LiquidKudzu
08-22-2008, 09:30 PM
Resources in this category:
The Aeneid of Vergil
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/virgil.html
The John Dryden (Harvard Classics) translation of the great Latin epic,
markup by the Institute for Learning Technologies.
Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
"This online version of Aesop's Fables includes the full public domain
texts - 655+ Fables, in Html format, indexed in Table format with morals
listed." Illustrated, and eight available in sound files. Requires
Flash.
Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://infomotions.com/alex/
"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public
domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy."
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/artistotle.html
What is good? How should one act in order to be good? How should one
act in order to have a good life? Aristotle's ten-part treatise examines
these questions and their logical extensions in an ordered, rational
fashion, and has been one of the most-read books for over two thousand
years.
Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Thorough index of online texts ranging from Louisa May Alcott's "Little
Women" to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Contains fiction,
non-fiction, and poetry sections, with a limited reference section.
Cassiodorus
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/cassiodorus.html
An online book about the life and work of Flavius Magnus Aurelius
Cassiodorus Senator, born c. 490, d. c. 585, who was by turns statesman
and monk, and left behind a substantial and varied body of literary
work.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org/
Contains complete versions in electronic format of numerous non-fiction
classic Christian books including 38 volumes of the most important
writings from the first 800 years of the church, writings by St.
Augustine, John Calvin, George Fox, Martin Luther, and others. Also
contains fiction by such authors as Chesterton, Dostoevsky, MacDonald,
and Tolstoy. Links to Biblical reference sites are also included.
A Christmas Carol
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html
The Charles Dickens classic, in which miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is
visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html
HTML versions of Shakespeare's plays provided MIT's newspaper, The
Tech.
Cowboy and Western Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/
This hub of Cowboy Poetry corrals together some old and classical
cowboy poetry as well as some new poems, and much more. You*ll find
newsletters, events, competitions, articles, book reviews, links, and
articles.
The Cranky Librarian
http://crankylibrarian.com/
Search for public domain books and art works online here, as well as
searching by author and artist.
Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/
Indexes over 80,000 titles from commercial and non-commercial
publishers, universities, and various private sites.
The English Server Drama Collection
http://drama.eserver.org/
A collection of both long and short English drama plays and criticism
(complete scripts) that includes authors like: Shakespeare (complete
works,) Shaw, Johnson, Gay, Moliere, Biggs and Sophocles. Also has links
to other theater sites.
The English Server Fiction Collection
http://eserver.org/fiction/
Collection of online fiction texts. Includes short stories and novels
by authors like: Alcott, Bronte, Bulfinch, Cather, Crane, Dickens,
Dreiser, Elliot, Twain, Hardy and Fielding (among others.) Also has
criticism.
Famous Poets and Poems
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/
Browse among 550 popular poets and 22,000 poems. Find portraits, short
biographies, quotes, bibliographies and links to other resources
dedicated to a particular poet.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Resource providing links to mythology texts. Arranged alphabetically,
users can browse everything from popular fairytales to Russian ghost
stories.
Google Books Search
http://books.google.com/
Find full text and/or bibliographic information using the world's best
known search engine to search through one of the largest collaborative
digitization projects ever. To find "Full Text Books" (which are likely
to be older), select that option before doing a search.
Great Literature On-Line
http://www.classicauthors.net/
Online versions of classic literary works.
Homer and the Papyri Relational Database
http://www.stoa.org/homer/homer.pl
Early transcripts of Homer show many variations. This searchable
database of papyri containing portions of Homeric text is both a
modernized catalogue of these papyri and related materials and an
all-embracing collection of the variant readings they present, with a
few exceptions.
Hyperizons - Hypertext Fiction
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
Read original hypertext fiction, reviews and criticism of hypertext
fiction, hypertext converted from print and other Web sources.
ibiblio
http://www.ibiblio.org/
"Home to one of the largest 'collections of collections' on the
Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information,
including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics,
and cultural studies." There's a little of something for everyone here
-- a good place to browse.
Inquiries by Herodotus
http://www.losttrails.com/pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus.ht...
"This is a serialized new translation of the ancient Greek historical
narrative by the fifth century BCE thinker, Herodotus of Halicarnassus."
The Internet Archive: Text Archive
http://www.archive.org/texts/
Offers acess to digital-born and scanned print texts. It is a digital
library that seeks to encourage new users to utilize its resources in
new contexts.
The Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/
The more famous and some lesser known authors of Greek and Roman
literature. Included are full texts of their works, with contextual
information (such as when it was written). One can also see other
readers' opinions and thoughts on the works and respond to them or post
one's own. A search engine is provided.
Internet Library of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
"Aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals,
and make these images available on the Internet, together with their
associated bibliographic data. The core collection for the project are
runs of at least 20 consecutive years of: Three 18th-century journals:
Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society; Three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The
Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine."
KnowledgeRush Book Directory
http://www.knowledgerush.com/
Large directory of popular literary works and historical documents
available on the Web. Includes biographies of some authors and can be
browsed by author, genre, or title.
LibriVox
http://www.librivox.org/
LibriVox is site designed to facilitate the sharing of audio books. It
works like this; users select a chapter of a literary work that is out
of copyright and in the public domain and record themselves reading it.
Then the audio file is uploaded to the site and available for download.
LibriVox supports works in multiple languages from around the world.
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration and 18th Century
literary texts. Entries for each author include: works, biography,
criticism, quotations and links. Texts are from The Norton Anthology of
English Literature, 6th ed.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MclMyth.html
This the online version of a book published in 1916 which gathered
Native American myths and legends of the Sioux. The compiler, Marie L.
McLaughlin, was a woman "of one-fourth Sioux blood" who was "born and
reared in an Indian community".
The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Online Books Page was started in 1993 and remains an easily
navigable central access point for online texts in the public domain.
Search for books and articles by author, title, or subject. Also
provides guidelines and contact information for reader suggestions for
new resources to add.
Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/
This website compliles translations of over 125 women writers, "women
who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700." Each entry
contains background on the author and that particular work, useful
secondary sources and Internet sites. The site also offers information
on how to obtain translations of these writings.
Perseus Digital Library: Classics Collection
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
Primary and secondary sources for the study of Ancient Greece and Rome,
including texts and images. "The library's materials include ancient
texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively
illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase
painting. A collaborative team from a number of academic institutions
has worked together to amass Perseus materials. Over 70 museums have
shared pictures of their art objects." Searchable.
Plato on ILT Web
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/projects/digitexts/...
Nine of Plato's dialogues as translated by Benjamin Jowett, with a
short biography.
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Index of over ten thousand electronic texts ("eBooks") available free
on the web. Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest -- and one of the
largest -- provider of free electronic books.
PublicLiterature.Org - Read Books Online
http://publicliterature.org/2007/08/11/online_books/
Check out free full text and audio classic works from Public
Literature.org. News and information is posted for readers and aspiring
writers. The site features works by Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Charles
Dickens, Herman Melville, Leonardo da Vinci and many more.
Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
"The second version of Representative Poetry On-line includes over
2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the
beginning of the twentieth century." Poems are indexed and can be
browsed by poet name, date, title, or first line. They can also be
searched by keyword. Also contains works on poetry criticism.
Short Stories at east of the web
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
A growing collection of classic and newly-written short stories made
available on the Web. Stories are organized by theme: fiction, romance,
crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humor, horror, hyperfiction, children's, and
non-fiction. Includes works by many famous authors.
Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/
Sonnet Central is "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures,
and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also
be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors." The site
mainly concentrates on sonnets from Great Britain but other areas are
represented as well.
Technotopia: Virtual Book Reader
http://www.technotopia.com/books/
This online book site presents classic titles in a paged format, with a
more familiar layout and the ability to bookmark and return to at a
later date. Currently offered on the Technotopia web site are: A
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Dickens, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,
Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, Sense and Sensibility by Jane
Austen, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
Treasure Island
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/SteTrea.html
Get ready for a swashbuckling tale about pirates and searching for lost
treasure.
Treasures from the Saxon State Library
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dresintr.html
In English. The Library of Congress hosts this site that includes short
narrative histories interspersed with scans of materials such as
letters, paintings, and books. The histories begin around medieval times
and end around 1875.
Turning the Pages on the web
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
The British Library has digitized important historical works, such as
Caxton's Chaucer, Beowulf, Gutenberg Bible, Lindisfarne Gospels, Da
Vinci's notebook, Sherborne Missal among others. User can "turn the
pages of rare books or manuscripts in a highly realistic way. They can
zoom in on the high-quality digitized images and read or listen to notes
explaining the significance of each page."
UNESCO/IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/
"This site aims to offer a listing of major digitized heritage
collections and on-going digitization programmes worldwide. It is hoped
that this will provide a single focal point of information on digitized
collections. This site will act as the 'Memory of the World' virtual
library offering direct access to those collections, where permission to
link has been granted." Search or browse the database.
The Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp/
The project was developed in order to provide digital texts of
Victorian women writers. The collection is medium sized, but is still
growing. The site would be useful for someone looking up information on
sometimes obscure articles, poems, etceteras. Includes dates of original
publication, birth and death dates of the authors, and links to
electronic versions of journals from the period, societies which study
this subject, other electronic text projects, and related sites.
The Viking Age: Cormac's Saga
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/lit/cormac/
This 27 chapter saga originated in Iceland between 1200 and 1300 A.D.
Download it or read it online.
The Wind in the Willows
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GraWind.html
Come on a fun adventure on the riverbank and into the woods with Toad,
Rat, Mole and Badger! Find this great book online and get to know the
crazy characters at the link above.
World Wide School Library
http://www.worldwideschool.org/
World Wide School is "dedicated to the collection, preservation and
presentation of educational material." The library contains over 2,000
online texts organized by subject, author, title, and genre. Each text
is accompanied with helpful notes.
This above list of books was taken from
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
The Aeneid of Vergil
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/virgil.html
The John Dryden (Harvard Classics) translation of the great Latin epic,
markup by the Institute for Learning Technologies.
Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/
"This online version of Aesop's Fables includes the full public domain
texts - 655+ Fables, in Html format, indexed in Table format with morals
listed." Illustrated, and eight available in sound files. Requires
Flash.
Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://infomotions.com/alex/
"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public
domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy."
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/artistotle.html
What is good? How should one act in order to be good? How should one
act in order to have a good life? Aristotle's ten-part treatise examines
these questions and their logical extensions in an ordered, rational
fashion, and has been one of the most-read books for over two thousand
years.
Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Thorough index of online texts ranging from Louisa May Alcott's "Little
Women" to Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray". Contains fiction,
non-fiction, and poetry sections, with a limited reference section.
Cassiodorus
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/cassiodorus.html
An online book about the life and work of Flavius Magnus Aurelius
Cassiodorus Senator, born c. 490, d. c. 585, who was by turns statesman
and monk, and left behind a substantial and varied body of literary
work.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org/
Contains complete versions in electronic format of numerous non-fiction
classic Christian books including 38 volumes of the most important
writings from the first 800 years of the church, writings by St.
Augustine, John Calvin, George Fox, Martin Luther, and others. Also
contains fiction by such authors as Chesterton, Dostoevsky, MacDonald,
and Tolstoy. Links to Biblical reference sites are also included.
A Christmas Carol
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html
The Charles Dickens classic, in which miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is
visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html
HTML versions of Shakespeare's plays provided MIT's newspaper, The
Tech.
Cowboy and Western Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/
This hub of Cowboy Poetry corrals together some old and classical
cowboy poetry as well as some new poems, and much more. You*ll find
newsletters, events, competitions, articles, book reviews, links, and
articles.
The Cranky Librarian
http://crankylibrarian.com/
Search for public domain books and art works online here, as well as
searching by author and artist.
Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/
Indexes over 80,000 titles from commercial and non-commercial
publishers, universities, and various private sites.
The English Server Drama Collection
http://drama.eserver.org/
A collection of both long and short English drama plays and criticism
(complete scripts) that includes authors like: Shakespeare (complete
works,) Shaw, Johnson, Gay, Moliere, Biggs and Sophocles. Also has links
to other theater sites.
The English Server Fiction Collection
http://eserver.org/fiction/
Collection of online fiction texts. Includes short stories and novels
by authors like: Alcott, Bronte, Bulfinch, Cather, Crane, Dickens,
Dreiser, Elliot, Twain, Hardy and Fielding (among others.) Also has
criticism.
Famous Poets and Poems
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/
Browse among 550 popular poets and 22,000 poems. Find portraits, short
biographies, quotes, bibliographies and links to other resources
dedicated to a particular poet.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Resource providing links to mythology texts. Arranged alphabetically,
users can browse everything from popular fairytales to Russian ghost
stories.
Google Books Search
http://books.google.com/
Find full text and/or bibliographic information using the world's best
known search engine to search through one of the largest collaborative
digitization projects ever. To find "Full Text Books" (which are likely
to be older), select that option before doing a search.
Great Literature On-Line
http://www.classicauthors.net/
Online versions of classic literary works.
Homer and the Papyri Relational Database
http://www.stoa.org/homer/homer.pl
Early transcripts of Homer show many variations. This searchable
database of papyri containing portions of Homeric text is both a
modernized catalogue of these papyri and related materials and an
all-embracing collection of the variant readings they present, with a
few exceptions.
Hyperizons - Hypertext Fiction
http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
Read original hypertext fiction, reviews and criticism of hypertext
fiction, hypertext converted from print and other Web sources.
ibiblio
http://www.ibiblio.org/
"Home to one of the largest 'collections of collections' on the
Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information,
including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics,
and cultural studies." There's a little of something for everyone here
-- a good place to browse.
Inquiries by Herodotus
http://www.losttrails.com/pages/Tales/Inquiries/Herodotus.ht...
"This is a serialized new translation of the ancient Greek historical
narrative by the fifth century BCE thinker, Herodotus of Halicarnassus."
The Internet Archive: Text Archive
http://www.archive.org/texts/
Offers acess to digital-born and scanned print texts. It is a digital
library that seeks to encourage new users to utilize its resources in
new contexts.
The Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/
The more famous and some lesser known authors of Greek and Roman
literature. Included are full texts of their works, with contextual
information (such as when it was written). One can also see other
readers' opinions and thoughts on the works and respond to them or post
one's own. A search engine is provided.
Internet Library of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
"Aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals,
and make these images available on the Internet, together with their
associated bibliographic data. The core collection for the project are
runs of at least 20 consecutive years of: Three 18th-century journals:
Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society; Three 19th-century journals: Notes and Queries, The
Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine."
KnowledgeRush Book Directory
http://www.knowledgerush.com/
Large directory of popular literary works and historical documents
available on the Web. Includes biographies of some authors and can be
browsed by author, genre, or title.
LibriVox
http://www.librivox.org/
LibriVox is site designed to facilitate the sharing of audio books. It
works like this; users select a chapter of a literary work that is out
of copyright and in the public domain and record themselves reading it.
Then the audio file is uploaded to the site and available for download.
LibriVox supports works in multiple languages from around the world.
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
Medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century and Restoration and 18th Century
literary texts. Entries for each author include: works, biography,
criticism, quotations and links. Texts are from The Norton Anthology of
English Literature, 6th ed.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MclMyth.html
This the online version of a book published in 1916 which gathered
Native American myths and legends of the Sioux. The compiler, Marie L.
McLaughlin, was a woman "of one-fourth Sioux blood" who was "born and
reared in an Indian community".
The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Online Books Page was started in 1993 and remains an easily
navigable central access point for online texts in the public domain.
Search for books and articles by author, title, or subject. Also
provides guidelines and contact information for reader suggestions for
new resources to add.
Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/
This website compliles translations of over 125 women writers, "women
who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700." Each entry
contains background on the author and that particular work, useful
secondary sources and Internet sites. The site also offers information
on how to obtain translations of these writings.
Perseus Digital Library: Classics Collection
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
Primary and secondary sources for the study of Ancient Greece and Rome,
including texts and images. "The library's materials include ancient
texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively
illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase
painting. A collaborative team from a number of academic institutions
has worked together to amass Perseus materials. Over 70 museums have
shared pictures of their art objects." Searchable.
Plato on ILT Web
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/projects/digitexts/...
Nine of Plato's dialogues as translated by Benjamin Jowett, with a
short biography.
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Index of over ten thousand electronic texts ("eBooks") available free
on the web. Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest -- and one of the
largest -- provider of free electronic books.
PublicLiterature.Org - Read Books Online
http://publicliterature.org/2007/08/11/online_books/
Check out free full text and audio classic works from Public
Literature.org. News and information is posted for readers and aspiring
writers. The site features works by Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Charles
Dickens, Herman Melville, Leonardo da Vinci and many more.
Representative Poetry Online
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
"The second version of Representative Poetry On-line includes over
2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the
beginning of the twentieth century." Poems are indexed and can be
browsed by poet name, date, title, or first line. They can also be
searched by keyword. Also contains works on poetry criticism.
Short Stories at east of the web
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
A growing collection of classic and newly-written short stories made
available on the Web. Stories are organized by theme: fiction, romance,
crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humor, horror, hyperfiction, children's, and
non-fiction. Includes works by many famous authors.
Sonnet Central
http://www.sonnets.org/
Sonnet Central is "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures,
and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also
be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors." The site
mainly concentrates on sonnets from Great Britain but other areas are
represented as well.
Technotopia: Virtual Book Reader
http://www.technotopia.com/books/
This online book site presents classic titles in a paged format, with a
more familiar layout and the ability to bookmark and return to at a
later date. Currently offered on the Technotopia web site are: A
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Dickens, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,
Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, Sense and Sensibility by Jane
Austen, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.
Treasure Island
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/SteTrea.html
Get ready for a swashbuckling tale about pirates and searching for lost
treasure.
Treasures from the Saxon State Library
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dresintr.html
In English. The Library of Congress hosts this site that includes short
narrative histories interspersed with scans of materials such as
letters, paintings, and books. The histories begin around medieval times
and end around 1875.
Turning the Pages on the web
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
The British Library has digitized important historical works, such as
Caxton's Chaucer, Beowulf, Gutenberg Bible, Lindisfarne Gospels, Da
Vinci's notebook, Sherborne Missal among others. User can "turn the
pages of rare books or manuscripts in a highly realistic way. They can
zoom in on the high-quality digitized images and read or listen to notes
explaining the significance of each page."
UNESCO/IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/
"This site aims to offer a listing of major digitized heritage
collections and on-going digitization programmes worldwide. It is hoped
that this will provide a single focal point of information on digitized
collections. This site will act as the 'Memory of the World' virtual
library offering direct access to those collections, where permission to
link has been granted." Search or browse the database.
The Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp/
The project was developed in order to provide digital texts of
Victorian women writers. The collection is medium sized, but is still
growing. The site would be useful for someone looking up information on
sometimes obscure articles, poems, etceteras. Includes dates of original
publication, birth and death dates of the authors, and links to
electronic versions of journals from the period, societies which study
this subject, other electronic text projects, and related sites.
The Viking Age: Cormac's Saga
http://www.luth.se/luth/present/sweden/history/lit/cormac/
This 27 chapter saga originated in Iceland between 1200 and 1300 A.D.
Download it or read it online.
The Wind in the Willows
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GraWind.html
Come on a fun adventure on the riverbank and into the woods with Toad,
Rat, Mole and Badger! Find this great book online and get to know the
crazy characters at the link above.
World Wide School Library
http://www.worldwideschool.org/
World Wide School is "dedicated to the collection, preservation and
presentation of educational material." The library contains over 2,000
online texts organized by subject, author, title, and genre. Each text
is accompanied with helpful notes.
This above list of books was taken from
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/