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- GREAT BOOKS LISTS
A list of lists, including non-Western works. - GREAT BOOKS MOVEMENT
Essay from the Angelicum Academy. - GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
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Supporting great books education for children and adults.
Great Books Online
- BEOWULF TRANSLATIONS.NET
A vast site including long excerpts from every modern translation of Beowulf. - BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA
Classical texts in Latin, Greek, other European languages, plus art and music. In Latin. - CHRISTIAN CLASSICS ETHEREAL LIBRARY
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Cleanly formatted classic literature, philosophy, science, and history. - GREAT BOOKS AND CLASSICS
Links to online texts of the great books in translation and in the original languages. - GREAT BOOKS INDEX
Links to great books online plus background materials. - LIBRIVOX
Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers. - LUMINARIUM: ANTHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
A gorgeous site with texts, essays, and resources for 14th–18th C. English writing. - PROJECT GUTENBERG
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"Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web"
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Canadian publisher of the Broadview Editions, high quality critical editions of popular classics and "valuable, lesser-known" works. - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
First class academic publisher. - EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
Affordable, decorative hardcover classics. - LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
Greek and Latin classics with English translation. For an introduction, try the Loeb Classical Library Reader. - OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unparalleled. I trust them. The Oxford World's Classics are my choice for paperback classics. - OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
Excellent paperback critical editions. - PENGUIN CLASSICS
Paperback critical editions, vast catalogue. - THE MODERN LIBRARY
Nicely printed paperback and hardcover classics. - W.W. NORTON
Publisher of those tried and true anthologies of great English, Western, world, and women's literature. Companions websites are available for the world and English anthologies. See also the Norton Critical Editions and the Norton Introduction to Literature.
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Online library featuring multimedia materials from EU countries. - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
128,000,000 items. Pretty good for the colonies. - NATIONAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF CANADA
18,000,000 published works of Canadiana, among other things. - VATICAN LIBRARY
Also check out the Secret Archives and online Museums.
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I hope to own one before I die. For now I content myself with the Shorter OED. Ask your public library about accessing the OED online. - WIKTIONARY
Find the English definition of words from English or other languages.
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Award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
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- A NOVEL CHALLENGE
An excellent collection of all the ongoing reading challenges in the litblogosphere. - LITERATURE READING CIRCLE
Keeps track of all the Yahoo reading groups. - THE GREAT CONVERSATION
A Yahoo group working through the Great Books of the Western World 10-year reading plan.
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A portal for book arts on the web and home of the Book_Arts-L listserv. - CANADIAN BOOKBINDERS AND BOOK ARTISTS GUILD
Papermaking, bookbinding, calligraphy, printing, illustration...everything that goes into making fine books. - COUNTERSPACE
"A website dedicated to typography and its history." - LETTER ARTS REVIEW
"Internationally recognized as the preeminent magazine for calligraphers and lettering artists..." - UNSEEN HANDS: WOMEN PRINTERS, BINDERS, AND BOOK DESIGNERS
"Women have been involved in printing and the making of books ever since these crafts were first developed. Even before the advent of movable type, there was a strong tradition of women producing manuscripts in western European religious houses."
Illuminated Manuscripts
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New project to create a centralized catalogue of all digitized manuscripts available online. - DIGITAL SCRIPTORIUM
Database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. - HILL MUSEUM AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
World's largest collection of manuscript images. - MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT MANUAL
How manuscript books were made. - THE BOOKWORM COLLECTION
Highlights from online exhibits.
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Maker of most of the bookplates you see in second-hand books. Follow the links to have your bookplates personalized. - ANTIQUE WRITING BOXES AND LAP DESKS
See post. - BOOKHUG
"The hands-free open book holder." I don't know how I ever survived without one. Canadian product.
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- BOOK GLUTTON
Innovative website that lets you upload, read, annotate, and chat about books with other readers. - BOOKFINDER
Compare online new & used book prices including shipping. - EIGHTH DAY BOOKS
A wonderful bookstore specializing in books that "shed light on ultimate questions in an excellent way." - LIBRARY ELF
Track your library accounts and get reminders before your books are due. No more fines! - LIBRARYTHING
Reader-centered book cataloguing and social networking. - TODAY IN LITERATURE
"Good books. Good stories. Every day." - WORDCHAMP: THE LEARNING LANGUAGE NETWORK
Tools to support learning of over 130 languages. Translate words while surfing with their fantastic Web Reader or toolbar. - WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS
"The Online Magazine for International Literature."
Art
- ARTCYCLOPEDIA
Comprehensive online art reference. - THE ART RENEWAL CENTER
Largest online art museum. - THE ATHENAEUM
Up-and-coming, ad-free, wiki-esque archive of over 27,000 artworks. - WEB GALLERY OF ART
Over 16,000 images of Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque painting and scupture. - GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES COMPANION SITE
Glossaries, maps, links to online art images, and more. Accompanies the award-winning Gardner's Art Through the Ages. - TIMELINE OF ART HISTORY
Timelines, maps, and art from all over the world from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
History
- INTERNET HISTORY SOURCEBOOKS PROJECT
Online compendium of sources for ancient, medieval, and modern history. - THE HISTORY GUIDE
Ninety lectures in European history, from Gilgamesh to Glasnost. - THE WESTERN TRADITION
Fifty-two video lectures on Western history by Eugen Weber for WGBH (PBS).
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- CAMBRIDGE LATIN COURSE
Standard course in UK schools. - DALE GROTE'S WHEELOCK HELP PAGE
From the author of the Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin. - EPHEMERIS
"Nuntii Latini universi." (I believe that means something like "World News in Latin.") - EXPERIENCE LATIN WITH FATHER FOSTER
Learn Latin online using only a Latin dictionary. Lots of Latin links too. - FORUM ROMANUM
Resources on ancient Rome and comprehensive directory of online Latin texts. - LATIN & GREEK STUDY GROUPS
"Open, volunteer-run mailing lists." Includes groups working with Wheelock's Latin. - LATIN PHRASES
My favourite: ex libris, of course. - LATIN PROVERB OF THE DAY
- LATIN STUDY LINKS
Flash cards, exercises, grammar, and more for Wheelock's Latin students. - NUNTII LATINI
News in Latin from YLE Radio, Finland. - PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY
Storehouse of Classical Greek and Latin texts. - ROMAN MYTH & LEGEND
Index of over 500 names from ancient Roman mythology. - RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
...in Latin. I'd like to be able to read this.
From The Latin Library. - TEXTKIT - GREEK & LATIN LEARNING TOOLS
"Free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers." - THE LATIN LIBRARY
Latin classics online. - THE LATIN LOVER
Archive of "The Latin Lover" with Father Reginald Foster, as heard on Vatican Radio. - VICIPAEDIA
Latin version of Wikipedia. - WHEELOCK'S FAQ
Chapter by chapter help with the more knotty bits of Wheelock's Latin. - WHEELOCK'S LATIN
The standard text.
Just For Fun
- CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE
Literary lore. - CUTE OVERLOAD
Good for what ails you. - GROCERY STORE WARS
Join Cuke Skywalker in fighting the evil Darth Tater to free vegetables from the tyranny of chemicals, genetic engineering, & irradiation. - I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
Lolcat central. - PATRON SAINTS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
St. Typo, pray for us. - PILED HIGHER AND DEEPER
Cautionary tales for grad school wannabees. - THE DAILY PUPPY
Get your RDA of puppies here. - THE REPUBLIC OF PEMBERLEY
"Your haven in a world programmed to misunderstand obsession with things Austen." Don't miss Lady Catherine's advice page.
Be Prepared
- Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
FEMA may suck at disaster response but their emergency preparedness manual is the best I've seen. Call 1.800.480.2520 for your copy. - Tom Brown's Field Guide to City and Suburban Survival
A practical guide to urban survival from the world's premier survival expert, Tom Brown Jr., author of a comprehensive series of books on wilderness survival. - St. John Ambulance Official Wilderness First Aid Guide
An excellent guide on handling medical emergencies when help is days away.
But would he liveblog it?
Just beautiful!
Posted by: Chuck | 2008.12.01 at 19:16
Hahaha... haha...
Computer-addicted shepherds... I think the shepherds currently working in the hills of Judea probably still don't have laptops. But never mind that. This is great.
Posted by: Goldberry | 2008.12.01 at 19:44
No, but they probably have cell phones and could text it in. Let's see...
"saw gr8 lite OMG angels! goin 2 bthlhm 2 c wassup brb"
Posted by: Sylvia | 2008.12.01 at 20:01
I was going to ask where were their blackberries and why aren't they texting, posting to Twitter and their My Space page. :)
Posted by: stefanie | 2008.12.02 at 18:23
Not to mention YouTube... ;)
Posted by: Sylvia | 2008.12.03 at 11:29
"Jesus wants to be your friend: Accept / Decline / Ignore?"
Posted by: Rob | 2008.12.09 at 06:39
Heh. :D
Posted by: Sylvia | 2008.12.09 at 08:36