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  1. Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
  2. Australian Literary and Historical Texts
  3. Best of English Essays
  4. British National Corpus
  5. CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library
  6. English Server Fiction Collection
  7. FictionPress
  8. FindArticles.com
  9. Geoffrey Chaucer
  10. Internet Classics Archive
  11. Labyrinth: Old English Literature
  12. LIBRO: Library of Iberian Resources Online
  13. Literature Webliography
  14. MagPortal
  15. Modern Essays
  16. Online Medieval and Classical Library
  17. Reading Room
  18. Teams Middle English Texts
  19. Twentieth Century Authors
  20. University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
  21. Wiretap Electronic Texts Archive

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Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
Collection of digital documents, including American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy texts, representing over 120 authors.
     Author: Morgan, Eric Lease
     Subjects: american literature - general, english literature collections, text collections
     DeweyClass: 808.8
     Resource type: opac
Australian Literary and Historical Texts
Database of 18th, 19th and early 20th century Australian poems, short stories, novels, reference works, historical narratives, and memoirs, searchable by title, author, date, publisher, genre, and opening lines. Contains texts by writers such as Joseph Banks, Christopher Brennan, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Kendall, and Andrew Barton Paterson.
     Author: University of Sydney Library
     Subjects: australian culture, text collections
     DeweyClass: 820
     Resource type: directory
Best of English Essays
Free online access to an extensive range of English essays. Authors include Fracis Bacon, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
     Author: Landry, Peter
     Subjects: essay writing, text collections
     DeweyClass: 824
     Resource type: essay collection
British National Corpus
A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
     Author: Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit
     Subjects: english language research, health links, health services, humanities research, text collections
     DeweyClass: 001.3
     Resource type: book collection, directory
CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library
Searchable library of resources comprising a serials department which hosts electronic journal collections, document and manuscript rooms containing historical and official papers, and a reference desk with dictionaries, thesauri, and a document delivery service.
     Author: Nelson, Lynn & Simmons, Kendall
     Subjects: electronic journal collections, history links, reference, text collections
     DeweyClass: 080
     Resource type: index
English Server Fiction Collection
Offers works of, and about, fiction, with section headings including short fiction, novels, magazines, criticism, drama and poetry.
     Author: Iowa State University
     Subjects: book studies, literary studies, text collections
     DeweyClass: 808.83
     Resource type: directory
FictionPress
FictionPress is a growing network of over 90,000 writers, hundreds of thousands of readers, and home to over 440,000 original works.
     Author: FictionPress
     Subjects: literary studies, text collections
     DeweyClass: 808.83
     Resource type: directory
FindArticles.com
Free archive of magazine titles published from 1998 onwards, with links to Web pages where available. Searchable by keyword, magazine title, and subject area, the collection covers a range of fields including business, computer technology, health, news and society, and sports.
     Author: Gael Group, LookSmart
     Subjects: electronic magazines, text collections
     DeweyClass: 080
     Resource type: magazine index
Geoffrey Chaucer
Range of texts and translations of material relevant to Chaucer's works. Provides a chronology of Chaucer and his times, a glossorial database of Middle English, discussion of the language and linguistics of the era, annotated extracts from the Canterbury Tales including original illustrations, and general information on life in the Middle Ages, covering courtly love, pilgrimages, tournaments, and meals.
     Author: Harvard University English Department
     Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry, text collections
     DeweyClass: 821.1
     Resource type: documents
Internet Classics Archive
Searchable archive of Greco-Roman, Chinese and Persian classical literature texts in English translation with commentaries. Includes Aesop's Fables, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Plato's Republic.
     Author: Stevenson, Daniel C., Web Atomics
     Subjects: ancient history, chinese history, greek history, latin, text collections
     DeweyClass: 880
     Resource type: book collection
Labyrinth: Old English Literature
Collection of old English poetry, prose, runic and liturgical texts. Also includes a bibliography of reference works and a Modern English to Old English Vocabulary.
     Author: Georgetown University
     Subjects: english literature to 1800, english poetry, text collections
     DeweyClass: 829
     Resource type: documents, non-fiction ebooks, poems
LIBRO: Library of Iberian Resources Online
Full texts of recent but out-of-print university press monographs relating to the peoples and nations of the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on the period 500-1500 AD. Author and title catalogues are provided.
     Author: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and University of Arkansas
     Subjects: portugal, spain, text collections
     DeweyClass: 946
     Resource type: book collection
Literature Webliography
Annotated links to collections of literary guides and criticism, journals, bibliographies, OPACs, dictionaries, discussion forums and news groups, societies and associations, style guides, and full text collections.
     Author: Louisiana State University Libraries
     Subjects: american literature - general, english literature - general, english literature collections, text collections
     DeweyClass: 800
     Resource type: index
MagPortal
Database of magazine articles organised by subject area. Topics include business, education, family and home, finance and investment, health, science and technology, and sports and recreation. Email notification of new features is available.
     Author: Hot Neuron LLC
     Subjects: text collections
     DeweyClass: 080
     Resource type: article index
Modern Essays
Thirty-three epitomal English and American personal essays chosen by Christopher Morley.
     Author: Morley, Christopher
     Subjects: text collections
     DeweyClass: 800
     Resource type: essays
Online Medieval and Classical Library
Texts and translations of a collection of literary works of Classical and Medieval civilisation. Provides a facility for downloading texts, and allows Boolean searching.
     Author: Killings, Douglas B.
     Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, european literature, greek literature, iceland, latin, text collections
     DeweyClass: 427.02
     Resource type: documents, poems
Reading Room
Collection of English language literary works, including drama, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and resources such as electronic journals and newsletter archives.
     Author: University of Maryland
     Subjects: english literature collections, poetry links, text collections
     DeweyClass: 808.8
     Resource type: ebook collection, poems
Teams Middle English Texts
Collection of more than one hundred middle English texts online. Includes King Arthur and King Cornwall, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, The Ploughman's Tale, Lancelot of the Laik, and a collection of Robin Hood tales.
     Author: Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
     Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, folklore, text collections
     DeweyClass: 427.02
     Resource type: non-fiction ebooks
Twentieth Century Authors
Annotated links to biographical, bibliographic, and critical information on major modern and contemporary English-language writers. Offers general collections of American, postcolonial, and female writings, together with a selection of journals, magazines, and mailing lists.
     Author: Mach, Michelle
     Subjects: american literature - general, english literature collections, english literature from 1871, text collections
     DeweyClass: 823.9
     Resource type: article, index
University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
On-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts, some of which are publicly available. Divided into English, French, German, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Tibetan and Icelandic texts.
     Author: University of Virginia
     Subjects: american literature - general, chinese language, european literature, german literature, greek literature, hebrew, iceland, japanese, text collections
     DeweyClass: 808.8
     Resource type: document collection, ebook collection, poems
Wiretap Electronic Texts Archive
A free public service to provide electronic text to citizens of the Internet. Includes hundreds of online books and a government and civic text archive.
     Author: Internet Wiretap
     Subjects: government links, text collections
     DeweyClass: 080
     Resource type: book collection