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f you love the classics but don’t have the space or money to expand your book collection, PublicLiterature.org will serve you well.
The website provides a user-friendly interface that allows you to read public domain books online. More than just a “library”, it also provides tools for you to explore its poetry, tutorials, and audio.
Here is a little taste of things to read on PublicLiterature.org:
- Mark Twain and Jane Austen novels
- Ion, by Plato
- Abraham Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address”
- Relativity: The Special and General Theory, by Albert Einstein
- Shakespeare classics (e.g., A Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth)
- Selected Letters of Beethoven
* photograph by jakobtischler