The
projekt Gutenberg - DE contains texts in the
German language (
original or in
translation) of more than 350 "classical "
authors assembled in more than 200,000 book pages in over 40,000 files. The file grows each month by approximately 5,000 pages.
The project was begun 1994 as a
leisure time activity, when there were only a few German-language texts on the
Internet. Up to the present time more than 5,000
workhours have been applied to the project. In June 1997 the number of accessed documentsthe went over 1/2 million.
translated from the German introduction at their web site.
Access to the texts can be made through an alphabetical listing of
authors, ranging
Aesop to
Émile Zola. The well-known German authors are also represented and include
Goethe,
Heine,
Hesse,
Kant among others.
Fairy tales,
fables and
legends are listed in their own section.