UVM Libraries Research Guides: English & American Literature: E-Texts (from the Internet)

E-Books & E-Texts - Freely Available on the Internet

NOTE: These web-based e-texts cover either all time periods or time periods 20th century-present. To see web-based e-texts from the other English & American Literature subject guides: African American Literature and 19th Century and Medieval-18th Century.

Broadside Ballads Online
[Bodleian Libraries-Oxford] Presents a digital collection of English printed ballad-sheets 16th-20th centuries, linked to other resources for the study of the English ballad tradition.
Word on the Street
The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets the reader see what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910.
Modernist Journals Project
A joint project of Brown Univ and Univ of Tulsa, this project is a major resource for the study of modernism in the English-speaking world, whose mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the late 19th century to early 20th century.
Modernist Magazines Project
Directed by two UK professors, this website indexes British "little magazines" from 1850-1942. Limited full-text. Some overlap with the Modernist Journals Project.
Independent Voices
Open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. Date coverage (varies by publication): 1951-2016.
Pulp Magazines Project
Digital archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazines, 1896-1946. The Project also provides information on the history of this medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.

All Periods - All Subjects

Google Books
Oxford Text Archive The OTA collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching. Search or browse the catalog for 2000+ texts from ancient Greece to the 20th century
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Public domain electronic texts and documents with a focus on American and English literature, and Western philosophy.
Humanities Text Initiative From the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production service, this site makes available varieties of texts, including poetry, essays, religious tracts, historical journal runs, etc.
Internet Archive: Texts
Wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.
Online Books Page Metasite that serves as an index to thousands of books (English or English translation) on the Internet. There is a link to a list of large, general-purpose Internet collections with substantial English-language listings.
Project Gutenberg Collection of electronic texts of (mostly) public domain works. Searchable by author, title, and Library of Congress classification.
Folktexts Library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology from all cultures.