A Selection of Digital Books

digitised by Martin Guy in Ramsgate and Canterbury, UK, 1996.

All texts are original digitizations, each in a single plain ASCII text file with a maximum width of 80 columns and a blank line separating paragraphs. In some texts, italic text is indicated ~thus~, bold text _thus_, and accented characters thus: <e'>.

For all works, copyright has expired in the USA under the first-published-before-1923 rule.

Lucius Apuleius

• The Golden Asse, or, The Metamorphoses of Lucius: Adlington's translation, 1566
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Samuel Johnson

• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Emily Lowe

• Unprotected Females in Sicily: Catania and the Ascent of Mount Etna (1859)
  

H. G. Wells

• The Time Machine, 1895
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• The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1896
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• The Invisible Man, 1897
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• The Scepticism of the Instrument: A portion of a paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society, November 8, 1903.
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• A Modern Utopia, 1908
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