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                                 -   
 james-essays-136.htm        18-Dec-2007 13:26  237K  
 james-essays-136.rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:31  233K  
 james-essays-136.txt        11-Oct-2006 10:40  226K  
 james-will-751.htm          18-Dec-2007 13:26   59K  
 james-will-751.rdf          16-Apr-2007 12:31   55K  
 james-will-751.txt          11-Oct-2006 10:40   52K  
 leibniz-monadology-201.htm  18-Dec-2007 13:30   42K  
 leibniz-monadology-201.rdf  16-Apr-2007 12:35   38K  
 leibniz-monadology-201.txt  11-Oct-2006 10:40   36K  
 marx-communist-109.htm      18-Dec-2007 13:32   80K  
 marx-communist-109.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:36   76K  
 marx-communist-109.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:40   74K  
 marx-manifesto-213.htm      18-Dec-2007 13:32   78K  
 marx-manifesto-213.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:36   74K  
 marx-manifesto-213.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:40   72K  
 mill-on-215.htm             18-Dec-2007 13:32  282K  
 mill-on-215.rdf             16-Apr-2007 12:37  278K  
 mill-on-215.txt             11-Oct-2006 10:40  276K  
 mill-representative-216.htm 18-Dec-2007 13:32  575K  
 mill-representative-216.rdf 16-Apr-2007 12:37  571K  
 mill-representative-216.txt 11-Oct-2006 10:40  568K  
 mill-subjection-217.htm     18-Dec-2007 13:32  260K  
 mill-subjection-217.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:37  256K  
 mill-subjection-217.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:40  254K  
 mill-utilitarianism-218.htm 18-Dec-2007 13:32  160K  
 mill-utilitarianism-218.rdf 16-Apr-2007 12:37  156K  
 mill-utilitarianism-218.txt 11-Oct-2006 10:40  154K  
 nietzsche-thus-223.htm      18-Dec-2007 13:34  529K  
 nietzsche-thus-223.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:39  525K  
 nietzsche-thus-223.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:40  513K  
 thoreau-civil-182.htm       18-Dec-2007 13:50   56K  
 thoreau-civil-182.rdf       16-Apr-2007 12:55   52K  
 thoreau-civil-182.txt       11-Oct-2006 10:40   50K  
 thoreau-life-183.htm        18-Dec-2007 13:50   49K  
 thoreau-life-183.rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:55   45K  
 thoreau-life-183.txt        11-Oct-2006 10:40   43K  
 thoreau-plea-184.htm        18-Dec-2007 13:50   56K  
 thoreau-plea-184.rdf        16-Apr-2007 12:55   52K  
 thoreau-plea-184.txt        11-Oct-2006 10:40   49K  
 thoreau-slavery-185.htm     18-Dec-2007 13:51   39K  
 thoreau-slavery-185.rdf     16-Apr-2007 12:55   35K  
 thoreau-slavery-185.txt     11-Oct-2006 10:40   33K  
 thoreau-walden-186.htm      18-Dec-2007 13:51  581K  
 thoreau-walden-186.rdf      16-Apr-2007 12:55  577K  
 thoreau-walden-186.txt      11-Oct-2006 10:40  571K