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American and English Literature Online Books
American and
English Literature
Online Books for
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Welcome to the Internet School
Library Media Center (ISLMC) literature collections in online
book format. This page contains
links to online books in American literature, English literature, church
history, history and government documents. For the convenience
of foreign language teachers, some non-English sites such as French
literature,
are included. This page is part of the ISLMC Young
Adult Literature; Middle & Secondary English page. The
ISLMC is a meta-site
designed for teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview
selected sites. Please visit the ISLMC Home
Page. You can search this site, use an index or sitemap.
Revised 11/29/00

For Shakespeare's books online see The ISLMC Shakespeare Page
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[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Poetry]
[Drama]
[History]
[Native American Sources]
[Government Sources]
- Index to
Online Books
- Keyword searching by author, title.
Complete list
by
title
- at Online
Books Page
- Early Modern
Literary Studies: Electronic Texts
- An index to online texts
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Online
Books
- African
American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
- From New York
Public Library
- Alex Catalogue of
Electronic Texts
- Collection of digital documents in English literature &
American
- literature and Western philosophy. From UC
Berkeley
- American
Literary Classics
- ARTFL
Project
- From University of Chicago. Searchable database of
French
- literature in French.
- BIBLIOMANIA
- Online literature & reference books; classic fiction,
popular
- fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries,
research
- and religious texts
- Celebration
of Women Writers
- Emphasis is on women of letters in American literature
and
- English literature. Site includes links to their
- works,
biography.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Christian classics in electronic format. From Wheaton
College
- Classic Short
Stories & Fairy Tales
- From Online-Library.Org
- Classic
Short Stories
- From B&L Associates
- ClassicReader.com:
- Fiction, non-fiction, children, poetry, Shakespeare,
- short stories, drama
- Classic Horror Short Stories
- Teacher Note: Gambling advertised on site
- English
Server
- Database now at U. of Washington. Includes art
&
architecture;
- subjects [jn. discussing progressive issues]; cyber; drama;
- 18th Century; Feminism; fiction; film & television; gender
- and sexuality; government; history; internet; journals;
- languages; libraries; literacy & education; Marx and
- Engels; multimedia; music; philosophy; poetry; race;
recipes;
- reference; rhetoric; software
[freeware & shareware];
- weather; Women's Center.
- Eighteenth-Century
E-Texts
- English
Literature: Early 17th Century (1630-1660)
- Life, works, essays, books, links; Lancelot Andrewes,
- James I, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson,
- Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher,
- John Webster, Philip Massinger, Edward Herbert,
- Lady Mary Wroth, Robert Herrick, Thomas Hobbes;
- from Luminarium
- European
Literature
- Literary texts written in a western European language
other
- than English
- Folklore
and Mythology Electronic Texts
- By D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburg
- French
Language Resources
- From etexts University of Virginia.
- The
Ecole Initiative: Early Church Documents
- Alphabetical index by author. From Karen Rae Keck and
- Norman Hugh Redington
- Greek and
Latin Classics Texts
- Guide
to Early Church Documents
- From Internet Christian Library. Internet accessible
etexts
- relating to the early church history
- Hypertexts
- From University of Virginia. Henry Adams, Jane Addams,
- Sherwood Anderson, Edward Bellamy, James Branch Cabell,
- Charles Brockden, Stephen Crane, Crevecoeur, Charles Dickens,
- Theodore Dreiser, R. W. Emerson, James Madison,
- Joel Chandler Harris, Dubose Heyward, Thomas Wentworth
- Higginson, Harriet Jacobs, Thomas Jefferson, D. H. Lawrence,
- Charlotte Lennox, David Levin, Lewis & Clark, Sinclair Lewis,
- Herman Melville, Francis Parkman, Edgar Allan Poe,
- Mary Anne Sadlier, Gilbert Seldes, Upton Sinclair,
- H. N. Smith, T. G. Steward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.D. Thoreau,
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederick Jackson Turner,
- Alan Trachtenberg, Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain, Thorstein
- Vebblen, Booker T. Washington, Max Weber, Harriet Wilson,
- WPA American Slave Narratives, WPA Guide to the Old
- Dominion
- Modern
English Collection
- English literature from University of
Virginia
- Internet Classics
Archives
- A searchable collection of almost
400 classical Greek
- literature & Roman literature
texts.
- Japanese
Text Initiative
- Etexts in Japanese from University of Virginia
- Jump
Stations to Resources in German
- E-texts in German from University of Alberta
- The On-Line Books Page
- Search more than 10,000 listings.
- Online Literature
Library
- E-texts of many classics
- The Online Medieval
and Classical Library
- Medieval literature, including most the important
works of
- Classical and Medieval civilization
- Perseus Digital
Library
- Classics, papyri, English Renaissance, London, more
- Poetry and
Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
- Includes Gwendolyn B. Bennett; Countee Cullen; Marion Vera
- Cuthbert; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; Jessie Redmon Fauset;
- Angelina W.Grimke; Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston;
- James Weldon Johnson; Nella Larsen; Claude McKay;
- Esther
Popel; Anne Spencer; Ida B.
Wells-Barnett
- Project Bartleby
- Full-text database: Bartlett
[Familiar Quotations, 9th
ed.],
- Chapman [Odysseys of Homer]; Dickinson [Poems];
- DuBois [Souls of Black Folks]; Fowler [King's English.
- 2nd ed.]; Frost [Three Volumes]; Hardy [Wessex
- Poems and other Verses];
- Hopkins [Poems]; Housman [Shropshire Lad];
Keats [Poetical
- Works]; Lawrence [Poems]; Melville [Bartleby,
the Scrivener];
- Mill [On Liberty]; Millay [Renascence and
Other Poems]; Sasson
- [Poems]; Shelly [Complete Poetical
Works]; Stein [Tender
- Buttons]; Strunk [Elements of Style]; Whitman
- [Leaves of Grass]; Wilde [Poems];
Wollstonecraft
- [Vindication of the Rights of Women];
- Wordsworth [Complete Poetical Works].
- Project Gutenberg
- Oldest online source of electronic texts
- Reading
Room. University of Maryland
- Many etexts of classics, primarily American literature
and
- English literature; some classics from the Greek, French,
Russian
- Reading
Room, Women's Studies Database. University of Maryland
- Academic papers, book reviews, fiction, history,
- nonfiction, poetry
- Sixteenth Century
Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
- Life, works, essays, additional sources; Henry VIII,
- Sir Thomas More, John Skelton, Sir Thomas Wyatt,
- Henry Howard, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser,
- Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare,
- Sir Thomas Hoby, Roger Ascham, John Foxe,
- Edward de Vere, Elizabeth I, George Gascoigne,
- John Lyly, Thomas Nashe, Richard Hooker,
- Sir Walter Ralegh, Thomas Hariot, Robert Southwell,
- Thomas Campion, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Sir John Davies,
- Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Fulke Greville,
- Acmilia Lanyer; also essays and articles,
- other resources; from Luminarium
- University of Toronto
English Library (UTEL)
- Includes major early works; literary criticism and
theory
- Twenty
Great American Short Stories
- Stories by Hawthorne, Melville, Bierce, Irving, Poe,
Twain,
- Alcott, London, Chopin, Cooper, Crane, Cather, Jackson,
Jacobs,
- Stuart
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Poetry
- Academy of American
Poets
- Section Poetry
Exhibits
- Includes poetry by themes with full etext of selected
poetry and
- selected audio archives. Great site
- African
American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
- From New York Public
Library
- American
Verse Project
- From Univeristy of Michigan
Humanities Text
Initiative
- BIBLIOMANIA
- Poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction
- British Poetry
1780-1910
- Includes electronic text of poetry
from such poets
as Wordsworth,
- Keats and Rossetti. Also includes
Beowulf and poetry by Goldsmith,
- Milton, Sidney,
Spenser, Tottel and others.
- British
Women Romantic Poets
- Includes Jane Taylor, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans,
- Anna Letitia Barbauld and others; from U.C. Davis
- Classical Poetry Archives
- Searchable by author, title and first-line;
- from emule.com
- Representative Poetry
On-Line
- From University of Toronto. Searchable by poet, title, first
line,
- keyword, criticism on
poetry
- English
Server. CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse
- Search the poetry
section
- Internet Classics
Archive
- From MIT. The Iliad,
The Odyssey, The Aeneid and other
- classic works
- Internet Poetry Archive
- From UNC. Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine,
- Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa
- Modern
English Collection
- From University of Virginia.
Searchable
- Bartleby Verse: American &
English Poetry: 1250-1920
- Oxford Book of English Verse; Yale Book of American Verse;
- Modern British Poetry; Modern American Poetry; Metaphysical
- Lyrics & Poems
of the 17th Century; The Golden Treasury
- The Oxford Book of
Australasian Verse
- 80 authors from Wentworth and Harpur to Kendall and
- Gordon up to Derham and Napier; From Project Bartleby
- The Oxford Book of English
Mystical Verse
- Poems from 160 authors including the Metaphysical
- Poets [Donne, Traherne], the Romantics [Tennyson,
- Browning], the Moderns [Yeats and Noyes];
- from Project
Bartleby
- The Poetry
Archives
- Searchable index of classical poetry.
- Poetry and
Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
- Poets'
Corner
- Extensive collection of online texts; author, title, and
subject
- indexes; lives of the poets; faces of the poets;
bookshelf
- Project Bartleby
- For listing of works see
Project Bartleby above under
- "Online Books"
- Random
Poems
- Collection by poet or date
- The
Reading Room
- From University of Maryland.
Online poetry
- Shakespeare's
Sonnets and Other Poetry
- From Project Bartleby
- Sixteenth-century
Tudor Poems
- Modern-spelling editions of Tudor poems, 1485-1603;
- Samuel Daniel, John Davies, Edward de Vere,
- John Dickenson, John Donne, George Gascoigne,
- Barnaby Googe, Henry Howard, Timothy Kendall,
- Sir Philip Sidney, George Turberville, Thomas Vaux,
- Isabella Whitney, Sir Thomas Wyatt, James Yates;
- from University of Michigan
- Poem of the Week
- New poem each week; space down for past poems
- The Writer's
Almanac. Poetry
- From National Public Radio, Garrison Keillor. Text of poems
- by Gatty, Whitman, Jewett, Carryl, Dickinson, Clare, Sydney,
- Shelley, Lord Byron, Browning, Mother Goose, Shakespeare,
- Howard, Anonymous, Thoreau, Bradford, Blake, Melville,
- Longfellow, Wyatt, Riley, Milton, Sidney, Arnold, Lawrence,
- Bierce, Keats, Campion, Wolfe, Kingsley.
- Yahoo
Poetry Collection
- Links to many Internet based resources
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Drama
- English Server Drama
Collection
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History
- The World War I
Document Archive
- Conventions, treaties and official
papers; Memorial & personal
- reminiscenses; biographical dictionary;
WWI
Image archive;
- Special Topics and commentary articles.
- From Carrie: A Full-Text Document Archive, BYU.
- The
Catholic Church
- Vatican documents; Bishops' Statements; Franciscan
- Documents; Opus Dei documents; Treatises.
- From Carrie: A Full Text Document Archive, U. Kansas
- The American
Colonist's Library
- Historical works which contributed to the formation of
- American politics, culture and ideas; Rick Gardiner's page
- Causes
of the Civil War
- Document collection from J.F. Epperson
- DOUGLASS: Archives of
American Public Address
- Archive of American oratory and related documents.
- EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
- Medieval & Renaissance Europe;
Europe as a Supernational
- Region; By country. From Carrie: A Full Text Document
- Archive, BYU.
- World
Constitutions
- By country. From Carrie: A Full Text
Document Archive,
- U. Kansas.
- The Kansas
Collection
- Books, articles, graphics,research; Galleries: Heroes and
- Villains; Bleeding Kansas; Andreas
(Cutler's) Histories; Orphan
- Trains; On the Trail...; The Way
It
Was;
- KanColl's online partnerships with schools; Voices,
- The
Kansas Collection Online Magazine
- The Making of
America (UMI)
- Digital library of books, periodical articles from the
- antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes
- particularly education, psychology, American history,
-
sociology, religion, and science and technology
- Making of
America (Cornell)
- University
of Oklahoma Law School. U. S. Historical Documents
- Pre-colonial; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century;