Free Stories, Poems, Speeches and Novels
Here you can find public domain documents (as
hybrid.pdf files, which you can save and print out any time you need them) of short stories, poems, speeches, and (occasionally) novels. I have tried to focus both on those items which are traditionally taught in liberal arts classes, and also on those items which are less familiar to most.
I believe all items here are public domain in the United States. If you are the copyright holder of any of these items, please contact me.
Other Sources of Public Domain Documents
Text
Project Gutenberg is perhaps the original source for online public-domain documents. They are staffed by volunteers and supported entirely by donations.
Google Books offers a number of different titles which they have scanned -- so you can see the original document either online or save it as a .pdf file. They include many titles which are in the public domain (at least in the United States) and which you can view in their entirety, but they also include a number of titles which are still under copyright, and only a sample of which is available.
American Literature contains public domain works from the United States and a limited number of works of world literature.
Audio
Librivox carries free audio book versions of public domain works. .
Voices in the Dark offers audio versions of fairly tales, science fiction, fantasy, horror, poetry, and legends.
