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Even if you're not a student and broke,
these are great sources, especially for classic works.
Project
Gutenberg: This is the mother of all free text projects.
If it’s an old classic or a work in the public domain, you’ll
probably find it here.
Many Books.net: Free texts in various formats, including PDF and PDF Large Print. Some books are based on Project Gutenberg texts, but not all. For instance, where Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa is only available in Japanese at Project Gutenberg, Many Books has a free English translation.
The Gold Scale: I recently stumbled upon this one. The site describes itself as "a rather extensive, family friendly site, rich in content. It contains classic works, and an extensive collection of traditional and modern wisdom, including sayings of avid thinkers, sound art and various extracts. Here are many proverbs, quotations, tales and fables too. That is our main profile. The site has long been considered reliable and a joy to many users." I couldn't say it any better.
The Kafka
Project is near and dear to my heart. This excellent
resource for Kafka's works in English and German includes work
about Kafka's life and times.
Electronic
Text Centerb: The Modern English Collection
This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from
1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name
or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in SGML and includes
a bibliographic header with details about the creation of the
electronic text and its print source.
The
Humanities Text Intitiative, a unit of the University
of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided
online access to full text resources since 1994. The Humanities
Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the creation,
delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism
for furthering the library community's capabilities in the area
of online text.
The collections on this site are freely available to the Internet
community. Resources which are restricted to use by University
faculty, staff, and students only can be found at the Encoded
Text Services website.
Bibliomania
has more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources.
The Bibliomania shop has its own hand-picked selection of books
for purchase. Our search facility is one of the most extensive
on the web, as it contains the full text of all our books.
Bartleby: Great Books
Online
Voice
of the Shuttle: Website for Humanities Research has
a page of links for English Literature.
The
Internet Public Library: The IPL Books Collection
(formerly known as Online Texts) contains over 20,000 titles that
can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
A clearinghouse that lists links to other sites with a few short
reviews.
http://www.xooqi.com/
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