Virtual Library
A small sample of interesting and useful full-length texts
available on the Web
Aiken, George L., contrib.: Uncle Tom's Cabin (New Version): A Melodrama
in Five Acts (New York: Harold
Roorbach, 1889), by Charles Townsend, also contrib. by Harriet
Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women (UK version: Part 1 of US version) (HTML
at Bibliomania)
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women (US version: includes 'Good Wives')
(Gutenberg text)
Alger, Horatio: Ragged Dick
illustrated HTML at Virginia
text at Wiretap
Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and
Lucy McKim Garrison:
Slave Songs of the United States. 1867.
Andersen,
Hans Christian: Andersen's Fairy Tales (Gutenberg text)
Andersen, Hans Christian: Fairy Tales and Stories (with texts and
cross-references), trans. by H. B. Paull (HTML in
Israel)
Andersen, Hans Christian: The Tinder Box, and Other Stories, illust.
by Helen Stratton (illustrated HTML at
kellscraft.com)
Appleton, Victor: Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Gutenberg text
Bannerman, Helen: The Story
of Little Black Sambo (illustrated HTML
at which.net)
Bannerman, Helen: The Story of Little Black Sambo, and The Story of
Little Black Mingo (Gutenberg text)
Barnett, F. I., contrib.: The
Reason Why the Colored American is not in
the World's Columbian Exposition: The
Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B.
Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells, also contrib. by
Frederick Douglass and I. Garland Penn (HTML with commentary at
Binghamton)
Barnum, P. T.: The Humbugs of the World (page images at MOA)
Barrie, J. M.: Peter and Wendy (also known as Peter Pan) (HTML at
FireBlade)
Barrie, J. M.: Peter Pan (the novel; also known as Peter and Wendy)
(Gutenberg text)
Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (HTML at CMU)
Beard, John Relly: The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, The Negro Patriot of
Hayti (London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co,
1853) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Beecher, Catharine E.: An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With
Reference to the Duty of American Females
(second edition, 1837) (HTML at Virginia)
Beecher, Catharine E.: Religious Training of Children in the School, the
Family, and the Church (page images at
MOA)
Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave (HTML at the English Server)
Blake, William: Songs of Experience (HTML and color page images at aa.net)
Clotel, or The President's Daughter (1835 edition) by William Wells Brown
(Gutenberg text)
Brown, William Wells:
Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave.
1849.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Little Lord Fauntleroy
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Gutenberg text
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess
HTML at Virginia
HTML at Baldwin Project
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden (Gutenberg text)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes (HTML at CMU)
Bushnell, Horace: Christian Nurture (page images at MOA)
Caldecott,
Randolph, illust.: Jackanapes, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
(illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Caldecott, Randolph, illust.: Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of
Lingborough, by Juliana Horatia Ewing (illustrated
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illust. by John
Tenniel (illustrated HTML at CMU)
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures Under Ground (with illustrations by the
author) (illustrated HTML at FireBlade)
Carroll, Lewis: Complete on-line works and commentary. (HTML at
lewiscarroll.org)
Carroll, Lewis: The Hunting of the Snark (illustrated HTML at
virginia.edu)
Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,
illust. by John Tenniel (illustrated HTML at
Virginia)
Coolidge,
Susan: What Katy Did (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887)
(illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Coolidge, Susan: What Katy Did
Next (HTML at Bibliomania)
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock: The Little Lame Prince, illust. by Dorothy
Todd (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species
HTML at talkorigins.org
Gutenberg text
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species (sixth edition) (Gutenberg
text)
Dickinson, Emily: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Little,
Brown, and Co., 1924), contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (HTML at
Bartleby)
Dixon, Thomas:
The Clansman; an Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan.
1905.
Dixon, Thomas: The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden,
1865-1900 (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Dodge, Mary Mapes: Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Gutenberg text)
Douglass, Frederick: The Heroic Slave
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Douglass, Frederick:
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
(HTML and TEI at UNC)
Douglass,
Frederick: My Bondage and My Freedom
HTML at Virginia
Douglass,
Frederick: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An
American Slave (1845)
HTML at Virginia
Douglass, Frederick,
contrib.: The Reason Why the Colored American is
not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution
to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B.
Wells, also contrib. by I. Garland Penn and F. I. Barnett (HTML with
commentary at
Binghamton)
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
text files at tripod.com
Dworkin, Andrea: Selected Writings. (HTML at apc.org)
Eastman, Mary Henderson: Aunt Phillis' Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is
(Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo anandd Co, 1852) (frame-dependent HTML
at Virginia)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The American Scholar (HTML at jjnet.com)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia: Jackanapes, illust. by Randolph Caldecott
(illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, contrib.: Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her
Books, by Horatia K. F. Gatty (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women
Writers)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia: Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of
Lingborough, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (illustrated HTML at
Celebration of Women
Writers)
Federal Writers' Project: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives
(pub.
1941), with additional material and commentary) (page images at
loc.gov)
Federal Writers' Project: Slave
Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery
in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves (see Born in
Slavery:
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938)
Fitzhugh, George: Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters (HTML and TEI
at UNC)
Fitzhugh, George: Sociology for the South: or, The Failure of Free
Society (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Foxley, Barbara, trans.: Emile (in English and French), by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, also trans. by Grace G. Roosevelt (HTML at
Columbia)
Franklin, Benjamin: The
Autobiography and Other Writings (HTML at
Bibliomania)
Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard's Almanack (1898 Century Company edition
of selections) (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
Gardner, Ella: Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the
Recreation of Adolescents (HTML and page images at LOC)
Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet
Gilbert, Olive: Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850 edition), also by
Sojourner Truth
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
Gilbert, Olive: Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1878 edition), also by
Sojourner Truth (HTML at LOC)
Gilbert, William S.: The Gondoliers (libretto, music, and commentary),
also by Arthur Sullivan (multimedia at idbsu.edu)
Gilbert, William S.: The Mikado (libretto, music, and commentary), also by
Arthur Sullivan (multimedia at idbsu.edu)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Herland
HTML at Virginia
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: The Yellow Wallpaper (with links to commentary)
(HTML at utexas.edu)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: The Yellow Wallpaper
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows (HTML at Virginia)
Gray, Henry: Anatomy of the Human Body (Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918)
(illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
Grimke, Sarah
Moore: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the
Condition of Woman (HTML at pinn.net)
Grimm, Jacob: Grimm's Fairy Tales (from multiple editions), also by
Wilhelm Grimm, trans. by Edgar Taylor and Mrs. Edgar Lucas, illust. by
George
Cruikshank and Arthur Rackham (illustrated HTML at Belinus Press)
Harris,
Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings (Gutenberg text)
Hart,
Albert Bushnell, ed.: Colonial Children, also ed. by Blanche E.
Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (HTML at
Eldritch Press)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle (HTML at
Virginia)
Hendrickson, Linnea: Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism
(searchable text files at unm.edu)
Hope, Laura
Lee: The Bobbsey Twins at School (Gutenberg text)
Hope,
Laura Lee: The Bobbsey Twins in the Country (Gutenberg text)
Hope,
Laura Lee: The Bobbsey Twins: or, Merry Days Indoors and Out
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Howell,
Robert Boyte Crawford: The Evils of Infant Baptism (Charleston,
SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1852) (HTML at
revelationwebsite.co.uk)
Jefferson, Thomas: Autobiography
HTML at Virginia
HTML at Bibliomania
Jefferson, Thomas: Declaration of Independence (HTML at Michigan)
Johnson, James Weldon: The
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (HTML at
Eldritch Press)
Johnson, James Weldon, ed.: The Book of American Negro Poetry, Chosen
and ed. with an essay on the Negro's Creative Genius (HTML with
commentary at boondocksnet.com)
Johnston,
Annie Fellows: The Little Colonel (HTML at Celebration of Women
Writers)
Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life, also by Anne Mansfield Sullivan, ed.
by John Albert Macy
illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
Kennedy, John Pendleton:
Rob of the Bowl. A Legend of St. Inigoe's. 1872.
Key, Ellen: The Century of the Child (HTML with commentary in the
Netherlands)
Keyes, Ken: The
Hundredth Monkey (HTML at testament.org)
King,
Martin Luther: I Have a Dream
Gutenberg text
King, Martin Luther: Letter From the Birmingham Jail (PDF at
Stanford)
Kingsley,
Charles: The Water-Babies
Gutenberg text
HTML at Bibliomania
Kipling,
Rudyard: The Jungle Book
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Kipling, Rudyard: Just So Stories
illustrated HTML at shore.net
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim
HTML at Bibliomania
Ku Klux Klan: Constitution and Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
(page images at MSU)
Ku Klux Klan: Klansman's Manual (1924) (page images at MSU)
Lao-Tzu: Tao De Ching, ed. by Peter A.
Merel (Chinese and English HTML at
chinapage.com)
Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching, trans. by James Legge (HTML at
nothingistic.org)
League
of Struggle for Negro Rights: They Shall Not Die! The Story of
Scottsboro in Pictures; Stop the Legal Lynching! (page images at MSU)
Lear, Edward:
A Book of Nonsense
Lofting, Hugh: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Gutenberg text)
MacDonald,
George: At the Back of the North Wind
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Markham, Markham, Benjamin B. Lindsey, and George Creel: Children in
Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of
Child Labor--Its Causes, its Crimes, and its Cure (1914)
McGuffey,
William Holmes, ed.: McGuffey's New Fifth Eclectic Reader:
Selected and Original Exercises for Schools (Cincinnati: Sargent, Wilson &
Hinkle;
New York: Clark & Maynard, c1857) (page images at Pitt)
McGuffey, William Holmes, ed.: The New McGuffey First Reader (updated from
McGuffey's original) (Gutenberg text)
Melville, Herman: Complete on-line
works. (at melville.org)
Menken,
Adah Isaacs: Infelicia
illustrated HTML at nypl.org
HTML and SGML at Michigan
Neill, John R., illust.: The Marvelous Land of Oz (Chicago: Reilly &
Britton, 1904), by L. Frank Baum (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Norris, Frank: The Octopus: A Story of California (Gutenberg text)
Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts (The Scottsboro Case) by Joseph
North (page images at MSU)
Nott, Josiah Clark: Types of Mankind (page images at MOA)
Nott, Samuel: Slavery and the Remedy: or, Principles and Suggestions for a
Remedial Code (page images at MOA)
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (large online collection of
works and commentary) (HTML at eapoe.org)
Porter,
Eleanor H.: Pollyanna
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Porter, Eleanor H.: Pollyanna Grows Up, illust. by H. Weston Taylor
(illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Robins, Elizabeth: Votes for Women (HTML at Indiana)
Rossetti, Christina: Goblin Market
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Emile (in English and French), trans. by Barbara
Foxley and Grace G. Roosevelt (HTML at Columbia)
Rowson, Susanna: Charlotte Temple, ed. by Cathy Davidson (Gutenberg text)
Sanger, Margaret: What Every Girl Should Know (1920 edition) (page images
at MSU)
Scottsboro Defense Committee: Scottsboro: A Record of a Broken Promise...
(page images at MSU)
Scottsboro Defense Committee: Scottsboro: The Shame of America (page
images at MSU)
Shakespeare, William: Complete Works.
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince: The Sinless Child, and Other Poems (page
images at MOA)
Stein, Gertrude: Tender Buttons (HTML at
Bartleby)
Stein, Gertrude: Three Lives (HTML at Bartleby)
Stetson, George Rochford: The Southern Negro As He Is (page images at MOA)
Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses (Gutenberg text)
Stirling, James: Letters from the Slave States (page images at MOA)
Stowe,
Harriet Beecher: The Christian Slave: A Drama Founded Upon a
Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855)
frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
simpler HTML at Virginia
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Jewett,
1854)
frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts
and commentary) (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
Stratton-Porter, Gene: Freckles (Gutenberg text)
Sumner, Charles: Recent Speeches and Addresses (1851-1855) (page images at
MOA)
Sumner, Charles: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on
the Cession of Russian America to the United States (page images at MOA)
Tarkington, Booth: Seventeen
HTML at Virginia
Taylor, Frederick Winslow: The Principles of Scientific Management
(HTML with commentary at Eldritch Press
Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
HTML with annotations at Thorea Reader
HTML
at Virginia
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America (HTML with commentary at
Virginia)
Truth, Sojourner: Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850 edition), also by
Olive Gilbert,
HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
Truth, Sojourner: Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1878 edition), also by
Olive Gilbert (HTML at LOC)
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first edition and
commentary) (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Twain, Mark: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
HTML at Virginia
Tyler, Royall: The Contrast
illustrated HTML at Virginia
Veblen, Thorsten: The Theory of the Leisure Class (text files at McMaster)
Warner, Susan: The Wide, Wide World (illustrated HTML at Celebration of
Women Writers)
Washington, Booker T.: Up From Slavery
HTML and TEI at UNC
The Booker
T.
Washington Papers
Wells, Ida B.: The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's
Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian
Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), contrib. by Frederick
Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML with commentary at
Binghamton)
Wheatley, Phillis: Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African
and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), also by Margaretta
Matilda Odell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Wheatley, Phillis: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass (multiple editions, with commentary) (SGML,
HTML, and page images at Virginia)
Wiggin, Kate Douglas: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (illustrated HTML at
Virginia)
Wilson, Harriet E.: Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
HTML at Virginia
Women's Christian Temperance Union: Hygiene for Young People (New York:
A.S. Barnes & Company, c1885) (page images at Pitt)
Women of the Ku Klux Klan: Ideals of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (page
images at MSU)
Wood, M. S.: Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood & Co.,
1875), also by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Wordsworth, William: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
(HTML at Bartleby)
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