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The Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf is a collection of ebooks, in pdf format, and stored in a searchable database, that is convenient, affordable, incredibly useful -- and fun to search -- for students, booklovers, and researchers.

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  • Includes the option to install the entire collection of pdf ebooks in your library's online collection and public access computers.
  • Library and School Edition packet includes 5 CDs: 1 Installation CD, and 4 Circulations CDs with the entire collection that can be circulated as any other "Book on CD."
  • Circulation CDs (Windows version only) include the Coradella "Bookbase" -- a searchable database of the text of the ebooks, that can be searched, for recurring images, patterns, and quotes.
  • Includes classic literary texts and historic documents that appear most frequently on required reading lists for college prepatory and undergraduate degree programs (click to see the complete list of works included).

  • Library patrons can use the Coradella Bookshelf and Bookbase to:
    • Search for specific quotes
    • Discover curious (and interesting) patterns across texts.
    • Read the screen friendly ebooks with ease: the high quality pdf format, using print-publishing grade fonts maximizes onscreen readability; Most ebooks force readers to scroll through text, rendering onscreen reading cumbersome and causing eye fatigue. The Coradella unique two page fixed layout lets readers use the Page Down key to "turn the page," and makes reading our ebooks more like reading a regular book. Click here to view our edition of Voltaire's Candide.
    • Copy quotes and excerpts to your papers (so you don't have to retype them!).
    • Print to hard copy for reading offline. (Most ebooks are locked against printing. )
    • Cite the pdf ebooks like a paper book - each pdf file includes page numbering that corresponds to printed texts, and information on the correct citation for the Coradella Bookshelf Edition.
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Oberon has been publishing ebooks since 1994, and their expertise and experience shows in these wonderful ebook editions.

Each text in the Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf collection has been carefully formatted as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, complete with page numbers (making it easy to cite the work for papers), hyperlinked contents, using classic publishing fonts.

The Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf editions are easy on the eyes, too, with a two page layout, and "static" placement on the screen that corresponds to the way a book looks when you actually have it in front of you. Our electronic editions let readers use the Page Down key to go to the next page, rather than scrolling (one of the hazards of reading other texts on screen is eye fatique).

When readers open the first Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf edition, the difference that electronic publishing craftmanship can make in the onscreen reading experience is readily apparent.

See what they look like up close -- download our Sampler collection of four ebooks.


The cost for each of the editions in the collection is just $ 1.

That makes this collection more than merely affordable, and you won't find ebooks this nice anywhere else.

If your libary doesn't currently have an ebook collection, too, it is a great way to start one, just in time for summer reading!


With so many of the titles in the Coradella Bookshelf on reading lists for college preparatory programs, your library or school will be able to offer premium ebooks to a good number students and patrons who will appreciate the savings and convenience this collection provides.

School and library licenses permit:

  • Bookshelf CDs may be circulated as any other library CD.
  • Copies of the pdf ebooks may be issued to any student, faculty, or staff member affiliated with the licensed school system.
  • Individual pdf files may be posted on public access computers and/or computer labs.
We do require that the ebooks be posted to the library or school's web site in a location that is accessible only to those officially affiliated with the institution (library patrons should be required to have a library card, for instance; schools should require that those accessing the site to download the pdf files be currently enrolled students).


Author. Title.
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
Anderson, Hans ChristianFairy Tales
AristotleThe Poetics
Augustine of HippoThe Confessions
Austen, JaneEmma
Austen, JaneMansfield Park
Austen, JaneNorthanger Abbey
Austen, JanePersuasion
Austen, JanePride and Prejudice
Austen, JaneSense and Sensibility
Balzac, Honore deColonel Chabert
Balzac, Honore deCousin Bette
Balzac, Honore deThe Country Doctor
Balzac, Honore deFather Goriot
Barrie, J.M.Peter Pan
Bellamy, EdwardLooking Backward
[Anonymous]Beowulf
The Bible, King James Version
The Bible, New Testament (KJV)
The Bible, Old Testament (KJV)
Blake, WilliamSongs of Innocence and Experience
Boccaccio, GiovanniThe Decameron
Bronte, AnneAgnes Grey
Bronte, AnneThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, CharlotteJane Eyre
Bronte, CharlotteVillette
Bronte, EmilyWuthering Heights
Browning, Elizabeth BarrettSonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, RobertSelected Poetry
Bunyan, JohnThe Pilgrim's Progress
Cather, Willa My Antonia
Cather, WillaDeath Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel deDon Quixote
Chaucer, GeoffreyThe Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, AntonThe Seagull
Chekhov, AntonUncle Vanya
Chopin, KateThe Awakening & Selected Stories
Coleridge, Samuel TaylorPoetry & Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Collins, WilkieThe Law and the Lady
Collins, WilkieThe Moonstone
Collins, WilkieThe Woman in White
Conrad, JosephHeart of Darkness
Conrad, JosephLord Jim
Conrad, JosephNostromo
Conrad, JosephThe Secret Sharer
Conrad, JosephTyphoon
Crane, StephenThe Red Badge of Courage
Dana, Richard HenryTwo Years Before the Mast
Dante, AlighieriThe Divine Comedy
Darwin, CharlesOrigin of the Species
Defoe, DanielRobinson Crusoe
Defoe, DanielMoll Flanders
Dickens, CharlesBleak House
Dickens, CharlesA Christmas Carol
Dickens, CharlesDavid Copperfield
Dickens, CharlesGreat Expectations
Dickens, CharlesNicholas Nickleby
Dickens, CharlesOliver Twist
Dickens, CharlesPictures from Italy
Dickens, CharlesThe Pickwick Papers
Dickens, CharlesA Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, EmilyCollected Poems.
Donne, JohnSongs and Sonnets
Dostoyevsky, FyodorCrime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, FyodorThe Double
Dostoyevsky, FyodorThe Gambler
Dostoyevsky, FyodorNotes from the Underground
Dostoyevsky, FyodorThe Idiot
Douglass, FrederickNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Doyle, Arthur Conan, SirThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan, SirThe Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan, SirMemoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan, SirThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan, SirHis Last Bow
Doyle, Arthur Conan, SirThe Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
Dreiser, TheodoreSister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre, pereThe Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, AlexandreThe Three Musketeers
Eliot, GeorgeAdam Bede
Eliot, GeorgeDaniel Deronda
Eliot, GeorgeMiddlemarch
Eliot, GeorgeThe Mill on the Floss
Eliot, GeorgeSilas Marner
Eliot, T. S.The Wasteland
Eliot, T. S. The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock & Other Poems
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEssays
Fielding, HenryThe History of Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. ScottThe Great Gatsby
Flaubert, GustavMadame Bovary.
Forster, E. M.Howard's End.
Forster, E. M.A Room With a View.
Forster, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread.
Frost, Robert Collected Poems.
Gibran, KhalilThe Madman
Gibran, Khalil The Prophet
Gissing, GeorgeNew Grub Street
Gissing, George The Odd Women
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonThe Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, NikolaiDead Souls
Gogol, Nikolai The Inspector General
Gogol, Nikolai The Overcoat
Hardy, ThomasFar from the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, NathanielThe House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Blithedale Romance
Hawthorne, Nathaniel Twice Told Tales
Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha
Homer The Iliad
Homer The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
James, Henry Daisy Miller
James, Henry The Ambassadors
James, Henry The American
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry Washington Square
Joyce, Jame Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James Dubliners
Joyce, James Ulysses
Kafka, Franz The Metamorphosis
Keats, John Collected Poems
The Koran (Qu'ran)
Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous
Kipling, Rudyard Kim
Khayyam, Omar The Rubaiyat
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D. H. Women in Love
Lewis, Sinclair Babbit
Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
Locke, John Second Treatise on Civil Government
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Machiavelli, Nicolo The Prince
Malory, Thomas Le Mort D'Arthur
Marlowe, Christopher Dr. Faustus
Marx, Kar The Communist Manifesto
Melville, Herman Bartleby, the Scrivener
Mellville, Herman Billy Budd
Mellville, Herman Moby Dick
Mellville, Herman Typee
Meredith, George The Egoist
Milton, John Paradise Lost
Milton, John Paradise Regained
Moliere The Miser
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint Utopia
Nietzsche, Friedrich Beyond Good and Evil
Orwell, George 1984
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Paine, Thomas Common Sense
Plato The Republic
Poe, Edgar Allen Collected Tales
Pope, Alexander The Rape of the Lock
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques The Confessions
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques The Social Contract
Sand, George Mauprat
Rowlandson, Mary Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
Scott, Sir Walter Guy Mannering
Scott, Sir Walter Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William Sonnets
Shakespeare, William As You Like It
Shakespeare, William All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare, William Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare, William A Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare, William Hamlet
Shakespeare, William King Lear
Shakespeare, William Macbeth
Shakespeare, William The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William Othello
Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shaw, George BernardCandida
Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
Shelley, MaryFrankenstein
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Sophocles The Oedipus Trilogy
StendhalThe Red and the Black
Sterne, LawrenceTristram Shandy
Stevenson, Robert LouisTreasure Island
Stoker, BramDracula
Stowe, Harriet BeecherUncle Tom's Cabin
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Swift, JonathanA Modest Proposal
Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
Tennyson, AlfredIdylls of the King
Thackeray, William MakepeaceVanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry DavidOn Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David Walden
ThucydidesHistory of the Pelyponnesion Wars
Tolstoy, LeoAnna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace
Trollope, AnthonyBarchester Towers
Trollope, Anthony The Way We Live Now
Truth, Sojourner [Gilbert] The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Twain, MarkThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark The Innocents Abroad
Twain, Mark Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark The Mysterious Stranger
Twain, Mark On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Twain, Mark The Prince and the Pauper
Twain, Mark Pudd'nhead Wilson
U. S. United States Constitution
U. S. Declaration of Independence
Verne, JulesTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days
VoltaireCandide
Wells, H. G.War of the Worlds
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine
Wharton, EdithThe Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome
Whitman, WaltLeaves of Grass
Wilde, OscarThe Picture of Dorian Grey
Wollstonecraft, MaryA Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wordsworth, WilliamLyrical Ballads
Wordsworth, William The Prelude
Woolf, VirginiaA Room of One's Own

Sampler includes 4 e-ditions, Huckleberry Finn, Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, and Walden






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