Book People Archive

New web books at the University of Adelaide Library

I am pleased to announce the addition of new web books to the
University of Adelaide Library Electronic Text Collection, now
available from

        http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

The new web books are:

* Boswell's "Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with
  Samuel Johnson" and "Life of Samuel Johnson"
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/boswell_james.html

* Anton Chekhov, short stories, and "Letters of Anton
  Chekhov to his family and friends"
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/chekhov_anton.html

* Joseph Conrad, complete works
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/conrad_joseph.html

* Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot"
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/dostoyevsky.html

* Lucretius, "Of the nature of things"
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/lucretius.html

* Sir Thomas Malory, "Le Morte d'Arthur"
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/malory.html

* Alexander Pope's translations of the Iliad and
  Odyssey of Homer
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/homer.html

* Jonathan Swift, "A Tale of a Tub"
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/swift_jonathan.html

* H.G. Wells, selected works (more coming soon)
  http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/wells_hg.html


Although many of these works are already available on the
Internet, our new collection offers a number of advantages:

        * they are unencumbered by advertising and other
          banners, menus etc.
        * they are specially formatted for reading on screen or
          for printing.
        * they will display in your own preferred type font and
          size.
        * they can be read with any standard web browser.
        * they can be easily downloaded for off-line reading.
        * they are free.


--
Stephen Thomas,
Senior Systems Analyst,
University of Adelaide Library
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 8 8303 5190  Fax: +61 8 8303 4369
Email: stephen.thomas@[redacted]
URL: http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/~sthomas/