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Its in these these Great Books Index
These are my Golden Collections
http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
This Site is all about online book reading, it provides the online editions of famous book articles. This index is at attempt to guide readers to available online editions of those and other great books.
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Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 âclassicâ Public Domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
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Worldwide School
http://www.worldwideschool.org/default.htm
The best place on the Internet to learn just about anything. Just read, click and learn. We wish you the best. This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. To participate in the World Wide School all you need to do is to invest your time.
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Bralyn Archive
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/
This Site allows you to select a document from a listing of documents grouped by their author. Authors are listed alphabetically(A-Za-z). There are 1,862 Texts indexed. New texts are added to the indexing database nearly every other day, so check back often.
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The Library of Economics and Liberty
http://www.econlib.org/library/classics.html
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of classic economic books, essays, reports and resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought. Amazing resource.
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Free Self-Help Books
http://www.absolute1.net/free_self-help_books_online.html
For a powerful and inspiring reading experience:
Downloadable self-help and motivational books on development of confidence, These books contain inspirational prayers, success affirmations, powerful positive words of wisdom and inspiring quotes and healing thoughts.
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Knowledge Rush
http://www.knowledgerush.com/Books.htm
Great collection of books, categorized by Alphabetical orders titles & authors. You can view them in plain text or html format, and you can download them just by right-click the âtextâ tag.
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Bartleby
http://bartleby.com
Excellent resource for students, researchers, with a huge online database, providing unlimited access to books and information online, free of charge. Bartleby.com also provides the complete 70 volumes of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time.
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Ibiblio
http://ibiblio.org
A Site which provides a vast range of free information on books and article with the help of professional librarians. Huge database of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
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ReadPrint
http://www.readprint.com
A Free online library. The website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index.
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Liberty Classics
http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
This site offers a list of the classic books and other works on constitutional government and law. You can download in HTML, Text, WP, PDF, RTF, Word or Image formats.
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Authorama
http://www.authorama.com
Authorama features completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected for you to read online or offline. This site will be regularly updated with new freeware stories. Enjoy Reading
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Classic Book Library
http://classicbook.info/index.html
A free online library containing treasured classics for old and young alike. From authors such as Jules Verne to L. M. Montgomery, the Classic Book Library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to anyone with a passion for reading. Good Science books also. Useful Site.
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University of Virginia
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/text/
Many great collections and old rare manuscripts and books here. And poetries and novels of the old times
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Project Gutenberg
http://gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). Currently up to 20,000 free Public Domain e-Books available from classic literature, treatises, notes, to discourse and all of it in downloadable e-format.
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Its in these these Great Books Index
These are my Golden Collections
http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
This Site is all about online book reading, it provides the online editions of famous book articles. This index is at attempt to guide readers to available online editions of those and other great books.
1 VERIFIED
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 âclassicâ Public Domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
2 VERIFIED
Worldwide School
http://www.worldwideschool.org/default.htm
The best place on the Internet to learn just about anything. Just read, click and learn. We wish you the best. This site is dedicated to the collection, preservation and presentation of educational material. To participate in the World Wide School all you need to do is to invest your time.
3 VERIFIED
Bralyn Archive
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/
This Site allows you to select a document from a listing of documents grouped by their author. Authors are listed alphabetically(A-Za-z). There are 1,862 Texts indexed. New texts are added to the indexing database nearly every other day, so check back often.
4 VERIFIED
The Library of Economics and Liberty
http://www.econlib.org/library/classics.html
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of classic economic books, essays, reports and resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought. Amazing resource.
5 VERIFIED
Free Self-Help Books
http://www.absolute1.net/free_self-help_books_online.html
For a powerful and inspiring reading experience:
Downloadable self-help and motivational books on development of confidence, These books contain inspirational prayers, success affirmations, powerful positive words of wisdom and inspiring quotes and healing thoughts.
6 VERIFIED
Knowledge Rush
http://www.knowledgerush.com/Books.htm
Great collection of books, categorized by Alphabetical orders titles & authors. You can view them in plain text or html format, and you can download them just by right-click the âtextâ tag.
7 VERIFIED
Bartleby
http://bartleby.com
Excellent resource for students, researchers, with a huge online database, providing unlimited access to books and information online, free of charge. Bartleby.com also provides the complete 70 volumes of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time.
8 VERIFIED
Ibiblio
http://ibiblio.org
A Site which provides a vast range of free information on books and article with the help of professional librarians. Huge database of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
9 VERIFIED
ReadPrint
http://www.readprint.com
A Free online library. The website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index.
10 VERIFIED
Liberty Classics
http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm
This site offers a list of the classic books and other works on constitutional government and law. You can download in HTML, Text, WP, PDF, RTF, Word or Image formats.
11 VERIFIED
Authorama
http://www.authorama.com
Authorama features completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected for you to read online or offline. This site will be regularly updated with new freeware stories. Enjoy Reading
12 VERIFIED
Classic Book Library
http://classicbook.info/index.html
A free online library containing treasured classics for old and young alike. From authors such as Jules Verne to L. M. Montgomery, the Classic Book Library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to anyone with a passion for reading. Good Science books also. Useful Site.
13 VERIFIED
University of Virginia
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/text/
Many great collections and old rare manuscripts and books here. And poetries and novels of the old times
14 VERIFIED
Project Gutenberg
http://gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). Currently up to 20,000 free Public Domain e-Books available from classic literature, treatises, notes, to discourse and all of it in downloadable e-format.
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Antebellum American literature?
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I'm currently writing a discursive essay on How literature impacts upon our society.'
The term literature I am using to portray old books, I do not consider books written in this century literature, even if they are extremely well written I am not interested in considering them for this essay.
I posted a question about my arguments and case studies, many thanks to Mike Y for answering, to whom I'm much obliged.
He offered me an idea of exploring an antebellum American piece of literature, I did a little research on the topic as I am British and do not know much of American literature other than the very famous ones, I do hope to read more of it now though.
Basically I'm looking for a piece of Antebellum American Literature (Preferably one that is quite famous) but most importantly I'm looking for one that depicts people as a certain thing, perhaps woman as inferior to men &c, &c. Again thanks to Mike Y for the idea. (:
Anyway, any suggestions of a piece of Antebellum American Literature would be great.
Thanks;
~Kirsten
Answer
You're welcome, Kirsten. Apparently I have no life and answer people's writing questions all day on my day off. =P I had a lot of works in mind, actually. The best choice might be the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper. A little background:
When Alexander the Great's soldiers conquered a country, one thing they did to reduce conflict between the natives and themselves was to have children with the native women. This is something Cooper sort of does in literature with Natty Bumppo: a white man raised by Native Americans. So his character can be seen as good for American society at the time because it showed readers the Native American way of life, which was in danger due to loss of land/resources, and suggests that Native Americans are in fact people.
On the other hand, Bumppo can also be seen as a stereotype. Many passages in the novels are monologues that are so melodramatic that they're almost ridiculous. So what might be bad about him is that he suggests all Native Americans are fearless warriors who shed a tear every time a buffalo is shot. (Similar to Rousseau's 'noble savage' nonsense).
You're welcome, Kirsten. Apparently I have no life and answer people's writing questions all day on my day off. =P I had a lot of works in mind, actually. The best choice might be the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper. A little background:
When Alexander the Great's soldiers conquered a country, one thing they did to reduce conflict between the natives and themselves was to have children with the native women. This is something Cooper sort of does in literature with Natty Bumppo: a white man raised by Native Americans. So his character can be seen as good for American society at the time because it showed readers the Native American way of life, which was in danger due to loss of land/resources, and suggests that Native Americans are in fact people.
On the other hand, Bumppo can also be seen as a stereotype. Many passages in the novels are monologues that are so melodramatic that they're almost ridiculous. So what might be bad about him is that he suggests all Native Americans are fearless warriors who shed a tear every time a buffalo is shot. (Similar to Rousseau's 'noble savage' nonsense).
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