Books and full text literature on-line:

Alex: a catalog of electronic texts on the internet

Bartleby.com - Unlimited access to all of the free books, (fiction and non-fiction), reference books,  poems, short stories on-line. This site offers Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary and also Book of English Usage, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - many more.  Indexed by Author, Title, and Subject.

Electronic Text Center : University of Virginia Library - if you are unable to access the full-text, check and see if UVA in red is at the end of your link - we don't have access to on-campus literature.

Internet Public Library - search for "online texts" or for a specific text.

On-Line Books Page - Posted by UPenn.  Searchable by author, title, subject, serials. 

Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from around the World - Award winning site with many wonderful links to folk tales of many countries.

Indexes of Literature Resources:

A Literary Index; Internet Resources in Literature

Literary Resources on the Net - very comprehensive

High School Literature Sites - You'll find categorized research materials and e-tests, including general sites about specific works and authors, and literature by period or century.

American / British Literature on the Web:    

Start at this Gateway of Resources

American Transcendentalism; the web    - If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will find this site is searchable.  This interlinked hypertext was first created in Spring 1999 by Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students studying in Professor Ann Woodlief's class in Studies in American Transcendentalism.   

Harlem Renaissance Links                         

Project CROW (Course Resources On the Web) - A directory of American literature Web resources, browsable by general resources (Basics), and sites featuring Syllabi/Assignments and Author Chronologies.
Also contains a collection of Annotated Links, a chronological list of American literature Internet Links,     Copyright 2001 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org. 

Classic Reader - classic short stories listed alphabetically by title.  A British site entitled East of the Web.

English Literature Main Page - Voice of the Shuttle - "English Literature" includes works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature. Some authors are also cross-listed under separate national, regional, or ethnic categories (e.g., "Irish," "Australian," "Afro-American") on the Other Literatures Written in English and Minority Literatures pages.

Genre Sites:

Fantasy/Sci Fi Sites:  Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books - An excellent gateway to Web resources on the subject. Feature articles examine subjects of interest to fantasy and sci-fi fans.

The Homepage for Science Fiction and Fantasy - An interesting combination of 3-zine, resource locator, hosting service, and information provider. Thousands of links make this a full-featured site.

Historical Fiction Links on the Web:

Fictional Rome - More than 1,500 novels set in ancient Rome can be searched at this site.(Richard Stockton College)

Maine Writers - A listing of Maine authors provided by the Waterboro Public Library.  Includes the newest books published and also Maine Writing on the Web.