Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

Free, online illustrated children's stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories.

HTML collection of online classic e-books.

Public domain novels, short stories and plays in HTML format.

A site with 1000s of free e-books (in pdf format) of the classics and other out of copyright books

Large free and searchable collection of classic books, novels and poems.

A free online collection with thousands of books.

Collection of free downloadable ebooks in a variety of popular formats and categories.

A collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays. Site offers online chapter-indexed hypertext that can be easily read and searched and each piece includes downloadable e-text of the work.

A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature.

Archive of free ebooks of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature.

A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded.

Public domain books in HTML, usually one file per chapter. Offers PDF books to members only.