Features

All 177 Works

The complete four-volume Conway Edition (1900–1902), drawn from the Project Gutenberg e-text and being verified work by work. Browse the canon five different ways.

• The complete index
• Start here, five works to read first
• Editor's spotlight
• Themed reading plans
• A–Z encyclopedia index
• Concept index (back-of-book)
• By year
• By decade
• By category
• Longest works
• Shortest works
• A random work
• Interactive topic map
• Browse by topic

A Real Reader's Panel

Adjust font size, line height, line width, and theme. A live table of contents tracks your position; a top-of-page progress bar shows how far you've read.

• Light + dark mode (follows your system)
• Drop caps and serif typography
• Sticky TOC with active-section tracking
• Reading progress bar

Notes & Highlights

Select any passage to highlight it. Add a private note. Save a work for later. Everything is stored locally in your browser, there is no account, no login, and nothing leaves your device.

• Your notes & highlights
• Saved readings
• Reading calendar

Full-Text Search

Press / from anywhere to open the search popup. The full corpus, every work, every essay, every reference page, is indexed for instant lookup, all client-side.

• Open the full search page

Biography & Reference

Beyond the writings themselves: a year-by-year timeline plotted on an interactive map, a calendar of his life, family tree, circle of friends and rivals, the lineage that shaped him, and his published debates.

• Biography
• Timeline & map
• This day in his life
• Family tree
• Connections
• Influences
• Legacy
• Lecture tour
• Gallery
• Debates

Hover-Tip Glossary

Nineteenth-century terms, figures, and ideas, defined inline with hover tooltips throughout the works, and browsable A–Z on a dedicated page.

• Open the glossary

Five Export Formats

Every work ships a built-in citation generator (APA / MLA / Chicago / BibTeX) plus five machine-readable downloads — TXT, JSON, BibTeX, RIS (for Zotero / EndNote / Mendeley), and a print view. Volume-level zip bundles ride on top.

• How to cite the Conway Edition
• Per-work downloads index (JSON)

Library-Grade Discovery

Stable identifiers, machine-readable surfaces, and the OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol the Digital Public Library of America and university catalogs harvest from. Plus a curated bibliography, classroom guidance, and manuscript-watch index of physical holdings.

• For researchers
• For the classroom
• Manuscript watch
• Curated bibliography
• OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint

Concept Graph + Topic Map

Two interactive views of the corpus structure: a chord diagram of how the eleven concept categories share works, and a force-directed topic map of the entire 177-work canon.

• Concept graph (chord diagram)
• Topic map (force-directed)

No Tracking, No Accounts

Privacy-respecting analytics only (no cookies, no third-party trackers). Fonts served by GDPR-compliant Bunny Fonts. All personal data, notes, highlights, reading history, stays in your browser.

Built to Web Standards

WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, semantic HTML, visible focus rings, and full keyboard navigation. Respects prefers-reduced-motion. Works on any modern browser, any screen size.

• Accessibility statement

RSS & Feeds

Follow new essays and additions to the archive in any reader. Two feeds: one for editorial commentary, one for newly-published works.

• Main feed
• Works-only feed

Site Map & Tech Stack

For the orienteer: a complete human-readable list of every page on the site, plus a deep dive into how the archive is built for the technically curious.

• Human-readable sitemap
• Tech stack
• Colophon
• Visual style guide
• Works API (JSON)

A Daily Anchor

The home page surfaces an event from his life that happened on this date, a small daily window into the man behind the writings. Browse the full month-by-month calendar on its own page.

• This day in his life