talle91
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FAMOUS AUTHORS
Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
TEXTBOOKS
Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.
MATH AND SCIENCE
FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.
Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.
Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.
Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.
The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.
Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.
PLAYS
ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.
MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE
Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.
Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.
ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.
Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.
Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.
Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.
KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.
Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.
Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.
Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.
Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.
Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.
Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.
CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.
HISTORY AND CULTURE
LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.
RARE BOOKS
Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.
MYSTERY
MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.
POETRY
The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.
MISC
Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.
Senk ju for träveling wis Deutsche Bahn.
Trains infuriate me.
Terry Pratchett knew what was up.
This is from Going Postal.
Original pin-up by Rick Bryant from Return of the Jedi #2, published by Marvel Comics, 1983.
I heard recently that you can tell a lot about a person by the first movie they know Tim Curry from and I literally can’t stop thinking about it.
so say in the tags what’s the first movie you know Tim Curry from. Mines muppets treasure island
When you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish them, and send this ask to the last 10 people in your notifs! 🎵
1. The last of the real ones from Fall Out Boy
2. You’re gonna go far, kid from The Offspring
3. I‘m shipping up to Boston from the Dropkick Murphys
4. Joker and the thief from Wolfmother
5. The sound of San Francisco from the Global Deejays
Among others, these are the songs I like to listen to when I'm cycling, going for a walk or at the gym.
But I also love the music from the Bluey series.
Silly Game Time: Assuming you're comfortable with sharing it, what image is your phone's background and/or lockscreen?
My background picture is our dog who died two years ago.
The background of the lock screen changes every hour between my favourite people or four-legged family members.
Silly Game Time: The fifth most recent image you saved or shared (either by reblogging it, saving it directly to your device, or making it yourself--you choose) is how next week is going to go.
What is it? And on a scale of 1 to 10, how's your outlook?
The fifth most recent picture on my phone would be my daughter on a pumpkin. (Please don't judge 😅. The pumpkin sculpture hype has also reached us).
Happy, with her cuddle bee and flashing boots.
So I would say: balanced and content.
Silly Game Time: Would you rather spend a year constantly being aware of an unpleasant odor (not a stench, just a bad smell) ... or a year where all your food and drink has very bland flavors (not a bad taste, just barely any taste)?
That's really difficult. I love good food and not being able to taste it properly is terrible. On the other hand, I remember what it was like to be very sensitive to odours. Which is also very annoying in the long run.
At the end of the day, I'd like to be able to forget the unpleasant odour for a short time, at least while I'm enjoying good food. So the former.
Silly Game Time: What's a live-action movie or play you think would be cool to see animated (or with the Muppets if you're a fan of them)?
Avengers endgame would be ultra fun, but certainly a lot of work.
Silly Game Time: WRONG ANSWERS ONLY! How do you win a football game?
I always have a bag full of fleas with me. These are great for distracting opposing players.
(I assume you meant American football right? I was thinking more of soccer, which is called football here.)
Silly Game Time: What's the first song that comes to mind right now?
Too Sweet from Hozier
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Silly Game Time: If you were to be the patron deity of something (the way the Muses are goddesses of different artforms, Tlaloc is a rain god, Amaterasu is a sun goddess, and Anansi is a god of stories and trickery), what would you choose? It can be as broad or as specific as you like.
I would like to be the muse for self-love and acceptance. To help others see what makes them special.
Silly Game Time: What are 3 things that can reliably make you smile?
(CHALLENGE EDITION: Use a random letter generator for all 3, and find something that begins with those letters which makes you smile reliably.)
I -> irritated dogs. I love how they tilt their heads.
G -> goofing around with my SO
A -> Appreciation. It doesn't matter whether I can show appreciation to the people around me or whether I am appreciated myself. It simply makes me very happy.
Silly Game Time: Bringing back a crowd favorite! If you had to talk about something for an hour--anything at all, no matter how bizarre or niche--what subject would you choose?
I find it difficult to focus on a single topic. I love just talking to someone about anything and letting the conversation take its course.
Found this lovely tidbit on Twitter. Couldn’t agree more.
Terry wrote 75% of Good Omens <3 video link <3
Silly Game Time: ASIAN ANIMAL TIME! Use a random letter generator, then look up Asian animals that start with that letter. What's one of them? Post a picture of it!
Crocodile.
More precisely, the Siamese crocodile.
Silly Game Time: Who are the protagonists of two stories you really enjoy? (could be from any media: movies, shows, novels, games, comics, etc.) (yes, OCs count)
AND, in a cooking competition, which of them would win?
Okay. This might be a bit of a culture shock, but on the one hand I love Bingo from the Bluey series. Don't judge me, I came to this series through my toddler and have taken it very much to my heart.
Secondly, I'm a big Good Omens fan and particularly like Aziraphale.
Let's move on to the cooking competition:
Aziraphale loves food very much, but I doubt he would be able to make anything edible without a miracle. However, Bingo has already helped her parents with the cooking and has even managed to make something edible on her own. Albeit not really enjoyable 😅.
Silly Game Time: Would you rather spend one year in a zero gravity environment (like a space station) or one month in a completely underground bunker?
Adequate food, water, entertainment, and company from other people are supplied in both. Physical safety from the environment are guaranteed in both (though I guess you could be really clumsy or start a fight if you wanted? point is, there will be no meteorites or earthquakes).
I would prefer the space station and, in the hope that it doesn't cause any problems, go absolutely crazy in zero gravity. In the style of old cartoons. A bit like Tom and Jerry.
Silly Game Time: Share a dumb joke with us! The dumber, the better!
If English isn't your first language, you can share a dumb joke from your native language (in fact, I'd almost prefer that).
Laufen zwei Zahnstocher den Berg hoch und werden plötzlich von einem Igel überholt.
Sagt der eine zum anderen:
„Ach - hätte ich gewusst dass ein Bus fährt, wäre ich mit dem gefahren!“
Two toothpicks run up the hill and are suddenly overtaken by a hedgehog.
One says to the other:
"Oh - if I had known there was a bus, I would have taken it!"
