian. Read description at Intute.
Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtar - Hungarian Electronic Library hosts a large number of texts of all kinds in the Hungarian language, including translations, arranged into five main categories: natural sciences; technology; social sciences; culture, arts and literature; reference.
Lithuania
Lithuanian Classic Literature Anthology
Poland
Bibliotheka Literatury Polskiej W Internecie - University of Gdansk - Polish literature online.
Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library - Covers cultural heritage, scientific and regional collections - digital copies of different forms of publications: books, journals and graphics.
Polska Bibliotheka Internetowa - Classic Polish literature and translations of literature from other nations. (checking 05-06)
STAROPOLSKA - Traditional Polish literature.
National Digital Library Polona
Serbia - Croatia
Free Balkan History e-Books - Istorija Balkana - over 1.200 e-books in pdf, mostly about the history of the Balkans. This site (in Serbo-Croatian) opened up in 2008 and is a free non-profit library. Registration required to join the community.
Projekat Rastko - Bibliotheka srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro.
Croatian e-Books - Classics of Croatian literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century.
Slovenia
Slovenska literatura na internetu - Slovenian texts - Copyright free Slovenian classic literature, with a few authorized modern items.
Romania
Free Romanian e-Books - Essays, Poetry, Drama, Translations and Art.
Russia
Electronic Publications Library - Works in Russian from Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoj in html to read online.
Free Belarusian E-Books - The Belarusian e-Library. Literature in Belarusian, and some in English and other translations.
Moshkov's Library - This Russian language website is a valuable primary source: 18.000 text files contain different works of Russian literature in the original and European literature in translation.
PalmPc.ru - e-Books in Russian for PalmPc.
RUSF - Russian sci-fi and fantasy available online.
Boris Berdichevsky's Library - Russian literature and some translations (Stevenson, Kipling, ...) in word, download in zip (last update 2007).
Biblioteka Komarova - Russian classics - Gogol, Dostojewski, Lermontov, ...
Biblioteka Jevgeni Peskin - Exists 17 years (last update 1998) - Russian classics.
Russian Virtual Library - 18th, 19th and 20th century Russian literature.
TarraNova - An archive of (contemporary) texts and translations, maintained by Sergej Tarasov and Andrej Novikov.
Risunok aquarel (Russian) - Classics, also Mandelstam, Pasternak, Sologub... - worthwhile.
Antologiia samizdata - Impressive resource which describes and makes available online Soviet samizdat and tamizdat texts (texts self-published or smuggled abroad to be published). Published by a democratic politician and former dissident, Viacheslav Igrunov, the anthology offers a selection of literary, political and academic texts which circulated in samizdat between 1950 and 1989, but may have been written earlier (e.g. poetry by FR Pavel Florensky).
Fundamentalnaia elektronnaia biblioteka - (feb-web.ru) - The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore is an ambitious project initiated by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Russian Ministry for Communications, which aims to make available the full-text primary and secondary literature pertaining to selected 11th to 20th century Russian literature and folklore. The site is partially available in English. Many texts are downloadable as pdf or jpeg.
Elektronnaya Biblioteka 'Im werden' - 'Being made' aims to make Russian literature widely available in electronic form. Founded in Moscow in 1988 with a manual typewriter and a print run of three handmade paper copies. New pdf and audio files are constantly added.
Daniil Kharms - Mainly Russian language online resource dedicated to the works of the writer (1906-1941), who was a founding member of the OBERIU circle and is considered to be one of the greatest Russian authors of fiction of the absurd. (Quite a lot of the shorter works are available in English translation, I noticed.)
Vavilon - sovremennaia russkaia literatura - publishes a wide range of contemporary Russian literature, as well as 'living classics', exploiting computer technology to present poetry and literary texts in new and innovative ways.
Russkoe literaturnoe nasledie on-line - Provides access to the full-text of the ninety-volume edition of Tolstoy's complete works which includes drafts, letters and diaries; dissertations on Tolstoy from the Russian State Library; plus scanned manuscripts, family photographs, and a bibliography of the contents of Tolstoy's personal library, preserved at Yasnaya Polyana.
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
Ukraine
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature - Classic texts of Ukrainian prose - University of Toronto, Prof. Maxim Tarnawski.
Bibliotheka Ukrainskoi Literaturoi - Largest Ukrainian library on the web. Classical literature, critical essays, modern poetry and prose.
Southern Europe
Italy
Letteratura Italiana Opera Omnia - Collection of Italian classics.
Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana - Novels, poetry, plays and other texts both classic and contemporary, in html to read online. (checking 21-08 - not available)
Letteratura dimenticata - Romanza e letteratura per l'infanzia.
Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani - (G. Bongi da Lucera).
eBookgratis - Free Italian e-books. Genres include: novels, poetry, classics, plays, biography, horror & fantasy (MS Reader format only).
ozoz - Classic texts in Italian, Latin and English in html, rtf, text and zip for download.
www.dramma.it - la casa virtuale della dramaturgia contemporanea.
e-Biblioteca - Italian classic literature and foreign literature. e-Books in MS Reader, pdf, text, rtf and html.
Pelagus - Letteratura Italiana Online - Selected classics of Italian literature, which can be read online.
Scrittori d'Italia Laterza - Online digital reproduction of texts representing the entire series published by Laterza publishing house. In total 125.000 pages have been digitized.
Romanzieri.com - bibliotheca di varia umanità - extensive collection, mostly Italian classics, foreign in translation, and some English, French,... linking a.o. to PG.
Italian Women Writers - (University of Chicago) - with 311 full-texts available.
Biblioteca Italiana - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - Freely accessible online library of cultural and literary Italian texts (1.700 from the public domain and encoded using XML-TEI).
BIVIO - Biblioteca Virtuale On-Line - Teste e immagini dell'umanesimo e del rinascimento - online library containing historical editions of rare historical, artistic, philosophical and philological texts and their most favoured translations. (Intute).
Letteratura Italiana - 342 classical works by 205 authors.
Wu Ming (the former "Q") - Italian writers' collective, mostly known for "Luther Blissett".(1999) - Works freely available online in different formats and languages (Italian, French, English, and even some in Dutch).
Liber Liber Biblioteca (progetto Manuzio) - Extensive digital archive of classic literature in Italian. Read online or download in pdf, rtf, txt.
eBookgratis.net - Distribuisci gratis in rete con noi le tue produzione.
Classici Stranieri - Facciamo una biblioteca multimediale. Meglio. - literature and music (a.o. PG texts)
Portugal
Bibliotheca Digital Camoes - Many Portuguese e-books in pdf.
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - biblioteca nacional digital - free download of works in the public domain.
Crestomatia de Quarta-Feira - Portuguese literary works, mostly prose or fiction. (checking - 21-08-2012 - not available)
Projecto Vercial - Portuguese classical literature
Spain
Badosa.com - Literary publisher - Free literary unpublished texts in Spanish and Catalan.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - biblioteca virtual de espanol.
Literatura Electronica Hispanica - Portalsite of 'Cervantes' - Brings together literary texts in Spanish written with the aim in mind of making the most of the internet, multimedia resources and interactive formats.
Biblioteca Historica - Universidad Complutense Madrid. Coleccion Digital Complutense - publishes full-text electronical editions of ancient books held in the library, theses and full-text journals published by the University of Madrid, Spain. Also a large (58.212) collection of books scanned by Google.
Proyecto Ensayo Hispanico - several hundreds of works available.
Obras Completas de Federico Garcia Lorca.
Cybertextos - Editiones interactivas de obras importantes de la literatura hispanica con texto, notas, concordancias ... also some English and French texts.
Textos Lemir - Textos de Literatura Espanol Medieval y del Renacimiento.
Fondo Antiguo - Universidad de Sevilla - Antique books in Spanish, French, some English ... to consult online.
Biblioteca Virtual Galega - Provides access to a substantial number of digitised texts by Galician authors, browsable by genre (narrative, drama, poetry, children's literature, essay, and so on.)
Ateneo de Madrid - Private association in arts, literature and sciences (existing since 1835 but still active). Impressive virtual library which provides digital versions of an important part of the collections.
El poder de la palabra - A vast electronic resource of poetic prose and a database of intellectuals, authors and artists. Literature - Art - Music - Architecture - Film. International, but in Spanish.
QBI - Banco de imagenes del Quijote (1605-1905) - Contenido actual: 465 ediciones y 14.757 imagenes. Offers more than 14.000 images of 400+ editions of Cervantes' work, some in languages other than Spanish.
Fonds ibériques anciens des bibliothéques de toulousaines - Offers digital versions of literary, cultural and religious texts written in the period between 15th and 18th century. Most in Spanish, although some are French translations.
FCMC - Biblioteca de obras clasicas en formatos digitales - libros gratuitos en soporte informatico - The Manuel Caragol Foundation for the Visually Impaired has made available a significant number of downloadable texts in Spanish HTML/Braille format, as well as a smaller section of texts in pdf format. Available are literary texts from 16th to 19th centuries. - 03-06-2011: looks like they are hosted by leelibros.com (Biblioteca de Sedice).
Memoria Digital de Canarias (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) - Vast digital collection of documentation and varied materials produced in or related to the Canary Islands, or authored by writers from the Canary Islands.
Biblioteca virtual Saavedra Fajardo - A project by the University of Murcia (Spain) in collaboration with international groups of researchers and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. The library's main focus is Hispanic intellectual history, and in particular political works and thinkers who write in Spanish. The vast amount of resources include: electronic versions of books (pdf), a bio-bibliographic catalogue, ...
Portal Biblioteca de Catalunya - The National Library of Catalonia was created in 1907 as a means to promote the study of Catalonia and preserve its bibliographic heritage. Since 2000 the library has been collaborating with other Spanish universities and the Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes to make available electronic versions of more than 1.000 documents and manuscripts.
EumedNet - Biblioteca Virtual - 777 libros gratuitos de Economia, Derecho y otras Ciencias Sociales.
Fictitia - Ciudad de cuentos e historias. Prohibida la entrada a poetas.
LibrosGratisWeb - Spanish and foreign in translation - mostly download in PDF.
Libros Gratis - links to downloadable literature (not on site) - a lot of documentation and general information about authors and works.
TodoEbook.net - Spanish literature and world literature in Spanish to download in pdf.
Descarga Ebooks - miscellaneous collection of literature original Spanish and translated into Spanish to download for free.
Basque
Euskal testuen gordailua - Classical Bask literature (University of the Basque Country).
Klasikoen Gordailua - Depository of classic works. Managed by publishing house Susa and offers the opportunity to read on the web some works of Bask classic writers as well as some other classic texts.
Klasikoak - Classics of thought - This project aims to publicize the most important works of universal thought translated into Basque. You can read online and download works by Noam Chomsky, Miguel de Unamuno, Seneca, George Berkeley, Friedrich Nietzsche and others - Merged with the site Klasikoen Gordailua. (04-06-2011).
Teatro Testuak - Offers the opportunity to read some theatre texts written in Basque or translated into Basque, as well as theatre plays for children, short stories, monologues, etc.
Turkey
Uysal-Walker - Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. Turkish popular narratives to download in pdf (Texas Tech University).
Contemporary Turkish Literature - Extracts translated into English from novels, plays, short stories and various other forms of literature. (checking 05-06)
Arabic
Shia books (Arabic) - Maktabat ya-sub al-din - Access to online text-versions of over 3.000 books in Arabic. Despite the name, books in both Shiite and Sunni traditions.
Arabic Literature - Middle East and Islamic Study Collection (Cornell University) - Classic and modern.
Manuscripts Center @ The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Dr. Youssef Ziedan - A wealth of information on Arab and Islamic heritage and manuscripts. English and Arabic.
Nida' al-iman - Islamic website that provides electronic versions of a large number of both classical and contemporary texts in the islamic sciences. Along with an extensive digital library the site includes: the full text of the Qu'ran with associated audio files searchable and navigable by chapter and verse, a number of Hadith collections, a fatwa database that can be searched by topic and jurist, and an audio library of lectures on various topics. The site is available only in Arabic.
Al-waraq - Founded in 1998 by a group of academics in the United Arab Emirates. It aims to provide outstanding classical Arabic and Islamic works to the general public. The main categories of the site are: Heritage Library, Copyright Library, Qu'ran Library and Majalis Al-Waraq.
Al-Islam.org - Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project - '...the DILP is an effort to digitise important Islamic resources and make them available to the masses through the internet. Ultimately we aim to explore possibilities of bringing this digitised material together in a comprehensive Islamic Study Database.' Categories of resources available on this multilingual site are: 'Multimedia', 'Full length texts', etc.
Jewish
Ben Yehuda - Free e-books - Hebrew literature.
The David Simonsen Manuscripts - Royal Library of Denmark - Hebraic manuscript collection.
refoyls yidish veb-bletl - Yiddish and Hebrew texts - more than 50 Yiddish texts from around the world, differing format (html, .txt, gif). Includes searchable Yiddish dictionary and even a song database.
Jewish Virtual Library - The Tanakh.
Hebrew Books - Hundreds of Seforim (Hebrew books by Rabbi's).
Xophura - An archive on Assam and Assamese literature - Assamese songs, riddles, poetry and literature.
Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews - A multimedia archive of ballads and other oral literature in Judeo-Spanish.
Yiddish Prints (Jiddische Drücke) - An extraordinary online collection of more than 800 complete scans of Yiddish books held in the University Library in Frankfurt am Main.
Yiddish Children's Books - (Special Collections, Department Florida Atlantic University Libraries) - Collection avilable to read online.
Yiddish Sources - Portal for anyone who is interested in Yiddish an Yiddish studies.
Center for Jewish History Digital Collections - A collection of illustrated Hebrew children's books.
The Ladino Digital Library - The Sephardi Studies Project (Stanford University).
JNUL Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) - already 1.100 works have been digitized, new works are added weekly.
SeforimOnline.org - This web site is dedicated to making old seforim of Rishonim and Acharonim available over the internet..
Latin America
Argentina
Literatura Argentina Contemporanea
Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina - More than 70 authors are represented here across a wide range in Spanish.
Libros Tauro (Argentina) - 4.000 e-books in Spanish.
Biblioteca Virtual Universal - More than 15.000 works (mostly Spanish) to download in pdf. Categories are: Biblioteca Educativa - Jovèn - Literaria - Técnica.
Brasil
eBooksBrasil - eBiblioteca Publica (books in MS Reader, Mobipocket, PDF, a.o. formats).
vBookStore (Brasil) Some 60 titles from 26 authors, public domain or with author's permission.
Usina de Letras - Brasilian literature community - 334.960 texts by 9.283 authors.
Biblioteca Digital de Literatura - Brasil - complete works accessible, found no browse function, only through search. 781 works available for download.
Dominio Publico (Brasil) - Machado de Assis (complete), Dante in Portuguese, Brasilian Children's Literature, Brasilian classical music, and more...
biblio.com.br - A Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura (Brazil).
Terra Virtual - Free e-books in Portuguese, Spanish, English and German.
Chile
Memoria Chilena - Historical literature about Chile.
Colombia
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango - The website for the Colombia's library offers digitised texts and links to external sites related to all fields within the arts and humanities (natural and social sciences are also covered). They have published online more than 215.000 pages of books, journals and PhD theses.
Libro Total - Cultural project initiated by SYC S.A. (a company from Bucaramanga) - a large number of classics available to read online in Spanish. Literature from all over Latin-America as well as European authors in translation. Some audiobooks, and hidden musical treasures as e.g. troubadour songs inspired by Dante's Comedy.
Dominican Republic
BibliotecasVirtuales.com - (Dominican Republic) - public domain world literature in Spanish to download in different formats, mostly pdf but also some in .doc.
Mexico
Biblioteca Juridica Virtual - Online library for the legal materials of Latin American countries. The site is provided by the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. A.o. a collection of over 2.000 Mexican law books grouped by legal subject area can be viewed in pdf.
Puerto Rico
Biblioteca Digital Ciudad Seva - Hogar electronico del escritor Luis Lopez Nieves - Created by the Puerto Rican author to facilitate the dissemination of literary studies on the internet. In addition to being a personal webpage, the site offers a vast collection of critical texts, short stories and poems in Spanish. A wide selection of full-text materials to read online.
Venezuela
La Bibliotheca - bibliotheca electronica (Caracas, Venezuela).
Biblioteca Ayacucho Digital - critical editions of classic titles in Latin American literature and civilization in pdf, and in Spanish.
Australia
National Library of Australia - Digital Collections - Manuscripts. Close to 9.000 items have been digitized and can be viewed freely online.
eBooks@Adelaide - Classic works of literature, philosophy, science, history and exploration and travel.
SETIS - Electronic texts and data collections held by the University of Sydney.
Australian Literature and Historical Texts at SETIS.
ANU Digital Collections - e-print repositiry (National University of Australia) - registration required for some collections at no charge.
gay-ebooks.com.au - (Former Blackwattle Press) - Features downloads in pdf: novels, verse and short stories.
Free Read - Free reading in Australia. '...regularly updated with links to Australian novels, poetry, biography, 'Federation' texts, short stories and other works by authors from Australia or who wrote about Australia.
New Zealand
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (Victoria University Library).
Early New Zealand Books - University of Auckland.
Asia
Buddhanet - Download a complete list of all e-books in pdf with detailed description.
ACIP - Asian Classic Input Project - Saves the ancient Buddhist and yoga scriptures by digitizing - volunteering is possible - about 3.400 texts in pdf available (Sanskrit, English, Tibetan).
Dvaita Text Resource - Hindu texts in Sanskrit - downloadable in pdf.
Theravada Text Archives - Old and new texts (Cambodia based).
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Digital Library - ... retrieves and restores works published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930 (New York University Libraries).
Bangla-Desh
Sachalayatan - Free Bangla e-Books - This online writer's community has a few books in pdf to read online or download (enable necessary font in browser).
Bhutan
BhutaneseLiterature.com - A community based literary website launched by a group of active, dedicated youths abroad in May 2009. Features poetry, essays, reviews and stories in Nepali and English (also Dzongkha will be included). Support is welcome here.
Cambodia
Khmer language books - (Digital Library for International Research) - 171 pdf's representing 50 books (11.960 pages) from the Collection of the National Library of Cambodia - Educational periodicals, Khmer schoolbooks and novels.
China
Chinese Literature Classics - with some in English translation.
New Threads Chinese Cultural Society - This electronic library is claimed to be the most complete web archive available of Chinese classic texts.
Chinese Classics - Pre-Quin philosophers, poetry, prose, biography, novels, commentary, ... to read online.
Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive - Pre-Qin - Song through Mid-Qing - Late Quing and Republic texts.
Lienü zhuan - (Anne Kinney - and former Chinese Text Initiative from UvA)
Academia Sinica - Taiwan, and its Chinese text retrieval system (in Chinese).
Hanquan database of ancient texts in Chinese - free, searchable database (one is asked to register) - Shisan jing (Thirteen classics), Pre-Qin philosophers, Quan Tang Shi, ... , Hong lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), Baisha quanji (complete works of Chen Xianzhang, ..., Ershiwu shi (25 stories).
MCLC - Resource Center - Modern Chinese Literature and Culture - (in collaboration with Ohio State University).
Classical Chinese Literature - Features seven classical Chinese texts in complicated characters, equipped with hyperlinks to each character's meaning and etymology. Texts include: the Tao Te Ching, the Analects, The Classic of Filial Piety...
Daoist Scriptures.
India
Dharmic Scriptures - Miscellaneous Sanskrit literature.
Digital Library of India - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. - Free access to many books in English and Indian languages.
DLI-blog - Where Knowledge is Free ...
giirvaaNi - Sanskrit classical literature. Selection of word for word transliterations and translations of some of the most important Sanskrit texts, some of which are not available elsewhere - the bharata savitri e.g. is not easily to find on the internet.
Thulika - Telugu Stories in English - and linking to Telugu.
Gaudiya Grantha Mandira - Collection of 568 important Sanskrit and Bengali texts that belong to the Caitanya Vaisnava tradition.
Shiva shakti mandalam - The inner wisdom of the Hindu Tantrik tradition.
ReadGujarati.com - Read free Gujarati srories, poetry, jokes and books online.
Sampada - An initiative to help grow Kannada literature and promote writing skills in Kannada language.
Vikasa Dhatri - 'Vikasa Dhatri offers Telugu e-books, audio books for free download. Stories, Novels, Poetry, Plays, Biography, Fiction and Non- Fiction and all types of books are made available in Vikasa Dhatri.' Free registration.
Kerala State Library - Rare Books Online: oldest Indian Public Library with online collection of rare English and Malayalam.
Indonesia
Project Madurai - 300 important Tamil texts - out of print books and contemporary authors - with distributed proofreading project.
Tamil Electronic Library - Tamil culture and literature.
Iran
Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives.
Virtual Library Pazand - Contemporary and classical literature in Farsi (also translations from world literature...)
Free Persian Books - Quite a large number of e-books (pdf to download) - and also links to 15 other sites for literature in Farsi.
Iraq
Iraq Virtual Science Library - provides free, full-text access to thousands of scientific journals from major publishers as well as a large collection of on-line educational materials. (Also added the Project Gutenberg collection to their resources.)
Japan
Aozora Bunko - (The Blue Sky Library) - Several thousands of Japanese works of fiction and non-fiction - out-of-copyright and works the authors wish to make public.
Japanese Text Initiative - (Sponsored by the Universities of Virginia and Pittsburgh) - A collaborative effort to make classical Japanese texts available on the WWW - to read online.
J-texts (Japanese) - An eclectic selection of e-texts and e-text sites. The focus is premodern work, especially historical texts and gunki monogatari.
National Diet Library - Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshukani - Japan's National Parliamentary Library. The Electronic Library provides a vast number of books, other documents and images online. About 55.000 books from the Meiji period can be accessed, and around 37.000 images appear in the Rare Books Image Database (both are Japanese-only). See Intute for further description.
The Japan P.E.N. Club Digital Library - Japanese novels, plays essays, poetry, non-fiction ... to read online or download in pdf - some in English translation.
Japanese Electronic Library - Classics in translation (J.-S. Mill, Marx, Shakespeare, ...)
Korea
Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean Literature Site
Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies - Archive - Korean classics in pdf.
Malaysia
Sejarah Melayu Library - '... perhaps the largest collection online of books and other documents on the history of the Malay archipelago and its surrounding region. Consisting of over 800 books, papers and articles in electronic pdf format, the library is divided into 7 broad sections.'
Myanmar
Online Burma/Myanmar Library - A collection of Burmese/Myanmar texts in html and pdf.
Pakistan
Awaz Sayeed's Urdu Literature Page - Short stories in Urdu and links to other literature.
Free Urdu Books - Books/novels by 10 authors, a.o. Allem ul Haq Haqqi, Farhat Ishtiaq, Ibn-e-Safi (with a best-selling series of spy-novels written from 1952 onwards) ... PDF download in Urdu.
Dawat-e-Islami - Pakistani publisher with many books in numerous languages to read online.
Singapore
BookSG (National Library of Singapore) - "BookSG is an online collection of digitised books and other printed materials held in the National Library Singapore, including rare and historical imprints, selected works from the British Library's Oriental & India Office Collection and works published in Singapore. "
Vietnam
BuddhaSasana (by Binh Anson) - Large amount of Buddhist texts n English or Vietnamese.
Africa
Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu (Library of Congress, Exhibitions) - Islamic manuscripts from Mali.
Abubakar.imam.com - Some books in Hausa.
African Language Material Archive (ALMA) - Cooperative project of the Digital Library of International Research and the West-African Research Association - On this DLIR-page are links to ALMA-ebooks in a number of languages (including Bamanankan, Criol, Fula/Peul/Pular, Fulfulde, Jula/Dyula, Mandinka, Moore and Wolof) and associated author information. An expanded website with complementary African language materials including interviews, documentary video, translation work and biographies can be viewed at http://alma.matrix.msu.edu.
African Digital Library - free access for people living in Africa - registration required.
South Africa
www.poseidons.net - Links to some e-literature, some philosophy, some strange inventions and more ...nice design.
Montparnasse Café No 29 - Gennaio 2011 - Rivista online di poesia e arte
33 - Maggio 2011
(other issues available at issuu.com)
Poetry
The Complete Classics - allclassics.com
De gedichten van Constantijn Huygens
Poetry in translation - A.S. Kline's Free Poetry Archive - modern translations of classic texts by famous poets.
Turkish Poetry - Created and maintained by contributors from all around the world speaking many different languages (Turkish Poetry in Translation, Ottoman Lyric Poetry).
Het Poëtisch Liedgenootschap - Dutch poetry.
Mr Africa Poetry Lounge - Compilations of Afro-American poems by famous and undiscovered authors.
Poemhunter - online poetry database - poems from authors all around the world.
Poetiv - poetry archive - 15.000 poems by 150 authors.
Poetry Resources - Comprehensive collection of the best links to more than 100 websites for poets and writers.
Shadow Poetry - A world of poetry at your fingertips.
Poetry for Kids.
The William Blake Archive.
American Verse Project - Electronic Archive of poetry volumes prior to 1920 (Michigan University).
Representative Poetry Online - University of Toronto.
Classical Chinese Poetry - also some in English - (hostsite: China The Beautiful, with more interesting links.)
Poésie française - 6.000 poèmes de la langue française du Moyen-Âge au début du XXème siècle.
Stutimandala - Sanskrit poems and others.
Arabian Poetry Encyclopedia - Mawsuar al-shir Al-Arab (Egypt) - Arabian poems and lyrics in html.
Ogurra Hyakunin Isshu - An anthology of 100 7th to 13th century Japanese poems by 100 authors.
Poet's Corner - The collection covers roughly 7.000 works by 800 poets - including some of the best known works in the English language and many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading.
Poetry Archive - Home of the world's greatest poems.
British Women Romantic Poets - 1789-1832 - Poetry by British and Irish women (not necessarily published) from the Romantic Period.
Sonnet Central - An archive of English sonnets, commentaries and relevant weblinks.
Walt Whitman Archive.
Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto Library.
The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
Club des Poètes - La poésie est vivante, Vive la poésie.
Lithuanian Poetry - English translations.
Jörmungrund - Eddaic and Scaldic poetry - Icelandic.
Fernando Pessoa - Obra poetica.
Versos de Seguna - Portuguese poetry.
Golden Age Spanish Sonnets - Spanish sonnets in English.
Seleccio de Poesia Catalana - 176 authors, 799 poems.
Sibila - Brazilian based poetry site in Portuguese (with English portal Sibyl) - contemporary poetry, translations, essays and articles...
Maggie O'Sullivan - online poetry, artwork and links to audio from readings.
British Electronic Poetry Center - a.o. an audio archive of poetry readings.
Spencer Selby's List of Experimental Poetry and Art Magazines - very extensive and internalional list.
modernpoetry.org - The website for innovative British Poetry.
Electronic Poetry Center (Buffalo) - A LOT of contemporary poetry online and links to other sources.
Pennsound - a.o. an enormous database of poetry readings in mp3.
MESHWORKS - The Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance - streaming mp4 & mp3.
Nordic Poetry Center - Poetry in the Nordic countries and nearby.
Eclipse - Free online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small press writing from the last quarter century.
Poetry Archives - A continuing selection of classic and contemporary poems.
Plagiarist Poetry Archive - Including Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, ...
Star Thrower Publishing - Watch Fire Gallery of Poetry and Poetics.
Poets.org - From the Academy of American Poets ... serving poetry since 1934 - lots, e.g. read and listen to Howl, I, II by Ginsberg.
Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake (UBUWEB) - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Poem Talk.
Patti Smith - Poetry readings.
Ezra Pound - Readings, radio-speeches and miscellaneous recordings.
Poetry Portal - large resource, links to collections from different continents.
Poetry International Web - Poetry (modern) from 44 countries (Angola to Zimbabwe).
Los Poetas - Large poetry site in Spanish - European and Latin-American - classics and contemporary, to read and listen to.
Poesia en Espanol - Spanish Poetry - One of the largest anthologies on the web.
Poesia Argentina
Literatura Nahuatl
Machine Poetics - "Investigates literary autopoiesis, language-based cybernetic systems, generative art and all forms of contemporary poetics."
the e-poets network - Three principal areas. The Book of Voices is e-poets' "media library of poetry in spoken word, performance and text". The Videotheque is "a collection of poetry as motion pictures." 'About e-poets' has contact information, submission guidelines and further extensive information about the site.
jehat.com - (Bahrain, al-Nadeem Foundation and poet Quassim Haddat) - brings modern Arab poetry to a broad audience. The site is available in eight languages, though content differs.
Queneau Sonnets - (Beverley Rowe) - Full translation into English of Raymond Queneau's work 'Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes', or 'One hundred million milliards of poems'.
Euskal Poesiaren ataria - The Gate of Basque Poetry, where you can read some of the poems written by Basque authors both in Basque and other languages like Spanish, French, English and German.
The Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - 30.000 ballads in several major collections - Original printed materials range from 16th to 20th century (some midi sound files available).
Les sonnets de Louise Labé - 16th century French writer from Lyon.
Arthur Rimbaud - ... Good online anthology of his work - Transcriptions in French and English translations, facsimiles of manuscripts.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive - An online repository of over 7.000 items of text, images, audio and video, for teaching, learning and research.
The War Poetry Website - War Poets and Poetry of Today and the First World War.
Balassi Balint - Összes verse - Online critical edition of the Hungarian poet's work, under a form especially created and designed for electronic publication in 1998.
Kaavyaalaya - The House of Hindi Poetry - A substantial collection of Hindi poems from the beginning of the 20th century until now. Some classics, but main focus on modern and contemporary.
The Hyper Texts - ... aims to make available the best poems, from the work of contemporary writers to more classic material from across the English poetry canon. Edited by Michael R. Burch.
Freiburger Anthologie - Gedichte 1720-1900 - A collection of the most important texts of the classical period in German literature (Goethe, Hölderlin, ... , Fontane, von Eichendorff,... and a new "sister" site: Lyrik und Lied - Digitale Dokumentation von lyrischen Kurztexten. These sites are open, and contributions are welcome.
Canadian Poetry (University of Western Ontario) - C.P. Press website with full access to back issues of the academic journal Canadian Poetry (1977-2006), as well as online scholarly editions of the works of English Canadian poets and early poems relating to Canadian subjects with an emphasis on the long poem.
Jornal de Poesia - Vast website dedicated to poetry in the Portuguese language. Based in Brazil, the site contains information on and studies of an extensive number of Lusiphone poets. (See Intute)
Nursery Rhymes lyrics, origins and history
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Poesialat - Poesia Latinoamericana - Poetry from authors from a.o. Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador,...
The Web Poetry Corner - Features 5.566 poets, who have submitted 61.068 poems representing 121 countries.
Mountain Songs - A database of ancient (with some modern) Chinese poetry, which connects writings with the geographical location of their subject matter. (Further description at Intute.)
Poetry Translation Centre - The Centre is a charity which translates contemporary poetry from Asia, Africa and Latin America into English of a high literary standard.
The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry - (Dr Murray Mc Gillivray at Calgary University) - Aim is to make online texts available of all extant Anglo-Saxon poems, with glosses and annotations.
poezja.exe.pl - Polskie Poezje konca XX i poczatku XXI wieku - Online collection of contemporary Polish poetry. The site features over 60 poets and the collection is accessed by the links to each poet's name.
Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project - International Online Archive of the Pan-Hispanic Ballad - A Database of Ancient and Modern Oral Versions of Ballads. (Description at Intute.)
Palabra Virtual, Antologia de poesia iberoamericana - Vast online anthology by writers from the Iberian peninsula and Latin America - 2.809 poems in audio and 360 in video, and also some texts in pdf.
Progetto Duecento - la poesia Italiana dalla origine al Dante - 2.400 poems by 200 poets.
Biblioteca Gonzalo de Berceo - Complete works of the 13th century Spanish poet.
The Prose Poem: An International Journal. - Home to the annually published journal and allows full-text access to recent Web Issues, together with full-text access to book reviews and a substantial selection of prose poems taken from the publication's back issues.
Florilège de la poésie française - Une anthologie de la poésie (1300-1979).
Vive voix - anthologie sonore de poésie (Kirk Anderson, Associate Professor of French at Wheaton College).
The Swinburne Project - A digital archive of the life and works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (ed. Joe A. Walsh, University of Indiana).
The Scottish Poetry Library - Allows access to contemporary poetry written in Scotland - in Scots, Gaelic or English - historic Scottish verse and poetry from most parts of the world.
The Poetry Lover's Page (by Edward Bonver) - Complete: Kipling, Poe and Stevenson. Best of: Byron, Blake, Tennyson, Henley, ..., Blok, Pushkin, Akhmatova,...
Poéticas - poemas en torno a la créacion poética - Excellent original anthology of poems on poetic creation. Collection has been produced by Paco Garcia, and it includes more than 550 poets, mainly from Spain and Latin America. Although authors from other countries are included, poems are reproduced in their Spanish translation only.
A media voz - Vast gateway to Latin American and Spanish poetry, although it also features Spanish translations of major poets from other countries. Also a large number of poem readings, in some cases by the author.
Joan Brossa - POETA - Un recorregut per la seva obra. - Excellent resource about the Catalan author and his work.
Artes poéticas - Spanish and Latin American texts, commentaries and notes on poetry. Includes material from Middle Ages to 20th century. The collection consists mainly of poems which reflect on poetry itself, or metapoetry.
Poetenladen - German contemporary poetry. Makes available poetry, criticism and essays by and on a range of poets.
Urdu Poetry Archive - 1.826 ghazals and nazms by 343 poets in Romanized Urdu.
O szelence - Magyar barokk költészet - 'Oh casque' - Hungarian poetry from seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Iqbal - Poet-Philosopher - (Pakistan)- Offers a wide range of resources on life and work of the prominent poet, philosopher and statesman. Poetry and prose writings in Urdu, Persian and English translation are available to read online.
Poema.art.pl - Polish and features an eclectic but impressively large collection of Polish and foreign poetry and prose.
Krzystof Kamil Baczynski - Tribute to life and work of Baczynski (1921-1944), a World War II Polish poet. Contains a good deal of his work as well as information on the poet.
Italian Dialect Poetry - Extensive collection of dialect poems written by more than 100 poets and made available by Professor Luigi Bonaffini of Brooklyn College, City University NY. Each poem is accompanied by a translation in Italian and English.
Sixteenth Century Ballads - A Work in Progress - Online database dedicated to ballads that were meant to be sung, and is the work of Greg Lindahl, who, in addition to the plain text database, also provides an introductory article on 'The Music of the sixteenth-century Broadside Ballad.'
Russkaya poeziya shestidesyatykh - Part of a project run by the Department of Russian language and literature at Tartu University, Estonia. It contains the works of more than fifty poets, who are referred to as poets of the sixties, such as Iossif Brodskii, Konstantin Vanshenkin, Andrei Voznesenskii, ... All texts are provided in transliteration.
Dafydd ap Gwilym - Hosted by Swansea University contains transcriptions of poetry and literature of the Welsh author from original manuscripts.
The Museum of American Poetics - Founded in 1997 by poet Jim Cohn, the MAP-website is dedicated to original and experimental American poetics and highlights poets both past and present. Links to many other external sources on poetry.
Anthology of Spanish Poetry - By Fred F. Jehle, offers a collection of Spanish poetry ranging from Gonzalo de Berceo (13th century) to Rosalia de Castro (writing in the 19th century).
From the Ends to the Beginning - Bilingual anthology of both major and minor Russian verse from the 18th century to the present, editerd by US academics Ilya Kutik and Andrew Wachtel. All the translations have been specially commissioned for the project. Provides access to over 250 poems and 75 poetry readings. Lots of links to other useful websites.
Kashmiri Poets and Poetesses.
lyrikline.org - Presents 703 poets, 6.334 poems, 55 mothertongue and 7.665 translations in 52 languages.
nzepc - New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
Nikhil Parekh - Works of the Indian poet for download.
Hindi Poets - A Gateway (Colorado University).
Kabita - Collection of Assamese poetry in English translation.
Deutsche Liebeslyrik
Poetry Foundation (Chicago, US) - site of the Poetry Magazine - full archive dating back to 1912 - browsable archive: 1.800 poets with 10.000 poems.
Antologia Zeineise (Genoa - Italy) - Anthology of Genovan poetry.
The Australian Poetry Library - tens of thousands of poems from hundreds of Australian poets, all free for you to view..
Poezii Romanesti - Romanian poetry (also in audio) with some in different translations.
Poemas del alma - (Julian Yanover) - a combination of: a large compilation of Spanish poetry (Rubén Dario, Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Lorca,...), a growing literary social network (with hundreds of people publishing own work) and a daily updated poetry blog.
and continued here
... with tech/science - greek, roman & medieval - audiobooks - art - music - and much more.
Audio: listen to Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
De gedichten van Constantijn Huygens
Poetry in translation - A.S. Kline's Free Poetry Archive - modern translations of classic texts by famous poets.
Turkish Poetry - Created and maintained by contributors from all around the world speaking many different languages (Turkish Poetry in Translation, Ottoman Lyric Poetry).
Het Poëtisch Liedgenootschap - Dutch poetry.
Mr Africa Poetry Lounge - Compilations of Afro-American poems by famous and undiscovered authors.
Poemhunter - online poetry database - poems from authors all around the world.
Poetiv - poetry archive - 15.000 poems by 150 authors.
Poetry Resources - Comprehensive collection of the best links to more than 100 websites for poets and writers.
Shadow Poetry - A world of poetry at your fingertips.
Poetry for Kids.
The William Blake Archive.
American Verse Project - Electronic Archive of poetry volumes prior to 1920 (Michigan University).
Representative Poetry Online - University of Toronto.
Classical Chinese Poetry - also some in English - (hostsite: China The Beautiful, with more interesting links.)
Poésie française - 6.000 poèmes de la langue française du Moyen-Âge au début du XXème siècle.
Stutimandala - Sanskrit poems and others.
Arabian Poetry Encyclopedia - Mawsuar al-shir Al-Arab (Egypt) - Arabian poems and lyrics in html.
Ogurra Hyakunin Isshu - An anthology of 100 7th to 13th century Japanese poems by 100 authors.
Poet's Corner - The collection covers roughly 7.000 works by 800 poets - including some of the best known works in the English language and many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading.
Poetry Archive - Home of the world's greatest poems.
British Women Romantic Poets - 1789-1832 - Poetry by British and Irish women (not necessarily published) from the Romantic Period.
Sonnet Central - An archive of English sonnets, commentaries and relevant weblinks.
Walt Whitman Archive.
Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto Library.
The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
Club des Poètes - La poésie est vivante, Vive la poésie.
Lithuanian Poetry - English translations.
Jörmungrund - Eddaic and Scaldic poetry - Icelandic.
Fernando Pessoa - Obra poetica.
Versos de Seguna - Portuguese poetry.
Golden Age Spanish Sonnets - Spanish sonnets in English.
Seleccio de Poesia Catalana - 176 authors, 799 poems.
Sibila - Brazilian based poetry site in Portuguese (with English portal Sibyl) - contemporary poetry, translations, essays and articles...
Maggie O'Sullivan - online poetry, artwork and links to audio from readings.
British Electronic Poetry Center - a.o. an audio archive of poetry readings.
Spencer Selby's List of Experimental Poetry and Art Magazines - very extensive and internalional list.
modernpoetry.org - The website for innovative British Poetry.
Electronic Poetry Center (Buffalo) - A LOT of contemporary poetry online and links to other sources.
Pennsound - a.o. an enormous database of poetry readings in mp3.
MESHWORKS - The Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance - streaming mp4 & mp3.
Nordic Poetry Center - Poetry in the Nordic countries and nearby.
Eclipse - Free online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small press writing from the last quarter century.
Poetry Archives - A continuing selection of classic and contemporary poems.
Plagiarist Poetry Archive - Including Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, ...
Star Thrower Publishing - Watch Fire Gallery of Poetry and Poetics.
Poets.org - From the Academy of American Poets ... serving poetry since 1934 - lots, e.g. read and listen to Howl, I, II by Ginsberg.
Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake (UBUWEB) - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Poem Talk.
Patti Smith - Poetry readings.
Ezra Pound - Readings, radio-speeches and miscellaneous recordings.
Poetry Portal - large resource, links to collections from different continents.
Poetry International Web - Poetry (modern) from 44 countries (Angola to Zimbabwe).
Los Poetas - Large poetry site in Spanish - European and Latin-American - classics and contemporary, to read and listen to.
Poesia en Espanol - Spanish Poetry - One of the largest anthologies on the web.
Poesia Argentina
Literatura Nahuatl
Machine Poetics - "Investigates literary autopoiesis, language-based cybernetic systems, generative art and all forms of contemporary poetics."
the e-poets network - Three principal areas. The Book of Voices is e-poets' "media library of poetry in spoken word, performance and text". The Videotheque is "a collection of poetry as motion pictures." 'About e-poets' has contact information, submission guidelines and further extensive information about the site.
jehat.com - (Bahrain, al-Nadeem Foundation and poet Quassim Haddat) - brings modern Arab poetry to a broad audience. The site is available in eight languages, though content differs.
Queneau Sonnets - (Beverley Rowe) - Full translation into English of Raymond Queneau's work 'Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes', or 'One hundred million milliards of poems'.
Euskal Poesiaren ataria - The Gate of Basque Poetry, where you can read some of the poems written by Basque authors both in Basque and other languages like Spanish, French, English and German.
The Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - 30.000 ballads in several major collections - Original printed materials range from 16th to 20th century (some midi sound files available).
Les sonnets de Louise Labé - 16th century French writer from Lyon.
Arthur Rimbaud - ... Good online anthology of his work - Transcriptions in French and English translations, facsimiles of manuscripts.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive - An online repository of over 7.000 items of text, images, audio and video, for teaching, learning and research.
The War Poetry Website - War Poets and Poetry of Today and the First World War.
Balassi Balint - Összes verse - Online critical edition of the Hungarian poet's work, under a form especially created and designed for electronic publication in 1998.
Kaavyaalaya - The House of Hindi Poetry - A substantial collection of Hindi poems from the beginning of the 20th century until now. Some classics, but main focus on modern and contemporary.
The Hyper Texts - ... aims to make available the best poems, from the work of contemporary writers to more classic material from across the English poetry canon. Edited by Michael R. Burch.
Freiburger Anthologie - Gedichte 1720-1900 - A collection of the most important texts of the classical period in German literature (Goethe, Hölderlin, ... , Fontane, von Eichendorff,... and a new "sister" site: Lyrik und Lied - Digitale Dokumentation von lyrischen Kurztexten. These sites are open, and contributions are welcome.
Canadian Poetry (University of Western Ontario) - C.P. Press website with full access to back issues of the academic journal Canadian Poetry (1977-2006), as well as online scholarly editions of the works of English Canadian poets and early poems relating to Canadian subjects with an emphasis on the long poem.
Jornal de Poesia - Vast website dedicated to poetry in the Portuguese language. Based in Brazil, the site contains information on and studies of an extensive number of Lusiphone poets. (See Intute)
Nursery Rhymes lyrics, origins and history
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Poesialat - Poesia Latinoamericana - Poetry from authors from a.o. Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador,...
The Web Poetry Corner - Features 5.566 poets, who have submitted 61.068 poems representing 121 countries.
Mountain Songs - A database of ancient (with some modern) Chinese poetry, which connects writings with the geographical location of their subject matter. (Further description at Intute.)
Poetry Translation Centre - The Centre is a charity which translates contemporary poetry from Asia, Africa and Latin America into English of a high literary standard.
The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry - (Dr Murray Mc Gillivray at Calgary University) - Aim is to make online texts available of all extant Anglo-Saxon poems, with glosses and annotations.
poezja.exe.pl - Polskie Poezje konca XX i poczatku XXI wieku - Online collection of contemporary Polish poetry. The site features over 60 poets and the collection is accessed by the links to each poet's name.
Pan-Hispanic Ballad Project - International Online Archive of the Pan-Hispanic Ballad - A Database of Ancient and Modern Oral Versions of Ballads. (Description at Intute.)
Palabra Virtual, Antologia de poesia iberoamericana - Vast online anthology by writers from the Iberian peninsula and Latin America - 2.809 poems in audio and 360 in video, and also some texts in pdf.
Progetto Duecento - la poesia Italiana dalla origine al Dante - 2.400 poems by 200 poets.
Biblioteca Gonzalo de Berceo - Complete works of the 13th century Spanish poet.
The Prose Poem: An International Journal. - Home to the annually published journal and allows full-text access to recent Web Issues, together with full-text access to book reviews and a substantial selection of prose poems taken from the publication's back issues.
Florilège de la poésie française - Une anthologie de la poésie (1300-1979).
Vive voix - anthologie sonore de poésie (Kirk Anderson, Associate Professor of French at Wheaton College).
The Swinburne Project - A digital archive of the life and works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (ed. Joe A. Walsh, University of Indiana).
The Scottish Poetry Library - Allows access to contemporary poetry written in Scotland - in Scots, Gaelic or English - historic Scottish verse and poetry from most parts of the world.
The Poetry Lover's Page (by Edward Bonver) - Complete: Kipling, Poe and Stevenson. Best of: Byron, Blake, Tennyson, Henley, ..., Blok, Pushkin, Akhmatova,...
Poéticas - poemas en torno a la créacion poética - Excellent original anthology of poems on poetic creation. Collection has been produced by Paco Garcia, and it includes more than 550 poets, mainly from Spain and Latin America. Although authors from other countries are included, poems are reproduced in their Spanish translation only.
A media voz - Vast gateway to Latin American and Spanish poetry, although it also features Spanish translations of major poets from other countries. Also a large number of poem readings, in some cases by the author.
Joan Brossa - POETA - Un recorregut per la seva obra. - Excellent resource about the Catalan author and his work.
Artes poéticas - Spanish and Latin American texts, commentaries and notes on poetry. Includes material from Middle Ages to 20th century. The collection consists mainly of poems which reflect on poetry itself, or metapoetry.
Poetenladen - German contemporary poetry. Makes available poetry, criticism and essays by and on a range of poets.
Urdu Poetry Archive - 1.826 ghazals and nazms by 343 poets in Romanized Urdu.
O szelence - Magyar barokk költészet - 'Oh casque' - Hungarian poetry from seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Iqbal - Poet-Philosopher - (Pakistan)- Offers a wide range of resources on life and work of the prominent poet, philosopher and statesman. Poetry and prose writings in Urdu, Persian and English translation are available to read online.
Poema.art.pl - Polish and features an eclectic but impressively large collection of Polish and foreign poetry and prose.
Krzystof Kamil Baczynski - Tribute to life and work of Baczynski (1921-1944), a World War II Polish poet. Contains a good deal of his work as well as information on the poet.
Italian Dialect Poetry - Extensive collection of dialect poems written by more than 100 poets and made available by Professor Luigi Bonaffini of Brooklyn College, City University NY. Each poem is accompanied by a translation in Italian and English.
Sixteenth Century Ballads - A Work in Progress - Online database dedicated to ballads that were meant to be sung, and is the work of Greg Lindahl, who, in addition to the plain text database, also provides an introductory article on 'The Music of the sixteenth-century Broadside Ballad.'
Russkaya poeziya shestidesyatykh - Part of a project run by the Department of Russian language and literature at Tartu University, Estonia. It contains the works of more than fifty poets, who are referred to as poets of the sixties, such as Iossif Brodskii, Konstantin Vanshenkin, Andrei Voznesenskii, ... All texts are provided in transliteration.
Dafydd ap Gwilym - Hosted by Swansea University contains transcriptions of poetry and literature of the Welsh author from original manuscripts.
The Museum of American Poetics - Founded in 1997 by poet Jim Cohn, the MAP-website is dedicated to original and experimental American poetics and highlights poets both past and present. Links to many other external sources on poetry.
Anthology of Spanish Poetry - By Fred F. Jehle, offers a collection of Spanish poetry ranging from Gonzalo de Berceo (13th century) to Rosalia de Castro (writing in the 19th century).
From the Ends to the Beginning - Bilingual anthology of both major and minor Russian verse from the 18th century to the present, editerd by US academics Ilya Kutik and Andrew Wachtel. All the translations have been specially commissioned for the project. Provides access to over 250 poems and 75 poetry readings. Lots of links to other useful websites.
Kashmiri Poets and Poetesses.
lyrikline.org - Presents 703 poets, 6.334 poems, 55 mothertongue and 7.665 translations in 52 languages.
nzepc - New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
Nikhil Parekh - Works of the Indian poet for download.
Hindi Poets - A Gateway (Colorado University).
Kabita - Collection of Assamese poetry in English translation.
Deutsche Liebeslyrik
Poetry Foundation (Chicago, US) - site of the Poetry Magazine - full archive dating back to 1912 - browsable archive: 1.800 poets with 10.000 poems.
Antologia Zeineise (Genoa - Italy) - Anthology of Genovan poetry.
The Australian Poetry Library - tens of thousands of poems from hundreds of Australian poets, all free for you to view..
Poezii Romanesti - Romanian poetry (also in audio) with some in different translations.
Poemas del alma - (Julian Yanover) - a combination of: a large compilation of Spanish poetry (Rubén Dario, Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Lorca,...), a growing literary social network (with hundreds of people publishing own work) and a daily updated poetry blog.
and continued here
... with tech/science - greek, roman & medieval - audiobooks - art - music - and much more.
Audio: listen to Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
