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Fiction, Poetry & Other Literature

Contemporary & Modern

Wowio

Ebooks - including contemporary titles and graphic novels - free to read online. Requires free registration / login to access books.

Google Book Search

Access to over 1 million e-books, many of them free to download

Many Books

More than 28,000 eBooks available, up to the mid-20th century.

Time Split

Science Fiction and Thriller stories by Patricia Smith

Wattpad

Collection of ebooks, inclduign many self-publsihed online. Aims to connect readers & writers across the world.

Medieval

Luminarium - Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)

The Luminarium site holds a collection of primary texts organised by period. This section covers Chaucer and many of his contemporaries and near-contemporaries (including Gawain, Malory, Julian of Norwich, Gower and others) - spanning the period 1350-1485. Many of the texts (eg. the complete Chaucer) are actually links to other sites; others are properly hosted by Luminarium; a few are searchable.

Luminarium - 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)

An electronic anthology of texts from the period, this is one of the broadest selections online, including generous amounts of poetry, prose and drama, with background information about the writers and some critical material.

Teams Middle English Texts Series

Make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in paper editions.

Labyrinth Library

Medieval literature resources on the web, from the University of Georgetown.

The Classics

Alex Catalogue

Classic works of American and English literature and Western philosophy

Bartleby

Unlimited access to books and information available free of charge

Bibliomania

Free online classic literature and study guides

Complete Works of Shakespeare

Download the complete works of Shakespeare

Digital Book Index

A catalogue of e-books, texts and documents, includes 90,000 available free. Requires freeregistration / loginto access books.

Free e.books.net

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Full Books

Thousands of full-text free books

Luminarium 17th Century Literature (1603-1660)

From King James I to John Milton, John Donne to Mary Wroth - a compendium of literature and literary analysis of this tumultuous period in English history and literature.

Luminarium Restoration and 18th Century Literature (1660-1785)

Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Johnathan Swift . . . some of the greatest names in English history from an often overlooked period in study and interest. The Restoration saw the return of the monarchy to the throne after the civil war, and an explosion of liscentious and wild literature and theatre. There followed the expulsion of one king, the consolidation of the slave trade, the institution of the first prime minister and the succession of the United States, amongst lots more - reflected in this amazing period of literature.