Classic Reader

April 8, 2003 7:19 AM

Did you know that George Eliot's Middlemarch is posted online in its entirety? As is Madam Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Don Quixote. ClassicReader.com contains 769 books and 1041 short stories by 211 authors. (via Bookfilter.)
posted by Pinwheel (10 comments total)

Let's not forget Project Gutenberg. I believe they have around 6000 classic works?
posted by JumpW at 7:30 AM on April 8, 2003

The good thing about this site is that you can annotate the works, and then print the text and annotations together.

It could be handy for academic work.
posted by Pinwheel at 7:40 AM on April 8, 2003

They have a good search function as well, which is sadly lacking at PG. Thanks for the link, Pinwheel.
posted by gwint at 8:57 AM on April 8, 2003

Forget Madame Bovary, they've got Tom Swift!
posted by unreason at 9:11 AM on April 8, 2003

Why bother with all that old crap? I want stuff that is brand new.
posted by Postroad at 10:04 AM on April 8, 2003

Well then - here's the ultimate theory for you, Postroad. ;)

Thanks for the valuable tip, Pinwheel - the annotations are definitely a bonus.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:09 AM on April 8, 2003

Another great online books source is at UPenn. (19,000 listings)
posted by beagle at 10:21 AM on April 8, 2003

Gutenberg Australia has a bunch of stuff that's probably illegal to distribute in the U.S.
posted by bobo123 at 11:33 AM on April 8, 2003

Does anyone else have trouble connecting to bookfilter? I have tried several times, over a period of weeks, but i can't get the page to load...
posted by clockwork at 3:22 PM on April 8, 2003

Bookfilter's coming up OK for me.
posted by emf at 3:41 PM on April 8, 2003