A Selection of Digital Books

digitised by Martin Guy in Ramsgate, Canterbury and Catania, UK, 1996-2005.

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
  HTML index, text (448K), zipped text (164K) gzipped text (164K).
  The HTML version at http://eserver.org/books/apuleius/ is derived from this text, of which the HTML version here is an improved version, correcting formatting errors and including active links to the glossary.

Samuel Johnson

• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  HTML (215K), text (214K), zipped text (80K), gzipped text (80K).

William Kitchiner

• The Cook's Oracle, 1829 (page images)

Emily Lowe

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

Anon

• Continental Journey: A schoolboy's account of a trip from London through France, Germany and Belgium in 1955.

Ernesto Balducci

• The Words of Balducci: a collection of articles and sermons by the "rebel" catholic priest who died in a car crash the 25th April 1992, published by the Italian magazine "Avvenimenti" and translated by Martin Guy.
  HTML (34K), text (34K), zipped text (15K) gzipped text (15K)

Marco Dallari

• Botherella, a counter-fable, translated from the Italian by Martin Guy.
  HTML (12K), text (12K), zipped text (5K), gzipped text (5K)

Tiziana Perini

• The Ant and the Grasshopper: the story continues... (another translated counter-fable)
  HTML (3K), text (3K).

H. G. Wells

• The Time Machine, 1895
  text (181K), zipped text (70K), gzipped text (70K).
• The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1896
  text (240K), zipped text (92K), gzipped text (92K).
• The Invisible Man, 1897
  HTML (272K), text (271K), zipped text (103K), gzipped text (103K).
• The Scepticism of the Instrument: A portion of a paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society, November 8, 1903.
  text (32K), zipped text (13K), gzipped text (13K).
• A Modern Utopia, 1908
  text (540K), zipped text (208K), gzipped text (208K).