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Online Literature - read works of various authors online
« on: June 29, 2006, 12:33:07 AM »
http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php

The Literature Network offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. Over 1200 full books and over 2000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Quotations database has over 8500 quotes.

Authors include Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Orwell and many more.

For example to read Sherlock Holmes go to:
http://www.online-literature.com/doyle/
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Re: Online Literature - read works of various authors online
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2006, 02:41:44 AM »
http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php

The Literature Network offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. Over 1200 full books and over 2000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Quotations database has over 8500 quotes.

Authors include Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Orwell and many more.

For example to read Sherlock Holmes go to:
http://www.online-literature.com/doyle/


here are a few more links:

http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html
http://www.literature.org/

while i am more an old-fashioned reader and like to settle down in a comfortable chair and thumb through the pages back and forth, these online resources do have their uses, esp. when looking to post an extract!



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