Gale’s core repository of literary works. Extensive selection of online poems, short stories, novels, essays, speeches and plays. More than 80,000 authors, 660 nationalities and virtually every time period.
The Internet's oldest -- and one of the largest -- provider of free electronic books where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks. Find classic works or relatively unknown texts in many different languages.
Over 200 full books and over 800 short stories and poems by over 70 authors. Links to theories and biographies of theorists by University of Minnesota.
Largest collection of children's illustrated literature online. 1,700 plus pages of classic children's books published in the 19th and early 20th century.
This Digital Library project from the New York Public Library includes a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers.
Documents riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in 100 of its most important literary works, from Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.