Free Literature Books : Germanic

by JackD · 19/10/2013

• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by William Archer (text in Illinois)
• Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Gutenberg text)
• Baby World: Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks, ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge (page images at MOA)
• Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Anna Swanwick
  1. HTML at BiblioBytes
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Anna Swanwick (HTML at BiblioBytes)
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (local text files)
• Grimm’s Household Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, trans. by Edgar Taylor (HTML at BiblioBytes)
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
  1. illustrated HTML at Virginia
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• Heimskringla: or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  1. HTML at OMACL
  2. Gutenberg text; 1.8 MB

   

• Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  1. HTML at BiblioBytes
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• Hymns to the Night (with revised version of the translation) by Novalis, trans. by George MacDonald (HTML with commentary at io.org)
• Lenore by Göttfried August Bürger, trans. by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (HTML at sff.net)
• Minna von Barhelm, or The Soldier’s Fortune by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (HTML at BiblioBytes)
• Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (text at English Server)
• Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Robert Farquharson Sharp (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)
• Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Robert Farquharson Sharp (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)
• Selected Poetry and Prose by Jónas Hallgrímsson, ed. by Dick Ringler (HTML at Wisconsin)
• Song of the Bell by Friedrich Schiller, trans. by W. H. Furness (HTML at eskimo.com)
• Struwwelpeter (in German, English, and French) by Heinrich Hoffmann, trans. by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at struwwelpeter.com)
• The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann, trans. by J. H. Freese (Gutenberg text)
• The English Faust Book, trans. by P. F. Gent (HTML at Perseus)
• The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. W. Worster (HTML at DrPseudocryptonym)
• The Laxdaela Saga, trans. by Muriel Press
  1. HTML at OMACL
  2. PDF at In Parentheses

   

• The Layman’s Breviary: or Meditations for Every Day in the Yearby Leopold Schefer, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (page images at MOA)
• The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, trans. by W. G. Collingwood and Jon Stefansson (Gutenberg text)
• The Nibelungenlied, trans. by Margaret Armour (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Nibelungenlied, trans. by Daniel Bussier Shumway
  1. HTML at OMACL
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• The Poems of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Edgar Alfred Bowring (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of Burnt Njal, trans. by George W. DaSent (HTML at OMACL)
• The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald, trans. by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Erybyggja Saga), trans. by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (HTML at OMACL)
• The Story of the Heath-Slayers (Heitharviga Saga), Of Which Only a Part is Left, trans. by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (HTML at OMACL)
• The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda, trans. by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson
  1. HTML at OMACL
  2. Gutenberg text

   

• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, trans. by William H. G. Kingston (HTML at CCEL)
• The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (HTML at Virginia)
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Velma Swanston Howard, illust. by Mary Hamilton Frye (local illustrated HTML)
• The World-Priest by Leopold Schefer, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (page images at MOA)
• Undine by Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, trans. by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett (page images at tzo.com)
• Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, trans. by William F. Wertz (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at eskimo.com)
• William Tell by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)

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