Wales: Literature and History

This CD, with 24 books, includes books originally written in English (such as the works of Matthew Arnold), Welsh literature in English translation, literature in Welsh, and history of Wales.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books (except for the World Factbook) are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents

Context of the contemporary world

• The CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

Welsh History and Tourism

• Description of Wales by Geraldus Cambrensis
• An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition Concerning the Discovery of America by Prince Madog ab owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170 by John Williams 1791
• The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales by Geraldus Cambrensis
• A Short History of Wales by Owen Edwards
• Wild Wales by George Borrow (1803-1881)

Welsh Literature Written in English

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

• Celtic Literature
• Culture and Anarchy
• Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
• Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
• about Matthew Arnold
• Matthew Arnold by G.W.E. Russell
• Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

Welsh Literature in English Translation

• The Elene of Cynewulf, translated by Lucius Hudson Holt
• Mabinogion
• The Poetry of Wales edited by John Jenkins
• Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories edited by P.H. Emerson
• Welsh Lyrics of the 19th Century, first series, translated by Edmund Jones, 1896

Welsh Literature in Welsh

• Cartrefi Cymru by Owen Edwards
• Ceirog by John Ceiriog Hughes
• Gwaith Alun
• Gwaith Twm o'r Nant. Cyfrol II
• Gwaith Mynyddog. Cyfrol II.
• Y Gododin  by Aneurin
• Yr Hwiangerddi by Owen Edwards