Search through Google's full-text book collection. Some books will only have excerpts available for online reading. Use with WorldCat if you want to find the book on paper at your library.
Open access eBook titles that are mostly out of copyright. Includes many historically important documents (especially from the U.S.), as well as canonical literature (e.g., Shakespeare, Dickens).
Collection of 19th century American fiction covering 1831-1888. Built on the work of Lyle Wright in his bibliography of American Fiction from 1851-1875. Very useful for data mining and textual analysis.
