A Project Gutenberg "To-do" List
(An unofficial site in support of Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders.)
A lot of books were written before the 1923 copyright deadline. Not too many are well known
today and some are more important than
others. While I want to encourage
to Project Gutenberg any way they can, I thought
it might be useful to have a place for
are looking for ideas on which books to add.
The list includes almost 2100 entries compiled
from the catalogues of Everyman's Library,
Press' "100 Greatest Books", the Modern Library, Oxford Classics, and Penguin, as well as
Bloom's Canon -- Harold Bloom's The Western Canon, is one
(knowledgeable and
man's view of the important literary books of western culture (from which I have extracted those (about 680)
written through
1900 (more or less); an
PWBS - This list includes the 294 books from Publisher's Weekly's list of US Best Sellers from 1900-1923; and.
Some other nominated works.
Other established 'canonical' lists will be added as they are available.
You can also check Curtis Weyant's list of about 400 important American novels and other books at http://caw.homelinux.net.
Of the almost 2100 total entries, almost 1200 are already in Project Gutenberg, PG Australia or are "In Progress".
About 266 still seem to be under US copyright (listed as "UC" (sometimes with date)).
About 287 do not appear to have any etext version and are also separately listed in the "Not Found" list.
About 345 are available from etext sources other than Gutenberg.
This represents an increase of about 100 new or in
progress Project Gutenberg etexts and a reduction of more than 80 in the
"Not Found"
List since December, 2003.
Please Note that a source sometimes refers to a compilation, such as “Essays” or “Collected Works”. Where a fair number of
those items have been turned into etexts, I
missing. Similarly, the source may cite some
collections that have been done already.
to work in these areas.
may differ from Everyman's "Collected Poetry of ______".
Consolidated List Texts "Not Found"
This list has been checked against
1) the Digital
Book Index,
2) the King Kong New General Catalog of Books and Authors
to show what
etexts are freely available
3) David Price’s PG In-Progress list (if
The lists were checked in June, 2004.
Some folks may prefer to focus on works which are not available at all, others may wish to 'upgrade' works
found elsewhere to Project Gutenberg standards for the PG sites.
This list was originally created in June, 2002 and I plan to update it regularly. If you have any corrections, updates, or
references to other 'canonical' lists, please send
them to me.
thx,
Steve Harris
Consolidated List
Texts "Not Found"
Key to Web Sites where etexts are already
posted:
Major Etext Publishers
Gutenberg – http://www.gutenberg.net/ (If
an etext was found on Gutenberg, it was not sought elsewhere.)
AmVerse -- http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
Bartleby – http://www.bartleby.com/
Bibliomania -- http://www.bibliomania.com
Blackmask -- http://www.blackmask.com
Darkwing -- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
Eldritch -- http://www.eldritchpress.org:8080/
Emule -- http://www.emule.com/poetry
Litrix -- http://www.litrix.com
Luminarium -- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit
Perseus -- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Sacred Texts – http://www.sacred-texts.com/
Virginia -- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
Women -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women
Other Etext Publishers
Adelaide -- http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/e53r/
Ancient Sites – [no longer a free site]
Athena – http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena
Austen -- http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/austen/history/index
BB -- http://www.bb.com
Bergson -- http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/Bergson/Berg01_toc.html
Bralyn -- http://bralyn.net/
Calmady -- http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/malet/calmady.html
Camelot -- http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/
Carolina -- http://home.carolina.rr.com/alienfamily/flowers.htm
Catullus -- http://www.tonykline.free-online.co.uk/Catullus.htm
CCEL -- http://www.ccel.org
Cervantes -- (In Spanish) http://www.cervantesvirtual.com
CNAM – (In French) http://abu.cnam.fr
Comedia -- (In Spanish) http://www.coh.arizona.edu/spanish/comedia/textlist.html
Constitution -- http://www.constitution.org/
Cornell – http://historical.library.cornell.edu/
CWRU -- http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/SpanishLegends.html
Dartmouth – http://www.dartmouth.edu~sorjuana/
Dewey -- http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/SCETI
Docsouth -- http://docsouth.unc.edu/dixonclan/dixon.html
Donjuan -- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/donjuan.htm
Dostoyevsky -- http://bralyn.net/etext/literature/fyodor.dostoevsky/
Dragon -- http://hax0r.org/~dragon/nf/
Dvaita -- http://www.dvaita.net/
Ebrary -- http://shop.ebrary.com
Eserver -- http://eserver.org
ESP -- http://www.esp.org
Fordham -- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/apologia1.html
Freespeech -- http://free.freespeech.org/wcollins/basil/basilttl.htm
Galen -- http://web1.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/medant/GalNatI.htm
Gallica -- (In French) http://gallica.bnf.fr/Classique
Georgia -- http://www.english.uga.edu/nhilton/Blake/blaketxt1/
Goettingen – www.gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de
Ghost -- http://www.encompass.net/ctyson/ghost.htm
Hathaway -- http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/
Hanover – www.history.hanover.edu
ICS – http://www.icspublications.org/archives/john/works.html
IMSS -- http://moro.imss.fi.it/lavoisier/Lavoisier_opere.asp
Informal – http://www.informalmusic.com/peacock/
James -- http://web.bham.ac.uk/doveral/james/tmuse/menu
Joyce -- www.trentu.ca/jjoyce/
Kansas -- www.raven.cc.kansas.edu/~libsite/wwi-www
Kokonino -- http://www.kokonino.com
Lavoisier –
http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/lavtable.html
Liber -- (in Italian) http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca
Mable -- http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~libsite/wwi-www/DereMable/Mable.htm
Mallarme -- http://mallarme.nemoclub.net
Manus – http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/bhmanus.manus_e.html
Marxists -- http://www.marxists.org/archive
Matsuoka-- http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka
McMaster -- http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3
Memory – http://memory.loc.gov/
Mencius -- http://nothingistic.org/library/mencius/
Million – http://www.archive.org/texts/texts.php
MIT – http://www.classics.mit.edu
MSU -- http://digital.lib.msu.edu/onlinecolls/
Navarre -- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/navarre/heptameron/heptameron.html
Newman -- http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2125/newman_grammar/
Nfbnet -- ftp://ftp.nfbnet.org/bbsfiles/epbooks
Nietzsche -- http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127103/
Northvegr – www.northvegr.org
OMACL -- http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
Peacock -- http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/
Penelope -- http://penelope.uchicago.edu/gardennoframes/gardenn.html
Poe -- http://www.eapoe.org
Poetrylovers – www.poetryloverspage.com
Princeton -- http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/
Pushkin -- http://www.pushkins-poems.com/
Rimbaud -- http://www.poetes.com/rimbaud/
Runeberg -- http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg
St. Andrews -- www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/personal/aha/Addison.html
Sappho -- http://www.sappho.com/
Std -- ftp://ftp.std.com/obi
Seekhistory -- http://www.seekhistory.com/entrypage.htm
Shropshire -- www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/eauthors.htm
Silk -- http://members.aol.com/silkfiction/mwotcpat.html
Spartan -- http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/
Tara -- starburst.cbl.cees.edu/~tara/poetry/
Taylor -- http://www.ccel.org/t/taylor/holy_living/holy_living.htm
Theosociety -- http://www.theosociety.org/
Thoreau -- http://eserver.org/thoreau
Tolstoy -- http://www.ccel.org/t/tolstoy
Toronto -- http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors
TWP -- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/index_twp.htm
UKans -- www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient
UMich -- http://www.hti.umich.edu/
UMN -- http://www.writinghelp.umn.edu/jhopkins/
UNESCO -- webworld.unesco.org/genji/en/index.shtml
UNT -- http://www.hist.unt.edu/ane-09.htm
Usgennet -- www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/prreservation/books/toc.html
USM -- http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/
VWWP -- www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp
Vermont -- www.uvm.edu
Wagner -- http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagwibel.htm
WMDC -- http://wwwfac.wmdc.edu/HTMLpages/Academics/History/churchill.html
Wright -- http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/
York
-- http://psychclassics.yorku.ca