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06-09-2006, 07:18 PM
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There are many complete texts online to some great literature. Fiona and I thought it would be fun to be able to share some favourite links in this space 
So without further fanfare, here is my first contribution. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
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06-09-2006, 07:30 PM
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| | And I have decided to post the Alice books, which are great favourites of mine. There is really annoying music on this site so turn your sound down. http://www.sabian.org/alice.htm |
06-09-2006, 07:50 PM
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| | Something old but classic me thinks - Jane Austen
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06-09-2006, 07:51 PM
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| | The Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English, but with modern spelling and side-by-side modern translation of all words that are no longer current. Great stuff.
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06-09-2006, 10:11 PM
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| | La Faute de L'Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola. Unfortunately this link is in French, hopefully I can find an English translation as well. I know a translation has been written, but I don't know if it is online.
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06-11-2006, 05:13 PM
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| | Van den Vos Reynaerde
This tale (in Flemish) was written in the 13th century and was inspired by similar tales in French. It was translated into English in the 15th century by William Caxton as The Historie of Reynart the Foxe and Chaucer used parts of it as inspiration for his Canterbury tales.
I wasn't able to find the translation by Caxton on the net though. |
06-11-2006, 05:40 PM
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| | I did my graduation thesis in highschool on one of his tragedies: William Shakespeare - complete works
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06-13-2006, 01:01 AM
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| | Books that have shaped me include this overtly political novel. There is a lot of blurb in the link before the book starts so scroll down
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is not the best of literature but it is an immensely influential book and I love it http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/f...03/rggdp10.txt |
06-14-2006, 07:50 AM
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| | Shouldn't be missing on this forum: the Devil's Dictionary |
06-18-2006, 07:07 AM
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| | Project Gutenberg is an effort to digitize all books with expired copyrights and provide them to the public free of charge.
To give some examples of the sheer enormity of the project, you can find anything from the complete poems of Emily Dickinson to Plato's Laws to books such as Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Nikola Tesla. And that's just their English section.
edit: Since I didn't actually recommend anything, I'll do so now and recommend Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, just so that you can go around saying you've read a mathematical satire 
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06-18-2006, 01:55 PM
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| | At last someone posted so I can avoid the double post. Two authors I like a lot (and whose complete works I have in print) have all or most of their works on the net: Edgar Allen Poe H. P. Lovecraft |
07-01-2006, 08:07 PM
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| | I keep this site around. I got hooked on William Blake and the Urizen books years ago. http://facstaff.uww.edu/hoganj/contents.htm
Also, here's another link to some Greco-Roman literature ranging from Homer to Livy to Augustus and Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Plato, and so on. Also has several other works such as Confucius and Sun Tzu http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html
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07-02-2006, 04:24 PM
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| | http://www.legends.dm.net/
This site provides a wealth of information and links on the world's most famous legends and epics, like The Holy Grail, Beowulf and others... Also alot of Shakespeare information. |
07-05-2006, 03:23 PM
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| | Something a bit different I think, but I still found it interesting: Egyptian Book of the Dead
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