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Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature

Catalan | Danish | Dutch | Finnish | French | Galician | German | Greek | Irish | Italian | Latin | Norwegian | Old Norse & Icelandic | Portuguese | Romanian | Provençal | Spanish | Swedish

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

De Nederlandse Letteren has an index to Dutch authors in the various Web collections as well as links to general information on Dutch literature and to new journals and writers publishing on the Internet. 5-03: Links to Coster project are not working. Use link below to go there directly.

Dutch Studies Web: Electronic Texts is a useful list of collections.

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

Classical Greek Literature

Modern Greek Literature

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

Irish Literature

Italian Literature

Latin Literature

Classical Texts

Medieval and Renaissance Texts

  • Josse Bade, Stultiferae Naves
    Text of the 1500 edition with introduction, notes and translation in French.

Norwegian Literature

Litteraturnettet, the Norwegian Writers Web, a service of Den norske Forfatterforening, has information about Norwegian literature and a list of Norwegian writers on the Internet, linking to information about them and searches in libraries and Internet search engines.

Old Norse and Modern Icelandic Literature

Portuguese Literature

  • Projecto Vercial - Literatura Portuguesa
    A very large collection with indexes by author and by literary period. Author pages include brief biographies and links to other pages about them.
  • Classici Stranieri includes some Portuguese e-books formatted to be read with Microsoft Reader (.lit).

For other Portuguese literary sites:
Links de Literatura & Poesia is a large but unannotated list of Web sites for Portuguese literature. It includes a list of authors.

Provençal and other Occitan Literature

Romanian Literature

Spanish Literature

Swedish Literature


This page was last updated 6 June, 2003.
It is maintained by James Campbell who is grateful for suggestions of additional sources.

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