Collections of Book Collections: British Authors

This second in our series "Collections of Book Collections and Huge Books Made Manageable" is "British Authors," with 50 files containing 643 books. This CD contains works by British authors (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish), regardless of the subject matter (fiction, children's books, religion, and non-fiction).

This CD has .doc (Word) files instead of .txt (plain text). With Word files I'm able to add internal links, which in the case of very large books can make it much easier to get the part of the book you are interested in. I'm also able to put a whole series of books in a single file, with easy navigation. (If you prefer, you can get this with files in Rich Text Format (.rtf) instead of .doc. Just note that that is what you want in the comments section of the order form, or send us an email letting us know your choice).

Why would you want more than one book in a single file? Putting all the books of a series or all the books by a single author together in a single file makes it easy for you to quickly search or browse or sample or bounce back and forth among all those related works (without having to open and close separate files).

Both the index and the book files are in .doc (Word) or Rich Text format (.rtf). As usual, you click on a file title in the index to open a particular file. Then that file has internal links to let you easily navigate to the book or story or poem you are interested in. Each file is very large -- some files contain the full text of dozens of books.

The 50 files are:

Collections:

Early English Meals and Manners, 13 books

Classic Cook Books (published before 1800), 12 books

Single author:

Jane Austen, 8 books

James Boswell -- Life of Johnson, 6 volumes

The Bronte Sisters, 10 books

John Bunyan, complete works, 64 books

Edmund Burke, 12 volumes

Robert Burns, complete works, 1 volume

Thomas Carlyle -- The French Revolution, 3 volumes

Lewis Carroll, 6 books

Geoffrey Chaucer -- Canterbury Tales, 1 volume

G.K. Chesterton, 29 books

Joseph Conrad, 16 books

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1 volume

Charles Darwin -- Origin of the Species, 6th edition, 1 volume

Thomas DeQuincey, 8 books

Charles Dickens, 67 books

Arthur Conan Doyle, 38 books

George Eliot, 6 books

Henry Fielding, 5 books

John Galsworthy -- The Forsyte Saga, first 3 volumes

Edward Gibbon -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 volumes

William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan, 14 operettas

George Gissing, 21 books

Kenneth Grahame, 3 books

Thomas Hardy, 20 books

William Hazlitt, 5 books

William Hope Hodgson, 5 books

Raphael Holinshed -- History of England, 14 volumes

Anthony Hope, 14 books

Ben Jonson, 8 plays

John Keats, 3 books

Rudyard Kipling, 30 books Andrew Lang -- All the Fairy Books, 12 books

D.H. Lawrence, 8 books

LeFanu --

Ghostly Tales, 5 volumes

Purcell Papers, 3 volumes

Macaulay -- History of England, 5 volumes

Christopher Marlowe, 7 plays

John Milton, 3 books

E. Nesbit, 11 books

Saki (H.H. Munro), 7 books

William Shakespeare --

Complete Works, 73 plays and books

First Folio, 35 plays

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1 volume

John Synge, 8 books

Anthony Trollope --

Barsetshire Novels, 6 books

Palliser Novels, 6 books

William Wordsworth, Poetical Works, 3 volumes