Who Wrote That?

A special subcollection of Project Gutenberg's online book catalog: audio books, recorded by real people (there is also a computer-generated audio books collection). Currently includes 35 or so selections ranging from fairy tales,...

Project Gutenberg provides the full text to over 20 books by Anton Chekov. Select the title of the book, and then choose the best way in which to view and read it in its entirety.

Ben Jonson's play is offered here in multiple digital formats. It includes a substantial introduction offering background on the play and its author.

A Child's History Of England by Charles Dickens offers the opportunity to learn the history of England as told by one of the finest storytellers of English literature. The book begins with Roman Britannia and proceeds chronologically to...

At this site from the Project Gutenberg you can choose the format that suits you best to download or read the entire work.

These excerpts from The Spectator include works by Richard Steele as well from the Project Gutenberg. The introduction provides some good background information about reading Addison's (1672-1719 CE) work.

Working in groups, young historians review a war poem written by Stephen Crane. After reviewing the poem, they present an oral interpretation of the poem and hold a panel discussion about their analysis. The panel is made up of five or...

A well-known Chesterton novel, The Man Who Knew Too Much, is available here as plain text.

Critically not as well received as Tom Jones or Joseph Andrews, Amelia was Henry Fielding's third novel. The entire text is here, along with a lengthy introduction. Multiple formats of the ebook are accessible via this page.

This ebook shares the memoir of Mark Twain. The memoir provides insights into the author's experiences when he worked as a piliot on a steamboat that traveled along the Mississippi River. The author begin with a history of the...