Using Public Domain Resources to Find Free Books, Free Style Guides, Free Dictionaries, and More!

by Aurora on May 15, 2006

Find Resources at websites like Project Gutenberg and Bartelby’s.com.

Public Domain webisites like Project Gutenberg and Bartleby.com are gold mines if you’re looking for free literature or verse, style and grammar guides, and more.  They provide a plethora of work pre-1920′s, and its all free for you to devour at your pleasure.

Project Gutenberg offers 18,000 books online. These include everything from books by Ovid and Dante to Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and numerous other authors. They are an excellent resource, and all the books can be downloaded as e-books.

Bartleby.com is an open resource, Public Domain site that offers numerous writing and grammar resources, including the American Heritage Dictionary, Strunk & White,  Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, and even Gray’s Anatomy. Their searches are divided into reference, verse, fiction, and non-fiction.

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