02-09-2011: new in links: Poemas del alma - (Julian Yanover) - a combination of: a large compilation of Spanish poetry (Rubén Dario, Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Lorca,...), a growing literary social network (with hundreds of people publishing own work) and a daily updated poetry blog.

15-08-2011: new in links: CDLI - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (University of California - Max Planck Institute) - Digital initiative aims to bring online cuneiform tablets from the dawn of writing, circa 3350 BC.

14-08-2011: Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig in French translation is available for proofreading.

05-08-2011: amazing resource -  The Allen Ginsberg Project - "An Allen Ginsberg Gallimaufry"..

31-07-2011: BookSG (National Library of Singapore) - "BookSG is an online collection of digitised books and other printed materials held in the National Library Singapore, including rare and historical imprints, selected works from the British Library's Oriental & India Office Collection and works published in Singapore. "

31-07-2011: Love and Death by W.B. Yeats - "The manuscript here transcribed represents an important addition to W.B. Yeats's canon, complementing those already transcribed in The Cornell Yeats volumes. The entire manuscript of Yeats's unpublished play, Love and Death, which he composed in 1884, totals five notebooks, some of which contain loose-leaf inserted papers..."

27-07-2011: Nice news from Welcome Library - new digitisation project for Early European Books - part (1.500 works) will be available for free to anyone.

14-07-2011: New in links: BibliOdyssey - books - illustrations - science - history: blog with a marvellous collection of book art.

25-06-2011: new in links: Worldwide Science - is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

15-06-2011: new in links: Early Dutch Books Online - "Early Dutch Books Online geeft full-text toegang tot meer dan twee miljoen bladzijden in 10.000 boeken uit het Nederlandse taalgebied uit de periode 1781-1800" - full-text access to more than 2.000.000 pages in 10.000 books from the Dutch language area (1781-1800) - downloadable in text (mostly raw ocr), or scanned image in pdf.. (I didn't detect any browse function as yet - collection accessible through search function (author, title, year, ...)

06-06-2011: Recently launched - The Australian Poetry Library - tens of thousands of poems from hundreds of Australian poets, all free for you to view...

05-06-2011: All books from the National Academies Press - 4.000 up until now - are free to download in pdf to anyone who registers - http://www.nap.edu/ - enjoy!

05-06-2011: In a Glass Darkly, vol I, II, III by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Irish creeps) (done and available at PG). - and Project Gutenberg started an official facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg

20-05-2011: couple of British novels by James Payn to make an e-book: Lost Sir Massingberd, vol. I and vol. II (done) and By Proxy, vol. I and vol. II.- a play, a tale, and  essays by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget): Ariadne in Mantua, Penelope Brandling and Limbo and Other Essays.(done) Let us know if you'd like to help out with the proofreading.

17-05-2011: The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries by Thomas Taylor, is available to digitise.

06-05-2011: Open Culture.com: not entirely about books, but very good - recently also linking to 50 classical Russian movies online (e.g. Tarkovski's Solaryis) - check it out!!

25-04-2011: The Colonization of North America by H.E. Bolton & T. Maitland Marshall (1920) (done) and T.W. Rhys Davids' Buddhist India are available to make an e-book.

10-04-2011:  Some poetry, English and translations: Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf (1906) by Rennell Rodd (introduction O. Wilde - done, and available on PG), Love, Worship and Death (Greek poetry in translation by R. Rodd - done and available on PG) and The Works of Li Po (translated from the Chinese by Shigeyoshi Obata). Like to proofread one of them? Please contact: marcdh AT freeliterature.org.

04-04-2011: We're also in search of workable scans of Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin, to make a free e-book for Girlebooks.com and Project Gutenberg.

02-04-2011: do get your hands on this: My Way: Speeches and Poems by Charles Bernstein. Free in April (Chicago University Press), and link works a year. DRM, yes - but only the language could be vital in this case.

31-03-2011: In English: Translations from Charles Baudelaire (1869) by Richard H. Shepherd. In German: Gedichte (1919) von Regina Ullmann - available for proofreading.

16-03-2011: Thanks to Voltaire for the hint - early 18th century fantastic literature:  Travels and Adventures of John Massey (1733 translation) and the original French Voyages et Avantures de Jacques Massé (1710) by Simon Tyssot de Patot are available to proofread.

07-03-2011: added to projects - The Terror (R1: Dave, thanks!- done and available), The Great Return (Done - and available on PG) and Dr. Stiggins (His Views and Principles) - all three in English and by Arthur Machen.

05-03-2011: available to make an ebook: The Three Impostors (or The Transmutations) by Arthur Machen, and Arthur Machen (A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin) by Vincent Starrett (both finished and available at PG).

27-02-2011: Memoirs of a Revolutionist, vol. 1 and 2 and Russian Literature, Ideals and Realities by Peter Kropotkin are available for proofreading. And so are: Three Philosophical Poets by George Santayana (done and available at PG), The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom by H.W. Van Loon, Francis Bacon, Selections with Essays by Macaulay and S.A. Gardiner (OUP 1922)..

10-02-2011: La Mandragola by Machiavelli (Italian) - available to proofread (R1: Marc).

07-02-2011: Arthur Schopenhauer - The Basis of Morality  - always wanted to (proof)read this one? Text to compare with original scans will be sent to you on demand... - and, also in English: translation by Jethro Bithell: Contemporary French Poetry (1912), Contemporary German Poetry (1909), Contemporary Belgian Poetry (1916) (done, available at PG), Contemporary Belgian Literature - The Plays of E. Verhaeren - Emile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig (done, available at PG) - by J. Bithell: Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck.  In French: La Pensée de l'Humanité by Léon Tolstoï.

31-01-2011: for proofreading - A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi. (Done - available on PG)

28-01-2011: available for proofreading: Philosophical Dictionary - vol. I - II - III - IV - V- VI - VII - VIII - IX - X - Voltaire. (Done! and availble at PG)

27-01-2011: The Making of British India by Ramsay Muir - El Diablo Mundo by José de Espronceda (Spanish, long lyrical poem), The Life of Mohammad by E. Dinet and Sliman Ben Ibrahim (R1: Andrea, thanks),  A Woman's Experiences in the Great War (1915) by Louise Mack (done, available at PG) and The English Spy - "An original work characteristic, satirical, and humourous, comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society"- vol I. and vol II. by Bernard Blackmantle (Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank, ed. 1907) are available to work on.

14-01-2011:The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites (1919) by Dudley Wright. (Done, available on PG (27-01)

18-12-2010: The Buddha's Path of Virtue (Dhammapada, transl. F.L. Woodward - 1921) (done (06-02-2011) - available at PG.

14-12-2010: Today we received usable scans for Louis Couperus' Footsteps of Fate - book we were in search for, for some time... MANY THANKS are due to the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA - Document Supply Service (Gaye Gericke) who scanned the book and made it generously available!

07-12-2010: ... read more about e-literature: Marie Lébert gives a nice overview. Publications in a number of languages are available at PG, about here.

04-12-2010: Dutch to proofread: Het leven en de lotgevallen van Robinson Crusoe door Daniel De Foe in twee delen - vol. I en vol. II - (1843) - getrouwe vertaling en onverkort - translation seems ok and non-abridged.

28-11-2010: Dutch: De kinderen van Kapitein Grant (Drie delen: Zuid-Amerika - Australië - Stille Zuidzee) - Jules Verne ready to proofread..

27-11-2010: ready to work on: German: Das Nordlicht (ed. 1921)- Theodor Däubler (1239 pages - we might split it up). English: Voltaire's Romances (complete in one vol., illustrated - 1889) - Voltaire (done, available on PG) and Voltaire by John Morley.

23-11-2010: Available to make an e-text: in Middle-French: Brun de la Montaigne - Paul Meyer (ed.), in Dutch: Naklank: gedichten - Willem Bilderdijk, in English: Charles Darwin (available on PG 23-12) and The White Man's Foot (available on PG - 27-12) by Grant Allen - Vondel's Lucifer (translated from the Dutch by L.C. van Noppen)

22-11-2010:  Völkerpsychologie by Wilhelm Wundt, available for proofreading. In English: Introduction to Psychology and Elements of Folk Psychology by Wilhelm Wundt.

21-11-2010: Available for proofing: French: Maurice Maeterlinck's Les fiançailles (sequel to L'oiseau bleu) and Dutch: Door duisternis tot  licht (Gedachten over en voor het Javaansche volk) - Raden Adjeng Kartini (orig. of Letters of a Javanese Princess).- available at PG (08-02)

16-11-2010: Added to projects: Dutch: Dionyzos by Louis Couperus - in English: Letters of a Javanese Princess (Available at PG - 13-12) by Raden Adjeng Kartini and Canute the Great, 995-1035 - And the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence M. Larson. (R1: Dave THANKS!)

15-11-2010: The Pioneers (available at PG - 14-12) and The Black Opal (08-03 Amy R1, thanks!) by Katharine S. Prichard are available for proofing.

12-11-2010: Adding two titles to digitise: both by Maurice Maeterlinck - French: L'oiseau bleu and English: The Miracle of Saint Anthony.

21-10-2010: And added to the "projects" list - also in English: the novels Arminel of the West, Furze the Cruel (available at PG - 02-12), Granite and Bracken by John Trevena/E.G. Henham

19-10-2010: Available for proof reading are Menotah (A Tale of the Riel Rebellion), Heather and A Drake by George! - by Ernest G. Henham/John Trevena.

17-10-2010: "Oscar Wilde - Art and Morality, A Defence of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'"  (PG e-book) - edited by Stuart Mason is now also available as audiobook at Librivox: here.

Contact: Christine or marcdh (AT) freeliterature.org - Thanks!


30-09-2010: New in links: Zorba's Guide to Free Ebooks (Zorba Press) - Extensive resource of information to obtain free literature on the web. (Also: a new enlarged edition of Michael Pastore's "50 Benefits of eBooks" becomes available in pdf, epub and paperback these days - worth checking out!)

28-09-2010: Dutch: Voltaire, Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, Mirabeau in Nederland - Jhr.C.A van Seypesteyn is available for proofreading.

21-09-2010: The Will to Doubt - Alfred H. Lloyd (available at PG - 02-11)- Select Works - Plotinus (transl. Thomas Taylor) and Abbé Aubain and Mosaics - Prosper Mérimée are available to work on.

09-09-2010: Elizabeth von Arnim - a twice married countess (in Germany) -  Australian origin, raised in GB - with notorious sense of humour and companion to H.G. Wells - We don't say more ... just get it online. (Participate? let us know). - First one available on PG - Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen - (produced together with Girlebooks.com) -and also available (19-11) is Vera

27-08-2010: English: Maurice Maeterlinck - The Betrothal (Sequel to the play The Blue Bird) is added to 'projects'. (16-11: Available on PG)

24-08-2010: English: novels in translation from the Dutch author Louis Couperus: The Later Life (Small Souls II)- The Twilight of the Souls (Small Souls III)- Dr. Adriaan (Small Souls IV) - Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness - Old People and the Things That Pass -  are available for proofreading.

We started working together with Girlebooks for the practical (proofreading and such). Nice site from Texas (Laura McDonald) with high quality e-books - First texts we're collaborating on: "The Doctor's Wife" by M.E. Braddon, "Consequences" by E.M. Delafield and "The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen" by Elizabeth von Arnim. Join in? Let me or Laura know. Thanks.

11-07-2010: English: The Japanese Spirit by Okakura Yoshisaburo is added at the Projects page (available at PG- 16-11).

01-07-2010: Dutch: Jules Verne - De kinderen van Kapitein Grant (deel 1) is available to work on.

14-07-2010: New feature: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (contemporary translations) are available to read online and download - enjoy!

16-07-2010: New in links: Hinduism e-Books - Featuring a.o. the complete set of Sacred Books of the East (50 volumes) available for download (pdf at Scribd) or to read online (htm). The series was issued by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910 and was edited by linguist and scholar of comparative religion F. Max Muller. 

Contact: Christine or marcdh (AT) freeliterature.org - Thanks!