Portals

English language

The Internet Public Library  http://www.ipl.org  links to 20k books and many other sites with information, built on a directory structure

The Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html 17k links  to many sources by analysis of sources and many links

The www Virtual Library http://vlib.org/Overview.html - links to various other collections of documents by section, more of a portal to whole collections on a specific topic.

Author Pages on the WWW http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/author.htm

Biographies (classical fiction authors) http://www.blupete.com/Links/bksfict.htm and  http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/BiosFiction.htm 

Literary Resources -- Victorian British http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/victoria.html

British and Irish authors on the web http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

Witchcraft and other magical text links www.witchpages.com 

Digital book index 65,000 record index to electronic texts, registration required but free. Includes government and commercial titles as well as free texts. http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm  Very good, but cant right click lists, so use last.

New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm 

Large directory listings of other sources ie search engines/directories

Author Catalogs http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/authors.htm Portal of many links to other author lists by country and many other classifications.

Dmoz open directory project - electronic text archives 

Google e-texts at http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/ 

AOL search http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/web.adp?query=e%2Dtexts%20and%20public 

AOL directory - electronic text archives http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/cat.adp?id=912 

Searchebooks.com search engine specializing in finding e-texts http://www.searchebooks.com/ finds quite a lot of university resources.

Foreign language portals and listings of sites

The University of Virginia's Western European Literature listing also lists a number of major collections in languages other than English.

Tyler Chambers's iLoveLanguages site has a comprehensive listing of foreign language and literature resources.

The index site for the Worldwide-Library at www.worldwide-library.com  it indexes you to all the sites by function

General enquiries general-enquiries @ worldwide-library.org, (no spaces)

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