eBooks at Bethel University

Bethel's subscription to EBSCOhost eBooks Collection includes access to some public domain titles (no longer under copyright restrictions):

Sample titles:

• Austen, Jane:  Pride and Prejudice
• Bunyan, John:  The Pilgrim's Progress
• Dickens, Charles:  David Copperfield

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There are a number of websites that provide free access to eBooks covering a wide variety of topics/genres.  Below is a select list of these types of websites:

Bartleby (Great Books Online)

Sample titles:

• Dickinson, Emily:  The Complete Poems
• Frost, Robert:  Mountain Interval
• Whitman, Walt:  Leaves of Grass

Digital Public Library of America

Sample titles:

• Bromfield, Edward T. (Ed.):  Picturesque Journeys in America of the Junior United Tourist Club  (1883)
• Lossing, Benson John:  The Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West  (1890)
• Wilson, Woodrow:  A History of the American People  (1918)

Feedbooks

(Includes a number of public domain titles)

Sample titles:

• Doyle, Arthur Conan:  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Hugo, Victor:  Les Miserables
• Paine, Thomas:  The Age of Reason

Google Books

(NOTE: Not all books indexed in Google Books are available for free)

Sample titles:

• Eggleston, Edward: A First Book in American History
• Wallace, Lew: Ben Hur

Hathi Trust Digital Library

Sample titles:

• Cooper, Clayton Sedgwick: The Bible and Modern Life (1911)
• Haynes, Benjamin Rudolph: Problems in Business Education (1933)
• Shakespeare, William:  The Merchant of Venice: A Comedy

Internet Archive

Sample titles:

• Gipson, Henry Clay: Films in Business and Industry  (1947)
• Dann, Susan & Dann, Stephen: Competitive Marketing Strategy
• Hill, Napoleon: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons  (1928)

The Literature Network

Sample titles:

• Andersen, Hans Christian:  The True Story of My Life
• Shakespeare, William:  Macbeth
• Twain, Mark:  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Open Library

Sample titles:

• Augustine:  Expositions on the Book of Psalms
• Baum, L. Frank:  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  (1900)
• Dalrymple, David Sir:  Memorials and Letters Relating to the History of Britain in the Reign of James the First  (1766)

Project Gutenberg

Sample titles:

• Brother Lawrence:  The Practice of the Presence of God
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius:  Orations
• Stowe, Charles Edward:  Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

​Standard Ebooks

Sample titles:

• Chesterton, G. K.:  The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• Gaskell, Elizabeth:  Cranford
• Tarkington, Booth:  The Magnificent Ambersons

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Other lists of eBooks can be found via websites such as:  Ebook Friendly

Many eBooks are now freely available as open access or open educational resources. Sites indexing these types of resources is available via the Zero Cost Course Resources Initiative Guide.