"It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson,
letter to Hugh P. Taylor, October 4, 1823
(source: http://patriotpost.us)
17th (early) Century (1603-1660) English Literature
(by Anniina Jokinen, luminarium.org)
(James I, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury, Robert Herrick,
George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Henry Vaughan, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Lady Mary Wroth,
Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Margaret Cavendish, Dorothy Osborne,
Francis Quarles, James Shirley, John Fletcher, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Edmund Waller,
Thomas Middleton, Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, Abraham Cowley, Sir Isaac Newton)
American Rhetoric:Speeches Online
(5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches,
sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, recorded media events,
and declarations)
Ancient and Classical texts:
•
by Title
•
by Author
(source: Wikisource:Works)
[also see, below:Wiki & Sacred]
(quote:
"Ancient and Classical Texts covers all works originally written before the Middle Ages.
A good rule: The Arab conquest in the seventh century was a major shift,
and may be taken to mark the beginning of Medieval Literature.
Texts written before that belong in this category.")
Ancient,
Medieval &
Modern History Full Text Sources.
(Also Byzantine, Mediterranian/Mid-Eastern/African, East Asian,
Islamic, Chinese, Jewish, Women's, Global, Science) [fordham.edu]
1388 A.D. - John Wycliffe Bible (c. 1385-1388)
John Wycliffe History
(Wikipedia references)
[English New Testament scripture version banned in 1408 by Archbishop of York,
Oxford in an effort to suppress it from commoners]
[Erasmus d.1536, translated in 1514/1515, 1516-1536 printed Greek/Latin version,
source of Luther & Tyndale versions c.1536] [William Tyndale 1st published English version, 1524/1526 w/Luther,
considered heresy by inquisitors, executed 1536 (thousands were persecuted or condemned)]
[1537, King Henry VIII authorized English version]
John Rogers' 1537 Matthew-Tyndale Bible
(Rogers, operating under the assumed name "Thomas Matthew", was the first person to ever print a complete English Bible
that was translated directly from the original Greek & Hebrew.)
Parallel Bible / Hexapla Bible History (1841)
("..contains the original 1611 King James Version in parallel column format along-side
the five great English translation which were published BEFORE the King James Version (not after it.)
..all the major translations of the scripture from 1380 through 1611."
source: http://www.parallel-bible.com)
The Bible, King James Version; Old and New Testaments,
with the Apocrypha (etext.virginia.edu)
( [KJV] requested by Puritans of King James, 1604..included the Apocrypha,
14 Books from the Septuagint circa 200 B.C.; 80 Books total,
sourced from Tyndale's (90%), Geneva & Bishop's Bibles
plus original Hebrew/Greek documents, completed 1610/printed 1611, 20K copies, 1 per Church in England;
in 1885, the British & Foreign Bible Societies excluded the 14 from a revised version )
Download The Bible (KJV), The Gospels,
and The New/Old Testaments, in .mp3 audio format
(.mp3 audio of: The King James Bible KJV, La Biblia Reina Valera, & in Mandarin plus
scripture selections from the KJV and WEB encoded for email, Luke in 30 languages, .
and Nuevo Testamento y Salmos, plus
the Polish Bible [narrated selections],
The Gospels and Psalms in Arabic, The Psalms in Croatian,
Hebrew Old Testament,
and the New Testament in:
Hindi,
Cantonese,
Tamil,
Telegu,
Urdu,
Tagalog,
Slovak,
Punjabi,
Bengali)
[ link src: God and Country ]
Revised Standard Version (RSV) (Virginia.edu)
[Old and New Testaments, with the
Apocrypha
(..often not included in Protestant Bibles, they were translated
and included in the original King James Bible of 1611)] View
a "frames" side-by-side presentation of the King
James and Revised Standard Bibles, for easy comparison.]
Bio-Medical Texts, Books, Biology
(UCSD Libraries:Electronic Texts)
e.g. Charles Darwin, "The Descent of Man";
Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition;
Origin of Species, 6th Ed.
Book Search Tools:BookFinder.com
(search online retailers in English, French, German and Italian
for new, used, rare, out of print, and international books for sale;
by Abebooks, Inc., Canada)
ISBN
(search online retailers for books by author, title, subject, or all three, or enter an ISBN & compare prices;
by Glenn Fleishman, Seattle, Wa., US)
NetLibrary.com®
(NetLibrary's member library patrons can search full-text of 100K+ digitized books, ebooks, eJournals, reference resources and listen to 37K+ audio books [can also download] with free access online, by nonprofit Online Computer Library Center, Inc. [OCLC])
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RedLightGreen.com
(database of 130M+ bibliographies and books in local libraries, search by keyword, author, title, and ISBN searches; from RLG, a non-profit collective of libraries & institutions)
BookPALS: Storyline Online
(link source: SBC Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE).
KNE Quote:
"The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline
Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading
childrens books aloud. As of 2004, there were 10 stories available.
{..children can dial a toll-free-number
to hear a book read by an actor anytime, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week);
PencilPals
KNE Quote: "( - designed to make reading and writing
a first person experience for children in elementary and middle
schools [K-8] by setting up "pen pals")"
BookFinder
KNE Quote: "( - a searchable database of read-aloud picture books
on a wide range of topics)."
[KNE info - Grade Level: Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School;
Content Area: Arts (Literature), Community Interest (Leisure), English
(Literature), English (Reading) [Dewey #028]
Application type: Information Resources]
Books-On-Line (advertisements, mostly, most are free 50K+ books, movie scripts, & USAF (United States Air Force) publications)
"Chasing the Wind"
[a continuing computer security series, cyberwar]
by Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP, a Systems Security Specialist in San Antonio, Texas.
He is also active as a Perl Monger, an Internet Technologist, and a literary humorist.
He has been involved with (primarily Unix) systems programming, administration,
and security on and off since 1977.
(chapters index)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, unabridged in
Real Audio
from Wired for Books with
great interviews, Shakespeare plays in RA
,
Virgil's "The Aeneid Book IV", "The Illiad", "The Tale of Peter
Rabbit",
Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart",
Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", and
poetry online in Real Audio.
The Java Series (Sun MicroSystems, Inc.)
(the
JavaTM Series, published on our behalf by Addison-Wesley Longman. This is our
authorized series of books on the Java 2TM platforms and APIs, directly from those
creating the technology. From specifications to tutorials, here's the definitive word on Java
technology from such authors as James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Tim Lindholm, Mary Campione,
Kathy Walrath, Ken Arnold and Josh Bloch. The Java Series ... from the Source:
Lisa Friendly, Series Editor)
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
(Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone)
CRC Press,
ISBN: 0-8493-8523-7,
October 1996, 816 pages. 5th printing. formats: ps & pdf
[Foreword, by Ron Rivest])
Distributed Proofreaders
(quote, ".. provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books.")
(PGDB)
(link src, also see, below: Plucker Books & Project Gutenberg)
A Fool's Errand: by One of the Fools
by Albion Winegar Tourgée. COPYRIGHT, A.D. 1879, By FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT.
J. CAMPBELL, PRINTER. 15 Vandewater St., N.Y.; J. FOWLER TROW, BINDER, NEW YORK.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
(Medieval, Rennaisance, Regional, by Country)
[Medieval & Renaissance Europe, Europe as a Supranational Region, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein,
Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City]
European Literature in languages other than English
(Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish,
Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse & Icelandic, Portuguese, Provençal,
Spanish, Swedish)
Ex-Classics
(Quote, "An ex-classic is a book which used to be a classic, .., but is no longer read much, or at all.")
(link source, also see, below: Plucker Books)
Full-Text Books Online
(CJB/SJU) [+links to Canadian French/English, Christian, Early North American, French,
German, Greek, Latin, Spanish) [+Medieval, Modern English 16-19th c., fiction, non-fiction]
"Gun Facts ebook"
(quote: "..debunks common myths about gun control." by Guy Smith)
•
Screen version
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•
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•
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Hitler, Adolf:
"The Rise of Adolf Hitler,
From Unknown to Dictator of Germany"
(24 Chapters, source & quote from The History Place™ ,
"The original title Hitler chose was "Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice."
His Nazi publisher knew better and shortened it to "Mein Kampf," simply "My Struggle", or "My Battle." ")
'An End to Innocence'
(by Seymour Rossel, 1981; full text 10Oct00)
"If we are to survive on this planet hurtling through a vast, cold, and uncaring universe,
at a minimum we must learn to care for one another, to value every single life as precious." - Rabbi Seymour Rossel
The Nuremberg Code (ethics, src: onlineethics.org)
(..Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Vol. 2,
Nuremberg, October 1946 - April 1949)
Holocaust Memorial Books, NYC Public Library:
Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books
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InterScience Online Books, Wiley
(Biology, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, Life and Medical Sciences Library,
Pharmaceutical, Mathematics and Statistics) [registration free, some fee based]
Math Books
(e-booksdirectory.com's list of 260 freely downloadable electronic books (largely in PDF))
(link source: "Awesome list of free math books" by Christopher Dawson, ZDNet Education 6Apr09)
MIT's curriculum online, free
&
Complete course list index
(MIT Open Course Ware, OCW)
(quote, "[Massachusetts Institute of Technology] MIT To Put Its Entire Curriculum Online Free Of Charge",
"The university said it hopes to stimulate global learning by letting students access its entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end." "On Tuesday [13Mar07], school officials revealed plans to make available the university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end. Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120 universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums available online to date. By W. David Gardner, InformationWeek, March 13, 2007)
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(
Biography • Mystery • • Science Fiction • Civil War • Fiction
• History • Computers • Newly Published (Paper) Books •
2534 United States Air Force Publications • FREE Movie Scripts of Hollywood Movies,
Including Star Wars Episode: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
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The 10 Most Important Books of the Millennium
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National Academies Press
(science, categorized, National Academy of Science, from Agriculture to Urban Development)
(click on its "Read it Online - Free" blue colored link)
(National Academy of Sciences: 3000+ books online
in 25 categories of engineering, medicine, research & science)
Net Library Reading Room (NetLibrary.com)
(400K+ ebook and 37,000+ .pdf & .mp3 audio books in the World eBook Library Consortia['s]
125 eBook and eDocument collections, requires affiliate library for full public access)
(free online:
Far From The Madding Crowd,
Love's Labour's Lost,
On The Ruin Of Britain,
Sense And Sensibility,
The Importance Of Being Earnest,
The Jungle Book,
The Pit And The Pendulum,
The Red Badge Of Courage,
The Wind In The Willows,
The Woman In White,
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea)
Non-Fiction and Reference Books & Documents (Texas Christian University [TCU])
(also at bottom of the page are links to several major sources of online full-text book sites)
Nuclear War Survival Skills
(Cresson H. Kearny, 280 pp.; original edition: Sep79, Oak Ridge National Laboratory [USDOE])
[The Electronic Edition of Nuclear War Survival Skills was prepared and published by Arnold Jagt.]
+ Project Gutenberg (also see, below)
(text - .txt - files only. MakeDoc will convert them to a format compatible with most Palm OS eBook readers. MakeDoc lists compatibility with Windows 95 and NT, but it also works with 98, ME, 2000 and XP. or more information,
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English - Poetry: Select General Bibliography for Representative Poety On-Line (U. Toronto)
[also see literature, children's below] (African, American, Associations and Journals, Australian, Biography,
Canadian, Caribbean, Criticism, English, Forms of Verse, General Anthologies,
General Indexes to Poems, Histories, India: Poetry, Irish, Other Nationalities,
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Qur'an Arabic Recitation [ Islam.tc Audio Library ]
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Prophecies, Holy Qur'an,
Islam Directory,
The Beard in Islam,
Islam.tc Audio,
Declarations of Faith,
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Religion, "Internet Guide to Religion", including:
Aspects of Religion
· Religions - By Faith Traditions, Geographical Areas, or People Groups
· Religious Thought
· Archaeology, Bible, and Classics
· Christianity
· Pedagogy
(Quote, "A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion:
syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc." source: Wabash Center, Crawfordsville, Indiana)
Religion: Religious Texts:(links source: BeliefNet.com)
Science Fiction: SF, Fantasy, Classics Online
from Jim Freund's online sources
(examples: Alladin, Gowan, Cinderella, Tom Swift, Oz, Burroughs, Tarzan, Lewis Carroll, Hawthorne, Kipling, Jack London, Niven, Edgar Allen Poe, Pohl, Sir Walter Scott, Shelley, Frankenstein, Stevenson, Stoker, Dracula, Verne, Wells)
Scribd free online library (use the search feature to find books in .pdf, word, text, .mp3 voice)
(quote: "..anyone can upload. Use our embeddable PDF player to publish and view documents..in your web browser.)
Silent Film Bookshelf, The
(books, articles about the 'Silent Era' [Wikipedia.com])
(
The Fabulous Tom Mix;
Investing in the Movies; Road Shows; Centaur Film Company in 1907,
David Horsley; Confessions of a Motion Picture Press Agent (1918); The Making of The Covered Wagon;
Fade Out and Fade In - Victor Milner, Cameraman [1923-1924];
Baring the Heart of Hollywood (1921); Robert Flaherty (1923) and Nanook of the North [1922];
Sam Fox Moving Picture Music [midi
)
examples:
"Blazing the Trail"
- The Autobiography of Gene Gauntier
(1885-1966, actress and screenwriter
..Ben-Hur (1907) and From the Manger to the Cross (1912))
(Nickelodeons, 35mm Conversion Chart For Projection Speeds, "Lost" Films)
silent era related: "Taylorology"
(alt ezines source
+
The eText Archives)
quote "The publication centered on the unsolved 1922 murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor,
but there is reprinted material on, and interviews with, other silent stars including Charlie Chaplin,
Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Olive Thomas,
Blanche Sweet, William S. Hart, Lillian Gish, Harold Lloyd, Rudolph Valentino,
Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, and many others."
Southern Spy, The
(Edward Alfred Pollard, 1831-1872.
The Southern Spy. Letters on
the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War. Written
Anonymously in Washington and Elsewhere. Richmond, Va.: West & Johnston, 1861.
108 p., ca. 150K;
source: Documenting the American South
)
Texas Cowboy Gazette, The
(Featuring the Life, Legend, History, and Heritage of the Texas Cowboy;
Past personas, events, places, and historical articles )
texts (not for US use)
(87+ authors)
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The Text Book League
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textbooks, curriculum manuals, videos and reference books. ..to support the creation and acceptance
of sound schoolbooks)
Whitewolf eText Library Index (newcastle.edu.au)
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