Post by Reno on Dec 14, 2011 14:25:24 GMT -5
I know it sounds like some sort of top-secret German military research project or something, but Project Gutenberg is actually an online repository for books that are old enough to be in the public domain, and therefore no longer copyrighted. They have thousands of books in a bunch of different languages that you can download in ebook format, and are completely free.
I haven't really looked too thoroughly to see what they have, but they have stuff from, among others:
Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
Shakespeare
Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven, The Telltale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher)
H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau)
Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky*)
Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth)
Oscar Wilde (Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest)
Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan)
The Brothers Grimm (fairy tales)
J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
*The Jabberwocky is where the term vorpal sword comes from, incidentally.
I know that most of you guys don't find much time for reading, but this is a pretty awesome resource for a lot of books widely considered classics. There's even some H.P. Lovecraft there, although unfortunately not much (it may be that some of his work isn't in the public domain yet, I don't really know).
There's also nonfiction stuff like Machiavelli's The Prince, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Thucydides's history of The Peloponnesian War, and some of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
So yeah, pretty d**n awesome.
I haven't really looked too thoroughly to see what they have, but they have stuff from, among others:
Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
Shakespeare
Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven, The Telltale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher)
H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau)
Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky*)
Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth)
Oscar Wilde (Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest)
Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan)
The Brothers Grimm (fairy tales)
J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
*The Jabberwocky is where the term vorpal sword comes from, incidentally.
I know that most of you guys don't find much time for reading, but this is a pretty awesome resource for a lot of books widely considered classics. There's even some H.P. Lovecraft there, although unfortunately not much (it may be that some of his work isn't in the public domain yet, I don't really know).
There's also nonfiction stuff like Machiavelli's The Prince, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Thucydides's history of The Peloponnesian War, and some of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
So yeah, pretty d**n awesome.
