This site presents the full text of Dickens' novel "David Copperfield." Content is supplemented with illustrations.
This famous British duo recount their stay with the fictional Sir Roger and his acquaintances in this e-book. Multiple formats are available for download or reading online.
Read about how the Denver Zoo helps to protect animals around the world. Includes audio narration in English, Chinese, Spanish, Setswana, and Turkish, with text in English.
Learn about the plants and animals that live in the desert. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
The full text of Zane Grey's novel which deals with farming in the Northwest, World War I, and the I.W.W. labor union.
A free full text of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, available in multiple formats.
Read the entire Rev. H. F. Cary translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, available in multiple formats.
Read about the sounds that water makes in taps, fountains, and in nature. Book includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
At this site from the University of North Carolina, you can read letters written by George E. Pickett (1825-1875), a Confederate soldier. Originally published in 1913, this book provides George E. Pickett's correspondence with his wife, while he is at war.
E-text of a book with primary and secondary source information about Harriet Tubman by Sarah Bradford published in 1886. RI.9-10.7 different mediums
The Documenting the American South project has made this full text version of Kate Chopin's novel available online. The page includes a link to a biography of Chopin, html files of the work, as well as title page and cover images.
A very detailed version of Booker T. Washington's life as a slave and as an educator. This autobiography is the outgrowth of a series of articles he had published in the Outlook magazine. The simple story of an extraordinary man.
In this story, a young girl does chores at home before going out to play. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Full text of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is available formatted for online reading.
The complete text of Congreve's The Double-Dealer is available, formatted for online reading.
The English explorer David Livingstone tells the story of his African travels to the Zambesi and its tributaries and the discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa in this full-text book. Multiple formats of the text are available on this page.
Read the full text of Richard Sheridan's "The Duenna." This three-act play is accompanied by a detailed introduction on Sheridan's life, career, and popular plays.
This is an e-text of the first published selection of the poems of Emily Dickinson (1830?1886) originally appeared in 1890, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The text contains 115 poems and can be searched by first lines. It contains such familiar poems as "Because I could not stop for Death," and "I never saw a moor," as well as many less well-known works such as "That short, potential stir," or one of her longer poems, "To know just how he suffered would be dear."
The fantastic story from the Project Gutenberg (1874-1936 CE) may have some elements worth discussing as the modern world grapples with war based on religious belief. The complete full-text of this literary work is available to download or read online multiple digital formats.
This 27-page booklet explains the Clean Air Act using everyday English.