| Author |
Title |
| William Shakespeare, George Long Duyckinck |
The Works of Shakespeare |
| A. L. (Andrew Lee) Dyke |
Dyke’s Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia |
| Arthur Wellesley Wellington, William Hazlitt |
The Speeches of the Duke of Wellington in Parliament |
| Charles Hutton |
A Course of Mathematics |
| Popular encyclopedia |
The popular encyclopedia; or, ‘Conversations Lexicon’ |
| John Theodore Merz |
A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century |
| Edwin Abbott Abbott |
Flatland |
| William John Thoms |
Lays and legends of various nations |
| Thomas Dick |
The Works of Thomas Dick … |
| Charles Dickens |
Household Words |
| Kuno Fischer |
History of Modern Philosophy |
| Girolamo Tommasi, Carlo Minutoli |
Sommario della storia di Lucca dall’anno MIV all’anno MDCC |
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The Gentleman’s Magazine |
| John Ford |
The Dramatic Works of John Ford |
| Morris Jastrow |
The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria |
| Henri Poincare, George Bruce Halsted, Josiah Royce |
The Foundations of Science |
| National cyclopaedia |
The national encyclopædia |
| L. Emmett (Luther Emmett) Holt |
The Diseases of infancy and childhood |
| William D’Avenant, William Hugh Logan, James Maidment |
The Dramatic Works of Sir William D’Avenant |
| E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton |
Witch Stories |
| J. P. (Joseph Pomeroy) Widney |
Race Life of the Aryan Peoples |
| Ida Ethelwyn Wing |
The World’s Progress |
| James Fenimore Cooper |
The Water-witch |
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The Romanic Review |
| James Fenimore Cooper |
The Water-witch |
| Jessie H. (Jessie Hubbell) Bancroft |
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium |
| E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers |
The Mediaeval Stage |
| H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber |
Myths of Greece and Rome |
| Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin |
Betty Alden |
| Anton Francesco Grazzini, Luigi Fiacchi |
Le cene ed altre prose di Antonfrancesco Grazzini detto Il Lasca riscontrate sui migliori codici per |
| A. I. (Antoine Isaac) Silvestre de Sacy |
Exposé de la religion des druzes |
| F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford |
The Witch of Prague |
| Lawton Bryan Evans |
America First |
| Sidney Luxton Loney |
The Elements of Coordinate Geometry |
| Thomas James, John Tenniel |
Aesop’s Fables |
| Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Hillebrand |
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason |
| W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams |
Witch, Warlock, and Magician |
| Augustin Calmet |
The Phantom World |
| Luigi Fornaciari |
Esempi di bello scrivere in prosa |
| Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Earthward Pilgrimage |
| George Purdey Field |
Tinnitus aurium |
| Jules Michelet |
La Sorcière |
| Diego Baross Arana |
Historia jeneral de la Independencia de Chile |
| Dante Alighieri |
Divine Comedy. The Inferno |
| William Ralston Shedden Ralston |
Russian Folk-tales |
| Theocritus, Bion, Moschus |
Greek Pastoral Poets |
| Marco Polo, Hugh Murray |
The Travels of Marco Polo |
| James M. (James Meschter) Anders |
A Text-book of the practice of medicine |
| Friedrich Konrad Beilstein |
Handbuch der organischen Chemie v. 2 |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer |
The Reader’s Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories |
| H. (Harald) Weitemeyer |
Aemner og Kuriositeter fra Columbustiden og Columbusliteraturen |
| Walter Rye, Robert Forby |
A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia |
| James Russell Lowell |
Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics; Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader’s First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the … |
| Emile Zola |
L’assommoir |
| Lorenzo Magnani |
Cenni sui provvedimenti economici dei principi Lorenesi in Toscana |
| Fitz Gerald Broad |
The Problem of Life |
| Making of America Project |
The Living Age … |
| Torald Hermann Sollmann |
A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology |
| Verein für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde |
Zeitschrift |
| Thomas Reid |
The Works of Thomas Reid … |
| E. Noble Smith |
The Management of lateral curvature of the spine, stooping, and the development of the chest in phthisis |
| John Woodward |
Response of Hon. John Woodward … |
| Wilhelm Franz Loebisch |
Anleitung zur Harn-Analyse fur praktische Aerzte, Apotheker und Studirende |
| Louis Desprez |
L’évolution naturaliste … |
| William Shakespeare |
Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will; a Comedy in Five Acts |
| John Knox Laughton, Christopher Lloyd, William Gordon Perrin |
The Naval Miscellany |
| David Davies |
Cofiant y diweddar Barch. Robert Everett |
| William J. (William John) Fryer |
The Tenement House Law and the Lodging House Law of the City of New York |
| Pièrre Dominique Bazaine |
Chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle |
| Thomas Alexander Browne |
A Colonial Reformer |
| Mary Doline O’Connor |
The Life and Letters of M.P. O’Connor |
| United States. Dept. of Justice |
Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States |
| Giovanni Battista Zappi, Faustina Maratti Zappi |
Rime dell’ avvocato Gio.Batt.Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti, sua consorte |
| Jean Froissart, Auguste Scheler |
Oeuvres de Froissart |
| Richard Steele, Joseph Addison |
The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq |
| Newton (Mass.) |
Eliot Anniversary, 1646-1896 |
| New York State Historical Association |
Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association |
| Isaac Candler |
A Summary View of America |
| Guillaume, Jean, Jules Croissandeau |
Le Roman de la rose |
| Pedro Antonio de Alarcón |
The Friend of Death |
| Otto Bismarck, Paul Dehn |
Bismarck als Erzieher |
| Jean-Pierre Niceron |
Memoires pour servir a l’histoire des hommes illustres dans la republique des lettres, avec un catalogue raisonne de leurs ouvrages … |
| United States. Navy Dept, United States. Naval War Records Office |
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion |
| A. (Alfred) Richet |
Traite pratique d’anatomie medico-chirurgicale |
| J. Milner (John Milner) Fothergill |
Aids to diagnosis. v.1, 1881 |
| Izaak Walton |
The Lives of John Donne |
| Christian Wilhelm von Dohm |
Denkwurdigkeiten meiner Zeit |
| James David Thompson |
Handbook of Learned Societies and Institutions |
| Fred Wilson Besley, L. A. (Louis Agricola) Bauer, Beatrice Dawson Wood, Oliver Lanard Fassig, C. R. Zappone, J. C. Britton, Homer Payson Little |
Anne Arundel County (Md.) |
| Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan |
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift… |
| William Dean Howells |
Roman Holidays |
| J. W. (James William) Massie |
America: the Origin of Her Present Conflict; Her Prospect for the Slave, and Her Claim for Anti-slavery Sympathy |
| Robert Southey, Charles Michael Wolseley |
History of the Peninsular War … |
| Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) La Rue |
A Graphical Method for Swing-bridges |
| Otto Kaiser |
Die Funktionen der Ganglienzellen des Halsmarkes |
| David Ames Wells |
Wells’s Principles and Applications of Chemistry |
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Lovers of the classics no longer need endure the muss and fuss of handling rare books, the dusty, sneeze-inducing, allergy-producing, one-in-a-million chance to open up and experience a centuries-old volume of Shakespeare or Marco Polo. Classic literature has entered the digital mainstream as the Google Book Search project has begun offering downloadable copies of out-of-copyright books from the shelves of several of the world’s greatest libraries. While there’s no substitute for the magic of leafing through a first folio edition of Shakespeare, only so many people on Earth will ever do so. Centuries-old books degrade when exposed to air or heat or
humidity. Digital books don’t tear, get smudged or crack or flake away with age. In the new era of digital books, could classics get cool again? Could downloading a copy of Aesop’s Fables replace an episode of South Park or endless YouTube skits? Would a modern kid ever be caught dead reading Fitz Gerald Broad’s largely forgotten 1918 theological meditation The Problem of Life on her smartphone? Google has yet to offer a full list of books they are making available online, something that will be necessary before users make a habit of using the service. The company did provide the following sampling of nearly 100 titles, some classics, some esoterica. “We have MANY, MANY more than this,” a Google spokeswoman promised.
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This is a GREAT idea. Now I just need to find out how to get the comprehensive list.