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Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
An omnibus collection of James's short fiction at Standard Ebooks; Ghost Stories of an Antiquary at Project Gutenberg; Ghost Stories of an Antiquary at Project Gutenberg (Part 2) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary public domain audiobook at LibriVox "M.R. James: free web books, online". Archived from the original on September 30, 2009
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
Fully proofread Public Domain Books – Collections of books on finance, cooking, encyclopedias, etc. mostly public domain. A Pronouncing dictionary of Biography and Mythology contains a large number (10000+) short WP:NPOV biographical entries, many of which could be copied and pasted to form stubs (due to its focus it contains information on ...
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) The Jungle Book (1894) The Second Jungle Book (1895) yes: most notably The Jungle Book (1967) several: Adventures of Mowgli (1967–1971) [5] no: The Jungle Book (1993) Radio show, stage plays Peter Pan [6] (J. M. Barrie) The Little White Bird (1902); character appears in a segment) Peter and Wendy (1911 ...
This category is for books that are in the public domain worldwide. Please only add categories for books published before the 19th century and articles directly related to the subject of public domain books to this category. Because the copyright status of books published since the 19th century varies by country, articles about books published ...
A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [17] or have been forfeited. [ clarification needed ] [ 18 ] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author.
It was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire to provide "Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain" [2] and the LibriVox objective is "To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet". [3] [independent source needed]