Rediscover Classics in the Online Library of Liberty

The Online Library of Liberty, a project of Liberty Fund, is where electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty are stored for free, easy access. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. They are in a variety of formats—facsimile PDFs so scholars can view the original text, HTML for ease of searching and attractive layout, and text-based PDF eBooks for personal use. The Library also contains bibliographic information about the books as well as other "metadata" about the authors and editors.

Use the Find Author/Title to search the library catalog for key names and words from titles. Use the Advanced Search to do a full-text search of the books in the library collection. See the User Guide to the Library for more information.

Some of the gems you can find among the more than 1,100 titles in this collection include: The Writings of Thomas Paine, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, The Colloquies of Erasmus, The Politics of Aristotle, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The Ethics of Confucius, and The Works of Voltaire.