Worldreach
Foundation
African 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/adl

African-American e-books E-books by and about African-Americans. All presented in three formats,
HTML, palm (.pdb) and MS Reader (.lit).
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html

Apache e-books  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/apache

Arabic e-books
UAE Yearbook 2004 in Arabic, French & English. Also UAE: A New Perspective. Download each chapter
separately, in PDF.
http://www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf/index.asp

Arabian 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.
http://www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities/Literature

Argentinian literature Argentinian Digital Library Project - Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina. From Juan
Bautista Alberdi to Eduardo Wilde, more than seventy authors are represented here across a wide range
of literature in Spanish. Online in HTML.
http://www.clarin.com.ar/pbda/index.html

Austrian Literature Online Scanned as images, a huge quantity (more than twelve thousand items) of
Austrian literature -even including postcards - is available here online. Thanks to more than twenty
participating institutions. You may legally print them out too -in fact they facilitate it. http://www.literature.at/

Belarusian e-books at the Belarusian e-Library. Offers Belarusian literature in Belarusian, plus some
English, German & other translations.
http://knihi.com

Free 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.
http://www.sachalayatan.com/

Bengali Literature online Collection of Poems by the famed Bengali writer & poet Rabindranath Tagore. In
English as plain text.
http://www.indolink.com/Poetry/tgorIndx.html

Some helpful pages to understand the background of authors, periods & movements in Bengali literature
are available at: http://bengalonline.sitemarvel.com/login.asp?bengali-literature.html

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.
http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional

Biblioteca 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.
http://antiga.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/index.php

Brasilian Law e-books in Portuguese, plus the Constitution of Brasil in English. http://www.lifestylesbrazil.
com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index

Bulgarian literature LiterNet - Bulgarian poetry and other literary resources available here.
http://liternet.bg/

Burmese e-books A Collection of Burmese texts, usually as PDFs for the Adobe Reader or in HTML for
your Web browser.
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=-1

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.
http://www.xys.org

Chinese Classics Pre-Qin philosophers, poetry, prose, biography, novels, commentary & other classical
literature. Online in HTML for your Web browser.
http://www.cnd.org/Classics/

A search engine that may be used to locate many Chinese-language free books for adults plus for children
comics, cartoons & education themes. These text may be read by installing eREAD's free proprietary
software (file format STK), which includes many extra "community" features. Courtesy of Taiwan & China-
based eREAD Technologies Co. Ltd
http://book.isoshu.com/

Colombian e-books More than a dozen free Colombian e-books are available in Spanish from this site.
Historical & literary topics predominate. Formatted for the Adobe Reader.
http://www.epigrafe.com

Croatian e-books
Classics of Croatian Literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century, variously as
online text, RTF or PDF files.
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm

Some free works by contemporary Croatian writers, to read online.
http://www.elektronickeknjige.com

Danish Literature
Archiv for Dansk Litteratur  Seventy or so 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 downloadable files (XSQL) for offline use.
http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/forside/cv/forside.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub

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.
http://www.dbnl.org/

Esperanto e-books eLibrejo. Over 270 books (both original and translated) in Esperanto. For downloading
in .pdf format. (Use the Adobe Reader software). Subjects include fiction, poetry, theatre, religion, classic &
historic works, children's literature.
http://esperantujo.org/eLibrejo/

Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range of topics.
http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com
There is also a Farsi books Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/farsibooks/

French e-books
Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). "Sur les 30 millions de pages du fonds
numérisé des imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, dont un peu plus du tiers relève du XIXe
siècle, Gallica permet dès à présent d'accéder à quelques 2500 ouvrages numérisés en mode image,
complétés par UN extrait de la base " Frantext " du CNRS qui permet la consultation de plus de 250
volumes saisis en mode texte."
http://gallica.bnf.fr

Bibliothèque Universelle (ABU). L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone
sur Internet depuis 1993.
http://abu.cnam.fr

Bibliopolis. La bibliothèque des lettres : plus de 2000 œuvres (sciences humaines et littérature) en texte
intégral sont consultables. Grâce au logiciel Trevi, vous pourrez effectuer toutes les recherches possibles
sur les auteurs, les ,,, (NB: This is now a passworded site).
http://www.bibliopolis.fr

Social sciences: many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books. In Word, PDF
and RTF formats. As of February 2007 the collection offers 2431 original works from 782 differentauthors .
Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie Tremblay, the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the
Toulouse Academy of France.
http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales

German e-books
This free page of a German e-book store offers a few titles, mostly as PDF files.
http://www.ebooks.at/freebie.html

ngiyaw 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".
http://www.ngiyaw-ebooks.de/     (WAPsite http://wap.ngiyaw-ebooks.de)

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. http:
//www.abubakarimam.com/od/upload/index.php

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.org

Hungarian e-books Large list of free Magyar elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at:
http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt

Indian e-books  Inaugurated by President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in late 2003, the Digital Library of
India now has more than 29,000 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.
http://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 http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindipoets.
html



Italian e-books

Amolenuvolette. Free Italian intellectual e-books. 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 .pdf files for your
Adobe Reader, or similar software.
http://www.amolenuvolette.it/pdfs

Antologia 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.
http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html

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.
http://www.ebookgratis.it/

Libri Online Pelagus. Italian classical authors online. Works and biographies of twenty-one authors from
Alberti to Verga, including Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Manzoni.  In HTML for your web browser.
http://www.pelagus.org/it/libri

The Manuzio Project, a free Italian online book site. Covering fields from Arte e architettura to viaggiare,
including letteratura fantastica, poesia, teatro, and much more.
http://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.
http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm



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.
http://www.aozora.gr.jp

Ogura 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

Korean e-books
Digital Han'gukhak. From the Academy of Korean Studies.
http://www.koreandb.net

Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean literature site.
http://bh.knu.ac.kr/%7Emkkim

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.
http://www.myanmars.net/download/

Polish e-books
Polish literature online, thanks to the University of Gdansk.
http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/index.htm

Polska Biblioteka Internetowa. Includes classic Polish literature among its collections, and Polish
translations of famous works from other nations. In HTML.
http://www.pbi.edu.pl

Portuguese e-books
Virtual Books. PDF downloads of titles from a goodly range of authors. http://virtualbooks.terra.com.
br/freebook/freebook_portugues1.htm

Projecto Vercial has a few free books, for downloading as PDFs.
http://www.ipn.pt/literatura

Romanian literature e-books
Essays, Poetry, Dramas, Translations, Art
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm#Romanian



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.ru

Moshkov's Library. Hundreds of free e-books.
http://www.lib.ru

Books in Russian formatted for Palm OS devices in .prc format.
http://www.palmpc.ru/

Russian electronic environmental library.
http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm

Russian SciFi & Fantasy books available online here, in both Russian & English. Pioneering site, since
1996.
http://www.rusf.ru



Sanskrit e-books The Puranas (64), and Sanskrit Proverbs, are available as downloadable
MS Word documents from this site. The Purana file is zipped.
http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htm

Scottish and Glaswegian e-books From the Glasgow Digital Library (GDL). Currently five books each
about Scotland and Glasgow, available online in plain text at: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gdlebooks.html

Dictionary 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).
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/

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.
http://www.rastko.org.yu

Slovenian e-books Slovenian texts - copyright-free classic Slovenian literature, with a few
authorised modern items. Available to read online.
http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html



Spanish e-books
Free literary unpublished texts, especially in Spanish and Catalan.
http://www.badosa.com

Selecció 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
http://www.uoc.edu/lletra/especials/folch/

Cuantolibro (=What a lot of books) This recent Spanish language site gives you web addresses to
download over fifty thousand e-books; & is searchable by author, title, or subject. Genres include Art,
Languages, Literature, Medicine, Mysticism & esoteric, Psychology, Philosophy, Science, Social Studies,
Religion and more. Formats include pdf, and as zipped files.
http://www.cuantolibro.com/



Swedish e-books
eBoklagret Omnibus. More than 480 works from 60 Swedish authors, as PDF downloads. http://www.
omnibus.se/eBoklagret

Turkish e-books
Türk Öyküleri Sandigi. From Texas Tech University, popular Turkish tales and other literature, in both
Turkish and English versions. Download as PDFs for the Adobe Reader 5.0 or above.
NB: for reading, study, or citation only.
http://aton.swco.ttu.edu

Contemporary 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.
http://www.turkish-lit.boun.edu.tr/

Sufism & Science. MS Reader format.
http://www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/ebooklar
(English versions also available at http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/ebooks/,
with German to come).

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.
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/

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. http:
//www.openbook.usatoday.com

Urdu e-books Awaz Sayeed's short stories. From the noted author, online in HTML.
http://www.awazsayeed.com/

Hamid Syed's Urdu Poetry Page Includes a Urdu dictionary and other resources. In HTML with some
zipped files available for downloads. For some materials you will need Urdu font (available from www.
urduweb.com)
http://www.employees.org/~hsyed/urdu.html

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.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/gpc_pdfs.htm#DANGOSEIRIAU

Welsh e-books Llyfrgell Owen - a 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.
http://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 http://www.cs.uky.
edu/~raphael/yiddish.html