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Links to etexts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts      your choice of 130 authors http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

Alphabetical order  -find a book , compliments of Univ. of Penn.    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/       

American Literature - etexts  plus literary criticism  http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.html

Audio Books - free audio from MP3.com - classics, self-help, spiritual & more  http://genres.mp3.com/music/books_spoken/          

Bartleby - EXCELLENT -an electronic archive of texts no longer covered by copyright. Search  numerous texts  (quotations, Shakespeare, authors, verse...) by keyword   http://www.bartleby.com/

Bibliomania -EXCELLENT -  over 2000 free texts, study guides, articles,  and reference resources  http://bibliomania.com/

Christian books online      http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?BR-BX

Christian Classics Ethereal Library - claims to have enough material to last you a lifetime   http://www.ccel.org/       

Classics that have changed the world &  should be read by all   (Darwin,  Marx,  Nietzsche, Plato...) http://www.systems.org/HTML/booklist.htm

Classic Archives - Greek and Roman Literature   http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

Directory of Electronic Text Centers    http://scc01.rutgers.edu/ceth/infosrv/ectrdir.html

Great Books Index   - excellent easy-to-find,  author & title  list http://books.mirror.org/

Internet Classic Archive by MIT  http://classics.mit.edu/

Montaigne  http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/m-essays_contents.html

Mystery Etexts for those who love reading mysteries in front of their computers  http://mysterybooks.tqn.com/msubetexts.htm

National Academy Press - 1500 texts  http://books.nap.edu/info/browse.htm

Online Books Page:  10,000 plus books plus links
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Online Literature Library Links to 30 authors & their short stories   http://www.literature.org/authors/

Open directory Project:  This page provides you with numerous links to sites which have etexts. http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/

Project Gutenberg - Official site includes an index of texts available, newsletters, articles...

Sacred Texts  Archive is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics.  http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Search for etexts by author or by title - listing provided by Project Gutenberg  http://promo.net/pg/list.html

Search 10,000+ listings online  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/search.html

Shakespeare - complete  - includes Shakespearean quotes, Shakespeare resources...  award-winning site  http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html    

University of Virginia E-Book Library  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html


My favorite etexts

Theology  - Classic Readings 

Alighieri, Dante -  Inferno   

Alighieri, Dante -Purgatorio  

Alighieri, Dante - Paradiso   tr. Henry Wadsworth 

Angels - Read about angels (excerpts from Aquinas' Summa & more)    

Aquinas, Thomas - Summa Theologica  

Augustine - Confessions (The world's first biography)  

Augustine - One Faith, Hope & Love  

Benedict - The Rule of St Benedict - read as daily readings, by topical chapter, or as text & discussion  

Bible:  Douay-Rheims (compare translations) 

Bible:  New American Bible 

Bible - interactive -in many languages use their search option 

Catherine of Genoa - Life & doctrine  

Catherine of Sienna - Dialog 

Chesterton - What's wrong with Today's World 

Donne, John - poetry selection

Donne, John - Death's Duel  - (author's final sermon) 

Erasmus - In Praise of Folly

Francis of Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life 

John of the Cross -Dark Soul of the Night, Spiritual Canticles and more  

Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love  

Kempis - Imitation of Grace  

Grou, John - Spiritual maxims  

Lagrange:  The Three Ways of Spiritual Life  

Lawrence - The Practice and Presence of God  

Ligouri - Uniformity to God's Will  

Loyola, Ignatius - Spiritual Exercises  

Meyer - Our Daily Homily    

Milton - Paradise Lost  

Milton - Paradise Regained  

Sullivan: Read Me or Rue (slow loading but excellent ) 

O'Sullivan: Purgatory  (Slow Loading)  

Pascal, Blaise - Pensees  

Patrick - The Confession of St. Patrick  

Petals of the Little  Flower: (St. Theresa)  Photos included. Loads slowly but is great  

Ruysbroeck, John The Adornment of Spiritual Marriage (13th century Flemish mystic)  

Theresa of Avila - Interior Castle & more


Purchase books/compare prices

Buy a Book at Best Book Buys: Compare the price of a book, including shipping charges - at more than two dozen internet bookstore. http://www.bestbookbuys.com/     

Christian Books - Excellent Home schooling texts      http://www.christianbook.com/

Direct Textbook.com    The site searches book inventories from 100's of stores, book exchanges and book marketplaces to display price, availability and reviews. Also the site does not just search for textbooks but all books  http://www.directtextbook.com

Internet Book Information Center: Get book reviews& join their mailing list - many links , including some to "Books I won't be reading"  & "Edited collection of striking passages."   http://www.internetbookinfo.com/

All bookstores - compare prices between different bookstores  http://www.allbookstores.com/

Half.com - another great place to save when you buy books. http://half.ebay.com/


  http://www.booksprice.com  is a free innovative service of finding the best price on a purchase of several books together. This service is more useful than the standard services which perform one book comparison at a time, and can save more money when buying several books together.

Used Books at discounted prices from Amazon dealer http://www.alibris.com/bookstore/readandrelax

 

http://www.proquobooks.com at discounted prices from Amazon dealer

 

 


                                 

 

 

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