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A selection of sites offering free electronic texts. Most of these sites feature older literary works that are not subject to copyright restrictions. However, it is recommended that users read the conditions of use or licence agreement for each site before downloading texts.
Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.net
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. There are currently over 10,000 books available. Use the search feature on the front page to find all available texts by a particular author, or search by title to find all available versions of a text.
Authors with works on the site include:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Burns
John Galt
Sir Walter Scott
Margaret Oliphant
JM Barrie
Susan Ferrier
John Buchan
Bibliomania
www.bibliomania.com
Free online literature. The 2000 texts available include drama, poetry, fiction and short stories as well as reference books and study notes. The search feature allows you to specify any level, right down to the individual book chapters. Authors include:
Robert Louis Stephenson
JM Barrie
Sir Walter Scott
Tobias Smollett
Representative Poetry Online
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm
Representative Poetry Online is the University of Toronto's online poetry project. It indexes nearly 3000 poems by over 400 poets. It is based on a text written in 1912 by Professor W. J. Alexander of the University of Toronto which was used by the University until the late 1960s.
Features selected poems of:
Robert Burns
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet42.html
William Dunbar
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet109.html
Robert Fergusson
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet117.html
Robert Henryson
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet158.html
Allan Ramsay
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet273.html
Sir Walter Scott
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet290.html
Robert Louis Stevenson
eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet312.html
Oldpoetry
www.oldpoetry.com
An interactive community exploring many of the less contemporary poets.
Features poems by:
Robert Fergusson
William Dunbar
Robert Henryson
Allan Ramsay
Robert Burns
James Thomson
Scotstext
www.scotstext.org
A collection of Scots poems, proverbs and prose. Features:
Allan Ramsay The Gentle Shepherd
www.scotstext.org/makars/allan_ramsay
Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
www.scotstext.org/makars/robert_louis_stevenson
Robert Fergusson from Electric Scotland
www.electricscotland.com/poetry/fergusson.htm
Three of his poems are available.
Margaret Oliphant from Gaslight
gaslight.mtroyal.ca/olphmenu.htm
The Official Robert Burns Site
www.robertburns.org/works/
The complete works of Robert Burns, with integrated glossary translation into several languages.
John Buchan at the University of Maryland
www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Buchan/
Full text of the following John Buchan works:
Greenmantle
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Mr. Standfast
The Path Of The King
Prester John
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Robert Henryson texts in the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
William Dunbar
The tretis of the twa mariit women and the wedo
held in the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
The works of John Galt
www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA /STARN/prose/GALT/contents.htm
Texts and original illustrations online for the following works:
The History of GOG and MAGOG - The Champions of London
THE RADICAL: An Autobiography
THE SPAEWIFE - A Tale of THE SCOTTISH CHRONICLES
The Thirteen Moral Fables of Robert Henryson
Scottish Teaching and Resource Network site.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Website
wwwesterni.unibg.it/rls/rls.htm
Links to all the available Stevenson e-texts.
JM Barrie Society
www.jmbarrie.net
Full text of The Admirable Crichton, Dear Brutus, The Little White Bird and Margaret Ogilvy taken from Project Gutenberg.
Edwin Muir
muir.rhizomatics.org.uk
Links to Edwin Muir e-texts.
Tom Leonard Official Site
www.tomleonard.co.uk
Online resources which include poems, reviews and an audio recording of Leonard reading his poem, 'This is the six o'clock news'.
Edwin Morgan Official Site
www.edwinmorgan.com
Texts can be accessed via the 'Poem Pool'.
George MacDonald- the Golden Key
www.george-macdonald.com
Includes poems, fiction and non-fiction, as well as links to MacDonald texts on Project Gutenberg.
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