English Literature

CMU English Server
CMU Hunt Library Repository
by subject; mostly Gutenberg texts
CMU Universal Library Repository
by title; mostly National Academy Press texts
Electronic Text Center at UVA and its modern English collection
Humanities Text Initiative
at UMichigan
Wiretap Electronic Text Archive and its book collection
Online Book Initiative
from std.com
Oxford Text Archive
in the UK; see also its publicly available texts
Etext.org archives
lots of e-zines and shorter or unpublished etexts
BiblioBytes
hundreds of new and old books, with ads
Project Bartleby
at Columbia
Voice of the Shuttle and its English Literature section
University of Toronto English Library
Golden Gale Electronic Library
Electronic Open Stacks
preservation digitization at Chicago
Links to Electronic Book and Text Sites
from OmniMedia
American Memory
American Verse Project
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
Making of America
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
at UC Davis
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
at Connecticut College
Light and Dust
modern poetry
Poet's Corner
at GeoCities
The Poetry Archives
3000+ poems; at advanced.org
Sonnet Central
sonnets and criticism; at AOL

Individual Authors
Jane Austen:
Mansfield Park, 1814
Northanger Abbey, 1803
Persuasion, 1818
Pride and Prejudice, 1813
Sense and Sensibility, 1811
Willa Cather:
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
My Antonia
Joseph Conrad:
The Arrow of Gold
The Rover
Charles Dickens:
A Tale of Two Cities
The Uncommercial Traveller
Hard Times (1854)
George Eliot:
Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Thomas Hardy:
Far From the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
Mayor of Casterbridge
Return of the Native
Henry James:
Portrait of a Lady, 1881
Washington Square, 1880
The American, 1877
The Europeans
Edgar Allen Poe:
Complete Works
Walter Scott:
The Antiquary
The Black Dwarf
Heart of Mid-Lothian, 1730
Ivanhoe, 1795
The Keepsake Stories, 1796
A Legend of Montrose
Rob Roy, 1729
The Talisman, 1732
Waverley, 1769
Mark Twain:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
Huckleberry Finn, 1884
Tom Sawyer, 1875
Oscar Wilde:
Picture of Dorian Gray
Virginia Woolf:
The Voyage Out, 1915
Jonathan Swift:
Gulliver's Travels, 1726
Lewis Carroll:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
G.K. Chesterton:
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Blue Cross
The Secret Garden
The Queer Feet
The Queer Feet
The Invisible Man
The Honour of Israel Gow
The Wrong Shape
The Sins of Prince Saradine
The Hammer of God
The Eye of Apollo
James Joyce:
Araby
A Little Cloud
Walter Scott:
Chronicles of the Canongate, 1896
The Keepsake Stories, 1896
Coleridge:
Christabel
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Coleridge Bio.
Frost at Midnight
Pound:
In a Station of the Metro
Song
Whitman:
Leaves of Grass
Wordsworth:
Complete Poetical Works
from The Prelude
Wordsworth and Coleridge:
Lyrical Ballads
William Hope Hodgson
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
The House on the Borderland
The Night Land
New Zealand Digital Library

 

Spanish Literature

Biblioteca Electronica Cristiana
Christian electronic texts in Spanish
Grandes de la Espiritualidad
classic religious spirituality texts in Spanish
Textos de Comedias
Plays from the Siglo de oro inc
Antología del Ensayo Ibero e Iberoamericano
Large collection of Spanish essays from the 14th to the 20th centuries
Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico at the University of Georgia.
Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro
GRISO - Texts by and information about Calderón, Quevedo, Tirso, and Comedia burlesca.
TEXTOS LEMIR: Textos de Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento
Libros Verdaderos en Internet

Individual Authors
La Celestina o tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea
Proyecto Cervantes 2001
A projected "digital library of Cervantes' complete works in several versions.
Obras de Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes, Don Quijote
Cervantes, Proyecto Cervantes
Gonzalo de Berceo, El Milagro de Teofilo
Luis de Góngora, Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Federico García Lorca, Poems
taken from Poema del cante jondo and Romancero gitano

Poetry Collections
Antología de poesía española
From the middle ages to the 19th century. Chronologically arranged with author and first-line indexes.
Sonetos del Siglo de Oro
100 sonnets with translations into English.
Mis sonetos preferidos
Another collection of Golden Age sonnets, with author and thematic indexes.

Literary Magazines
Quimera
Rincón literario at Mundo Latino is a good listing of literature in Spanish on the Internet.
Spanish Culture's Literature page has a good selection of links about Spanish literature.

 

German Literature

MATEO , Mannheim texts online
Projekt Gutenberg-DE , German texts; no direct relation
Religio , texts in German on religion; at thur.de
Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
The IDSdatabases include the works of Goethe, Marx and Engels, and, in various linguistic corpora, many postwar literary works.
Projekt Gutenberg
The largest collection of German literature on the Internet. Texts are organized for reading online with longer works divided into chapters. There is no provision for searching complete works or the Gutenberg database.
Bibliotheca Germanica
Varied collection, part of the Bibliotheca Augustana.
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Arbeitsstelle Götttingen, Texte aus dem Thesaurusbestand
Ältere Drucke aus dem Besitz der Bibliothek der Universität Bielefeld
Facsimile editions, often with extensive accompanying materials. Requires frames.
University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center
Wieland, Kafka, Morgenstern and other authors.
literatur.primär: Prosa & Lyrik & andere Formen primär österreichisch Autor(in)en
Work by contemporary authors. Mostly poetry.
Grundkursreader Mediävistik
Anthology of short texts in Middle High German and in modern German translation.
19th century German Stories
Multimedia editions from Virginia Commonwealth University.Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Busch, and others.
The Kassandra Project
"Visionary German women around 1800"
Project Wittenberg
"Classic and historic texts written by Lutherans," including hymns by Luther and Gerhardt
DadaOnline
Small collection of texts in German or English.
Lied and Song Texts Page
A very large collection. Texts are arranged by the composer of the setting, but there is an author index.
Pommerenings Gedichtauswahl
Large collection, good for Heine and 20th century poems
Projekt Alfred
Includes some recent poems.
willkürliche Auswahl deutscher Gedichte
Large collection by Markus Müller.
Frauenfelder Lyriktage
Parodien & Travestien
Buecher Online
Collection of poems and links to other sites.
Gedichte(Projekt Gutenberg)
H.H.H. - Eine Fastschrift zum 75sten.
Collection of tributes, including many poems, in honor of Helmut Heißenbüttel
ernst jandl wird 70: die geburtstagsseite
Appreciation of Jandl with hommage poems by Reinhard Delbrügge, Oskar Pastior, and Olaf Koch.
German Corner
Collection of poems, mostly from the 19th century.
Das Wunderschiff - Schwäbische Volksmärchen (Projekt Gutenberg)
Anekdoten der Weltliteratur (Projekt Gutenberg)
 

Italian Literature

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
Duecento: la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante
A large collection of poetry.
Progetto Manuzio
Caffè Poetel
Contemporary poetry
VersiControVersi
Poetry review
Circolo Letterario Telematico di Fabula
Unpublished texts in all genres.
Biblioteca 451F
Public domain Italian literature
Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura dell'Università di Roma la Sapienza
Università di Trieste.

Individual authors
Digital Dante Project , Columbia University
Commedia with translations, illustrations, and annotations.
Dartmouth Dante Project
Requires telnet, vt 100 or vt 220. Type connect dante at the first prompt, then follow instructions.
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
Images of pages from early Dante editions.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Un sito interamente dedicato al noto scrittore.

 
Russian Literature

Maksim Moshkow's Library
Russian Literature on the Net
Russkaya Literatura v Internete
 
 
 

Portuguese Literature

Projecto Vercial - Literatura Portuguesa
A very large collection with indexes by author and by literary period.
Biblioteca Virtual de Língua e Literatura
Livro Livre
Brazilian Books in portuguese
A Porta
poems in Portuguese
Cordel Net
Cordel Literature in Portuguese
Literatura Portuguesa
in Portuguese
Links de Literatura & Poesia
is a large but unannotated list of Web sites for Portuguese literature.
Sítios d'escritos is a more selective list with brief annotations.
 
 

Danish Literature

Online Books & Journals in Fulltext
A project of Det Kongelige Bibliotek.
Danske forfattere og tekster til ca. 1900
Dansk Nationallitterært Arkiv. Done in cooperation with Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab.
Nyere dansk litteratur
Danish authors and translations from other languages. Done in cooperation with Dansk Forfatterforening
Project Runeberg
Kalliope.org, Arkiv for dansk digtning
Large collection of poetry
Poetry collections
 
 

Dutch Literature

Laurens Jansz. Coster
Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Anthology of Dutch Poetry

Before 1880
After 1880
De Nederlandse Letteren has an index to Dutch authors in the various Web collections.
 
 

Finnish Literature

Project Runeberg
sähköiset säkeet / elektrisk vers
Contemporary poetry in Finnish and Swedish.

 

Norwegian Literature

Den elektroniske bokhylla
Project Runeberg
Poetry collections
Splints & Co., Journal of Scandinavian Poetry on the Web
Angstkultur
Litteraturnettet, the Norwegian Writers Web
 

Icelandic Literature

Netútgáfan
Large collection of sagas and other texts.
Heimasíða Eddu
Texts from the Poetic Edda, some (e.g., Völuspá) with annotations.
Project Runeberg
Codex Wormianus (AM 24 2 fol.)
Images, text, and concordance.
Bisclarets Lióð
Edition of the Old Norse version of Bisclavret, a lai by Marie de France.
Jónas Hallgrímsson, Selected Poetry and Prose, edited and translated by Dick Ringler.
 

 

Swedish Literature

Project Runeberg
Language bank of Swedish
Telnet connection to a concordance program. Texts available include novels and the national edition of Strindberg. Possible search results include frequency lists, concordance lines, and sections of text.
Projekt Källtext
Html versions of several medieval Swedish texts.
Origo at The Art Bin
An eclectic collection of texts in Swedish (Stiernhielm, Eng, Wallengren) and other languages.

Poetry collections
Splints & Co., Journal of Scandinavian Poetry on the Web
Splints also offers a page of links to other contemporary Scandinavian poetry on the Internet.
sähköiset säkeet / elektrisk vers
Contemporary poetry in Finnish and Swedish.

Individual Authors
C.J.L. Almqvist, Samlade Verk i hypertextversion
Karin Boye Sällskapet
Gunnar Ekelöf-Sällskapet
Selected poetry and prose; a few poems read by Ekelöf.
Poetry and Prose of Maria Gummesson
Selections from travel descriptions
Selma Lagerlöf, Samlade werk

Others literatures

Slovak: Projekt Bernolák (in Slovakia)

Slovenian: Slovenian texts (in Slovenia)

Laurens Jansz. Coster (Dutch literature)

Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár (Hungarian texts)

Croatian: Croatian E-Text Project (at sprynet.com)

Czech: Czech National Library Database of Digitized Documents

Bulgarian: Bulgarian Poetry Archive (at Columbia)

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