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NEW: timelines with etexts for Greece and Rome
After much Web-floundering, trying to track down available etexts by a wide range of authors, I'm compiling this 'etext finder' that should make the process less random. Some of these tricks require you have Javascript on, but if you can't use Javascript, basic alternatives are always included.
All of these are optimised here for author search, not titles.
The closest thing to an single unabridged clearinghouse is John Mark Ockerbloom's Online Books at U Penn:
This Javascript bookmarklet lets you get right to the index-page with all the (eg) 'A' authors: [first letter bookmarklet]
Their own search page
Incredible range. Author or title search:
(Don't give up if the first page of search-results doesn't include the title you want-- always doublecheck the author-categories, and be alert for the inconspicuous 'next-page' links in the lower right.)
A comparable site with a narrower focus is Ken Roberts's Great Books Online. All the authors as of March 2000 are listed here but you may want to doublecheck that your author hasn't been added since: current list
Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg is quirky in its insistence on straight etexts (no HTML), but its offerings are very rich.
Gutenberg: [first letter bookmarklet]
Bibliomania is advertising-supported, but offers a nice selection, and includes HTML name-anchors so you can link to the middle of a chapter.
fiction, stories, plays/poems/classics, nonfiction, reference
Also? Shakespeare
(You have to use 'View source' to see the HTML NAME for the line number.)
Bibliobytes uses a database instead of static pages, but you can target specific paragraphs this way.
Small but select: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reference
CMU English server: novels, nonfiction, poetry, 18thC lit, long plays, short plays, philosophy
pre-1800 only: 18th C Lynch or [first-letter bookmarklet] (lowercase only), Luminarium
early modern: Renascence, Alberta
Irish; ditto; Russian; Italian
Christian; world religions; atheist; philosophers, alchemical, psychology
Poetry: sonnets, poetry, representative poetry; Poe, Stevenson, Kipling, Russians; British woman romantic poets, many authors
First chapters: USA Today, CNN, SJ Merc, WashPost, LA Times, Time-Warner, NY Times, Denver Post
Archive-lists: OLB's, Lynch's, GBI's
Links: Matsuoka, Lynch; Shuttle
These resources aren't etexts, but are useful for research:
Kingkong's New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors (NGCOBA) is a staggeringly useful listing of authors, books, and dates, with some annotations about online etexts.
[first two letters bookmarklet] (use lowercase only)
Bibliofind is a commercial used-book finder but it's very useful for confirming names and dates: [searchpage]
Concordance.com offers many kinds of concordance search for many classic works.
Special topics:
surfing-skills :
url-hacking :
open content :
semantics :
pagelength :
linktext :
startpages :
bookmarklets :
weblogging :
colors :
autobiographical pages :
thumbnail-graphics :
web-video :
timeline of hypertext
Anti-XML/W3C/etc:
structure-myth :
page-parsing :
firstcut-parser :
html-history :
semantic web
Design prototypes:
topical portal :
dense-content faq :
annotated lit :
random-access lit-summary :
poetry sampler :
gossipy history :
author-resources :
hyperlinked-timeline :
horizontal-timeslice :
web-dossier
Website-resource pages:
RobotWisdom.com :
Altavista.com :
1911encyclopedia.com :
Google.com :
IMDb.com :
Perseus.org :
Salon.com :
Yahoo.com
Older stuff:
design-lab :
design-checklist :
HyperTerrorist :
design-theory :
design cog-sci
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