Good stuff for you to build your own corpus of English literature! Here are a number of things you can download to make your exploration into great literature more fruitful.
Compressed texts
You can download the complete texts of all the items in the Catalogue:
all American texts (20.9 MB compressed)
http://homepage.mac.com/ericleasemorgan/american.tar.gz
all English texts (20.6 MB compressed)
http://homepage.mac.com/ericleasemorgan/english.tar.gz
all philosophy texts (10.6 MB compressed)
http://homepage.mac.com/ericleasemorgan/philosophy.tar.gz
These archived texts are originally from Eric Lease Morgan's Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts.
Compressed texts
You can download the complete texts of all the items in the Catalogue:
all American texts (20.9 MB compressed)
http://homepage.mac.com/ericleasemorgan/american.tar.gz
all English texts (20.6 MB compressed)
http://homepage.mac.com/ericleasemorgan/english.tar.gz
all philosophy texts (10.6 MB compressed)
http://homepage.mac.com/ericleasemorgan/philosophy.tar.gz
These archived texts are originally from Eric Lease Morgan's Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts.