The Wyvern is a poor Wyrm ~ but he loves to read. That being the case he's been working to compile a page of links to some of the wonderful FREE fiction and non-fiction available on the net. So grab a cup of coffee, curl up with your monitor (or TV) and explore some of the literature available via the links on this page. You may be surprised at what's out there.

Web Text ~ HTML-based documents ~ easy to read with any browser.
Plain Text ~ Text documents may load slowly in your browser as the entire work is one file. Some of these files are huge and may exceed the capicity of some older browsers. You may wish to right click with your mouse and save the location as a file for reading in your favorite word-processor.

  An additional Library Annex can be reached from here.

Fiction

Bib liomania ~ Incredible site of classic fiction (All done as WebText). Highlights include:
Louisa M. Alcott ~ Little Women
Jane Austen ~ Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey
The Bronte Sisters ~ Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Lewis Carroll ~ Alice In Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark
Wilkie Collins ~ The Woman in White
Charles Dickens ~ Great Expectations, The Pickwick Papers, Tale of Two Cities
James Fennimore Cooper ~ The Last of the Mohicans
Alexander Dumas ~ The Count of Monte Cristo
James Joyce ~ Ulysses , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Gaston Leroux ~ The Phantom of the Opera
Herman Melville ~ Billy Budd
H. Rider Haggard ~ She, King Solomon's Mines
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasur e Island
Leo Tolstoy ~ Anna Karenina
Mark Twain ~ To m Sawyer
Jules Verne ~ Around the World in 80 Days
Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray,

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The Complete Shorter Fiction

Aesop's Fables (Web Text)

Alexandre Dumas ~ TheMan In The Iron Mask (Plain Text)

Bram Stoker ~ Dracula (Plain Text)

(unknown) ~ Beowulf (Web Text)

John Bunyan ~ The Pilgrim's Progress (WebText)

G. K. Chesterton ~ The Man Who Was Thursday (WebText)

George MacDonald ~ At The Back Of The North Wind,The Light Princess, The Day Boy And The Night Girl(Web Text)

George MacDonald ~ Lilith (Plain Text)

H. G. Wells ~ TheTime Machine, TheWar of the Worlds (Plain Text)

Voltaire ~ Candide (Plain Text)

Walt Whitman ~ Leaves of Grass (Web Text)

Dante Alighieri (tr by Longfellow) ~ The DivineComedy ~ Inferno, Purgatorio< font size="3">, Paradiso (Web Text)

John Donne ~ Selected Poetry (Web Text)

Goethe ~ Faust (Plain Text)

Virgil ~ (Plain Text)

Frances Bacon ~ The New Atlantis (Web Text)

Charled Brockden Brown ~ Wieland,or The Transformation (Web Text)

Non-Fiction

TheNoam Chomsky Archive ~ Great web sitewith online versions of all Chomsky's major works (Web Site)

Dem ocracy in America ~ Classicwork by de Tocqueville (Web Text)

AnEnquiry Concerning Human Understandingby David Hume (Plain Text)

The Summa Theologica by St.Thomas Aquinas (Web Text)

Myth and Legends (Reference)

The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ~ Dated but useful dictionary of folklore (Web Text)

Encyclopedia Mythica/font> ~ Website/Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends (Web Site/Text)

Encyclopedia Mythology ~Another useful Mythological source (Web Text)

The Book of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Other Characters ~ Exactly what the title says ~ most comprehensive (WebText)

Bulfinch's Mythology ~ The Age of Fable(click here for the Web Text version which omitsthe last 3 chapters, and here for the PlainText version which is complete) ~ TheAge Of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur (Plain Text), Legendsof Charlemange or Romance of the Middle Ages (Plain Text)

Religious Texts (Why not view the sourcetexts?)

The Diamond Sutra ~ ClassicBuddhist work (With an excellent glossary to help explain someof the unfamiliar terms) (Web Text)

Khorda Avesta ~Zoroastrian Book of Common Prayer (Web Text)

Confucian Analects (Plain Text) by Confucius/p>

The Doctrine ofthe Mean (Plain Text) by Confucius

The GreatLearning (Plain Text) by Confucius

The Papyrus ofAni (The Egyptian Book of the Dead) (Plain Text)

The Tao Te Ching (Web Text)

Chuang Tse (Web Text)

BibleBro wsers on the Internet ~ Links to every translation known to man. Click on English Translations in the left frame.

Here is a very special addition, thanks to Lorraine.

Christian Classics Etherial Library A collection of hundreds of source books on Christianity, enough to last a lifetime! A fabulous resource. Do look it over.