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- Megalong Multimedia
- the designers of the Abacci Books web site
- Project Gutenberg
- The motherlode of free e-texts on the web. The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
- Amazon
- The web's first e-commerce success story. Their groundbreaking approach to selling books (let the customers converse with each other) paved the way for a whole host of community driven sites. They continue to raise the bar for their competition each year by constantly introducing new technologies like the web services interface that Abacci Books uses here.
- The Quotations Page
- A great interface and broad search engine for all your literary quotations.
- Representative Poetry Online
- 2,900 English poems by over 400 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
- Wikipedia
- A collaborative project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia in every language.
- Moonstruck drama bookstore
- A good collection of biographies.
- American Poems
- Some good biographies and selected poems of American poets.
- Bartleby.com
- Another great source of online books, reviews and quotes.
- Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga University
- Course materials for a broad range of American authors and literary movements.
- Books and Writers
- A rich source of biographical information.
- Spartacus Educational
- Some biographical information.
- Blackmask Online
- 10552 online books in various formats. Great site!
- The Victorian Web
- Run by the National University of Singapore, there's a ton of interesting reviews and downloads here on all sorts of Victoriana.
- Modern American Poetry
- An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford University Press, 2000)
Edited by Cary Nelson.
- The Britrish Columbia Digital Library
- A meta page with links to many other digital libraries.
- Penn State University's Electronic Classics
- Download Literary Works in Adobe's Acrobat Reader File format.
- Friends of Free Fiction
- Links to sites for ebooks, epublishing, readers reviews, and anything connected to online reading.
- The Universal Library
- A Million Book Digital Library project: free access to scanned books without violation of copyright laws. A Carnegie Mellon University project in association with India and China.
- Abacci Music
- Our sister site offering Irish and world music as free downloads of sheet scores, tab and MIDI files.
- American Listener's Theater
- Ambrose Bierce's and other Civil War era writers works produced
and performed by Timothy Patrick Miller as one-man shows or on audio media.
- An eBook Intro
- Simple-to-follow instructions for the computer novice on how to download E-Texts and E-Books to your PC.
- yBook Reader
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Displays text and html files on side-by-side pages.
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Search for words or phrases.
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