Literature Online
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Bartleby.com
Bartleby is an internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse that provides all of its materials free of charge. The resources include older material that has entered the public domain as well as current reference materials such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, and Roget's International Thesaurus.
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Early English Books Online
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. The project is volunteer-driven, and aims 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. The archive currently contains more than 20,000 free eBooks, and links to more than 100,000 others through partners and affiliates.