Collections of Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

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Arthur's Classic Novels (old site)

Arthur's Classic Novels (new site)

Not sure how much of the site is actually saved in the Internet Archive.

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T h e B a l d w i n O n l i n e C h i l d r e n ' s L i t e r a t u r e P r o j e c t

A Bittersweet Moment

Since 1999 when the Baldwin Project opened its doors, it has offered hundreds of children's books to thousands of readers just like you. In 2012 we launched Gateway to the Classics, which offers even more books, along with an innovative set of tools for grouping content. The time has come to combine them at gatewaytotheclassics.com. And, yes, it is a bittersweet moment!

Why Now?

In March the local hosting service that we have used for mainlesson.com since 1999 was acquired by a larger company. In July that company informed us that they would be migrating mainlesson.com to a new platform, which meant that we would have to upgrade the software applications we had developed to operate mainlesson.com. Rather than do that, we decided to take the opportunity to merge the resources available at mainlesson.com with those available at Gateway to the Classics.

What You Will Find at Gateway to the Classics

Many books available at mainlesson.com have been available for a fee in the Gateway to the Classics membership site. The rest of the mainlesson books have now been transferred to Gateway to the Classics. But now there is no fee to read anything at Gateway to the Classics that you could read for free at mainlesson.com, even where the formatting was improved or higher quality illustrations were included. So the upshot is that everything you read at mainlesson for free, you can now read at Gateway to the Classics for free, while enjoying the enhanced formatting and illustrations.

The stuff that was free will still be free, even though I gather that the new site is a pay site.

Internet Archive of the site T h e B a l d w i n O n l i n e C h i l d r e n ' s L i t e r a t u r e P r o j e c t

Gateway to the Classics

Yesterday's Classics

A Culture of Reading

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bibliomania 

Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts

Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books

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Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project the largest collection of illustrated antique books on line ... we think.

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Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

[hengest]

Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales

[Death Even XIII]

A lot of great stuff there, you can mine ideas from that for a dozen lifetimes.

[xizallian]

Great links guys, thanks for putting them all in one place.