annotated online books

Welcome to the Annotated Abacci

Free online books of the world's great classics with annotations (context sensitive links to our online encyclopedia) + tag clouds of the book contents.

Most of these texts originated from Project Gutenberg. For people (like me) who missed out on English Lit. 101, I've tried to add informative reviews alongside the author and/or title pages wherever possible. These have been picked up from Amazon, and have links back to the originals on the Amazon site. If you need a paper copy of a book, click on any of these links (Abacci will receive a small comission from any sale).

Recent Additions

A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 by Various
Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
Home Pastimes or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head
The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Editorial Wild Oats by Mark Twain
Irish Wonders by D. R. McAnally Jr.
The Life of Joan of Arc by Anatole France
The Way of Ambition by Robert Smythe Hichens
Practical Talks on Singing by D. A. Clippinger

more recent additions...

To read these books offline, you will find links to plain text files on Abacci Books and Microsoft reader files on Abacci eBooks. These will not have the annotation links, but are still free :-)

I hope you enjoy your visit,

Peter (Shaggy) Shanks
the earl of abacci - www.abacci.com
pshanks @ megalong . com

P.S. here's an abbreviated tag cloud of the current Annotated Abacci book collection:

Cybrary Cloud

Abbe Ability Absolute Accent Accident Action Addition Adelaide Adult Afrikaner Against Agreement Agriculture Alexandria Allen Almost Alton Ambition Amelia American Ammunition Analysis Ancient Andrew Angel Angela Angels Answer Anthony Apartment Apple Archbishop Architecture Arms Arthur Article Aryan Asia Assistant Assyrian Athens Atmosphere Australian Author Authority Autumn Average Baby Baker Bands Barbara Bargain Barley Base Basis Battery Battle Battles Bean Beans Bearing Beast Beds Bees Belle Beloved Belt Bend Benjamin Bent Berlin Beth Betty Bible Bird Birthday Bishop Bishops Blade Bless Blind Blow Boil Boiling Bold Bond Boundary Brahmanas Branch Breed Bride British Brock Building Bullet Buried Burned Butter California Cambridge Cameron Camp Canadian Canal Candidate Canoe Canon Capture Captured Card Carol Carpenter Carpet Carriage Cart Cary Cast Caste Catholicism Centre Cents Ceremonies Chain Characteristic Characters Charity Charles Cherry Chess opening Childhood Chin Chloe Chosen Christian Christmas Circuit Cities Clara Class Clay Clergy Closely Closet Cloud Clouds Clover Coach Coast Code Coffee College Colonists Colour Columbia Column Columns Combat Comedy Command Commons Communion Company Comparison Complex Computers Concern Conductor Confession Conflict Congress Connection Conrad Consequences Constance Constitution Consul Content Contents Convention Conviction Cooking Cool Corn Cornelia Corporation Cotton Counter Countries Country Couple Covenant Cows Crawford Cream Creator Crisis Criticism Crops Cross Cruelty Crystal CUPS Cure Current Cyrus Dale Damage Dance Danes Dangerous Darius Daughter Dead Debt Deck Deed Deer Defect Departure Derby Derivative Description Desert Development Devil Diamond Diana Dictionary Difference Dignity Dimension Director Disclaimer Discovery Disease Display Doctrine Document Domain Donations Dove Down Dramatic Dreaming Drunk Drunkenness Duchess Dying E-text East Eastern Ebook Economic Edge Edinburgh Edition Education Edwards Effect 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