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Table of Contents:
Introduction and General Information:
Here we have a collection of complete electronic texts
of various works important to the study of fantasy and science fiction.
For University of Michigan users, The Humanities
Text Initiative is also available for more sophisticated searching.
Many of these texts are made available free of charge
from the Gutenberg
Project. They have many more books available and several indices on
their Overview
Page.
Another great place to find etexts
is the Carnegie Mellon On-Line Books
Page. They have a comprehensive list of English Repositories and Specialty
or Foreign Language Repositories.
Click on a title to view the full text of the book. Books
marked as local raw text are stored at the University of Michigan and may
be faster to download than the others, which are stored at various locations.
There is a legal
notice for the local books. The size of all raw text files appears
in parantheses with each link, to prevent getting trapped downloading a
huge file.
Fantasy and Science Fiction Books:
Collateral Works
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The
Aeneid by Virgil (text at Wiretap; 627K)
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Aesop's
Fables (Gutenberg text)
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Beowulf translation by F. B. Gummere
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The Bible (King James version)
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Bulfinch's
Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (Virginia Tech Gopher)
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The
Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear (Gutenberg Text; 30 K)
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Candide
by Voltaire, the classic parable of an innocent traveling in our cruel
world (text at Virginia Tech)
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Classics, Greek and Roman
(MIT HTML; includes Homer, Plato and many more)
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The
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (HTML at
The Marx/Engels WWW Archive)
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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The Descent
of Man by Charles Darwin (text at Virginia Tech; 1.2 MB)
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The
Divine Comedy by Dante (Princeton HTML)
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes (text at Virginia Tech; 2.3 MB)
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Erewhon by Samuel Butler
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The
History of Herodotus by Herodotus (1.4 MB)
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The
History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson, the
tale of an innocent escapee from utopia (text at UPenn)
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The
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1.1 MB)
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The House of Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne,
a classic American novel with a family curse at its heart
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The
Iliad by Homer (text at MIT; 790K)
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The
Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (text at Wiretap)
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Mars by Percival Lowell (Bibliomania HTML)
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News
From Nowhere by William Morris (Virginia HTML)
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The
Odyssey by Homer (text at MIT; 597k)
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The
Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles
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The Origin
of Species by Charles Darwin (text at Virginia Tech)
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Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Paradise Regained by John Milton
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The Republic by Plato, the earliest great utopian
work in the West
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the archetypal tale
of an alien visitor reforming a new world to conform to his vision of his
homeland
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The Tao Teh King by Lao-Tse, translation by James
Legge, the fountainhead of East Asian philosophy and a crucial source for
such works as Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Utopia
by Thomas More (text at Wiretap)
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A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, the
great political treatise by the mother of Frankenstein's author
(text at Wiretap; 506K)
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