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Concentration is the eternal secret
of every mortal achievement

Stefan Zweig, 1881 - 1942 Austrian

Classics | Generic | by Discipline | Poetry | non-English Language | machine translators

Classics

ClassicAuthors.net
Great Literature Online

Ex-Classics Web Site, The
Books which used to be classics but no longer read much, or at all

eBooks@Adelaide
University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books. The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History

Great Books Index
Index to Online Great Books in English Translation

Internet Classics Archive
Works of classical literature

Online Literature Library
Classic works of English literature

Renascence Editions
Works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799

Myriobiblos Library
Online Culture Center (artopos) of the Church of Greece.  ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ | English | Français | Español | Italiano | Deutsch  | Ρусский | Românesc | БЪЛГАРСКИ

Generic

19th Century Schoolbooks
digital editions of 140 schoolbooks and two surveys of historic schoolbooks by John Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection

Bartleby.com
Sections for reference, verse, fiction, nonfiction

Bibliomania -- The Network Library
e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays, with sections "read" "study" "research"

Eldritch Press
books and sources linked through the web archive

Electronic Collection
Virtual collection of monographs and periodicals. 
English: Library and Archives Canada
Francais: Biblioteque et Archives Canada

EServer
e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University

Etext Archives, The
electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal

Google Book Search

Internet Public Library The
public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.

Digital Library SunSITE collection of authors for download, read, printed.  Includes Jane Austin, Mary Austin, AMbrose Bierce, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crene, Frederick Douglass, Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclsir, Rober Louis Stevenson, Henry David Thoreau.

Internet Library of Early Journals:
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford

Oxford Text Archive
Literature, Languages and Linguistics. Collects, catalogues, and preserves high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching.

Page by Page Books
By author and title

Perseus Digital Library, The
evolving digital library for the study of the humanities. Sponsored by Tufts University.

Project Gutenberg
Volunteers bring authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.

Secular Web Library
Texts relating to a naturalistic worldview by Internet Infidels, Inc.

World Wide School: Library

Yahoo Index on Electronic Literature

Poetry

British Electronic Poetry Centre

Digital Library Program Indiana University
Includes a digital collection, or virtual archive, of Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne

Harvard Classics
recital website of Latic classics

Poetry Foundation
Search for poems by poet, title, theme, and occasion.

Poetry Out Loud: American National Recitation Contest
Program for high school studens of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation

Poésie française
plus de 6000 poèmes de langue française, du Moyen Âge au début du XXème siècle.

by Discipline

African American Women Writers of the 19thCentury
Howard Dodson, Chief Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

American Studies/University of Virginia
Hypertexts

Avalon Project (Yale Law School) The
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

California History and Culture, Books about  

Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) (Georgetown University)
founded in 1994 to coordinate and develop a range of electronic projects related to interdisciplinary studies in the culture and history of the United States

Classic Horror Short Stories

Classics in the History of Psychology
full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines

Documenting the American South
texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Early American Fiction, 1789-1875,
University of Virginia

Early Canadiana Online
Notre mémoire en ligne (francais)
Early Canadiana Online

Early Church Fathers
Christian Classics Etherial Library

Hockliffe Project, The
Hockliffe Collection of early British children's books held by De Montfort University

Humanistic Texts
Shows how people around the world and through time gradually develop an understanding of what it is to be human. Multicultural extracts portray the wit,  wisdom, and poetry of individuals as they reflect on ethics, philosophy, knowledge,  and human relationships

Humanities Text Initiative
University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided online access to full text resources since 1994

Juggling Books
Juggling Information Service

Library of Congress
American memory collections

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson.  University od Virginia

Online assessment
(grade 3-8) in reading and math. brainchild.com

non-English Language

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle African
L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.

Bibliotheca Augustana Blackmask Online
litteraturae et artis collectio (classical periods, mulitple European languages including Latin and Greek)

Brazilian Digital Art and Poetry

Carrie: Full-Text Electronic Library
maintained by Serge Noiret,as part of the WWW-VL History Central Catalogue at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
The Online Resource for Irish history, literature and politics. A Project of the History Department University College Cork

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia:
English | Latin | French | German |
Spanish | Russian | Japanese | Chinese | Apache

Labyrinth Library
Middle English Bookcase sponsored by Georgetwon University

Literature Project
Collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays

Making of America
"Digitized primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.. strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology"

National Academy Press
publish reports/books issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council

Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
Literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization

Philological Museum
Analytic bibliography of online new-Latin titles

Project Runeberg
Electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature

Language resources, including machine translators

Humanitas International
multi-lingual, multi-source translations with language identification source.

WordReference.com
French-, Italian- and Spanish-English Dictionaries with extended definitions. 
To/from English only.

Free2Professional translations
free machine translations

Applied Language
free machine translations

Dictionary.com
free machine translations

AltaVista (Babelfish)
free machine translations

130! Languages:
Dictionary site

Search Engine Colossus:
International Directory of Search Engines

International Archive of Education Data sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations

Lingu@net Europa
multilingual centre for language learning. 
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish

DIALANG
European project for the development of diagnostic language tests in 14 European languages.

Comparative CyberLexicon
English-Spanish, A - Z: compilation of English terminology peculiar to computer culture and technology and its equivalents in Spanish.


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