Electronic Texts

These directories contain sets of public domain electronic texts. Only "classic" texts -- items that have stood the test of time -- are included here. They are used as the raw material for the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. The collection emphasizes American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

With the exception of the Project Gutenberg texts, each item is saved alphabetically by file name in a directory representing the century it was written. Each file name is divided into three parts: the last name of the author, the first word of the work, and a local accession number. For example, Shakespeare's Hamlet has been saved as shakespeare-hamlet-23.txt. Simple RDF/XML versions of the texts have been created allowing the texts' metadata to be explicitly "married" to the text itself. This also allows the files to be displayed in a manner (somewhat) suited for printing. The RDF/XML files have the same naming structure as their plain text counterparts but are given a .rdf extension. For example, the RDF/XML version of Hamlet is available as shakespeare-hamlet-23.rdf.

The Gutenberg texts are saved in their original form using their original directory structure. (Ick!) Only plain text items have been mirrored here. The items included in the Alex Catalogue are the items with the .rdf and .htm extensions.

 Name                         Last modified      Size  Description
 Parent Directory                                  -   
 spenser-epithalamion-190.txt 11-Oct-2006 10:41   19K  
 spenser-epithalamion-190.rdf 16-Apr-2007 12:53   21K  
 spenser-epithalamion-190.htm 11-Nov-2010 11:02   27K  
 shakespeare-venus-60.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41   53K  
 shakespeare-venus-60.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:51   57K  
 shakespeare-venus-60.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:52   63K  
 shakespeare-two-18.txt       11-Oct-2006 10:41   99K  
 shakespeare-two-18.rdf       16-Apr-2007 12:52  103K  
 shakespeare-two-18.htm       11-Nov-2010 10:57  110K  
 shakespeare-tragedy-58.txt   11-Oct-2006 10:41  176K  
 shakespeare-tragedy-58.rdf   16-Apr-2007 12:51  181K  
 shakespeare-tragedy-58.htm   11-Nov-2010 10:53  188K  
 shakespeare-tragedy-57.txt   11-Oct-2006 10:41  132K  
 shakespeare-tragedy-57.rdf   16-Apr-2007 12:50  136K  
 shakespeare-tragedy-57.htm   11-Nov-2010 10:47  143K  
 shakespeare-titus-50.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41  121K  
 shakespeare-titus-50.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:51  125K  
 shakespeare-titus-50.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:51  132K  
 shakespeare-third-53.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41  145K  
 shakespeare-third-53.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:50  149K  
 shakespeare-third-53.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:48  156K  
 shakespeare-taming-2.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41  121K  
 shakespeare-taming-2.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:52  126K  
 shakespeare-taming-2.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:57  132K  
 shakespeare-second-52.txt    11-Oct-2006 10:41  153K  
 shakespeare-second-52.rdf    16-Apr-2007 12:50  158K  
 shakespeare-second-52.htm    11-Nov-2010 10:50  165K  
 shakespeare-romeo-48.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41  141K  
 shakespeare-romeo-48.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:50  146K  
 shakespeare-romeo-48.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:48  153K  
 shakespeare-rape-61.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:41   83K  
 shakespeare-rape-61.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:51   87K  
 shakespeare-rape-61.htm      11-Nov-2010 10:52   93K  
 shakespeare-much-3.txt       11-Oct-2006 10:41  120K  
 shakespeare-much-3.rdf       16-Apr-2007 12:52  124K  
 shakespeare-much-3.htm       11-Nov-2010 10:59  131K  
 shakespeare-midsummer-16.txt 11-Oct-2006 10:41   94K  
 shakespeare-midsummer-16.rdf 16-Apr-2007 12:52   98K  
 shakespeare-midsummer-16.htm 11-Nov-2010 10:57  104K  
 shakespeare-merchant-5.txt   11-Oct-2006 10:41  120K  
 shakespeare-merchant-5.rdf   16-Apr-2007 12:51  123K  
 shakespeare-merchant-5.htm   11-Nov-2010 10:51  130K  
 shakespeare-loves-8.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:41  127K  
 shakespeare-loves-8.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:51  131K  
 shakespeare-loves-8.htm      11-Nov-2010 10:56  137K  
 shakespeare-life-56.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:41  120K  
 shakespeare-life-56.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:51  123K  
 shakespeare-life-56.htm      11-Nov-2010 10:53  130K  
 shakespeare-life-54.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:41  151K  
 shakespeare-life-54.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:51  156K  
 shakespeare-life-54.htm      11-Nov-2010 10:53  162K  
 shakespeare-julius-26.txt    11-Oct-2006 10:41  115K  
 shakespeare-julius-26.rdf    16-Apr-2007 12:52  119K  
 shakespeare-julius-26.htm    11-Nov-2010 10:56  126K  
 shakespeare-first-51.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41  141K  
 shakespeare-first-51.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:51  146K  
 shakespeare-first-51.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:50  152K  
 shakespeare-comedy-7.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:41   87K  
 shakespeare-comedy-7.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:51   91K  
 shakespeare-comedy-7.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:55   97K  
 shakespeare-as-12.txt        11-Oct-2006 10:41  122K  
 shakespeare-as-12.rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:50  126K  
 shakespeare-as-12.htm        11-Nov-2010 10:49  132K  
 shakespeare-alls-11.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:41  132K  
 shakespeare-alls-11.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:51  137K  
 shakespeare-alls-11.htm      11-Nov-2010 10:55  143K  
 more-utopia-221.x-rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:39  229K  
 more-utopia-221.txt          11-Oct-2006 10:41  226K  
 more-utopia-221.rdf          27-Jul-2009 09:57  2.0K  
 more-utopia-221.htm          11-Nov-2010 10:05  235K