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Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature

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This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest. Collections are listed more or less in order of size; indivdual authors are listed alphabetically. EuroDocs lists many historical and social science texts in western European languages.

If you put up an electronic text, find a collection that's not listed here, or find changes in one of the collections please let me know.


Catalan Literature

Textos en línia is a large collection of links to Catalan texts of all sorts.

Danish Literature

Dutch Literature

Finnish Literature

French Literature

  • Littérature francophone virtuelle at ClicNet and Athena Textes Français have the most comprehensive lists of French authors on the Web. Athena is a good list of individual texts at the largest sites and the first place to try for a specific title. ClicNet is particularly good for smaller sites dedicated to single authors.
  • Classici Stranieri includes many French e-books formatted to be read with Microsoft Reader (.lit). Few or none of these titles appear in the various lists of texts.
  • Many texts from the ARTFL Project are available only to ARTFL subscribers and may not appear in the lists of generally available texts.

Galician Literature

German Literature

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Classical Greek Literature

Modern Greek Literature

  • KEIMENA
    Large collection of texts. Requires a Greek font.

Irish Literature

Italian Literature

Latin Literature

Classical Texts

Norwegian Literature

  • Nettbibliotek
    Over 1000 literary and other texts from the Nynorsk kultursentrum.
  • Project Runeberg
    Huge collection of texts in all the Scandinavian languages.
  • Splints & Co., Journal of Scandinavian Poetry on the Web

Old Norse and Modern Icelandic Literature

  • Netútgáfan
    Large collection of sagas and other texts.
  • Jörmungrund
    Eddic and Skaldic poetry, some (e.g., Völuspá) with annotations and variant readings.
  • Project Runeberg
    Huge collection of texts in all the Scandinavian languages.
  • Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota)
    Manuscript transcriptions.
  • SagaNet
    Page facsimiles of the manuscripts from The National and University Library of Iceland, Cornell University and the Árni Magnússon Institute along with relevant books published before 1900.
  • Jónas Hallgrímsson, Selected Poetry and Prose, edited and translated by Dick Ringler.
    Original texts with English translations and commentary.

Portuguese Literature

Provençal and other Occitan Literature

Romanian Literature

Spanish Literature



This page was last updated 31 January, 2008.
It is maintained by James Campbell who is grateful for suggestions of additional sources.

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