Full Text Books Online:
IT"S HERE! Our own
collection of eBooks that you can "borrow" and read online! Try this
selection first, then explore the public eBook sites below.
TOP PUBLIC eBOOK SITES:
University
of California Press-- Middle Eastern Studies eBooks, as well as Classics,
Literature, European History, etc. Excellent scholarly material.
eMedicine.com--
Full text, free and excellent medical textbooks. Highly recommended.
Select books from the folders section (which takes a minute to load).
Both completed and in-progress books are useful.
OnLine
Books Page-- courtesy of University of Pennsylvania.
Project
Gutenberg-- an ambitious program to get all the important world literature
online, more than 2,000 texts are included, and can be downloaded with
reasonable ease.
Alex
Catalogue-- a collection of digital documents collected in the subject
areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
THE BEST OF THE REST:
Bookwire--
hundreds on online Electronic Books are available along with book industry
news, features, reviews, guides to literary events and author interviews.
ChapterOne--
the first chapters of over 130 current fiction and non-fiction titles,
updated weekly.
Classic
Short Stories--some good reading that's short enough to read off the
screen. Authors include Saki, O.Henry, Twain, Balzac, Poe, DeMaupassant,
etc.
Electronic
Literature Foundation(ELF)--produces advanced electronic texts to be
used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature. There are 42 texts
including the Divine Comedy, Jane Austen' s novels, and Jules Verne's novels.
Emory
Women Writers Resource Project-- a collection of edited and unedited
texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth through the nineteenth
century.
Great
Works of Western Civilization-- a very complete listing, with links
to all of the works that are on the web.
Hyperizons:
hypertext fiction-- You may search for hypertext fiction by author,
title or publisher and the site also includes links to theory & criticism,
markets for and background about the genre.
Internet
Public Library of Online Texts-- searchable author, title and subject
classification, over 10,000 texts are included.
National
Academy Press Reading Room-- 1000 full-text books, from the publisher
of research from the National Academy of Science, National Institute of
Medicine, etc.
SCETI--
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image from the University of
Pennsylvania provides the scholarly community with web access to virtual
facsimiles of original texts, documents, and sources from Penn's collections.
These include printed books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, broadsides,
ephemera, and recorded sound. A beautiful site.
Short
Story Search--look for full texts of short stories on the net, by author,
title, or, to some extent, subject.
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