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- American Verse Project
- Archive of volumes of American poetry published prior to 1920.
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Includes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. All works are in the public domain.
- Classic Bookshelf
- A collection of classics in the public domain.
- Classic Reader
- Over 3,000 works of classical literature. Includes some author biographies and portraits.
- Cornell University Library: Historical Monographs
- A collection of scholarly works and literary classics in the public domain.
- Digital Book Index
- Links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books of which more than 140,000 are free.
- eScholarship Editions
- Over 2,000 scholarly books published by the University of California Press. Only certain titles are freely available to persons outside of the University of California system.
- Gutenberg <e>
- A program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press.
- Hathi Trust
- Digitized books from 13 university libraries. Some texts are partial view only.
- HYpertexts: "We Do American Studies
- Classic American writings, some considered primary sources.
- Internet Archive : Text Archive
- Over 350,000 texts are available.
- Literature for Children
- Classics of children's literature from the United States and Great Britain published before 1850 to post 1950.
- The Nineteenth Century in Print
- American published texts from 1850 and 1880. Part of the Making of America project at the University of Michigan. Strengths include poetry, education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
- The Online Books Page
- List over 25,000 public domain books available on the web.
- Online Library of Liberty
- "Classic works on art, economics, history, law, literature, music, philosophy, political theory, religion, science, sociology, war and peace."
- Open Library
- An offshoot of the Internet Archive, it's vision is to "create free web access to important book collections from around the world." The collection is growing.
- Page by Page Books
- Collection of public domain books.
- Planet eBook
- Free service with a small selection, but growing, classic literature titles available as free downloads.
- Project Gutenburg
- The world's oldest e-book repository, Project Gutenburg contains a library of over 18,000 free e-books whose copyright has expired in the United States.
- Universal Digital Library
- The Universal Digital Library represents the world’s largest (over 1.5 million), university-based digital library of freely accessible books. At least half of its books are out of copyright, or were digitized with the permission of the copyright holders, so the complete texts are or eventually will be available free.
- University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
- Freely accessible online books in a wide variety of subject areas.
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