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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Over 300 reference resources including encyclopedias, almanacs, trusted reference series and more. This database provides respected authoritative information on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in eBook format. Use Power Search and simultaneously search this database and thousands of magazines and academic journals for articles from the General Reference Center Gold database.

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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

ClassicReader
This collection currently contains over 3200 works of literature (including over 1800 short stories) by more than 320 authors. You can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy and Shakespeare.

eScholarship Editions
University of California Press. Subjects: African studies, Classics, European history, literature, Middle Eastern studies, and South Asian studies. Text of these online books is fully searchable.

Gutenberg Digital
Scanned images of every page of the Gottingen Gutenberg Bible.

The Online Books Page
Indexes eTexts at various sites and offers links to over 20,000 free books on the Web.

Project Gutenberg
Full-text books published pre-1923 from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, and Dante, as well as favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.

Search eBooks.com
A search engine that indexes the full text of "thousands" of online books.

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