Preview Editions
Preview Editions are eBooks that have been constructed from transcriptions that
are in the public domain. These are complete editions with a table of contents
and hyphenation like the edited versions that can be downloaded from the Itty
Bitty Computer Library, but have not been edited to correct any typographical
or spelling errors that were contained in the original transcription. In
truth, these editions are built from the same text that is used by many other
eBook publishers that charge $0.99 - $3.50 for eBook classics, except that
those publishers don't insert the hyphenation that is built into the Itty
Bitty Computer version that you can get here.
The currently available preview editions include titles from
Victor Appleton,
Jane Austen,
J.M. Barrie,
L. Frank Baum,
Charlotte Bronte,
Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Lewis Carroll,
Willa Cather,
Giacomo Casanova,
G.K. Chesterton,
Joseph Conrad,
Marjorie Benton Cooke,
James Fenimore Cooper,
Stephen Crane,
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
George Eliot,
Zane Grey,
the Brothers Grimm,
Thomas Hardy,
Bret Harte,
Washington Irving,
Rudyard Kipling,
Jack London,
W. Somerset Maugham,
Herman Melville,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Upton Sinclair,
C. Alphonso Smith,
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Bram Stoker,
Jonathan Swift,
Booth Tarkington,
Jules Verne,
and
P.G. Wodehouse.
Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, Jane Eyre, is presented
here in two volumes:
Jane Eyre, Volume I (1847)
Comprised of prefaces to the second and third editions, followed by chapters
1 - 19.
Jane Eyre, Volume II (1847)
Chapters 20 - 38 (conclusion of Jane Eyre)
The batchelor Mr. Dodgson is better known by his pen name -
Lewis Carroll.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Alice falls in a rabbit hole, eats a pill, talks to a cat, attends a tea party,
plays croquet and is called to the witness stand.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll |
Size: 78 KB |
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O Pioneers! (1913)
Song of the Lark (1915)
Our edition is published in two volumes. The first volume contains parts I and
II; the second volume contains parts III through VI.
Song of the Lark
(Parts I & II)
by Willa Cather |
Size: 238 KB |
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Song of the Lark
(Parts III - VI)
by Willa Cather |
Size: 221 KB |
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Gilbert
Keith Chesterton was one of the most prolific of serious British
authors of the early 20th century. His works include historical and
philosophical writings as well as novels and poetry.
Heretics (1909)
Heretics
by G. K. Chesterton |
Size: 188 KB |
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Marjorie Benton Cooke was born in 1876 in Richmond, Indiana. She was a
novelist and playwright who wrote screen plays
for four silent films that appeared between 1920 and 1926, three of which
were based on her novels, "The Incubus", "The Girl Who Lived in the Woods"
and "Cinderella Jane". The celluloid versions of these novels were re-titled
as "Her Husband's Friend", "Little Fraid Lady" and "The Mad Marriage".
Her novels include
The Girl Who
Lived in the Woods (1910),
To Mother (1911), Bambi (1914) and
The Cricket (1919). She is credited with the lyrics of
Is Yo'? Yo' Is!, a song that was published in Chicago in 1905. Cooke
was also a successful writer of short stories, whose work appeared in many
magazines during the decade of the first world war and the decade
preceding. Her short stories include The Littlest Scout (May 1915),
Harrigan - of the Rockies (Dec 1915), The Bird-Cage (Aug 1916),
Little Jesus (Dec 1916), "It Might Have Happened" (Apr 1917),
and The Morals of Peter (Aug 1917).
Many of her works, like Bambi feature humourous dialog and
situations with a central role played by a strong-willed female character. Her
works that are still in print include a book of one act plays, entitled
Dramatic Episodes.
Cooke died on the 26th of April, 1920.
Bambi (1914)
This is not that book about a fawn that grows to be a great stag. That
book was written by Felix Salten. This Bambi is about a young woman
named Francesca Parkhurst, whose nickname is Bambina (shortened to
Bambi). Bambi, the only daughter of an absent minded professor of
mathematics, marries a penniless playwright and then devotes her life
to making him a success. Humor and romance.
The full title of Felix Salten's book, which
was published in 1923 is Bambi, A Life in the Woods.
Bambi
by Marjorie Benton Cooke |
Size: 222 KB |
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James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's earliest and most loved
authors. In his lifetime he wrote more than thirty novels.
For the pleasure of our readers and the fans of Mr. Cooper, we offer
all five installments in his Leatherstocking series. The novels
in that series include his most popular and widely-enjoyed works. The
five installments begin with The Pioneers and include
The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder,
and The Deerslayer. All five can be found
here.
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