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Books
Books marked preliminary are likely to be of much-reduced
quality, and are in the process of being revised. To
view the books, you may need to
download the free Acrobat Reader software, if you don't
already have it.
"Victor Appleton" (Howard Garis, 1873-1962)
-- Tom Swift Sr. series
- Tom Swift
and His Motor-Cycle (1910; 409K)
- Tom Swift
and His Motor-Boat (1910; 456K)
- Tom Swift
and His Airship (1910; 1.45M)
- Tom Swift
and His Submarine Boat (1910; 445K)
- Tom Swift
and His Electric Runabout (1910; 444K)
- Tom Swift
and His Wireless Message (1911; 451K)
- Tom Swift
Among the Diamond Makers (1911; 432K)
- Tom Swift
in the Caves of Ice (1911; 1.4M)
- Tom Swift
and His Sky Racer (1911; 426K)
- Tom Swift
and His Electric Rifle (1911; 448K)
- Tom Swift in the City of Gold (1912)
- Tom Swift And His Air Glider (1912)
- Tom Swift In Captivity (1912)
- Tom Swift And His Wizard Camera (1912)
- Tom Swift And His Great Searchlight (1912)
- Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon (1913)
- Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone (1914)
- Tom Swift And His Aerial Warship (1915)
- Tom Swift And His Big Tunnel (1916)
- Tom Swift In The Land Of The Wonders (1917)
- Tom Swift And His War Tank (1918)
- Tom Swift And His Air Scout (1919)
- Tom Swift And His Undersea Search (1920)
- Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters (1921)
- Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive
(1922)
- ... volumes 26-40 are not yet in the public domain
in the U.S.
See also: "The Unofficial Tom Swift
Home Page".
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) -- Wizard of Oz series
- The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz (1900; 399K)
- The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
- Ozma of Oz (1907)
- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
- The Road to Oz (1909)
- The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
- Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1914)
- Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
- The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
- Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
- The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
- The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
- The Magic of Oz (1919)
- Glinda of Oz (1920)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) --
John Carter of Mars series
- A Princess
of Mars (1917; 605K)
- The Gods
of Mars (1918; 729K)
- The Warlord
of Mars (1919; 528K)
- Thuvia,
a Maid of Mars (1920; 604K), preliminary.
- The Chessmen
of Mars (1922; 1.0M),
preliminary.
- ... remaining volumes are not yet public-domain
in the U.S.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) -- Tarzan
series
- Tarzan of
the Apes (1912; 1.0M), preliminary.
- The Return of Tarzan (1913)
- The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)
- The Son of Tarzan (1914)
- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)
- Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)
- Tarzan the Untamed (1920)
- Tarzan the
Terrible (1921; 1.1M), preliminary.
- ... remaining volumes not yet public-domain
in the U.S.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
"Lewis Carroll" (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898)
Collections
- Little Masterpieces
of Autobiography: Actors (1909; 1.2M), edited
by George Iles. Includes excerpts by Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth,
Charlotte Cushman, Clara Morris, Sir Henry Irving, Henry Brodribb Irving,
Ellen Terry, Richard Mansfield, Tommaso Salvini, and Adelaide Ristori.
- Recipes
Tried and True (1894; 466K), compiled by the Ladies' Aid Society
of the First Presbyterian Church of Marion, Ohio.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Sherlock
Holmes series
- A Study in
Scarlet (1887; 457K)
- The Sign
of the Four (1890; 428K)
- The Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes (1892; 904K)
- The Memoirs
of Sherlock Holmes (1893; 1.7M)
- The Hound
of the Baskervilles (1902; 719K), preliminary .
- The Return
of Sherlock Holmes (1905; 1.0M)
- The Valley
of Fear (1914; 724K), preliminary
.
- His Last
Bow (1917; 633K)
- The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
[Not yet public-domain in the U.S.]
See also: 221bakerstreet.org
.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Bret Harte (Francis Brett Hart, 1836-1902)
Jerome Klapka Jerome
(1859-1927)
- "Clocks"
(113K)
- "Dreams"
(134K)
- "Evergreens"
(129K)
- Three Men
in a Boat (1889; 855K)
- Idle Thoughts
of an Idle Fellow (1889; 514K), preliminary .
- Stage-Land
(1890; 244K)
- Three Men
on the Bummel (1900; 817K), preliminary
.
- Paul Kelver
(1902; 1.6M), preliminary
.
- Passing
of the Third Floor Back, and Other Stories (1908;
328K). Contents: "Passing of the Third Floor Back", "The Philosopher's
Joke", "The Soul of Nicholas Snyders, or The Miser of Zandam", "Mrs.
Korner Sins Her Mercies" , "The Cost of Kindness", and "The Love of Ulrich
Nebendahl".
See also: The Jerome K. Jerome
website.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) -- Anne of Green Gables series
- Anne of
Green Gables (1908; 907K)
- Anne of Avonlea
(1909; 1.1M), preliminary .
- Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
- Anne of the Island (1915)
- Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
- Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
- ... further volumes are not yet public-domain in
the U.S.
Charles Oliver
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
Thomas à Kempis
(Thomas Hemerken of Kempen, 1380-1471)
"Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
- Twelve
Stories and a Dream (672K). Contents: "Filmer", "The
Magic Shop", "The Valley of Spiders", "The Truth About Pyecraft", "Mr. Skelmersdale
in Fairyland", "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost", "Jimmy Goggles the
God", "The New Accelerator", "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation", "The Stolen Body",
"Mr. Brisher's Treasure", "Miss Winchelsea's Heart", "A Dream of Armageddon".
- First Men
in the Moon (1901; 625K)
The Fine Print
GutenMark software was used to process
the Project Gutenberg texts, but I hand-edited the texts afterward
to make them as pretty as possible. In some cases, illustrations
or sections of text missing in Project Gutenberg editions have
been restored. A lot of errors have also been corrected.
If you prefer different page sizes, fonts, font sizes, margins, etc.,
gzipped LaTeX and LyX files for all texts may be found at my ftp site, and these
may be used to reformat the texts at will.
How Can I Help?
If you feel the urge to help produce some
of these texts, the things I'd presently find useful are these:
- Read the texts, and let me know about
any problems you discover. I want them to be perfect! But
you needn't bother to tell me about any problems you find in preliminary texts. (I already know
there are lots of problems in them!)
- Send me scans of illustrations
for books that don't have any, or improved scans for texts that
already have them.
Some Hints on LyX
If you choose to modify the texts I've
presented, you might consider using LyX. LyX (www.lyx.org ) is a terrific program
for editing LaTeX. Sadly, though, at this stage of its development
it does have a few problems which you may need to be aware of
if you choose to work with any of the LaTeX or LyX files on my
ftp site. As this is written,
LyX versions 1.1.6, 1.2.0, and 1.2.1 seem to be the most common, and
I have been using mostly 1.2.0 (but some 1.1.6).
- All versions of LyX will correctly
import LaTex created by versions 20020811 (or later) of
GutenMark . However, LyX 1.2.x won't correctly
import output from earlier versions of GutenMark .
- LyX (all versions) is not 100% perfect
at importing LaTeX. Specifically, all of the LaTeX
files on my ftp site were exported from LyX,
but won't be properly re-imported into Lyx.
(That's the reason I provide both the LaTeX and the
LyX files, even though logically only one or the other is needed.)
The problems encountered are easily remedied, however:
- The font, fontsize, margins, and pagesize
are bogus.
- Constructs such as "\protect\raggedright"
and "\global\emergencystretch" are messed up. Simply
replace these with "\raggedright" and "\sloppy".
- LyX 1.2.1 treats margins for even/odd
printing differently than 1.2.0 and 1.1.6 do. It may
modify the margins which have been selected. This has various
undesirable side-effects in cases where the text contained two-column
sections (such as msali10.lyx). The upshot is that if you
create PDF from LyX 1.2.1, you mightn't get PDF files that look like
the ones I've provided (usings LyX 1.2.0).
- Certain mathematical stuff, such as the degree symbol,
superscripts (exponents), subscripts, greek letters, etc., sometimes
won't render properly using LyX's default method of generating PDF--namely,
the tool-chain latex/dvips/ps2pdf. I don't know why. Fortunately,
this stuff doesn't appear in most books. Moreover, if properly
configured, LyX also offers an alternative method of generating PDF--namely,
the tool pdflatex. With pdflatex, the mathematical symbols seem to render
properly and certain spurious warning messages displayed
by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 when the default tool-chain is used are eliminated.
(A good test case for this is the text "moon10", Jules Verne's
From the Earth to the Moon .) On the other hand, pdflatex
cannot deal with EPS-format graphics (such as are supplied with
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .) *Sigh!* The bottom
line, however, is that I'd almost always recommend using the 'pdflatex'
option when generating PDF.
Some Hints on Printable Formats
The PDF files I've provided look really
good on the computer screen -- say, using Acrobat Reader on a
1280x1024 display -- but aren't really suitable for direct printing
unless you have a lot of 5.5"x8.5" paper sitting around.
You can, of course, use LaTeX to create different page sizes,
use different fonts, and so on.
On the other hand, you may like the PDF files I've provided, and
simply want to print them in an efficient way. The most
satisfactory approach in my view is to print the 5.5"x8.5"
pages so that 4 of them fit on a single letter-size sheet of paper
-- two on the front and two on the back. There are several
approaches to this. One correspondent, Rick Holbert, has
informed me of a way of doing this within LyX itself. Details
on this aproach will be presented shortly. You might want
to take a look at Rick's website, if you are interested
in binding the books you print.
Another approach is to post-process the PDF, creating Postscript with
the pages rearranged appropriately. Here's a way to do that, using
the so-called PSUTILS programs available on most Linux systems:
# As an example, use the file jjclk10.pdf.
# Convert PDF to Postscript
pdftops -paperw 396 -paperh 612 jjclk10.pdf
# Rearrange the pages into booklet form.
psbook -q jjclk10.ps temp1.ps
# Convert to 2-up
psnup -2 -pletter -W396 -H612 -q temp1.ps
temp2.ps
# Sadly, there is currently a bug in PSUTILS so that
# the output file still thinks it's
5.5"x8.5". So,
# manually edit temp2.ps with a text
editor, changing
# the line that reads
# %%DocumentMedia:
plain 396 612 0 () ()
# to
# %%DocumentMedia:
plain 612 792 0 () ()
# Pull off the odd-numbered 2-up pages, in reverse order.
psselect -o -r temp2.ps frontsides.ps
# Pull off the even-numbered 2-up pages, in normal order.
psselect -e temp2.ps backsides.ps
# This step prints the fronts:
lpr frontsides.ps
... put the pages just printed back in the paper tray ...
# This step prints the backs:
lpr backsides.ps
These steps produce a stack of paper which,
if sliced down the middle with a paper cutter, give you all
of the pages in the correct order. If you want to fold the
paper instead of cutting it, you'll need to produce smaller sized
"signatures" in the psbook-step above. This, sadly, must be
left as an exercise for the reader.
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