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Welcome to the University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books. The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History. Please see Frequently asked questions for more details.

Our web books are listed alphabetically by author and by title, and chronologically, by author's date of birth. Some works are also listed by theme (subject). All of the works in the collection may also be found by searching the Library Catalogue.

What’s New?

[Saturday May 20th 2006] Latest release: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), and The War with the Newts, both by Karel Čapek, and newly translated into English by David Wyllie.

[Friday March 31st 2006] Latest release: The Thousand Nights and a Night, by Richard Burton.

[Monday March 20th 2006] Latest release: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, by Isabel Burton.

[Tuesday March 14th 2006] Latest release: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.

[Sunday March 5th 2006] Latest release: Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, illustrated.

[Sunday February 19 2006] Latest release: A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen

[Friday February 10 2006] Latest release: Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen

[Friday January 27 2006] We are very pleased to announce that we have now published our 1,0000th web book, David Hume’s Enquiry into the principles of morals, first published in 1751. Hume regarded this as the best of all his philosophical works, both in its philosophical ideas and in its literary style.

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