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Free Literature Books - Germanic
  1. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by William Archer (text in Illinois)

  2. Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Gutenberg text)

  3. Baby World: Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks, ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge (page images at MOA)

  4. Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Anna Swanwick
    1. HTML at BiblioBytes
    2. Gutenberg text

  5. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Anna Swanwick (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  6. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (local text files)

  7. Grimm's Household Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, trans. by Edgar Taylor (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  8. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
    1. illustrated HTML at Virginia
    2. Gutenberg text

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

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

  11. Hymns to the Night (with revised version of the translation) by Novalis, trans. by George MacDonald (HTML with commentary at io.org)

  12. Lenore by Göttfried August Bürger, trans. by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (HTML at sff.net)

  13. Minna von Barhelm, or The Soldier's Fortune by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  14. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (text at English Server)

  15. Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Robert Farquharson Sharp (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)

  16. Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Robert Farquharson Sharp (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)

  17. Selected Poetry and Prose by Jónas Hallgrímsson, ed. by Dick Ringler (HTML at Wisconsin)

  18. Song of the Bell by Friedrich Schiller, trans. by W. H. Furness (HTML at eskimo.com)

  19. Struwwelpeter (in German, English, and French) by Heinrich Hoffmann, trans. by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at struwwelpeter.com)

  20. The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann, trans. by J. H. Freese (Gutenberg text)

  21. The English Faust Book, trans. by P. F. Gent (HTML at Perseus)

  22. The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. W. Worster (HTML at DrPseudocryptonym)

  23. The Laxdaela Saga, trans. by Muriel Press
    1. HTML at OMACL
    2. PDF at In Parentheses

  24. The Layman's Breviary: or Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Leopold Schefer, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (page images at MOA)

  25. The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, trans. by W. G. Collingwood and Jon Stefansson (Gutenberg text)

  26. The Nibelungenlied, trans. by Margaret Armour (PDF at In Parentheses)

  27. The Nibelungenlied, trans. by Daniel Bussier Shumway
    1. HTML at OMACL
    2. Gutenberg text

  28. The Poems of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Edgar Alfred Bowring (Gutenberg text)

  29. The Story of Burnt Njal, trans. by George W. DaSent (HTML at OMACL)

  30. The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald, trans. by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris (PDF at In Parentheses)

  31. The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Erybyggja Saga), trans. by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (HTML at OMACL)

  32. 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)

  33. 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

  34. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, trans. by William H. G. Kingston (HTML at CCEL)

  35. The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (HTML at Virginia)

  36. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Velma Swanston Howard, illust. by Mary Hamilton Frye (local illustrated HTML)

  37. The World-Priest by Leopold Schefer, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (page images at MOA)

  38. Undine by Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, trans. by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett (page images at tzo.com)

  39. Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, trans. by William F. Wertz (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at eskimo.com)

  40. William Tell by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)