Literature on the Web

Much interesting literature is, thankfully, out of copyright, making it possible for folk to publish it on the web. Some publishers do also make some work available for free. I won't pretend that the following is exhaustively complete; and most of it dates from 1997 so many links here may well be broken; but here, all the same, is a haphazard bunch of links to some of what's out there. A larger collection of links may be found at Free e-Books: The Ultimate Guide.

• Alice in Wonderland.
• The works of Dorothy Parker.
• The complete works of William Shakespeare have been neatly prepared for hypertext (complete with a glossary).
• There's an Edgar Allan Poe site.
• Part of an essay by John Stuart Mill on freedom of speech.
• Terry Pratchett shows up a fair bit: There's an ftp archive and web pages can be found in Warwick, Sweden and Virginia, or you can consult Jake Kesinger's Pratchett page.
• The University of Toronto has some James Joyce.
• The Sardinia Research Center has a few Italian classics, including La Divina Commedia.
• The Women's Studies program at Maryland has some poems by women, especially Emily Dickinson.
• Project Bartleby includes the complete poems of Wordsworth.
• CopticNet has Coptic scriptural materials.
• The Quartz archive has a few texts not available at other locations.
• The Libellus Project has Latin texts.
• The Oxford Text Archive has a large collection.
• The English Server at CMU includes some poems.
• Trips to the Moon by Lucian at Project Gutenberg.
• Wiretap is similar to Project Gutenberg in focus and scope.
• The British Library has a home page.

Written by Eddy.