16th Century (1485-1603)English LiteratureMedievalRenaissance17th Century
(by Anniina Jokinen, luminarium.org)
(More, Henry Viii, Skelton, Wyatt, Howard, Sydney, Spencer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Hoby, Ascham, Foxe, de Vere, Elizabeth I,
Gascoigne, Lyly, Nashe, Hooker, Raleigh, Hariot, Southwell, Campion, Hebert, Davies, Daniel, Drayton, Greville, Lanyer)
17th (early) Century (1603-1660) English Literature
(by Anniina Jokinen, luminarium.org)
(James I, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury, Robert Herrick,
George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Henry Vaughan, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Lady Mary Wroth,
Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Margaret Cavendish, Dorothy Osborne,
Francis Quarles, James Shirley, John Fletcher, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Edmund Waller,
Thomas Middleton, Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, Abraham Cowley, Sir Isaac Newton)
American Rhetoric:Speeches Online
(5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches,
sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, recorded media events,
and declarations)
Ancient and Classical texts:
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by Title
•
by Author
(source: Wikisource:Works)
[also see, below:Wiki & Sacred]
(quote:
"Ancient and Classical Texts covers all works originally written before the Middle Ages.
A good rule: The Arab conquest in the seventh century was a major shift,
and may be taken to mark the beginning of Medieval Literature.
Texts written before that belong in this category.")
Ancient,
Medieval &
Modern History Full Text Sources.
(Also Byzantine, Mediterranian/Mid-Eastern/African, East Asian,
Islamic, Chinese, Jewish, Women's, Global, Science) [fordham.edu]
1388 A.D. - John Wycliffe Bible
(Wikipedia references)
[English New Testament scripture version banned in 1408 by Archbishop of York,
Oxford in an effort to suppress it from commoners]
[Erasmus d.1536, translated in 1514/1515, 1516-1536 printed Greek/Latin version,
source of Luther & Tyndale versions] [William Tyndale 1st published English version, 1524/1526 w/Luther,
considered heresy by inquisitors, executed 1536 (thousands were persecuted or condemned)]
[1537, King Henry VIII authorized English version]
The Bible, King James Version; Old and New Testaments,
with the Apocrypha (etext.virginia.edu)
( [KJV] requested by Puritans of King James, 1604..included the Apocrypha,
14 Books from the Septuagint circa 200 B.C.; 80 Books total,
sourced from Tyndale's (90%), Geneva & Bishop's Bibles
plus original Hebrew/Greek documents, completed 1610/printed 1611, 20K copies, 1 per Church in England;
in 1885, the British & Foreign Bible Societies excluded the 14 from a revised version )
Download The Bible (KJV), The Gospels,
and The New/Old Testaments, in .mp3 audio format
(.mp3 audio of: The King James Bible KJV, La Biblia Reina Valera, & in Mandarin plus
scripture selections from the KJV and WEB encoded for email, Luke in 30 languages, .
and Nuevo Testamento y Salmos, plus
the Polish Bible [narrated selections],
The Gospels and Psalms in Arabic, The Psalms in Croatian,
Hebrew Old Testament,
and the New Testament in:
Hindi,
Cantonese,
Tamil,
Telegu,
Urdu,
Tagalog,
Slovak,
Punjabi,
Bengali)
[ link src: God and Country ]
International (NIV)
(Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Indian Malayalam,
Vietnamese)
Revised Standard Version (RSV) (Virginia.edu)
[Old and New Testaments, with the
Apocrypha
(..often not included in Protestant Bibles, they were translated
and included in the original King James Bible of 1611)] View
a "frames" side-by-side presentation of the King
James and Revised Standard Bibles, for easy comparison.]
Bio-Medical Texts, Books, Biology
(UCSD Libraries:Electronic Texts)
e.g. Charles Darwin, "The Descent of Man";
Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition;
Origin of Species, 6th Ed.
Book Search Tools:BookFinder.com
(search online retailers in English, French, German and Italian
for new, used, rare, out of print, and international books for sale;
by Abebooks, Inc., Canada)
ISBN
(search online retailers for books by author, title, subject, or all three, or enter an ISBN & compare prices;
by Glenn Fleishman, Seattle, Wa., US)
NetLibrary.com®
(NetLibrary's member library patrons can search full-text of 100K+ digitized books, ebooks, eJournals, reference resources and listen to 37K+ audio books [can also download] with free access online, by nonprofit Online Computer Library Center, Inc. [OCLC])
(may require a library card number)
• How to access NetLibrary eContent
RedLightGreen.com
(database of 130M+ bibliographies and books in local libraries, search by keyword, author, title, and ISBN searches; from RLG, a non-profit collective of libraries & institutions)
BookPALS: Storyline Online
(link source: SBC Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE).
KNE Quote:
"The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline
Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading
childrens books aloud. As of 2004, there were 10 stories available.
{..children can dial a toll-free-number
to hear a book read by an actor anytime, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week);
PencilPals
KNE Quote: "( - designed to make reading and writing
a first person experience for children in elementary and middle
schools [K-8] by setting up "pen pals")"
BookFinder
KNE Quote: "( - a searchable database of read-aloud picture books
on a wide range of topics)."
[KNE info - Grade Level: Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School;
Content Area: Arts (Literature), Community Interest (Leisure), English
(Literature), English (Reading) [Dewey #028]
Application type: Information Resources]
Books-On-Line (advertisements, mostly, most are free 50K+ books, movie scripts, & USAF (United States Air Force) publications)
"Chasing the Wind"
[a continuing computer security series, cyberwar]
by Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP, a Systems Security Specialist in San Antonio, Texas.
He is also active as a Perl Monger, an Internet Technologist, and a literary humorist.
He has been involved with (primarily Unix) systems programming, administration,
and security on and off since 1977.
(chapters index)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, unabridged in
Real Audio
from Wired for Books with
great interviews, Shakespeare plays in RA
,
Virgil's "The Aeneid Book IV", "The Illiad", "The Tale of Peter
Rabbit",
Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart",
Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", and
poetry online in Real Audio.
Arabic - Chinese - Japanese - Korean
of Harrold's Education Links
:
downloads
English
Deutsch
Pycc
(NetLibrary's member library patrons can search full-text of 100K+ digitized books, ebooks, eJournals, reference resources and listen to 37K+ audio books [can also download] with free access online, by nonprofit Online Computer Library Center, Inc. [OCLC])
(may require a library card number)
from Wired for Books with
great interviews, Shakespeare plays in RA
from
to locate some sites, moving images, texts, audio, software, & education links
