Free Literature Ebooks and Etexts

Compiled by Jayaram V

Summary: This page presents a broad collection of free literature ebooks and etexts, including English and world literature, poetry, prose, classical works, linguistic studies, and critical essays. It features writings from major authors, historical texts, and scholarly resources across genres and periods. Ideal for students, educators, and literature enthusiasts, the collection highlights the richness and diversity of literary expression.

About Literature

Literature (from Latin litterae (plural) letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction & non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose.

Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction), a category that may also include polemical works, biography, and reflective essays, or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such as fiction, poetry, or drama). Literature written in poetry emphasizes the aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as sound, symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, ordinary meanings, while literature written in prose applies ordinary grammatical structure and the natural flow of speech. Literature can also be classified according to historical periods, genres, and political influences. While the concept of genre has broadened over the centuries, in general, a genre consists of artistic works that fall within a certain central theme; examples of genre include romance, mystery, crime, fantasy, erotica, and adventure, among others.

Important historical periods in English literature include Old English, Middle English, the Renaissance, the Elizabethan era of the 16th century (which includes the Shakespearean era), the 17th Century Restoration period, the 18th century Age of Enlightenment, the Romanticism of the early 19th century, the later 19th Century Victorian, and 20th Century Modernism and Post-modernism. Important intellectual movements that have influenced the study of literature include feminism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-modernism, romanticism, and Marxism.

English literature is the literature which is distinctly written in the English language, as opposed to differing languages. English literature includes literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England nor primarily English-speaking nations; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Thomas Pynchon is American, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world in countries originally colonized by the British.

Until the early 19th century, this article deals with literature from Britain written in English; then America starts to produce major writers and works in literature. In the 20th century America and Ireland produced many of the most significant works of literature in English, and after World War II writers from the former British Empire also began to challenge writers from Britain. Additional information on literature in English from countries other than the UK and Ireland can be found in see also below. ^1*

E-texts Buddhism

Marxism and Problems of Linguistics by Josef Stalin

Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Walter Armbrust

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky

America's Team, the Odd Couple: A Report on the Relationship Between the Media and the Military by Frank Aukover and William P. Lawrence

Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921) by Edward Sapir

Less Than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell

The Language of Canaan and the Grammar of Feminism by Vernard Eller

Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text by Irene A. Bierman

Classical Languages and Literature

Grammar of Septuagint Greek by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare and St. George William Joseph Stock

The Scholemaster by Roger Ascham

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Joseph Henry Allen and James Bradstreet Greenough

Commentary to the German Laws and Mediaeval Documents by Leo Wiener

Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) by Christopher Rocco

Memorabilia by Xenophon

The Speeches of Aeschines by Aeschines, trans. by Charles Darwin Adams

Complete Existing Speeches. by Isaeus, trans. by Edward Seymour Forster

The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus, trans. by Arthur Sanders Way

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, ed. by John William Mackail

Against Ctesiphon by Aeschines

Complete (Existing) Plays. by Aeschylus

Agamemnon by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead

The Libation-Bearers by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead

The Furies by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead

The Choephori by Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, trans. by E. H. Plumptre

Aesop's Fables by Aesop, trans. by George Fyler Townsend

Aesop's Fables by Aesop and Joseph Jacobs

On the Mysteries by Andocides

The Clouds by Aristophanes, trans. by William James Hickie

The Frogs by Aristophanes, trans. by B. B. Rogers

The Acharnians by Aristophanes

The Birds by Aristophanes

Peace by Aristophanes

On the Crown by Demosthenes

Against Leptines by Demosthenes

Against Midias by Demosthenes

Against Neaera by Demosthenes

Olynthiacs by Demosthenes

Philippics by Demosthenes

The Fragments of Empedocles (in Greek and English, with commentaries) by Empedocles, trans. by William Ellery Leonard

Alcestis by Euripides, trans. by Richard Aldington

The Bacchae by Euripides, trans. by Gilbert Murray

The Bacchantes by Euripides

Hecuba by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

Helen by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

Ion by Euripides, trans. by Robert Potter

Orestes by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

The Phoenissae by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

Rhesus by Euripides (HTML at Internet Classics)

The Suppliants by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

The Trojan Women by Euripides Classics)

Heracles by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

Electra by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

The Herecleidae by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

Hippolytus by Euripides, trans. by E. P. Coleridge

Hippolytus by Euripides, trans. by Gilbert Murray

Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides

Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides, trans. by Robert Potter

Works and Days by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White

Theogony by Hesiod, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White

The Iliad by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler

The Iliad by Homer, trans. by Walter Leaf, Andrew Lang, and Ernest Myers

The Odyssey by Homer, trans. by Samuel Butler

The Odyssey by Homer, trans. by Samuel Henry Butcher and Andrew Lang

The Odysseys of Homer by Homer, trans. by George Chapman

Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang

The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey by Alfred De Grazia

Panegyricus by Isocrates

On the Sublime by Longinus, trans. by William Rhys Roberts

Against Leocrates by Lycurgus

Complete Existing Speeches. by Lysias, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb

Philodemos = Philodemos: His Twenty-Nine Extant Poems by Philodemus, trans. by George Economou

Apology by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler

Apology by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett

Epinomis by Plato

Menexenus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett

The Poems of Sappho by Sappho, trans. by Edward Marion Cox

Selected works and commentary. by Sappho, trans. by Henry Thornton Wharton

Antigone by Sophocles, trans. by E. H. Plumptre

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, trans. by E. H. Plumptre

Philoktetes by Sophocles, trans. by Gregory McNamee

Three Essays on Thucydides by John M. Finley

Agesilaus by Xenophon

Anabasis by Xenophon

On Horsemanship by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns

Hellenica by Xenophon

Hiero by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns

Symposium by Xenophon

Cyropaedia by Xenophon, ed. by F. M. Stawell, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns

Cyropaedia by Xenophon

The Economist by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns

De Fuga in Persecutione by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Lucius Apuleius, trans. by H. E. Butler

The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius, trans. by William Adlington

Carmina by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Richard Burton

Laelius, or, An Essay on Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by W. Melmoth

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (orations only; appendixes on oration omitted) by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Charles Duke Yonge

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (Gutenberg text)

Letters of Cicero by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

The Works of Horace by Horace, ed. by C. Smart and Theodore Alois Buckley

Pharsalia (The Civil War) by Lucan

Metamorphoses by Ovid

The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918) by Wilton Wallace Blanck

The Letters of Pliny the Consul by Pliny the Younger, trans. by William Melmoth

On Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Senecas, trans. by Aubrey Stewart

Germania by Cornelius Tacitus

The Aeneid by Virgil, trans. by John Dryden

The Aeneid by Virgil, trans. by Theodore C. Williams

The Eclogues by Virgil

The Complaint of Nature by Alain of Lille, trans. by Douglas Maxwell Moffat

The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White

Pedantius by Edward Forset, ed. by Dana F. Sutton

Nero by Matthew Gwinne, ed. by Dana F. Sutton

Modern European Languages: Celtic Languages and Literature

Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by Thomas William Rolleston

Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, ed. by Patrick Power, trans. by Patrick Power

The Midnight Court (Irish and English texts) by Brian Merriman, trans. by J. Noel Fahey

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish, trans. by Isabella Augusta Gregory

Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy

An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (based on the 1911 edition) by Alexander Macbain

The Mabinogion, trans. by Charlotte Guest

Romance Languages

Tale of the Parrot (Novas Del Papagai) by Arnaut de Carcasses, trans. by Ross G. Arthur

Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Samuel Smiles

The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell and Marti Joan de Galba, trans. by Robert Rudder

Old Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Literature

English Language

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue by Jonathan Swift

The New McGuffey First Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey

The New McGuffey Fourth Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey

Reading-Literature: The Primer (1910) by Harriette Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, illust. by Frederik Richardson (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

Reading-Literature: First Reader (1911) by Harriette Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, illust. by Frederik Richardson

The English Schoole-Maister by Edmund Coote, ed. by Ian Lancashire

The New-England Primer (1777 edition, with modern commentary)

The Elements of Style (1918 edition) by William Strunk

The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996)

The King's English (second edition) by Henry Watson Fowler

A Defence of Ryme by Samuel Daniel

Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (New York: Thomas Crowell Company, 1922), ed. by C. O. Sylvester Mawson and Peter Mark Roget

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd edition, 1995)

A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words, ed. by Robert Cawdrey

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)

The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921) by H. L. Mencken

Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Particular to the United States (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1848) by John Russell Bartlett

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993) by Kenneth G. Wilson

English Idioms: Sayings and Slang by Wayne Magnuson

Slavic (incl. Russian) Languages and Literature

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by C. J. Hogarth

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by C. J. Hogarth

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett

Selected works and commentary. by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, trans. by Eva Martin

Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai V. Gogol

Dead Souls by Nikolai V. Gogol, trans. by C. J. Hogarth

The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts by Nikolai V. Gogol, trans. by Thomas Seltzer

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, trans. by J. H. Wisdom and Marr Murray

Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constance Garnett

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by C. J. Hogarth

The Forged Coupon and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Benjamin R. Tucker

Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Ilya Tolstoy, trans. by George Calderon

Tolstoy and His Message (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1903) by Ernest Howard Crosby

A House of Gentlefolk (with commentary) by Ivan Turgenev, trans. by Constance Garnett

Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev, trans. by Rochelle S. Townsend

Fathers and Children (with commentary) by Ivan Turgenev, trans. by Constance Garnett

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Marian Fell

The Bishop and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett.

The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Darling and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Horse Stealers and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

Ivanoff by Anton Chekhov (Gutenberg text)

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Party and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Schoolmaster and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

The Witch and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, trans. by Constance Garnett

Creatures That Once Were Men (with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton) by Maxim Gorky, trans. by J. M. Shirazi

The Man Who Was Afraid (Foma Gordyeeff) by Maxim Gorky, trans. by Herman Bernstein (Gutenberg text)

Mother by Maxim Gorky (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 28 Feb 2003)

Through Russia by Maxim Gorky, trans. by C. J. Hogarth (Gutenberg text)

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text)

PH Uralic and Basque (incl. Finnish and Hungarian) Languages and Literature

The Kalevala, trans. by John Martin Crawford (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

African, Asian, and Pacific Literature

Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic by Janet H. Johnson (PDF files at Chicago)

Egyptian Stelae in Field Museum of Natural History by Thomas George Allen (page images at Chicago)

The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani (based on the 1895 text and commentary), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Enuma Elish, trans. by L. W. King (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Annals of the Kings of Assyria, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge and Leonard William King (page images at Chicago)

The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum by Reginald Campbell Thompson

The Arabian Nights (1-volume version), trans. by Richard Burton

The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang, illust. by Henry Justice Ford (HTML at Belinus Press)

Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery: A Novel by Bahaa' Taher, trans. by Barbara Romaine (HTML at UC Press)

The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (PDF at In Parentheses)

Chitra: A Play in One Act by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg text)

Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics by Frances W. Pritchett (HTML at UC Press)

The Rig Veda, trans. by Ralph T. H. Griffith (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Hymns of the Samaveda, trans. by Ralph T. H. Griffith (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

The Veda of the Black Yajus School, Entitled Taittiriya Sanhita, trans. by Arthur Berriedale Keith (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Indian Idylls, from the Sanskrit of the Mahabharata (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907), trans. by Edwin Arnold (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Shakuntala by Kalidasa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (PDF at In Parentheses)

Twenty-Two Goblins, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder

The Avesta (with other Zoroastrian scriptures and commentary), trans. by Lawrence Heyworth Mills, James Darmesteter, and J. H. Peterson (HTML at avesta.org)

The Vend d d, trans. by James Darmesteter (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Sad Dar, trans. by E. W. West (HTML at avesta.org)

The Epic of Kings by Firdausi, trans. by Helen Zimmern

The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward Henry Whinfield (HTML at Fordham)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in English and Danish, with notes) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML in Denmark)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (multiple editions) by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald and Edward Henry Whinfield, illust. by Edmund Dulac and Willy Pogany (frame-dependent HTML at arabiannights.org)

The Gulistan by Sheikh Mulish-uddin Sa'di Shirazi (HTML at Internet Classics)

The Gulistan by Sheikh Mulish-uddin Sa'di Shirazi, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)

Analects of Confucius by Confucius, trans. by James Legge

Analects of Confucius (Chinese and English) by Confucius, trans. by James Legge (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2003)

The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius, trans. by James Legge

The Great Learning by Confucius, trans. by James Legge

A Lute of Jade: Selections from the Classical Poets of China, ed. by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (Gutenberg text)

Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 by Sumathi Ramaswamy (HTML at UC Press)

Indigeneous American and Artificial Languages

Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, with a Gloss in Nahuatl by Daniel Garrison Brinton (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, the International Language (New York, Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, c1910) by Ivy Kellerman (framed PDF files at cwru.edu)

General, Criticism, Collections

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)

Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Jan 2003)

Criticism and Fiction by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2002)

The Critical I by Norman N. Holland (HTML at ufl.edu)

On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch (HTML at Bartleby)

How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

The Arte of Rhetorique by Thomas Wilson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

Style by Walter Raleigh (Gutenberg text)

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920 edition) by T. S. Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

My Literary Passions by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2002)

Essays in Little by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, ed. by William D. MacClintock and Porter Lander MacClintock

Morien, trans. by Jessie Laidlay Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)

From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston

The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 28 Feb 2003)

The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton, illust. by E. Boyd Smith (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham

A Defence of Poetry by Percy Shelley (HTML at Toronto)

A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney, contrib. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)

The Defence of Poesie by Philip Sidney (HTML at uoregon.edu)

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1922) by Donald Lemen Clark (framed PDF files at cwru.edu)

Poetics by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher

Of Dramatic Poesie by John Dryden (HTML at Toronto)

An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)

Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) by Thomas J. Saunders (HTML at UC Press)

Stage-Land by Jerome K. Jerome

Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Isabella Augusta Gregory (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

The Short-Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development (New York: American Book Company, 1907) by Brander Matthews (HTML at Bartleby)

The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward Bok (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Nov 2002)

The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921) by Edward Bok (HTML at Bartleby)

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

Lectures on the Harvard Classics, ed. by William Allan Neilson (HTML at Bartleby)

The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America (1853 edition), ed. by George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis

Iol us: An Anthology of Friendship by Edward Carpenter (HTML at Fordham)

Familiar Quotations (9th edition, 1901) by John Bartlett (searchable HTML at Bartleby)

Familiar Quotations (10th edition, 1919) by John Bartlett, ed. by Nathan Haskell Dole (searchable HTML at Bartleby)

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotes, 1950-1988, ed. by James Beasley Simpson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)

The Puritaine Widow (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Jul 2003)

The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond (HTML at Renascence Editions)

Semele: An Opera (libretto only) by William Congreve (HTML at Renascence Editions)

Congressman Pumphrey, the People's Friend (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1907) by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML at boondocksnet.com)

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories by Cal Stewart

Monsieur d'En Brochette by Bert Leston Taylor, Arthur Hamilton Folwell, and John Kendrick Bangs (illustrated HTML at islandmm.com)

Who Was Who 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be, ed. by Irwin L. Gordon

Billy Baxter's Letters by William J. Kountz (Gutenberg text)

Nonsenseorship (1922), ed. by G. P. P., illust. by Ralph Barton (framed PDF files at cwru.edu)

A Parody Outline of History by Donald Ogden Stewart (Gutenberg text)

Perfect Behavior: A Parody Outline of Etiquette by Donald Ogden Stewart

The Foolish Dictionary by Gideon Wurdz

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers by Robert Williams Wood

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1895 edition), contrib. by Rudolf Erich Raspe (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Apr 2002)

The New Hacker's Dictionary (on-line version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at tuxedo.org)

French, Italian, and Spanish Literature

The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century) by George Saintsbury

Aucassin and Nicolete, trans. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

Cliges: A Romance by Chretien de Troyes, trans. by Laetitia Jane Gardiner (Gutenberg text)

Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion by Chretien de Troyes, trans. by W. W. Comfort

The Song of Roland, trans. by John O'Hagan

The Song of Roland, trans. by Jessie Crosland (PDF at In Parentheses)

The Curial by Alain Chartier, trans. by William Caxton (HTML at Renascence Editions)

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre by Queen Marguerite de Navarre, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (107 essays organized in three books) by Michel de Montaigne and William Carew Hazlitt, trans. by Charles Cotton (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Dec 2002)

Essays (21-essay collection) by Michel de Montaigne, trans. by Charles Cotton

Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, trans. by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux (Gutenberg text)

Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille, trans. by Thomas Constable

The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (Gutenberg text)

The Princess de Montpensier by Madame de La Fayette, trans. by Oliver C. Colt

Reflections (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871) by Francois La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (framed PDF files at cwru.edu)

Amphitryon by Moliere, trans. by Alfred Rayney Waller (Gutenberg text)

The Middle Class Gentleman by Moliere, trans. by Philip Dwight Jones (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Dec 2001)

Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite by Moliere, trans. by Curtis Hidden Page

Phaedra by Jean Baptiste Racine, trans. by Robert Bruce Boswell

Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost (Gutenberg text)

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by W. Conyngham Mallory

Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Gutenberg text)

Letters on England by Voltaire (Gutenberg text)

Letters on the English by Voltaire (HTML at Bartleby)

The Human Comedy (complete) by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Clara Bell, Ernest Dowson, Ellen Marriage, James Waring, and Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg texts)

A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ernest Dowson (Gutenberg text)

Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

Catherine de' Medici by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

The Chouans by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

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Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac

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The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac (Gutenberg text)

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Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Clara Bell (Gutenberg text)

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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Clara Bell and James Waring (Gutenberg text)

The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Clara Bell and James Waring (Gutenberg text)

The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell (Gutenberg text)

The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Clara Bell (Gutenberg text)

The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

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Seraphita by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

Ursula by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac, trans. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Gutenberg text)

Reportory of the Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe, trans. by J. Walker McSpadden

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Honore de Balzac (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, c1914) by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, trans. by Frederic Taber Cooper

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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The Vicomte de Bragelone (first part of the last d'Artagnan adventure) by Alexandre Dumas

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Camille (La Dame Aux Camelias) by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)

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A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert (Gutenberg text)

Herodias by Gustave Flaubert (Gutenberg text)

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Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert (Gutenberg text)

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France

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The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text)

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Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2003)

The Mystery of Orcival by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text)

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The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Jul 2002)

A Woodland Queen by Andre Theuriet (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Apr 2003)

From the Earth to the Moon; and Round the Moon by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)

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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (Gutenberg text)

The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux (Gutenberg text)

The Crystal Stopper by Maurice Leblanc (Gutenberg text)

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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Charles Eliot Norton

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Jerusalem Delivered by Torquado Tasso, trans. by Edward Fairfax

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I Promessi Sposi, or The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

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Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906) by Walter Wilson Greg (framed PDF files at cwru.edu)

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Medieval English Political Writings, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at Rochester)

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The Flower of the Mind (1893; with Later Poems) by Alice Meynell (Gutenberg text)

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Beowulf, trans. by F.B. Gummere

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The Canterbury Tales (multiple editions, with commentary) by Geoffrey Chaucer (frame-dependent HTML at canterburytales.org)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Disguising at Hertford by John Lydgate (Gutenberg text)

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No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's by Thomas Middleton (annotated HTML at tech.org)

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A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton (annotated HTML at tech.org)

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Your Five Gallants by Thomas Middleton (annotated HTML at tech.org)

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Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit (Gutenberg text)

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The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tournier

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