As Richardson wrote in the Foreword to the J. Dent edition of the first 12 volumes,. At the start of this year, I noted that the J. If you wanted to read the posthumously assembled thirteen novel, March Moonlight , however, you had to locate the Dent 4-volume set or the Virago Modern Classics paperback set. Jens Sadowski wrote me recently, however, that thanks to the hard work of the volunteers of Distributed Proofreaders Canada , all thirteen volumes are now available not just in electronic format, but with fully-corrected texts.
The first six books are available on Project Gutenberg :. The remaining seven books are available on the Faded Page , a Canadian public domain text site:.
Richardson referred to it as a single novel and each book as a chapter. At the time I wrote:. There was also a cheap paperback set published by Popular Library in the U. I also provided links to free electronic editions of the first seven books, courtesy of the Internet Archive. However, browsing through the archive recently, I discovered that twelve of the thirteen books are now available, thanks to the Digital Library of India , which scanned in the edition published by J. If you want to undertake your own pilgrimage through Pilgrimage , you will still have to supplement these with Volume 4, either from the Dent hardback or from the Virago Modern Classics paperback editions, which includes the posthumously assembled thirteen novel, March Moonlight.
This is a good place, by the way, to mention that anyone who has benefited from the access to free electronic texts provided by the Internet Archive should take the opportunity to donate to its continued support. Now for the technical note. I started out with a Nook not long after Barnes and Noble released the first one in , primarily because it was the cheapest one, and then moved to a Kindle a year later because I was given one.
And this, for me, has always been the biggest drawback in using either to read material from the Internet Archive. If the original text in the scanned book is clear and the person doing the scanning careful, these distractions are tolerable, but in too many cases, the output is just too difficult or tiresome to read in text format.
