On 9/22/2012 9:56 PM, don kretz wrote:
Pride and Prejudice might be an interesting first project At least it should be easy to find the online resources..
I explored the internet a bit to see what I could find for page images and for free text versions.
I didn't quickly find very many page images to work from.
You must not have looked very hard. There are at least 5 scan sets at the Internet Archive, and at least 5 scan sets at Google books (the Google scans seem to be cleaner and more useable). There is some overlap between the sets, but not as much as you might think. _Pride and Prejudice_ is also included in Volume 3 of Charles Elliot's "Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction." Given the ubiquity of that set, if you wanted a version that everyone has access to that is the one I would choose. _Pride and Prejudice_ is among the most e-re-worked works of fiction in the world, probably second only to _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_. I have an HTML version at my own web site: http://www.passkeysoft.com/Harvard/FICTION/AUSTEN,%20Jane%20-%20Pride%20And%..., based on the Harvard Classics edition. I doubt very much that anything could be added to the P&P corpus at this time, but the very fact that there is so much out there could make its use interesting as a learning experiment.