Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
- Paradise Lost download page
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I can’t believe how freakin’ awesome this blog and what you guys are doing is…
Wow…I thought this was illegal or, at the very least, too good to be true, so I went ahead and downloaded all you guys have…in both one and two page versions!
I will write a post about you guys on my blog very soon!
What motivated you guys to do this? And what profits, if any, are you getting? I would love to make a donation from time to time. I’m a poor college student but I think I could scrap some funds together occasionally.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your feedback. Please do write a blog post on us to help spread the word.
There’s nothing illegal about what we’re doing. These books are all in the public domain so we can freely publish them the way we have done.
The motivation behind it is there’s heaps of old books out there and no reason to charge money for them when electronic copying is largely cost less.
We’re not really profitting from this site. The company I’m involved with has kindly agreed to host the site so it gets a small amount of exposure for it.
Thanks again for your kind words.
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