- Terrence Berres's Virtual Study (Reading Rat)
-- Want some suggestions on what to read? Terrence Berres has done an excellent job of organizing some possibilities. These are the books which Francis Bacon would advise one to devour. Bon appetit!
- The Western Canon
-- Good links to the great books and other online literature. Paul John Barnette, Jr, the editor of this site moderated an excellent e-mail discussion list which covered one work each month. Selections included works by Veblen, Milton, Descartes, Ibsen, Machiavelli, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare, and the Federalist Papers. There is an archive of the discussion, organized by work. This discussion group is no longer active.
- The GB-BookClub
-- Chetlen Crossnoe has organized an open-membership e-mail group to discuss specific great books, one book per month.
-- This group is discussing Aristotle's Politics (Books 1 and 2) in June 1998, and will discuss the New Testament books Matthew and Acts of the Apostles in July, and Book 1 of Don Quixote in August 1998.
- Center for the Study of The Great Ideas
-- Great ideas seminars and other activities related to ethics, politics, and moral philosophy.
-- The Center operates a members-only online discussion seminar which is currently covering the First Year course of study. These seminars are moderated by a skilled discussion leader.
- Great Books Foundation Home Page
-- Great books discussion groups.
- The Great Books of Western Civilization (Mercer University)
-- Course reading lists.
- Great Books Reading List 1
-- A recommended "first reading list" for the great books.
- Great Books Quiz at Brock University
-- An enjoyable quiz for readers of the great books.
See also the home page of Brock's Great Books/Liberal Studies Programme, the list of books read in the programme, and their links to other great books sites.
- Redwood Couch Orchids - Links Page
-- The Redwood Couch Orchids are a reading group in Humboldt County, California which has been meeting and reading for the past five years. Their motto: "Know Thy Shelf". Their links page connects to specialty pages for over 30 authors. Via the menu on their home page you can see this successful group's reading lists.
- Concordances of Great Books and Literary Classics
-- Online searching for key words in over 100 classics of fiction, drama, history, philosophy and religion. Site developed by Bill Williams. Fast and easy to use.
- Robert Teeter's Greats Books List
-- Many interesting reading lists and links.
LINKS TO OTHER ONLINE LITERATURE SITES
- Project Gutenberg Home Page
-- The premier project on the Net for making texts freely available.
[Exhortation: Project Gutenberg does not charge anything for its work, all done by volunteers, but it still has some operating costs. By my estimate about 25 percent of the net's literature is a result of Project Gutenberg's efforts. Other electronic publishers freely use Gutenberg's editions, without attribution or payment (as was intended). If you are enjoying reading books online, please consider sending a donation to Project Gutenberg, something comparable to what you would have paid in a used bookstore for that reading and felt was a bargain.]
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
-- A good collection of medieval and classical literature in HTML.
- Internet Classics Archive
-- Another good collection of classical literature in HTML.
- Project Perseus
-- Classical Greek literature in English and Greek.
- The Online Books Page
-- A collection of links to online books.
- Malaspina College links to online literature
-- Large number of links to literature, libraries, and booksellers.
- Literature Resources Page by Gene R. Thursby
-- Good links. Camus, Kierkegaard, Kafka, John Updike.
- Classical Political Theory Web Sites
-- Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Boethius, St. Thomas Aquinas.
- Intellectual History Links
-- Online reference works, student compositions and other resources.
- Incorporated Words Web Magazine
-- Some interesting articles and some off-the-wall comments about great literature.
- Literary Cryptograms
-- Enjoy solving cryptograms? Quotations taken from literary works.
- Childrens Literature on the Web
-- Good resources for classic and modern childrens literature.
