Ancient books about Korea online
An expanded page with the text of and the photos from Isabella Bird's Korea and her Neighbors (1898), with additional photos of Korea taken by her.
An expanded page with the text of and the illustrations from Constance Tayler's Koreans at Home (1904).
James Gale's version of The
Cloud Dream of the Nine, a 17th-century novel by Kim Man-jung published in 1922.
I have received files of 3 "missionary novels" by Lois Hawks Swineheart : "Jane in the Orient", "Sarange: A Child of Chosen" and "Korea Calls!"
These books are not yet in the public domain so these files may not be
accessed legally for another 10 years or so. They are simply resting
here in the meantime.
Project Gutenberg texts
Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island (1818) by Basil Hall
Corea or Cho-sen by A. Henry
Savage Landor (1895) - An HTML version with fully scanned pictures is
available here.
Our Little Korean Cousin by
Henry Lee Mitchell Pike (1905) - Online version complete with the original
pictures here.
Korea’s Fight for Freedom by
F. A. McKenzie (1920) - a
book which expands his earlier arguments presented in The Tragedy of Korea (see below)
The Dutch text of Hendrik Hamel's Journal, Verhaal
van het vergaan van het jacht de Sperwer En van het wedervaren der
schipbreukelingen op het eiland Quelpaert en het vasteland van Korea
(1653-1666) met eene beschrijving van dat rijk, published in 1920
Internet Archive texts
(To start a new search for other online texts, go to the Internet archive
then click on "Texts" at the top of the page. Enter a search term (eg
Korea). Some books are available as PDF images of the original, all can
be read in a streaming form, raw OCR files of all can be downloaded).
The list below is in alphabetical order of the author's family name. It is restricted to books of
which a pdf image is available.
Horace Newton Allen, Things Korean (1908) PDF download
Henry Gerhard Appenzeller, The Korea Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1905) PDF download
Annie Laurie Adams Baird, Daybreak in Korea : a tale of transformation in the Far East (1909) PDF download
Frederick Henry Balfour, Leaves from my Chinese Scrapbook (1887) PDF download
Charles Allen Clark, First Fruits in Korea (1921) PDF download
Everard Cotes, Signs and Portents in the Far East (1907) PDF download
Constance J. D. Coulson, Korea (1910) PDF download.
Charles Dallet, Histoire de l'Eglise de Coree (1874) full text from scan
M. Eissler, My Voyage in Korea (1918) PDF download
James Scarth Gale, A Korean-English Dictionary (1898) PDF download
James Scarth Gale, Korean Sketches (1898) PDF download
James Scarth Gale, The Vanguard, a Tale of Korea (1904) PDF download
James Scarth Gale, Korea in Transition (1909) PDF download
James Scarth Gale, Im Bang & Yi Ryuk, Korean Folk Tales (1913) PDF download
Daniel L. Gifford, Everyday Life in Korea (1898) PDF download
George W. Gilmore, Corea of Today (1894) PDF download
William Elliot Griffis, Corea, the Hermit Nation (1894) PDF download
William Elliot Griffis, A modern Pioneer in Korea: The life-story of Henry G. Appenzeller (1912) PDF Download
Basil Hall, Voyage to Loo-Choo . . . (1826) PDF download
Angus Hamilton, Korea (1904) PDF download
Angus Hamilton, Korea: its history, its people, and its commerce (1910) PDF download
Homer B. Hulbert, The Passing of Korea (1906) PDF download
Homer B. Hulbert, The History of Korea, Volume 1 (1905) PDF download
Homer B. Hulbert, The History of Korea, Volume 2 (1905) PDF download
George Heber Jones, Korea, the land, people, and customs (1907) PDF download
George Heber Jones, The Bible in Korea (1916) PDF download
Emily Georgiana Kemp, The Face of Manchuria, Korea and Russian Turkestan (1911) PDF download
George Trumbull Ladd, In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908) PDF download
Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Corea, or Cho-sen: the land of the morning calm (1895) PDF download
Elizabeth A. McCully, A Corn of Wheat: The Life of W. J. McKenzie of Korea (1904) PDF download
Fred Arthur McKenzie, The colonial policy of Japan in Korea (1906) PDF download
F. A. McKenzie, The Tragedy of Korea (1908) PDF download
Louise Jordan Miln, Quaint Korea (1895) PDF Download
John M'Leod, Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste . . . (1817) PDF download
William Arthur Noble, Ewa, A Tale of Korea (1906) PDF download
Henry Davenport Northrop & John Russell Young, The Flowery Kingdom and the Land of the Mikado, or China Japan and Corea . . (1894) PDF download
William Woodville Rockhill, Korea's Intercourse with China (1905) PDF download
John Ross, Corean Primer (1877) PDF download
James Scott, A Korean Manual or Phrase Book (1893) PDF download
Frederick Starr, Korean Buddhism (1918) PDF download
Anna M. Stoddart, The life of Isabella Bishop (1906) PDF download
Mark Napier Trollope, The Church in Corea (1915) PDF download
Horace Grant Underwood, The Call of Korea: political, social, religious (1908) PDF download
Lillias H. Underwood, With Tommy Tompkins in Korea (1905) PDF download
Lillias H. Underwood, Fifteen Years among the Topknots or Life in Korea (1904) PDF download
Lillias H. Underwood, Underwood of Korea (1918) PDF download
Peter Vay, Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea and Japan (1906) PDF download
Dictionnaire coreen-francais (1880) PDF download