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Great Authors - Free Books Online

Updated 19. November 2011 - 7:28 by Sea Mac

Introduction

This listing is intended to gather together sites that have the works of the more accomplished and known authors.  This page is by no means a complete listing of the authors or of the available works by the authors listed.  This is a work in progress.

Any additional information on the author's listed would be appreciated and may be posted in the comments below.  Any additional authors to be added may also be requested below and consideration and effort will be made to include. 

The groundwork for this page was provided by Sea Mac a/k/a "Software Santa" and his contributions here and on the other book pages are greatly appreciated.

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below.

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for children.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 16 other book genre  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

 

 

 

Charles Dickens

  • Charles Dickens Online a website devoted to the Victorian writer, containing his novels, short stories and essays for online viewing.  Also links to other Dickens related sites.
  • Online Literature Dickens novels, short stories, non-fiction works and play for online viewing along with biography, links and quizzes.
  • Classic Authors About Charles Dickens Novels and short stories for online viewing.
  • Gutenberg has most all of his works available for online viewing or download in popular formats.

 

 

William Shakespeare

  • Shakespeare's Works has the most complete listing of Shakespeare related material that I have seen. 
  • The Collected Works of Shakespeare Contains the "Complete Moby Shakespeare" along with a Shakespeare search engine and links to other Shakespeare related sites.  For viewing online and a full text version available for download.
  • Shakespeare Online The complete texts of Shakespeare plays with explanatory notes, study guides and quizzes.  Online viewing.
  • Online Literature  Biography of William Shakespeare and a searchable collection of works and some quizzes. Online viewing.
  • The Literature Page not as complete a collection, but easily accessible for online viewing.
  • William Shakespeare - the Complete Works Online viewing along with biography, dictionary, pictures and other information.
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Online viewing of the "Complete Moby Shakespeare".
  • Gutenberg has 277 works of Shakespeare available for online viewing and for download in a large variety of popular formats.

 

George Bernard Shaw

  • Read Book Online has a number of Shaw's works available for online viewing.
  • Read Print has 34 works of Shaw available for online viewing.
  • Online Literature has most of Shaw's works available for online viewing, along with biography, quizzes and links.
  • Gutenberg has 47 works of Shaw available for online viewing or download in popular formats.

 

Leo Tolstoy

  • Read Print has 54 works of Tolstoy available for online viewing.
  • Online Literature has Tolstoy works of fiction, non-fiction, plays, short stories and essays available for online viewing.
  • Classic Authors has 11 works of Tolstoy for online viewing.
  • Literature.org has 4 novels of Tolstoy for online viewing.
  • Gutenberg has 47 listings for Tolstoy in various languages for online viewing or download in popular formats.

 

Mark Twain

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The Literature Network  Biography and works for online viewing and related links
  • The Literature Page  First and second series of essays for reading online
  • Read Print  Biography, quotes and a listing of his books.  Some of the books are available to read online
  • Transcendentalists  Appears to be the complete collection of his essays for free online reading
  • Online Books Page(UPenn)  A large collection of links to Emerson works.  Download/Viewing options vary
  • Emerson Central  A collection of Emerson's works for free online reading as well as information on him

 

Plato

 

Miguel de Cervantes

  • Cervantes Project  Various English editions of his works scanned and available for free online viewing

 

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by Meandi (not verified) on 30. October 2011 - 19:36  (82423)

Magic site, many thanx for the thought and the generosity of those who made this possible. Keep up the excellence.
by Sarahbear (not verified) on 9. April 2011 - 7:29  (69818)

Hi, i just wanted to also suggest the site www.librivox.org for audiobooks of books that are older than 75 years. it is the public domain and it is an amazing place. i often download for my 8yr old son those good old classics in audio and free, and he LOVES them.

Sarah
by mr6n8 on 12. April 2011 - 20:37  (70061)

Thanks for the comment.

Librivox is listed on the Free Audio Books page here, along with a number of other sites
http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-audio

You might want to check out the Free Children's Books Online listing here:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-children
by Sea Mac on 30. March 2011 - 7:31  (68816)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the Literature Network: http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/
Read Ralph Waldo Emerson books online on The Literature Page: http://www.literaturepage.com/authors/Ralph-Waldo-Emerson.html
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Books, Biography, and Quotes at Read Print: http://www.readprint.com/author-36/Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-books
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_essays.htm
The Online Books Page has Online Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?amode=start&auth...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts: http://www.emersoncentral.com/
by mr6n8 on 31. March 2011 - 13:22  (69001)

Thanks again.

I have been tied up on my bittorrent pages updates and am going to chill for a bit.

If you want to edit this page on your own, I have no problem at all. This was your idea and you have put most of the work into it.

Steve
by Sea Mac on 3. April 2011 - 16:25  (69403)

OK. How do I get it to say "Edited by Sea Mac"? It said YOU were editing the Main one as I was doing it. What am I missing here?

But, Yeah, I've got the hang of digging up good things to share here .... I've kind of been doing it for 3 and a third years on my own - and this domain is actually my favorite 'mine' so if there is some way to pay it forward by ADDING to the heaps of treasure already here I'm GLAD to Contribute.
by mr6n8 on 4. April 2011 - 0:17  (69410)

I am not sure what is going on with the edit issue. I was not on at all today.

I'll see if I can get some info and get your name up there.

I have not been there in a while, but I remember your site. I was impressed with the wealth of info for a one man operation.
by Sea Mac on 19. November 2011 - 4:30  (83523)

I Am finally back from my extended vacation and ready to edit again. Can we get the "edited by" tagline issue fixed?
by MidnightCowboy on 19. November 2011 - 4:53  (83524)

Good to see you again :) If mr6n8 can just confirm here or by PM, I will sort out the necessary.
by mr6n8 on 19. November 2011 - 6:52  (83530)

No problem. Glad to have Sea Mac back.
by MidnightCowboy on 19. November 2011 - 7:29  (83532)

Now all set up :)
by Sea Mac on 7. April 2011 - 23:15  (69706)

Thank you very much!

I stand on the Shoulders of Giants.

Sourceforge/Tucows/Softpedia/Tech Support Alert/and many more - and now that Gizmo inspired me to add WOT ratings to my site it is easy to drag safe new treasure in regularly. I consider him the Giant closest to me in temperament, and his (our) shoulders the most useful in terms of me passing on great freebies to MY Visitors.

I don't mind mining his Windows site because I plan to add a WHOLE "Best of Macintosh free" section to it someday.

My site has good game recommendations: I think I'll start with a recommended games section and go onward as time permits.
by Sea Mac on 17. March 2011 - 15:55  (68093)

Plato:

MIT has some of Plato's Works: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
The Literature Network has Plato: http://www.online-literature.com/plato/
Plato and his dialogues: http://plato-dialogues.org/links.htm
UPenn has a collection: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Plato
The Literature Page barely has anything: http://www.literaturepage.com/authors/Plato.html
Plato over at ebooks at Adelaide: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/
The Greek Word: http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/plato-homepage...
(more .... )

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