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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.
Google Book Search
Find a specific title or many books on a topic. You can limit to full view (which lets you read the entire book) or just browse the limited preview available.
Gutenberg Digital
Scanned images of every page of the Gottingen Gutenberg Bible.
Internet Archive
Read digitized books from libraries across the U.S. and Canada (including the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). You can read the books online or download a PDF.
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.
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