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Check out some unabridged classics, biographies, fiction, poetry and more on e-books this summer
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SUMMER'S HERE and so are vacations. Expose your children to more than just the sun. Let them get a taste of the classic literature online. Log in to the following websites and read some of the best classics ever written and also read the biographies of the authors who penned them.
Unabridged Classics
http://www.literature.org
On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature.
Fiction from authors like Lewis Carroll, the Bronte sisters (Anne, Charlotte and Emily), Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and many others, and classic scientific works from Charles Darwin and Rene Descartes.
Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania. com
Bibliomania offers free online literature with more than 2000 classic texts. You can also find literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries and reference books. This site offers a vast range of services to users from books to read for free to books of all genres for sale, including academic books.
Page by page
http://www.pagebypage books.com
Page by Page books brings you a wide selection of the best public domain books available, all in an easy to read format. Find a wide range from P.G.Wodehouse's Jeeves to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The advantage of this site over a lot of other such sites is that you can bookmark any part of any sentence in any page of the content and come back to exactly the right place.
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org
This page has a large collection of e-Books for free reading. It also has books of at least 30 other languages apart from English. One has the option of searching the database for author name, title, language or words in the full text of the eBook. It provides multiple download and browsing options.
Free Books
http://www.freebooks5000.com
Now you can search, copy, print, and read over 5000 of the world's greatest works of literature, poetry, government and religion. You also have the option of owning them all, plus get famous quotes in context, take literary quizzes and send quotation greeting ards.
Classic Bookshelf
http://www.classicbookshel f.com
Enjoy the online reading experience on this site. This site provides options of customising the settings of the books you want to read online. You can select your own font type, font size, text colour, page colour and a multitude of such options that make the experience of e-reading rich and memorable.
Free Library
http://www.thefreelibrary .com
Read the biography of the author; choose from a collection of masterpieces by the author and sit back to enjoy the experience of reading your favourite book online. Free library offers classics by masters for free reading. The range of books available is huge and the site, very user-friendly.
World Library
http://www.worldebook library.com
The World eBook Library's Classic Literature Collection boasts over 55,000 works of literature, in many languages. 20,000 books are free for the public to read and download. It also has a membership that offers all the 55000 books on store for reading and downloading, for a nominal price of $8.95 per year.
Read Print
http://www.readprint.com
Read poetry, fiction, philosophy, and more on this page. Find every author from Louisa May Alcott to William Butler Yeats. You can search for the books either by the name of the author or by the title of the book. It's a free site and all the books are available for public.
AYYAPPA NAGUBANDI
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