Below is a list of the best and most popular literature downloads
available on the internet.
Editor's Choice
Electronic Texts
and
Project Gutenberg
and
ALEX
. Educators around the globe have been uploading full texts of
literature in the public domain. You can download any of these
thousands of texts for free. It's a cool idea, the library of the
future.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
: a very useful searchable electronic edition of everything by the
bard is served up here by MIT. You might also take a look at a well
laid-out page of
Shakespeare's sonnets:
including audio versions (if you have the right software).
The Bible
gateway, a searchable index to multiple editions of world's
best-selling collaborative novel. You may also wish to consult the
Dictionary
of Sex in the Bible
by Ronald Ecker.
Texts
and Contexts
-- a resource center which attempts to place important literary and
philosophical texts in their historical contexts.
Project Bartleby
at Columbia is one of the most well-designed e-text projects on the
web.
The
American Verse Project
at the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative -- E-texts
of American Poetry.
The
Master Works of Western Civilization
: a hyperlinked e-text index of your "classic" canon --
reads like an old style M.A. exam list, but it's very well laid out
for easy access to "the" classics.
Encyclopedia
Mythica
is an on-line mythology encyclopedia, and
Tales
of Wonder
is an on-line collection of myths, folk and fairy tales from
different countries around the world.
Chapter One
: a great idea from the Washington Post -- they're putting
the first chapter of books that they review on-line, along with the
reviews themselves.
American
Literary Classics
, a chapter a day -- for daily literary surfers -- ALC puts up one
chapter of a classic American novel every day -- not a bad way to
consume those texts you should have but never did get around to
reading.
