link book public gutenberg
Public domain etexts on my list to read
I have a stack of books to read that looks nothing like
the one on Abigail's
blog, because it consists entirely of etexts downloaded from
Project Gutenberg. Here is a list of them with links
to the main archive (the mirror sites
may give you better results depending on your connectivity). I won't vouch for
the quality of all of these titles, but I am sure you will find something in
the variety that you might like to pick up yourself.
Novels
- John P. Marquand, The Unspeakable Gentleman
- Jose Rizal, The Reign of Greed (El Filibusterismo)
- G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- Robert Hugh Benson, The Necromancers
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
- The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
- Emile Zola, Le Docteur Pascal
- Jose Rizal, The Social Cancer
- Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
- Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Dead Souls
- Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
- Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Jack London, Martin Eden
- Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
- Anatole France, Sur la pierre blanche
- P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid
- Henry C. Lahee, Famous Violinists Of To-Day And Yesterday
- Ulysses S. Grant, The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 1.
- Ulysses S. Grant, The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2.
- Ulysses S. Grant, The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 3.
- Ulysses S. Grant, The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 4.
- Ulysses S. Grant, The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 5.
- Ulysses S. Grant, The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 6.
- James Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
- Charles MacKay, Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions -- Volume 1
- Charles MacKay, Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions -- Volume 2
- Charles MacKay, Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions -- Volume 3
- Thomas de Quincey, The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater
- Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians
- Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
- Hans Christian Andersen, The True Story of My Life
- Francis Parkman, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
- Theodore Roosevelt, The Naval War of 1812
- Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding
- Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Francis C. Woodworth, The Diving Bell
- Henry David Thoreau, Wild Apples
- Joseph Addison, Essays and Tales
- Addison and Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2
- François Villon, Oeuvres complètes de François Villon
- Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
- ed. E. H. Marsh, Georgian Poetry 1916-17
- Collected by Carolyn Wells, A Nonsense Anthology
- Robert Southey, Poems, 1799
- James Parton, The Humourous Poetry of the English Language
- Pope, ed. Gilfillan, Poetical Works of Pope (1)
- Pope, ed. Gilfillan, Poetical Works of Pope (2)
- John Dryden, Poetical Works of Dryden (2)
- William Blake, Poems
- William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Robert Southey, Poems
- Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
- Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
- K. M. Ganguli, Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Translated into English Prose Part 1
- Rodwell (trans), The Q'uran
- Grace Wood, The Art Of Interior Decoration
- Frederick Starr, A Little Book of Filipino Riddles
- Samuel G. Blythe, The Fun of Getting Thin
- Brillat Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
- David Starr Jordan, The Call of the Twentieth Century
- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th Edition
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
- Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
- Julian Stafford Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
- Monsieur L'Abbat, The art of fencing, or, the use of the small sword
- Henry Reed Stiles, M.D., Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline In America
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War
- Inazo Nitobé, Bushido, the Soul of Japan
- J. Bayard Taylor, Views a-foot
The etext software I use on Windows is yBook
from Spacejock Software, which I can
recommend to anyone for its ease of use.