This page is dedicated to just four organizations that provide a valuable service to the world wide web audience.  They provide free books on-line.  These are free and easy to download, instructions here.

Project Gutenberg contains, perhaps, the most extensive on-line collection of literature available, ranging from "light" to "heavy" literature as well as reference works, all in an easy to download ASCII format.  This link will take you to their main page from which you can search for specific titles or authors.  Project Gutenberg gets about three quarters of a million visitors a month.

The On-Line Books Page, a project from the University of Pennsylvania, contains another extensive collection of over 11,000 downloadable books.  This link will take you to the main page from which you can search for specific titles or authors or themes, such as history, religion, sociology, music, and banned books among many others.

Internet Public Library

More a complete library than a mere collection of books, the Internet Public Library (IPL), is an educational initiative of the University of Michigan, their main page here.  Explore the Internet Public Library to your favorite area.

The Jack London Collection from the Sonoma State University, CA, will appeal to anyone looking for popular well-known titles such as White Fang, Sea Wolf, and The Call of the Wild along with non-fiction, also by Jack London.  This site also contains information about his life and political philosophy as well as many photos.  Here you can learn more about Jack London who died too young at the age of forty.  These are pages you are sure to enjoy.

Downloading Instructions:  To download any of these books to your computer, right-click the title you would like to download, and then click SAVE TARGET AS... (in Internet Explorer) or SAVE LINK AS... (in Netscape) to download.

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