Guide to further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2009
Summary
Darwin's major books are available in a wide range of formats, from free online editions to inexpensive paperback facsimiles to multi-volume comprehensive sets. The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, a website maintained by John van Wyhe, presently offers the most authoritative and scholarly online editions. This indispensable website includes also extensive unpublished Darwin texts and general bibliographic resources, and will provide invaluable coverage of the flood of Darwiniana provoked and promoted by the bicentennial of Darwin's birth. Invaluable also is the website maintained by David Kohn, The Darwin Digital Library. There are several useful anthologies, notably Ridley 1994, Glick and Kohn 1996, and Secord 2008. For bibliographic details of books written by Darwin and published either in his lifetime or since, see Freeman 1977. Of the multivolume editions, only one, in 29 volumes, approaches completeness: Barrett and Freeman 1986. Almost all of the papers published by Darwin in his lifetime are in Barrett 1977, a volume soon to be superseded by one edited by John van Wyhe collecting Darwin's shorter writings. Of posthumously published books that have appeared more recently, the most important is C. Darwin 1975. Changes in the text of the Origin of Species through its several editions can be studied in C. Darwin 1959.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Darwin , pp. 477 - 479Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009