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frican Digital Library
Addressing third world information imbalance by offering free access to anyone living in Africa, this netLibrary-supported initiative lives at:
http://AfricaEducation.org/adlFree Apache e-books Currently, around 55 Chiricahua & Mescalero Apache texts. You can read these online in English, Apache, or in parallel translation (for the latter two, download the Apache/Navajo font provided onsite). Some tales have intriguing titles, such as Coyote Misses Real Rabbit, The Woman Who Had Horse Power and The Foolish People Acquire Coffee.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apacheFree Arabic e-books
UAE Yearbooks 2001-2009, in Arabic, French & English. Also, UAE at a Glance 2009 in Arabic and English, and three further books. As PDF files. These are large downloads, but beautifully presented and illustrated, in full, page-turning format.
www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf_2008/index.aspArabian Poetry Encyclopedia Mawsuat al-shir al-Arab; from Egypt, Arabic Poems & Lyrics. Online in HTML.
http://arabicpoems.com/Mega-links site for Arab literature & culture. Caution, this is now a file requiring separate opening or saving, & may conflict with restrictive security settings.
www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities/LiteratureNew Alhemaidy A variety of works in Arabic and English, including poetry and prose, from the site's owner, Dr. Alhemaidy Abdullah. In .rar or zip format - requires software such as WinRAR or Winzip. Go to the links page at:
http://hemaidy.zoomshare.com/Free Argentinian literature Argentinian Digital Library Project - Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina. From Juan Bautista Alberdi to Eduardo Wilde, more than sixty authors are represented here across a wide range of literature in Spanish. Online in HTML, listed by author, title or literary type.
www.biblioteca.clarin.com/pbda/index.htmlAustrian Literature Online Scanned as images, a huge quantity (more than thirteen thousand items) of Austrian literature is available here online. Books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, theses and scientific essays, even postcards. Thanks to more than twenty participating institutions. You may legally print them out too -in fact they facilitate it.
www.literature.at/
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Free Belarusian e-books at the Belarusian e-Library. Offers Belarusian literature in Belarusian, plus some English, German & other translations.
http://knihi.comFree Balkan History e-books
Istorija Balkana Over 1200 e-books in PDF format, mostly about the history of the Balkans. This site (in Serbo-Croatian) opened in May 2008 and is a free, non-profit library. Registration is required to join the user community.
www.istorijabalkana.comFree Bangla e-books Online writers' community Sacalayatan has a few literary e-books in PDF versions to read online or download. You will need to have the correct font enabled in your browser.
www.sachalayatan.com/Bengali Literature online Collection of Poems by the famed Bengali writer & poet Rabindranath Tagore. In English as plain text.
www.indolink.com/Poetry/tgorIndx.htmlFree Brasilian e-books More than sixty free titles from 26 authors, including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso Henrique da Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission. Available as downloads for offline reading - formats include Word, PDF, RTF and some Palm PDB. Listed by author and title - author biographies are available too.
http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacionalBiblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro (de Lingua Portuguesa). Brazilian stories, poetry novels and plays, plus works translated into Portuguese. Select the Text (textos) heading for three reading options: works prepared for Palm OS devices; HTML text for your Web browser; or PDF downloads for the Adobe Reader.
www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/Some free PDF articles on aspects of Brasilian Law, plus legal journals, the Constitution of Brasil, and more. All in Portuguese. Registration required for access.
www.direitodoestado.com.br/Bibliotecavirtual.aspFree Bulgarian literature LiterNet - Bulgarian poetry and other literary resources available here.
http://liternet.bg/Free Burmese e-books The Online Burma/Myanmar Library. A collection of Burmese (Myanmar) texts, usually as PDFs for the Adobe Reader or in HTML for your Web browser.
www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=-1
Free Catalan Language e-books Project Gutenberg has nearly fifty works in Catalan, from close to thirty authors. About one third are translations, the rest original texts, under Gutenberg's usual conditions. See also theSpanish entry below for others.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/ca
Free Chinese e-books Supplied by the New Threads Chinese Cultural Society, this electronic library is claimed to be the most complete web archive available of Chinese classic texts.
www.xys.orgChinese Classics Pre-Qin philosophers, poetry, prose, biography, novels, commentary & other classical literature. Online in HTML for your Web browser.
www.cnd.org/Classics/Free Colombian e-books There are a few free Colombian e-books available in Spanish from this site, others are for purchase. Note the special collection gathered for the Bicentenario de Colombia 1810-2010: "...editado, en formato digital, libros representativos de Colombia, su historia, pensamiento, arte y costumbres y en su colección se encuentran algunos de los ejemplos más representativos del país en doscientos años de historia." Biografías, ciencias naturales, género epistolar, filosofía, historia, humor, medicina, novela, poesía, política, teatro...Formatted for the Adobe Reader.
www.epigrafe.comFree Croatian e-books
Classics of Croatian Literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century, mostly online as plain text.
www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htmMore than one hundred free works by contemporary Croatian writers, to read online.
www.elektronickeknjige.com
Free Danish Literature
Archiv for Dansk Litteratur Over seventy traditional Danish authors are represented here, ranging from the children's tales of Hans Christian Andersen to the weighty prose of Søren Kierkegaard.Available in three formats; as scanned facsimiles, plain text, or printable download; with PDF coming?
www.adl.dk/adl_pub/forside/cv/forside.xsql?nnoc=adl_pubFree Dutch Literature
Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlansde letteren Many hundreds of out-of copyright Dutch authors are represented here in original format, some illustrated. Check out the enchantment & wonderful pictures of Baron van Hippelepip (1917) as a children's classic, for example. Includes some modern works, by permission of their authors.
www.dbnl.org/
Free Esperanto e-books Stories by Claude Piron, fables by the Brothers Grimm, and more.
http://en.lernu.net/biblioteko/
Free Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range of topics.
www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com
There is also a Persian e-books newsletter at http://persianbooks2.blogspot.com/.Free French e-books
Gallica
Portal for special collections of the National Library of France. Vous trouverez notamment dans Gallica: une sélection de grands manuscrits littéraires français, de nombreux manuscrits enluminés du Moyen Âge, et beaucoup d'autres documents représentatifs des riches collections de manuscrits occidentaux et orientaux de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Access to over one million items, including over two hundred thousand books, plus images, maps, periodicals, sound recordings etc.
http://gallica.bnf.frBibliothèque Universelle (ABU). L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993. Searchable by author and title. Text word search is also available. Online, in plain text.
http://abu.cnam.frSocial sciences: many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books presented, In Word, PDF and RTF formats. As of July 2010, the seven collections offers 4,208 original works from 1,210 different authors. Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie Tremblay, the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of France.
http://classiques.uqac.ca/New A collation of French e-book sites featuring a variety of freely available texts from the public domain. From Balzac to Zola, and Provençal Poetry to French Women Writers.
http://multilingualbooks.com/ebooks-french.html
Free German e-books
This free page of a German e-book store offers a few titles, classics especially, mostly as PDF files. Includes versions of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Don Quixote and Aesop's Fables. Wunderbar!
www.ebooks.at/freebie.htmlngiyaw eBooks. A blast from the past - hard to find German works and authors are featured here, especially by and/or about women. Some classic English and Hungarian books also. Formats available are Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), mobiPocket Reader (.prc), MSReader (.lit) and sometimes TomeRaider (.tr), plus HTML for your Web browser. Thanks to "Katalin und Peter".
www.ngiyaw-ebooks.org/ (WAP site http://wap.ngiyaw-ebooks.org)
Free Hausa e-books In Hausa and English, from the pen of the late Alhaji Abubakar Imam.
NB: These are very large PDF files for the Adobe reader, more suitable for Broadband than dialup. www.abubakarimam.com/od/upload/index.phpFree Hebrew e-books Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make the public domain classics of
Hebrew literature freely accessible to Hebrew readers, as searchable HTML works. Note the browser requirements indicated in the FAQ.
http://benyehuda.orgFree Hungarian e-books Large list of free Magyar elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at:
www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt
Free Indian e-books
Digital Library of India Inaugurated by President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in late 2003, the Digital Library of India now has many thousands of books on the Web. It aims to eventually create a free-to-read, searchable online collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet.
www.dli.ernet.in/Hindi Poets Nicely presented online & illustrated, in HTML. Some plain text & a little audio also. NB: to read some poetry you will need to have Hindi fonts installed.
www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindipoets.htmlFree Sanskrit e-books The Puranas (64), and Sanskrit Proverbs, are available as downloadable MS Word documents from this site. The Purana file is zipped (requires Winzip or a similar utilty to open)..
www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htmFree Urdu e-books E-books (in plain text, HTML & PDF formats), short stories, poems, articles and other works such as khake. From the late notable Urdu author Awaz Sayeed.
www.awazsayeed.com/Hamid Syed's Urdu Poetry Page Especially, ghazals. Includes an Urdu dictionary, pronounciation guide and other resources. In HTML, with some zipped files available for downloads. For some materials you will need Urdu font (available from Urduweb.com, there's a live link on this site).
www.employees.org/~hsyed/urdu.htmlSee also the Universal Library entry on our Best Digital Libraries page, for more than 11,000 works in Hindi, over 21,000 Kannada titles, more than 2,700 in Marathi, over 7,700 in Sanskrit, over 4,050 Tamil books, over 50,000 Telugu titles and more than 17,100 in Urdu.
Free Italian e-books
Amolenuvolette. An intellectual-artistic mix. Across the art-science connection come these exceptional titles. Studies include fractal structures in biology, maths and arts; human-machine interfaces; transistor nanoelectronics; art & mixed media, & more. Note the fine graphics too. As very large .pdf files for the broadband-enabled, for your Adobe Reader or similar software; plusa couple of RAR archives.
www.amolenuvolette.it/pdfsAntologia della Letteratura Italiana. Novels, poetry, plays & other texts, both classic & contemporary. In HTML, for reading online. Includes some Dante, Boccaccio, St Francis of Assisi, Alessandro Manzoni and Enrico Maria Ferrari. An initiative of Riccardo Scateni.
www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.htmlFree e-books in Italian. Yes, cost is null, zero, niente. Genres include novels, poetry, classics, plays, biographies, horror & fantasy, & New Economy. In MS Reader format only.
www.ebookgratis.it/Libri Online Pelagus. Italian classical authors online. Works and biographies of twenty-three authors from Alberti to Verga, including Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Manzoni. In HTML for your web browser.
www.pelagus.org/it/libriThe Manuzio Project, a free Italian online book site. Covering fields from Arte e architettura to viaggiare, including letteratura fantastica, poesia, teatro, and much more.
www.liberliber.it/Ozoz. Classic texts in Italian, English and Latin. Available as HTML (versione ipertestuale); RTF (ideale per la stampa dei libri); TXT (puro testo): & for download zipped.
www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm
Free Japanese e-books
Aozora Bunko. More than 2000 works of copyright-free Japanese literature. Various formats available, including HTML, download zips and Japanese e-book format.
www.aozora.gr.jpOgura Hyakunin Isshu An anthology of 100 seventh to thirteenth century classic Japanese poems by 100 different poets, all "waka" ("tanka"), five-line poems of 31 syllables. Available in HTML side by side in Japanese characters, Romaji and English translation.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/index.html
Free Korean e-books
Digital Encyclopedia of Korean Local Culture From the Academy of Korean Studies.
http://www.grandculture.net/main/main.aspKim Mun-gi's Classical Korean literature site. As online HTML and downloadable .hwp files.
http://gojun.knu.ac.kr/
Free Multilingual PDF e-books
PDF Search Engine
Of French origin, this new and popular site searches websites, forums, and message boards for pdf book files, by title. Searches are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian & Spanish and Turkish versions. NB: search is unfettered, so it is the user's responsibility to confirm that books found are of legitimate origin and not pirated.
www.pdf-search-engine.comFree Myanmar (Burmese) e-book
Myanmar Travel Information 2005 eBook (Myanmar is also known as Burma). Free Innwa Myanmar Font (for Windows) also available from this page.
www.myanmars.net/download/
Free Polish e-books
Virtual Library of Polish Literature. Polish literature online, thanks to the University of Gdansk, under UNESCO auspices.http://literat.ug.edu.pl/index.htm
Polska Biblioteka Internetowa Includes classic Polish literature among its collections, and Polish translations of famous works from other nations. In HTML.
www.pbi.edu.plFree Portuguese e-books
Virtual Books. PDF downloads of literary titles, both prose and poetry, from a goodly range of authors. Plus, author biographies online. A selection of classic works are also available here in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.
http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/freebook_portugues1.htm
Free Romanian literature e-books
Essays, Poetry, Dramas, Translations, Art
www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm#RomanianFree Russian e-books
Electronic Publications Library. Works from Chekov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and other famous
Russian authors. For Reading online in HTML. All in Russian.
http://public-library.narod.ruMoshkov's Library. Hundreds of free e-books.
www.lib.ruRussian Science Fiction and Fantasy Works available in Russian, & sometimes English too. Pioneering site, since 1996. Authors include Vladimir Vasilyev, Sviatoslav Loginov, Vladislav Krapivin & Sergey Lukyanenko. Books as zipped files for download, or online in HTML.
www.rusf.ru
Free Scottish and Glaswegian e-books From the Glasgow Digital Library (GDL). Currently five books about Scotland and six about Glasgow, available online in plain text at:
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gdlebooks.htmlDictionary of the Scots Language Comprises searchable electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST -covers Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries) and the Scottish National Dictionary (SND - for the period since).
www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/Free Serbian e-books Projekat Rastko. Biblioteka srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro. In addition, some Serbian literature is offered in other languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Slovenian, Russian, & Ukrainian.
www.rastko-rs.orgFree Slovenian e-books Slovenian texts - copyright-free classic Slovenian literature, with a few
authorised modern items. Fiction, poetry, a few plays, and other works. Available to read online, in HTML..
www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html
Free Spanish e-books
Free literary unpublished texts, especially in Spanish and Catalan. Some are works in progress. In Microsoft Reader format.
www.badosa.comSelecció de Poesia Catalana (Catalan Poetry Selection). 176 authors and 799 original poems are available here (with 37 poems translated into English). Colourfully presented online in HTML
www.uoc.edu/lletra/especials/folch/Libros Tauro From Argentina. Offers more than 11,300 free books in Spanish. As .rar archives (open with WinRar), or as mega downloads (the latter are suitable for highest grade broadband only).
http://www.librostauro.com.ar/Free Swedish e-books
eBoklagret Omnibus. More than 480 works from 60 Swedish authors, as PDF downloads. www.omnibus.se/eBoklagret
Free Turkish e-books
Türk Öyküleri Sandig (= Oral Narratives). From Texas Tech University, popular Turkish tales and other literature, in both Turkish and English versions. Download as PDFs for the Adobe Reader (version 5.0 and above). NB: for reading, study, or citation only - these works are not in the public domain, and any reproduction must be by express permission.
http://aton.swco.ttu.eduContemporary Turkish Literature Translated into English, these are extracts from a score of novels, more plays, dozens of short stories and various other literary forms. Represented here online with appealing illustrations, this site is an excellent place to begin an appreciation of modern Turkish writing. Thanks to Professor Suat Karantay of Bogazici University.
www.turkish-lit.boun.edu.tr/New Yemek Tarifleri A Turkish delight. Not content with great kitchen-tested recipes, high quality video-recipes, healthy meals, menus for special occasions & general cooking tips, this Turkish-language site even provides health and beauty tips as well. But can you tear your eyes away from the food?
http://www.lezzet.com.trSufism & Science. MS Reader format.
www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/
(English versions also available at www.ahmedbaki.com/english/, with German to come).
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Free Ukrainian e-books The Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature. Classic texts of Ukrainian prose. Available in both HTML and PDF formats.Thanks to Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky at the University of Toronto, Canada, various Ukrainian publishers and other supporters.
www.utoronto.ca/elul/Free USA e-books. USA Today's Open Book program. Presented as a separate section on the newspaper's website, Open Book runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all visitors. www.openbook.usatoday.com
Dictionary of the Welsh Language (subject to further corrections) The First edition is available as large PDF files, suitable for broadband download. You may search this on your own computer using Adobe Reader 5 and above. It is hoped that a concise interactive version of the Dictionary will soon be available on the Web. NB: A second edition is a work in progress.
www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/gpc_pdfs.htm#DANGOSEIRIAUFree Welsh e-books Llyfrgell Owen - Library of Welsh Language Texts. Works are presented In plain text format. This fledging site lacks funding and welcomes volunteers to enlarge it. Apêl yw hon felly am gydweithwyr, cyfranogwyr a chyfranwyr.
www.testunau.org/
Refoyl's Yiddish resources Veb-bletl (Yiddish & Hebrew Texts). More than fifty Yiddish texts from around the world, variously in HTML, plain text, as PDFs or as image GIFs. Includes a searchable Yiddish dictionary and even a song database, plus numerous other Yiddish resources:
www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html
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