Introduction This is a listing of 346 sites that legally offer free books for reading online without download and without registration. The sites listed here may offer downloads, but also offer all of their free ebooks for reading online. To the best of my knowledge all of the websites listed here offer only content that they are legally entitled to transfer to you.

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If you find a site listed here that you know illegally offers copyrighted material, please contact me through the site with a link to the infringing content. To the best of my knowledge every website listed here, and its downloads, are safe. By the rules of this site, no website that has a red or an orange rating at is allowed in the listings. I also use, a browser addon that offers the ratings from six other website rating products, to verify the sites here are clean. I have never encountered any issue while visiting these sites. Additionally, I have downloaded something from every site that offers a download and have never encountered an issue.

If you should ever encounter malware on any of these sites, please contact me through the site and provide the link to the offending content. This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our. A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages: • - links to all the free book pages here at Gizmo's • - listing of all free ebooks sites (913 sites) • - listing of all free audiobook sites (192 sites) There will be other sites listed there that have some of their free books for reading online, but not all of the free ebooks are available for reading online. Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials. To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help: Sites For Free eBook Reading Online has the 48 (of 60) works in the public domain in the USA of the Sherlock Holmes Canon available for free reading online.

Some are also available for download in PDF. A free science fiction short story per day for online viewing. They have been online since August, 2005, so there is a large collection of works here. Is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading. The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin.

Has over 400 books and 6,000 articles primarily covering Buddhism, but with a good number of works on world religions. All that I looked at were for free online reading. Offers free courses in Accounting for free reading online without registration. Offers his novel, The Janitor, for free reading online.

He also offers some free short stories and poems. Offers 655+ of the Aesop fables for free online reading as well as 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the fable of Jean Fontaine (17 and being added to).

There are also a couple of L. Frank Baum stories and Dickens', A Christmas Carol. Also available are 37 audio versions.

Has free stories from 5 different European countries available for free reading online in a flash player. There are several stories for each country. Very nice graphics. An introductory college level textbook available for free reading online and free download in PDF without registration. Has a large collection of Islamic works in its library available for free online viewing.

There is also software and audio available. Clicking on the appropriate icons in the library will show the available works in each. Received the following comment from Zeeshan Ali regarding this site 'Please make a correction here. This link and collection here represent a sect of Islam i.e.

Shia, who are not concurrent in many manners to many of Muslims and Islam.' Offers quite a few of his stories and novels for children for free reading online without registration. Is a collection of 9 short horror stories by Robert Best available for online viewing. Has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3. Offers the children story 'June the Prune' for free reading online.

The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page. Offers many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing. Has a large collection of free classic ebooks available for free reading online without registration. They also have a nice little collection of free stories for children available for free reading online. These have some nice illustrations. Offers several of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales for free online reading in a flash player.

Also available are associated activities. Offers the flash animated story of Paul Bunyan for free reading online. Has an interesting collection of classic novels, including 20 of the classic Golden Books for free online viewing without registration.

Large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download has a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online. - Over 4000 novels covering a great variety of topics, nicely separated into categories and 'best' lists. Some very interesting entries here.

Available for online viewing. Offers the ebook, How to See the World, backpacking on $25 a day or less for free reading online. A large collection of works in a wide variety of sub-categories. All the ones that I checked were available for free reading online without registration. A website set up by Harper Collins publishing for unpublished authors to display their works. All are available for free reading online without registration. Offers a few hundred books, searchable by author, for online viewing.

Is a children's site that has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening. Has a small collection of online flash books for toddlers and young children. - A small collection of science fiction books from Baen's promotional CDs. They are downloadable in a variety of formats as well as viewable online.

Has almost 6,000 classic, but unique, children's books for free viewing online. The ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations. A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time.

Not related to the above as far as I can tell. 520 classic children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing. Offers 5 unique books for reading online. - the Harvard classics, poetry and encyclopedias. Available for free reading online and some also available for free download in PDF. Has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio. Offers free Accounting & Bookkeeping courses for free reading online without registration.

Describes itself as 'an outlet for writers of hardboiled fiction'. The site offers a large collection of short stories for free reading online. Has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing. Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories. Has 34 free western short stories available for free reading online without registration.

- Over 2,000 classic novels, study guides, biographies and more. Offers a good amount of free books in quite a few categories for free online reading. Offers the first book of his Outlaw Galaxy triology for free reading online without registration. Also available for free reading online are some. Has a good size collection of free ebooks, offered in blog like form.

All the ones I saw were available for free reading online, free download in Kindle, ePub and PDF, without registration. This is not associated with Black Mask magazine. 14,571 books available for online viewing in their easy to view reader.

Very nice find by fellow editor Rhiannon. Is a collection of 1200+ books for online reading with the added feature of groups available for discussion of the readings. Nice combination of reading and socializing. Suggested by an anonymous poster. Free registration and starting of a group now required. Is a mix of classic and new ebooks. There are over 16,500 free ebooks available in several general categories.

The reading online is in a popup window that reads as an ordinary book. There are some classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are also many unique entries here. The adult oriented books require registration to read or download. Downloads in epub, Sony, Stanza (iPhone) or their BookRix formats.

Has a huge collection of free works in a wide variety of categories. These range from short stories to novels and are unique works of unpublished authors.

All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF (press 'Generate eBook' button). While primarily a good sized collection of audio books, each of the books is available for online reading or for download in a variety of formats. Is a small collection (100+) of classic works available for online viewing, with many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader versions. Nicely set up.

Offers 350 free romance novels in varying ebook formats. All appear to be available for free reading online, free EPUB download and some free Kindle compatible download, as well as some other formats. Free registration is required to complete the checkout. Has over 15,000 books available for online viewing. Nicely divided into a good variety of categories. Has a virtual books section with a small, but interesting, collection for online viewing.

Has an interesting collection of novels in a wide variety of genres (check bottom of page for links to genres) either available for online reading or download in pdf. Offers a good sized selection of literature on Buddhism, most of which are available for free reading online (signified by T) without registration. Is a site where children may post reviews of books they have read. They also have 15 free classic novels available for free reading online without registration.

Has a good number of stories from the Arabian nights collection as well as other story books available for online reading. Is an electronic library with a large number of free books in its collection.

There is a good sized listing of books under copyright loaned to the library as well as many collections of books offering free novels. From what I could see all are available for free reading online. Is a BBC site that offers a good number of free stories, in flash, for online reading and listening.

Also, has games, music and coloring books. Offers 41 of his science fiction short stories for free viewing online. Some are also available for download in pdf or kindle. Also offers a for free reading online Large collection, divided into categories, for online viewing. Nice collection.

Has 116 illustrated bible stories available for free reading online. Offer 20 free stories for free reading online. These are original stories by Gordon Dioxide is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books for viewing online. They are also available for download at a fee. This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster. Has a large collection of books for online viewing. Many appear to be unique classic works that are finely illustrated.

Books can be filtered by age, length and fiction/non-fiction. Offers a good number of stories for free reading online. Included are Beatrix Potter, Andersen Fairy Tales, Native American folklore as well as other stories and poems. There are also other activities at the site. A children site that offers a nice collection of fairy tales for online viewing as well as Bible stories and coloring books. Has a good number of short stories and nursery rhymes for reading online. No illustrations to speak of and most of the stories are classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entries here.

Has a large collection of free textbooks and study aids. All are available for free reading online and free download in PDF, MOBI and EPUB. Offers free science fiction short stories for online viewing and also some audio versions. A winner of the 2010 Hugo award for best Semiprozine. Thanks to Knight_of_Pentacles for this.

Contains the works of over a hundred authors (and short biography for each), with a varying number of works per author. Online viewing only.

Offers the works of 50+ authors in varying amounts. Online viewing only. Offers 6 unique works for online viewing. Has a very nice, and large, collection of classic short horror stories for online viewing. Decent size collection that has complete works of a small variety of authors and works of others and a nice children's section available for online viewing. Offers thousands of free classic books for online viewing. Small collection of free classic novels available for free reading online without registration.

Has a large collection of college textbooks in 24 different subject categories available for free download in PDF or free reading online. A large collection of free textbooks and other educational resources. The ones I checked were available for free reading online as well as free download in PDF or EPUB without registration. All appear to be college level. Has a free business book, Start and Run Your Own Business, available for free reading online. Has links to 5 well known classics of Philosophy. All are to Project Gutenberg and are available in the usual wide variety of formats as well as free reading online without registration.

Has a collection of free classic gothic novels as well as some classic novels available for free reading online. - Read books online by daily email or RSS feed. Over 700 titles.

Is a webzine that offers a collection of science fiction short stories for free online reading. You can also subscribe (free) to have daily mailings of the works.

If you scroll down the page linked, on the right hand side is a sub-categoriztion of the free science fiction works. Thanks to Allyson Erick for this site. A collection of original short stories for online reading. The site has not been updated in a while, but all the links seem to work. Provides some Philosophy texts for free reading online as part of a Modern Philosophy course. Offers some free short stories of horror as well as a novella for free reading online or free download in PDF.

Offers his book, Don's Spank Hank, for free reading online or free download in SWF or PDF. There is also a narrated version available at YouTube.

Nicely illustrated and 60 pages long. Intended for beginnging readers. A good collection of free computer software books available for reading online. Has a very interesting collection of over 20,000 free novels available for free reading online as well as free download in MOBI or EPUB without registration. A complete history of the USA available for free reading online without registration. Offers the free picture book, Lady and the Tramp, for free reading online in their flash player.

Over 200 books on Yoga, religion and philosophy available for free download in PDF or free online reading. Offers 4 of his science fiction novels for free reading online. Has a good deal of information and links on mystery writers from the 1700s to the early 1900s. Some of the links are to pay sites, but most are to free collections online. A good way to find novels by author and a lot of good general information on the mystery genre. Offers a good number of scifi short works for reading online.

Thanks to Panzer for this. Several hundred free classic ebooks available for free reading online or free download n PDF, without registration. A good number of stories, mostly romance, but some children and vampire stories available for online reading. A great collection of works from the University of Adelaide.

All are available for online viewing and have links for printing. Many are also available in ePub. Thanks to Ana for this valuable source. Has a good size collection of classics available for online viewing. Offers free reading online of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (a comprehensive collection of e-texts of all of Poe’s writings, from the original sources and with multiple versions as revised during his lifetime). Offers 14 'leveled' books for children for online reading or printing.

Has a large collection of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith available for free reading online without registration. Has a good sized collection of public domain works with some unique categorization. Has over 800 free childrens books, for children of all ages, available for free reading online. These are unique and original stories and many are illustrated.

Presents English novels in blog form and has 6 complete novels available for free reading online. Interesting collection of classic novels and short stories available for free reading online. The electronic text center of the University of Virginia has a large collection of works for children and young adults available for online viewing. These are classic works and many are available elsewhere, but there are some unique ones. Books are sorted by author name. The University of Virginia online library has a large collection of works available for online viewing (some are available in Microsoft Reader). Even though a good number are limited to UVA students and staff, there is still a good amount of interesting material available to the general public.

Suggested by poster mike dutch. A short story per day for free reading online. All stories are 1000 words or fewer to fill in those short free times. EMail updates available. The global catholic network has a large collection of works regarding the Catholic religious beliefs available for free reading online without registration.

Offers his humorous science fiction novel, Honest, The Martian Ate your dog, for free download or online viewing. Around 150 free science fiction short stories for free online reading. (Temp Down?) offers 5 short story books about the little creatures that have made their home in the meadow next to the old farmhouse. 12 issues of short stories and poetry available for free reading online.

Interesting collection divided into many categories. The titles I looked at all seemed to be unique to this site. All are available for free reading online. Offers an excellent collection of close to 80 cookbooks. These are available for reading online or for download in PDF.

Thanks to Susan B for this suggestion. Is a interesting small collection of works of fiction (including some Beatrix Potter illustrated childrens books) as well as some books for writers and works philosophy and sociology. Online viewing only.

Is a growing network over 1 million writers/readers, and home to over 1,200,000 original works by unsigned authors. Large collection of writings including short stories, poetry and novels. These are unique works from unpublished authors. All are available for free reading online without registration.

Offers a good number of business courses for free reading online without registration and free download in PDF. A smaller, but interesting, collection of classic works available for online reading. College textbooks available for free reading online. 21 classic flight simulation books available for free reading online. Over 2,000 free ebooks available for free reading online or free download in TXT, PDF, EPUB, MOBIPocket and direct send to Kindle. Free registration is required (I have received no spam) and there is a limit of 5 downloads per month (no limit on reading online). There are some unique entries here.

The University of Pittsburgh presents a large collection of folklore from around the world for free reading online. Offers 17 free stories for online reading.

Stories may be sorted by difficulty or age. For children aged 1 to 10. Offers about 30 of the more popular classic books for free reading online. Has many of the Baen CDs available. A nice feature is that the stories are available individually to read online or download in various formats, including EPUB, for free. No registration required.

Provides links to free ebooks of biographies of people with Irish heritage. The links I looked at were all to the Open Library and were for free reading online without registration. If you click on the Open Library link on the upper left, you will have several options of formats for free download. Offers online courses in a variety of Math related fields for free reading online (videos available also) without registration. These appear to be middle and high school level courses. Interesting collection on individualist feminism and libertarianism available for online viewing. Several hundred books available for online viewing Interesting collection for online viewing.

Several hundred novels separated into categories. 3 cookbooks available for download in pdf and a large amount of recipes for online viewing as well as other information on kitchen and diet offers free western short stories for reading online. These are unique works.

Offers her illustrated ebook, Emily's Patience, for free online viewing or download. Offers his 10 novel series, The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin, for free reading online. Also included are 7 other works that continue the story.

A romance mystery novel. A large collection of funny poetry for children available for free reading online. Also, a poetry class for children to learn to write poetry and other activites are available for free.

Provides many of the fairy tales and stories of Hans Christian Andersen. These are available for free reading online without registration. A collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for online viewing and saving as jpg. Is a nice little collection of unique children stories for reading online. A good number of the stories were written by children.

Some other activities and printable coloring pages are also available. Has a collection of 55 free science fiction audiobooks, all of which are also available for free download in PDF, EPUB or MOBIPocket (Kindle) or free reading online without registration.

Google does not make it easy to find the free books in their collection. This is a link to the top free books. More free ebooks may be found by doing a search and choosing Free Only in the results. Choosing a category and the Free Only option also shows more results. All are available for free reading online.

Offers her serial novel, The House of Sever, for free reading online. As of now, this is really more like 3 novels. A collaborative effort to help in reducing the carbon footprint in IT. Available for free download in PDF or free reading online without registration. Has a dozen of their books for free download in PDF or free reading online. These appear to be quality texts.

Chars Kof Xiii Mugen Download. Offers his novel, The Butler Did It, for free reading online. Has a small collection of The Grimm's fairy tales for free reading online in a flash player.

Also available are some associated activities. Offers 269 free romance novels for reading online. These are printable and also may be sorted into various categories. Has online written tutorials in math related subjects available for free reading online without registration.

Has 74 free ebooks of history covering various continents. These are all available for free reading online. Click on the 'TOC' (Table of Contents) link on the book page to read. Has a small but unique collection of novels, novellas and short stories for online viewing. Genres include romance, mystery, ghost science fiction and horror. An excellent site for reading books online.

They boast over 20,000 ebooks and you can adjust font size and contrast for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Jan Lonner for this excellent suggestion. Offers all of the works of H.P.Lovecraft for online viewing. Also offers information about him and links to other Lovecraft sites. Has an excellent archive of the works of the horror master available for free reading online.

Has a huge collection of free short stories by a wide variety of authors available for free reading online without registration. Unique collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories available for free reading online without registration. - 14,000 listings from full classic novels to Western philosophy. Offers 15 children stories for online viewing as well as games, poems and activities. Offers about 20 free textbooks for free online use. These are for middle school students. The 6th grade book I looked at seemed to be a very basic course, more like for younger users, but they do have a good reputation.

Press the enter button up top, the links across the bottom are for their pay sites. Nice collection of children's books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing. Very interesting and large collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric available for online viewing. Offers the free ebook, Invent Your Own Games With Python, for free reading online or free download in PDF without registration. Has 10 free stories for free reading online without registration. Lists the State standards for Mathematics in the USA and offers free online instruction to help meet those standards.

Offers a large collection of free classic novels for free download in EPUB. There is also a link to the HTML for free reading online for most and a link to Librivox for the audio version where available. Unfortunately, the HTML and audio links are not noted in the listing.

Has romance novels of Jackee Connor for available for free download in pdf and lit. There are 4 completed novels, 4 works in progress and 5 short stories.

All are also available for free reading online. Offers his book, The Keepers of Forever, for download in HTML. Or online viewing. A download compatible with Palm Pilot is also available. Offers a collection of his math books for free reading online.

Offers his book, Alien Cradle, for download in a large variety of formats and for online reading. Offers a good number of illustrated bible stories for free reading online.

Also available are coloring pages, puzzles and songs. A collection of works of the philosopher,. All except one are available for free reading online. Offers 90 free ebooks in various categories for free reading online. (optimized for the tablet). Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., offers all of the novels of his Barsoom series for free reading online.

The first 6 of the novels are in the public domain and the remaining are available for research purposes only. Not sure what that means, but I guess it is OK to read them online, but not distribute in any way. Has a extensive collection of classical works available for free reading online. Offers the works of Judith Bronte for free. These romance novels are available for download in pdf or reading online. There are 7 completed works and a couple in progress.

Around 250 books available for online viewing. Kellscraft lists out of print, public domain novels, most published prior to 1923. Searchable by title, author and topic. A British site featuring over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing. Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi player-available there) and some nursery rhyme disco recordings available for download in MP3.

A small collection of childrens books, available for online viewing, from the Internet Public Library. Has 81 free ebooks for children available for free reading online or free download in PDF without registration. There are also 21 available for free viewing online. There are also free and as well as games at the site. Offers 2 of her full length novels and 2 short stories for free reading online.

Is a site for free preschool learning activities. Short stories and sign language subjects available in a free flash player presentation. Free registration is available for extra features, but not necessary to access subjects.

Offers a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies, music and games for younger children. Has a very nice size collection of free software ebooks available in 13 categories (programming languages) for reading online or download.

The vast majority are for reading online. Has 44 free picture ebooks for free reading online in a flash player. These all come with audio for read-a-long.

Has a good sized collection of free ebooks regarding Buddhism. All are available for free download in PDF or free reading online without registration.

Large collection of nursery rhymes for free reading and listening online. Other activities available. Has 40 classic novels available for free reading online without registration. Has the romance novel, 'Letters to my Mother', by Rebecca Heath available for free online reading or free download in PDF. Nice size collection of classic works, weighted towards USA writers, available for free reading online. Maintains a nice collection of classic children's books in its Childrens Literature collection of its Rare Book section. These are available for online reading and download in pdf.

These are illustrated copies and are a nice mix of well known and unusual. Is primarily known as an children's audio book site, but they also provide a copy of the stories for free reading online. Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to. Has a small collection of classic works available for online viewing. A nice collection of Sherlock Holmes, some interesting historical documents and a few unique classic works. Has a collection of classics, arranged by author, for online viewing.

Has over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors available for online reading. Searchable by author and they have a few unusual ones. 825 works from 71 authors available for online viewing. A dozen free stories in their interactive read and play section presented in a flash player. Other activities also available. The library section is just a listing of books that are for sale.

Offers the stories of 4 children taken into slavery on their trip from Africa to the Americas in 1780. The stories start with their life in Africa and continue until the Americas. Some make the trip alive and some do not. Each is from a different tribe in Africa. Offers two novels and some short stories for reading or listening online.

Is a large collection of fables, myths, folk tales, fairy tales and more from around the world. These are available for reading online. Has links to 3 free graphic books based upon works of H.P.

All are available for free viewing online without registration. A very nice layout of the history of math with information on different cultures and the different topics. All available for free reading online without registration. Small, but interesting, and unusual, collection of childrens books for online viewing. Offers his science fiction/comedy book for free download in PDF or for Kindle.

Also available offsite for free download in ePub or prc (Palm) and for free reading online. Originally available in Czech language and now in English. Thanks to 'Werst' for the information on this. Princeton University offers several college level math courses lecture notes, labs and other course materials for a mix of free download in PDF and free viewing online without registration. Offers free math texts divided into kindergarden, elementary school, middle school and high school. All are available for free download in PDF or for online use in a unique virtual classroom. A collection of free textbooks in Mathematics fields available for free reading online without registration.

There is a notice about an application running on the page. This is due to the interactive portion of the textbooks and as far as I can tell is not harmful. Offers about a dozen books by Emma Laybourn for free reading online or free download in ePub or Mobi formats. Age range is from 6 to early teens.

Associated crossword puzzles are also available. Offers several animated flash stories, with accompanying music, for online viewing. The unique stories of Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly and Rufus the Firefly available in English and Spanish.

Other activities available. Has an extensive listing of works for all major world religions as well as some minor religions and ancient myths. All appear to be for online viewing. Offers his illustrated book, 'The Echo and the Pixie' for free reading online. Former Python Michael Palin has made a name for himself lately as a brilliant travel-writer and has made six of his travel books available for online viewing. They are spread across many pages, so not very practical to download. Offers free online Accounting tutorials for free reading online without registration.

Offer online reads of romance novels from best selling authors. These are released in serials, with a new chapter every 2-4 days, but older releases are available making this a nice collection. Has a few hundred novellas available for free reading online without registration. Offers the full length Irish romance novel, Caroline, by Una (Lavery) Montgomery for free reading online. A collection of nursery rhymes available for free reading online without registration.

Also, some songs, videos and coloring pages. A free Physics textbook available for free reading online or free download in PDF, with color images and embedded video and animations, without registration. Offers a large collection of free novels divided into many categories. These are all available for free viewing online and are also available for download in PDF, PRC and ePUB. These appear to be different works than those available on the regular Munsey's site, above. Two writers from different parts of the world who collaborate online and who have posted a fantasy short story and chapter 1 of a science fiction novel, both of which are available for free download, without registration, in Kindle compatible MOBI. Has a small collection of illustrated childrens' stories for online viewing.

These are unique stories not found elsewhere. Offers a good number of stories, interactive stories, rhymes, alphabet, games and puzzles and pictures for children aged 3 to 7. All are available for free online reading. Has a interesting collection of original online mysteries for visitors to solve as well as mystery short stories. Also, a nice section. Has a good size collection of mysteries for children to solve. There are 28 'Solve-It' stories, 29 'Chiller' stories from the Darkmaster, 28 'Quick Solve' stories, 28 Magic Tricks and 21 mystery stories written by children that won the mystery writing contest at the site.

Offers the romance mystery, Snow Angels, by Barbara W. Klaser for free reading online has a good variety of free stories designed for value building in children aged 3 to 7. Some are read only, presented as images and some are listen alongs, presented in videos.

Has a complete listing of the Peter Pan novels available for free reading online. Several thousand free works in its adults section and a few hundred in its under 18 section separated into categories.

All are available for free reading online. These all appear to be unique works.

Good sized collection of free Christmas related stories to read on line (or have read aloud). Flash presentation on main page to access stories and hidden stories to find.

Hosts over an interesting collection of over 1,100 books available for online viewing and also for download. This site is courtesy of Georgia Tech University and offers 77 free math textbooks for free online reading or for free download in PDF (click on chapter heading for PDF link - download is chapter by chapter). Large collection of free computer and mathematics books for free reading online and free download in PDF.

Has a huge collection of free novels available for reading online and for download in a large variety of options. Over 1,000,000 titles available. A great resource-thanks to Robert Collins for this. Has only a few textbooks, but they appear to be high quality.

All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF or EPUB. Has over 250 free ebooks for free reading online in a flash player. Age range is from 3 to 11. Audio and associated activites are also available for most, if not all, the free ebooks. Thanks to Katharine for this nice link.

A few hundred works available for online viewing. Offers about 7 free short stories for free reading online without registration. Look on the right hand side of the page for links to the free stories.

Provides free materials for college level mathematics courses. These are available for free viewing online as well as free download in PDF. No registration necessary. Has several special collections for online viewing, including a. - A large collection of classical texts broken down to time period written. All available for free reading online.

Provides links to the works of Philosophy within its discussions. The site provides 3 methods of finding information. History, Timeline and Major Philosophers. The links are offsite, but all of the ones I checked were available for free reading online without registration. Huge collection of math related material.

All the items I looked at were available for free online viewing at the site. No registration needed. Has an interesting collection of stories relating to myths about animals. Also available are detective stories to work along with.

All available for online viewing. A nice collection of stories for children available for free reading online without registration. Most are short stories, with some longer ones.

Garfield the cat hosts a website with a good collection of original and unique stories for younger readers (press the Read button on the home page). Most of the content is available for free reading online in a flash viewer without registration. Over 1600 novels and an assortment of other works, by Australian authors or regarding Australia, available in varying ways, including text, pdf and online viewing. All are available for free reading online, either as text or html. A huge collection of free classic novels. All are available for free reading online and free download in usually PDF or TEXT without registration.

Around 150 books in varying categories for online viewing. A very interesting site as it not only has links to classic novels for online reading, but also has links to audio books and movie adaptations of the novels. Thanks to Rapunzel for this excellent suggestion. Has some unique public domain novels among its of around 100 books. Also has a large selection of writings submitted by authors which are free and legal to download, but not to distribute. All are available for online viewing and download in several formats.

Offers 'World's Unseen', the first of her 'The Seventh World' trilogy for free download in a variety of formats, as well as online viewing. Offers Newton's Sleep, a novel published in 2008, for free download in pdf or html. Offers a good size collection of romantic short stories for online viewing. Has a nice collection of classics available for online viewing.

Over 5,000 free classic books for reading online. - Small collection of works that has option for larger print.

Offers 23 classic illustrated books for children for free reading online or free download in PDF. A phonics learning site for beginning readers. Free audio and visual presentations. Has 6 free classic illustrated stories for younger children available for free reading (and read-a-long) online without registration.

There are also some reading and vocabulary games for new readers at the site. Has a large collection of Dolch Sight Word stories available for free reading online and some are also available for free download in PDF. These are intended for beginning readers. Offers a variety of free reading and listening activities for toddlers and preschoolers in flash presentations. - Thousands of books, poems and short stories available for free reading online without registration.

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Ann Bannon in 1983. Born Ann Weldy ( 1932-09-15) September 15, 1932 (age 85), United States Pen name Ann Bannon Occupation Writer, professor, associate dean Period 1957–present Genre Notable works,,,, Website Ann Weldy (born September 15, 1932), better known by her pen name Ann Bannon, is an American author who, from 1957 to 1962, wrote six novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles.

The books' enduring popularity and impact on lesbian identity has earned her the title 'Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction'. Bannon was a young housewife trying to address her own issues of sexuality when she was inspired to write her first novel. Her subsequent books featured four characters who reappeared throughout the series, including her eponymous heroine, Beebo Brinker, who came to embody the of a lesbian. The majority of her characters mirrored people she knew, but their stories reflected a life she did not feel she was able to live. Despite her traditional upbringing and role in married life, her novels defied conventions for romance stories and depictions of lesbians by addressing complex homosexual relationships.

Her books shaped lesbian identity for lesbians and heterosexuals alike, but Bannon was mostly unaware of their impact. She stopped writing in 1962. Later, she earned a doctorate in and became an academic. She endured a difficult marriage for 27 years and, as she separated from her husband in the 1980s, her books were republished; she was stunned to learn of their influence on society.

They were released again between 2001 and 2003 and were adapted as an award-winning production. They are taught in and courses, and Bannon has received numerous awards for pioneering lesbian and gay literature. She has been described as 'the premier fictional representation of US lesbian life in the fifties and sixties', and it has been said that her books 'rest on the bookshelf of nearly every even faintly literate Lesbian'. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Ann Bannon was born Ann Weldy in, in 1932.

She grew up in nearby with her mother and stepfather, and had the responsibility of taking care of four siblings due to the family's financial problems. She took comfort in a vibrant imaginary life during this time and found solace in writing.

Growing up, she was surrounded by music, particularly jazz, as her family hosted small recitals for friends and neighbors. One became a character in her books: a perennial bachelor named Jack who slung jokes and witticisms at the audiences. Ann Bannon in 1955, just as Odd Girl Out was being completed At the she belonged to where she befriended a beautiful older sorority sister, 'the prettiest I had ever seen', quite popular with men and with women. Bannon witnessed a younger sorority sister's unabashed infatuation with the older sister. She recalls it was an awkward situation, even though the older sorority sister was 'unfailingly gracious' to the younger one. In recognizing the younger woman's attractions, she began to suspect her own sexuality.

She said, 'I saw a lot of it happening and I didn't know what to make of it. I don't even know how to put it—I was absolutely consumed with it, it was an extraordinary thing.' Another sorority sister was physically remarkable, very tall—almost 6 feet (1.8 m), with a husky voice and boyish nickname, that Bannon imagined was a blend of and. She recalled entering the communal restroom and seeing the sister, 'both of us in underwear, and experienc(ing) a sort of electric shock', and trying not to stare at her. In 1954, she graduated with a degree in French and soon married an engineer whose job made them relocate frequently.

Bannon was 22 years old when she began writing her first pulp novel. She was influenced by the only lesbian novels she had read, by from 1928 and 's from 1952, albeit in two different ways: she was unable to relate to the dismal tones in Hall's novel, but as a sorority girl was more familiar with the plot and circumstances of Spring Fire. Bannon said, 'Both books completely obsessed me for the better part of two years.' Although recently married and on her way to having two children, she found the books struck a chord in her life and recognized emotions in herself that compelled her to write about them.

In the beginning of her marriage she was left alone quite a lot and said, 'I was kind of desperate to get some of the things that had been consuming me for a long time down on paper.' Writing career [ ] Background [ ] Paperback books in the United States expanded prominently after World War II through the marketing strategies of, who began to distribute publications through newspapers, newsstands, grocery stores, and bus and train stations. The retail opportunities of paperback books grew about tenfold with this method. In 1950, rival company published, a fictionalized account of author ' experience serving in the.

The book depicts a lesbian relationship the author witnessed, ending with one of the women committing suicide. It sold 4.5 million copies, and Gold Medal Books' editors were 'thrilled'. Its success earned it a mention in the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952. Gold Medal Books was a branch of that focused on paperback books which at the time were printed on very cheap paper, not designed to last for more than a year, sold for 25 cents in drug stores and other venues all over the United States and Canada. The books made for cheap, easy reading that could be discarded at the end of a trip at very little cost to the customer. Because of the low quality of production, they earned the name. Gold Medal Books quickly followed Women's Barracks with Spring Fire, eager to cash in on the unprecedented sales, and it sold almost 1.5 million copies in 1952.

Vin Packer, whose real name is, and Gold Medal Books were overwhelmed with mail from women who identified with the lesbian characters. One of the letters was from Bannon, asking for professional assistance in getting published.

On writing to Meaker, she said, 'To this day I have no idea why she responded to me out of the thousands of letters she was getting at that time. Thank God she did. I was both thrilled and terrified.' Bannon visited Meaker and was introduced to, which made a significant impression on Bannon: she called it ',, and combined—a place where gay people could walk the crooked streets hand in hand.' Meaker set up a meeting with Gold Medal Books editor Dick Carroll, who read Bannon's initial 600-page manuscript. It was a story about the women in her sorority whom she admired, with a consisting of two sorority sisters who had fallen in love with each other. Carroll told her to take it back and focus on the two characters who had an affair.

Bannon claims she went back and told their story, delivered the draft to Carroll and saw it published without a single word changed. While raising two young children, Bannon lived in and took trips into New York City to visit Greenwich Village and stayed with friends.

She said of the women she saw in Greenwich Village, 'I wanted to be one of them, to speak to other women, if only in print. And so I made a beginning—and that beginning was the story that became Odd Girl Out.' The Beebo Brinker Chronicles [ ] Odd Girl Out [ ]. Original cover of, published in 1957 The Beebo Brinker Chronicles are six books in all, first published between 1957 and 1962.

They featured four characters who appeared in at least three of the books in a chronological saga of coming to terms with their homosexuality and navigating their ways through gay and lesbian relationships. The first in the series,, was published in 1957, and became Gold Medal Books' second best-selling title of the year. Based on Bannon's own experiences, the plot involved a lesbian relationship between two sorority sisters in a fictional sorority at a fictional midwestern university. As was custom with pulp fiction novels, neither the cover art nor the title were under the control of the author.

Both were approved by the publisher in order to be as suggestive and lurid as possible. The main character is Laura Landon, who realizes that she's in love with Beth, her older, more experienced roommate, a leader in the sorority.

Lesbians depicted in literature were relatively rare in the 1950s. It was the publisher's policy in any novel involving lesbianism that the characters would never receive any satisfaction from the relationship. One or both usually ended up committing suicide, going insane, or leaving the relationship. Marijane Meaker discusses this in the 2004 foreword of Spring Fire: she was told by editor Dick Carroll that because the books were distributed by the U.S. Post Office instead of private companies delivering directly to stores, would send the books back to the publisher if homosexuality was depicted positively. The Postal Service relaxed their after several First Amendment obscenity trials, including and another regarding 's in the mid-1950s, which gave Bannon a modicum of freedom in her plots. Although the ending to Odd Girl Out did not veer too far from the unsatisfactory resolution formula of Spring Fire, Women's Barracks, and 's, it examined Laura's internal struggle in the realization that despite her femininity, she was deeply in love with another woman, and at the end she embraced it, which was rare in lesbian fiction.

The characters and their stories served as an extension of the fantasy life Bannon developed as a child. They became her 'fantasy friends' whose loves and lives she witnessed and through which she lived her own life vicariously, helping her through a difficult marriage, and a longing for a life she did not feel she was free to live.

'I realized very early that I should not marry, but I was going to make the best of a bad thing, and I was going to make it a good thing,' she remembered. Having no practical experience in a lesbian relationship while writing Odd Girl Out, she set out to gain what she termed 'fieldwork experience' in her trips to Greenwich Village, and was successful enough to introduce those experiences into the next book in the series before relocating once more to Southern. But she explained her fears about staying in Greenwich Village, saying I would sit there (in a gay bar) in the evenings thinking, 'What if (a police raid) happens tonight and I get hauled off to the with all these other women?' I had been extremely low profile, very proper, very wife. I know that sounds crazy in the 60s, but I was raised by my mother and grandmother, who really came out of that era, and talk about a rigid role-playing crowd!

I couldn't imagine living through it. I just couldn't. I thought, 'Well, that would do it. I'd have to go.' As easy as it might be if you were a young woman in today's generation to think that was exaggerating, it wasn't.

It was terrifying. I Am a Woman [ ]. Original Gold Medal Books cover of from 1959 Bannon followed Odd Girl Out with (In Love With a Woman — Must Society Reject Me?) in 1959.

I Am a Woman (the working and common title) featured Laura after her affair with Beth, as she finds herself in New York City's Greenwich Village, and meets a wisecracking gay man named Jack, and becomes his best friend. Laura has to choose between a straight woman with a wild and curious streak, and a fascinating new character that proved to be her most popular of the series, Beebo Brinker, who came to embody the description of a thoroughly lesbian. Beebo was smart, handsome, chivalrous, and virile. Once again based on what Bannon knew, Beebo was nearly 6 feet (1.8 m) tall with a husky voice and a formidable physique. The personality however, Bannon says, was drawn out of her sheer need for Beebo to exist. After spending time in Greenwich Village and not finding anyone like her, Bannon instead created her. She remembered, 'I put Beebo together just as I wanted her, in my heart and mind.

She was just, quite literally, the butch of my dreams.' The resolution to I Am a Woman completely flouted the trends of miserable lesbian fiction endings, which made Ann Bannon a hero to many lesbians.

Letters began to pour in for her from all over the country. There were mostly propositions from men, but the letters from women thanked her profusely and begged her for reassurance that they would be all right. Bannon described the impact her books had from the letters she received from people who were isolated in small towns: 'The most important things they learned (from the books) were that 1) they weren't unique and doomed to lifelong isolation, 2). They weren't 'abnormal,' and 3) there was hope for a happy life. They wrote to me in thousands, asking me to confirm these wonderful things, which I gladly did—even though I felt only marginally better informed than they were.' The books were even translated into other languages, which was also quite rare for the brief lives of pulp novels.

Bannon received international and domestic mail from women, saying, 'This is the only book (and they would say this about all of them) that I've read where the women really love each other, where its OK for them to love each other, and they don't have to kill themselves afterwards.' Women in the Shadows [ ]. Main article: Although her husband was aware of the books she was writing, he showed no interest in the subject. He was interested enough in the money she made from them, however, but had forbidden her to use her married surname, not wishing to see it on a book cover with art of questionable taste. She took the name 'Bannon' from a list of his customers and liked it because it contained her own name in it. She continued to experience difficulty in her marriage, however, and in realizing that 'not all lesbians were nice people', she took these frustrations out on her characters.

'I couldn't stand some of what was happening to me–but Beebo could take it. Beebo really, in a way, had my for me. I think I was overwhelmed with grief and anger that I was not able to express,' she recalled later. Was also published in 1959 and proved very unpopular with Bannon's readers.

The book examined, in matters of sexuality and race,, jealousy, violence, and as Laura marries Jack in an atypical arrangement in the 1950s, also explored the intricate details of what it was like to as in an attempt to live some semblance of what was considered a normal life at the time. Journey to a Woman [ ]. Main article: Her fourth book in the series,, published in 1960, again shows parallels between Bannon's own life and her plots.

Beth, of Laura's affair in Odd Girl Out, is living with her husband and children in Southern California. She tries to find Laura again nine years after college, and escapes a deranged woman who has a fixation on her, a reflection of a relationship Bannon had with a beautiful, but 'very bewildered and unstable person.'

Beth writes to an author of lesbian books in New York, and goes to meet her in hope of finding Laura. They have a brief relationship, after which Beth finds Laura married to Jack and with a child, then discovers Beebo as well. A fifth book, The Marriage, also published in 1960, again addresses issues of love outside the realm of socially acceptable relationships, although it is not primarily about homosexuality. In it, Jack and Laura are friends with a young married couple who discover they are brother and sister, and must decide whether they will stay together or conform to societal standards. Beebo Brinker [ ].

Ann Bannon giving a presentation at the Elliott Bay Book Company in, in 2002 In 1997, Bannon's work was included in a collection of authors who had made the deepest impact on the lives and identities of gays and lesbians, titled Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers. In 2000, the awarded Bannon a Certificate of Honor 'for breaking new ground with works like Odd Girl Out and Women in the Shadows' and for 'voic (ing) lesbian experiences at a time when explicit lesbian subject matter was silenced by government and communities.' In 2004, Bannon was elected into the Hall of Fame.

She received the Sacramento State Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award for 2005, and received the Trailblazer Award from the Golden Crown Literary Society the same year; the GCLS created the Ann Bannon GCLS Popular Choice Award. She was the recipient of the Alice B Award in 2008, that goes to authors whose careers have been distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians. In May 2008, Bannon was given the Pioneer Award from the.

In 2012, she was named by as one of their 31 Icons of the. In retirement [ ] Ann Bannon retired from teaching and college administration at California State University, Sacramento, in 1997, but tours the country visiting paperback-collecting conventions and speaking at colleges and universities about her writings and experiences.

She was a guest of 's -winning talk show ' with, and has also been featured in Gross's book, All I Did Was Ask, a collection of transcripts from the show. Bannon also speaks at gay-themed events around the country and is working on her memoirs. In a recent editorial written by Bannon in, she discussed how her books survived despite criticisms by censors, Victorian moralists, and purveyors of literary 'snobbery' in writing, 'To the persistent surprise of many of us, and of the critics who found us such an easy target years ago, the books by, of and for women found a life of their own. They—and we—may still not be regarded as conventionally acceptable 'nice' literature, as it were—but I have come to value that historical judgment. We wrote the stories no one else could tell. Shivprasad Koirala Ebook Pdf Torrent on this page. And in so doing, we captured a slice of life in a particular time and place that still resonates for members of our community.' References [ ].