Free Kindles for British Lit (Part 2 of 2)

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I'm on a role organizing our British Literature resources.  I went through my book list and am posting the freebies here while I'm tracking them down.  When I post the book list I'll link to all of the books with regular links.

Here goes...

Beowolf:
Yikes, there are a lot of choices and I don't know which is the recommended version.  Here is the list and look for free kindle downloads: Beowolf selections

Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Venerable Bede)
Read free online:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-book1.asp
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bede/history.html
Here is the pdf (that you can upload to kindle):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bede/history.pdf
Another one:
http://www.jesus.org.uk/vault/library/bede_history.pdf
This font seems easier to read:
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Bede_Miller.pdf

Canterbury Tales

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Fairie Queen (Spenser)

Adventures of Robin Hood 

MacBeth (Shakespeare)
Read online:
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/shakespeare_macbeth.html
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/index.html

More from Shakespeare:
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Essays (Francis Bacon) 

Dr. Faustus (C. Marlowe) 

[Note: Read Faust by Goethe (1832) before reading this]

Paradise Lost (Milton) 

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (John Dryden) 
Read online:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html

Robinson Crusoe (D. Defoe) 

Gulliver's Travels 

The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith) 

The Rivals (R.B. Sheridan) 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (S.T. Coleridge)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

A Tale of 2 Cities (Dickens)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) 

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) 

Lord Jim (J. Conrad)

A.E. Housman poems: “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff,” “Lovliest of Trees,” “Be Still, My Soul,”

All 3 are included here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/housman.html

William Yeats: “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” “When You Are Old,” “The Second Coming,” “The White Swans at Coole,” “Byzantium.”
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/117
http://www.mrbauld.com/yeats1bz.html

Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into the Night”
http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm

Phew!  I now have 33 free kindle books in my "British Lit" collection!  I truly prefer the real-life book in my hands but now I have peace that if I can't check them out at the right time we have them, literally, on-hand :).  


I hope this is helpful to someone else who might need some freebies like I do!








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