#finding digital texts

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Practicum 2: Finding Digital Texts

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (plain text here)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (plain text here)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (plain text here)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (plain text here)

The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri (plain text here)

Beyond Good and Beyond Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (plain text here)

Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud (plain text here)

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (plain text here)

American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum (plain text here)

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In my opinion, Project Gutenberg is one of the most useful sites for finding text versions of books. The website itself has a variety of formats, including e-book, pdf, and plain text, for every novel and play which gives you the flexibility to choose which format is most suited to your current needs. In addition, it is one of the more organized and user friendly sites. I really appreciate the fact that it has the books divided into ‘bookshelves’ that allow you to look for exactly the genre you want, and not just ask you to look through everything on the site or search for something specific. This makes it a lot easier if you want to focus on something small but aren’t sure where to begin.

Part one of my assignment is the texts that I found for our student work site practicum. In part two, I decided to make my genre specific search a little more clear, and also experiment with finding other texts. In that second part I liked just to the website itself rather than specifically the plain text version of each novel. 

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Finding Digital Texts (Part 2)

Fairy Tales

1. Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki 2. Cinderella in the South by Arthur Shearly Cripps 3. Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis 4. Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens 5. Viking Tales by Jennie Hall

Children’s Fiction

1. The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 2. The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. Ballantyne 3. Little Maid Marian by Amy Ella Blanchard 4. The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil 5. Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. Henty

Gothic Fiction

1. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 2. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3. The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker 4. The Lock and Key Library 5. Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

Fantasy

1. The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah 2. Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell 3. The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson 4. Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle 5. The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

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Finding Digital Texts

1. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (plain text here)

2. Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson (plain text here)

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (plain text here)

4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (plain text here)

5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (plain text here)

6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (plain text here)

7. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (plain text here)

8. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katherine Green (plain text here)

9. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (plain text here)

10. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (plain text here)