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Edwards, Jonathan
Einstein, Albert
Eliot, George
Eliot, T.S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Engels, Friedrich
Epictetus
Epicurus
Erasmus, Desiderius
Euclid
Euripides
Eusebius of Caesarea
Faraday, Michael
Faulkner, William
Fielding, Henry
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaccus, Quintus Horatius
Flaubert, Gustave
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
St. Francis of Assisi
Franklin, Benjamin
Freud, Sigmund
Frost, Robert
Galen
Galileo
Gibbon, Edward
Gilbert, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogol, Nikolai
Gordon, George (Lord Byron)
Hamilton, Alexander
Hammurabi
Hardy, Thomas
Harvey, William
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayek, Friedrich
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hemingway, Ernest
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hesse, Hermann
Hippocrates
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoby, Sir Thomas
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell
Homer
Hooker, Richard
Horace
Hugo, Victor
Hume, David
Huxley, Aldous
Huygens, Christian

 
"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism." - C.S. Lewis, On the Reading of Old Books

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Before I can link to these texts for you to read them online, someone has to do the work to get them online in the first place. Scanning the printed texts and converting them using OCR is just the first step; someone then has to compare the original text with the new etext and correct the scanning errors. This is something you can help with!

The site FreeLiterature.org has a digitization project where you sign up to make a complete pass through one book. If you don't have that much time available, Distributed Proofreaders divides up a book between multiple people, so you can just proofread a page or two, or whatever you are able to do. For those who have asked me "what can I do to help?", this is a great way to help!


Most Recent Updates/Additions
April 11, 2010:    Links page    Added listing for domain un-ltd, the best collection of links to etext collections and indices I've come across. Be sure to check out their digitization project (converting public domain texts to etexts), and sign up to help out if you can!
March 7, 2010:    Ludovico Ariosto    Found Italian paperback of Orlando Furioso at Amazon.com.
   Voltaire    Found Portuguese etexts of Candide, Philosophical Dictionary and Zadig to replace broken etext links.
   'A' Authors    Finished link-checking all authors with last names beginning with 'A' including Dante (Alighiere) and Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), plus Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Historical Documents page.
 

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