not exactly meant to help beginners, the Gutenberg project offers a broad variety of texts, from the classics to Lu Xun, in plain text utf-8 and for free.
Check out their download page: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/zh
Sorry, don't know where I found the link, may already have been posted in this forum.
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