Literature & Books
- Aesop's Fables:
Online version of 393 fables.
- Alibris: Specializes in finding
rare and out of print books at reasonable prices.
- Amazon.com Books: An online
bookstore with over one million titles.
- Antique Books: presents
online versions of texts, with all their "weathered character."
- BarnesAndNoble.com: the
popular book store is now on-line!
- The Bartleby Library
at Columbia University: While a limited selection, these texts are well laid
out in HTML, as opposed to simple ASCII. Best for reading poetry and
reference works online.
- Book
Lovers Club - the name says it all
- Online Books Page:
The best place to search by author or title for free
e-books.
- Even if you visit The British
Library in person, you aren't allowed to turn the pages of the valuable,
historic manuscripts in the library's collection. But thanks to this site,
you can flip through page after page of the 15th-century Sherborne Missal,
the largest, most lavishly decorated service book to survive Britain's
Protestant Reformation.
- Children's Literature Web
Guide Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
- Coined by
Shakespear: Words and meanings first used by The Bard
- Dr. Seuss Went to
War: UCSD's Mandeville Special Collections Library presents a gallery of
political cartoons created by children's author, illustrator, and lifelong
cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel.
- English
Sayings explained.
- Project Gutenberg: The best
source for free electronic texts. Also available at ftp.prairienet.org/pub/providers/gutenberg/
- The Jargon File:
An on-line dictionary of the jargon of computer people.
- Timothy McSweeney's Internet
Tendency: A hilarious Web journal "created by nervous people in relative
obscurity."
- New York Times Books:
Searchable archives of the entire Sunday Book Review, dating back to 1980.
Free, though registration is required.
- Nupedia: Building the world's
largest international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia. And it's free ! (This
project appears to be on hold. See also Wikipedia below)
- Shakespeare:
All of Shakespeare's work can be read and commented on at this site.
- StoryWeb: Gateway to original
entertainment content on the Internet.
- Troutworks Mystery Guide: The
folks at Troutworks are serious about their mysteries. You'll find reviews
of hundreds of novels, sorted by author and sub-genre. Each entry includes
quick facts, 1- to 5-star ratings, and links to similar works by other
authors.
- Theodore Tugboat's Online Activity Center
Stories and activities for kids.
- Mark Twain at
Large: His Travels Here and Abroad.
- Wikipedia: The
free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
- The Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
: One of the earliest electronic text sites. Much of the information is
still in gopher format.
