Note: Some of the pages listed below provide a keyword search for all full text documents contained at that site. Some of the pages provide links to other etext resources; these are usually found at toward the bottom of the pages.

One of the best:
Internet Public Library Contains great selection of resources including reference, literature, teen and youth resources, some of them are full text. This stie provides a search engine by keyword, by author, by title and by Dewey Decimal classification. IPL contains links to the works found at many of the following etext sites.

American Memory site of the Library of Congress. American Memory provides full text and also images of the original pages for many documents, photographs and prints, films, sound recordings, and other resources. Access items by specific collection, by keywords across collections, or through aids provides on the Learning Page.

Avalon Project at Yale Law School-- Full-text archives Major historical documents dating back to the 12th Century are presented in entirety and with links to supporting documents, glossaries and indexes for each one. Major documents relevant to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government can be found here also.

The English Server Searchable resources formerly at Carnegie Mellon University, now based at the University of Washington. Collections include: art and architecture, books, drama, culture, feminism, film and television, history, music, poetry, recipes, and more.,

Humanities Text Initiative of the University of Michigan. Access to fulltext of many authors and texts. Includes verse, Middle English, Bible.

Index to Project Gutenberg etext provides means to search by title or author.

Library of Congress web site provides access to The Library of Congress web site, Thomas (US legislative site), American Memory, Exhibitions, and more.

Multilateral Project of the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy of Tufts University The Multilaterals Project, begun in 1992, is an ongoing project designed to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. Provides search engine.

Project Bartleby--Full Text resources from Columbia University. Includes poems and the Harvard Classics and Shelf of Fiction. Includes fulltext of writings by George Chapman, Agatha Christie, F.S. Fitzgerald, H.W. Fowler, Herman Melville, John Stuart Mill, Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, William Strunk, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many more.

University of Virginia Electronic Texts. Full text of many works.

The Reading Room of the University of Maryland provides access to Drama, Fiction, Historical documents, poetry, religious documents, speeches, and nonfiction works.

The King James Bible is available in several formats. Search the Internet Public Library Online Text Collection to locate a version. The University of Michigan provides searching access by book and/or words.


The On-Line Books Page Provides a long list of full-text books and items.


See also Other Libraries.
See also Poetry section of English resources page.
See also Classics section of English page for full text of Greek and Roman works.


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Created 23 January 1998
Last update 25 January 2007.