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                                   -   
 bacon-essays-92.htm           11-Nov-2010 08:38  298K  
 bacon-essays-92.rdf           16-Apr-2007 12:17  293K  
 bacon-essays-92.txt           11-Oct-2006 10:40  290K  
 bacon-new-98.htm              11-Nov-2010 08:38   91K  
 bacon-new-98.rdf              16-Apr-2007 12:17   85K  
 bacon-new-98.txt              11-Oct-2006 10:40   83K  
 descartes-discourse-124.htm   11-Nov-2010 08:55  134K  
 descartes-discourse-124.rdf   16-Apr-2007 12:22  129K  
 descartes-discourse-124.txt   11-Oct-2006 10:40  126K  
 descartes-meditations-746.htm 11-Nov-2010 08:55  178K  
 descartes-meditations-746.rdf 16-Apr-2007 12:22  172K  
 descartes-meditations-746.txt 11-Oct-2006 10:40  170K  
 hobbes-leviathan-66.htm       11-Nov-2010 09:19  1.1M  
 hobbes-leviathan-66.rdf       16-Apr-2007 12:27  1.1M  
 hobbes-leviathan-66.txt       11-Oct-2006 10:40  1.1M  
 locke-concerning-111.htm      11-Nov-2010 09:51  300K  
 locke-concerning-111.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:35  294K  
 locke-concerning-111.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:40  291K  
 locke-essay-113.htm           11-Nov-2010 09:51  1.5M  
 locke-essay-113.rdf           16-Apr-2007 12:35  1.5M  
 locke-essay-113.txt           11-Oct-2006 10:40  1.5M  
 locke-letter-116.htm          11-Nov-2010 09:51  120K  
 locke-letter-116.rdf          16-Apr-2007 12:35  114K  
 locke-letter-116.txt          11-Oct-2006 10:40  111K  
 locke-second-117.htm          11-Nov-2010 09:51  323K  
 locke-second-117.rdf          16-Apr-2007 12:35  317K  
 locke-second-117.txt          11-Oct-2006 10:40  314K  
 pascal-pensees-569.htm        11-Nov-2010 10:08  555K  
 pascal-pensees-569.rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:40  549K  
 pascal-pensees-569.txt        11-Oct-2006 10:40  541K  
 pascal-provincial-570.htm     11-Nov-2010 10:08  619K  
 pascal-provincial-570.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:40  613K  
 pascal-provincial-570.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:40  594K  
 spinoza-ethics-742.htm        11-Nov-2010 11:02  534K  
 spinoza-ethics-742.rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:53  528K  
 spinoza-ethics-742.txt        11-Oct-2006 10:40  524K  
 spinoza-on-744.htm            11-Nov-2010 11:02  111K  
 spinoza-on-744.rdf            16-Apr-2007 12:53  105K  
 spinoza-on-744.txt            11-Oct-2006 10:40  103K  
 spinoza-political-753.htm     11-Nov-2010 11:03  222K  
 spinoza-political-753.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:53  216K  
 spinoza-political-753.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:40  213K  
 spinoza-theologico-743.htm    11-Nov-2010 11:02  631K  
 spinoza-theologico-743.rdf    16-Apr-2007 12:53  625K  
 spinoza-theologico-743.txt    11-Oct-2006 10:40  618K