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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.

[science-junkie]

… and here is a gift for all of us.

[aletheladyinred]

Culture should be free for everyone

[caffiend-queen-deactivated20260]

I will ALWAYS reblog this. Everyone has the right to pursue their education. 

[escapistcorner]

BOOKS!!! 🔍 📚

[escapistcorner]

Nothing to see here by Kevin Wilson is one of the best books I read these months. Although sometimes it is hardly make sense "children randomly combust", but it makes sense. You guys know what I am talking, right? 🥸

The storytelling is really fantastic. I really like the concept of children combusting literally as it is metaphorical. To you guys, who have children or to those who have experience in cohabitation with children, I salute you. I can't imagine how much trouble did my parents and siblings would gone through to babysit me until my turn to babysit 😊.

I can deeply related to Lillian as I am now being given the honor of babysitting my nephew (sometimes I literally wait for him to combust but alas nothing odd have happened yet 🧐)

This book is witty, quirky and odd yet beautifully written. My fav quote of this book is:

"Who would judge you?" she asked. "Who do you know who's done a good job? Name one parent that you think make it through without fucking their kid up in some specific way"

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I started 2021 with Poet X and it blows my mind. I was meaning to read it long time ago but I'm glad I picked it up this year. It really deserve all the hype going around for this book.

Poet X is written in verses but don't let that discourage you. I rarely read or listen to poetry coz most of the time I feel like I don't get it. But the lyrical and powerful sound of Elizabeth Acevedo made me fall for X since the very first beginning of the book. 🥰

X short for Xiomara and her coming of age slam poetry diary is beautiful and heartwarming. As a teenager, X struggle with everything changing around her, her strict mother didn't help her situation either so she wrote down her frustrations, passions and everything going on with her life written into a leather notebook.

Along with X, we saw how X is trying to fit in this bitter world. X is not perfect and flawless but those imperfection and flaws of her character is the best fit for this book and for us to root for.

This book made you depressing but it would lift you up again in no time. The emotional rides with X is what I miss most of the time. This book is honest, incredible, beautiful, heartbreaking, yet very impactful.

I highly recommend to those who haven't read it and intend to read it! If you can, listen to audiobook told by Elizabeth Acevedo herself. You would not be disappointed!

"The world is almost peacful when you stop trying to understand it" - X

Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[surprise-suprise]

First and foremost, rest in power to those who have to give up their lives to brutality of security forces. (At least 3 fatality) To those who are on the brink of live and dead and injured people, please know that our prayers are with you!

In international women's day, we should be celebrating this day instead we still have to grief again. As for today, we use Htamein (longyi, sarong) to protest against the dictatorship in many cities.

During last month and this, we see heroic women leading, participating and supporting the protests. Most of all, sacrificing their lives for us! Women have been on the front line, we had been brutally hit, unlawfully arrested, cruelly treated and drag out by the security forces but we have never back down. We never once said to the sons and daughters to not go to the protests. We never think twice to sacrifice to save others. We never surrender. We risk our all to fight against injustice. We never hesitate to give away our foods to the protesters. We are the first ones to participate in CDM. We are the ones leading the protests. We are the ones who are open to ideas and suggestions. We are fighting for equality for all and our democracy at the same time. We raised our three fingers when the protests pass-by. We never look away from injustice. As long as we live, the world will be a better place, kinder place, fairer place. We hold the power as much as the man. We are half of our population.

I want to not only honor the women who would be the role models of next generations but also the men who show solidarity and stand together to fight for humanity.

Today we use Htamein (longyi, salong) as our flag, our symbol for equality, to crash the patriarchy, to destroy the taboos! We are stronger together! We are not to be left behind! We are half the population! We play our roles!

I called out to those who believe women are less worthy, less spiritual power (bhone) than men - Shame on you!

No matter the genders, colors and beliefs, We Are Homo Sapiens! Equality for all is everyone's right!

Our Htamein ⚡ Our Flag ⚡ Our Victory

To the men who wear Htamein on their head, to show the people we are equal and Longyi did not make you less bhone (spiritual power) than those of women's. Thank you for showing your solidarity and humanity! Thank you for joining hands in fighting the long rooted patriarchy in our country!

Women and men wearing Htamein (longyi) on their head and body to show solidarity to equality for all!

Photo credit to original posters, friends and news outlets

Myanmar women risk it all to challenge the junta

Since 1988, Myanmar women have been the backbone of the fight for democracy.

"The international community must recognise the courage of the women of Myanmar and stand with them in their fight for democracy."

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.

[stargazing-at-the-moon-deactiva]

YES

[amysnotdeadyet]

also technology breaks at random, and sometimes you just suddenly feel a thousand years old

[variablejabberwocky]

everybody has a half dozen names and none of them are their “real” name.

which name(s) you know gives you different powers over them.

there are Rules but you mostly have to figure them out for yourself.

getting the Rules wrong or breaking them can cost you more than you ever even knew you had.

Maximum Horny at all times

be careful what you wish for or you just might get it

Gift Of Prophecy

Illegal Use Of Bones

[escapistcorner]

So true!

[pauliedraws]

New animation. From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 

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I created this blog purely to escape from my reality but I will not escape from what happened in Myanmar today. I didn't expect that the internet and mobile connection would be cut off for +10 hrs after my last post.

Please read this post and share it around!!!!

There is also a rumour that the internet and mobile connection will be cut off at 2nd Feb midnight. So this may become my last post!!!

See you on the other side!

Photo credit - Listen Up Myanmar http://listenupmyanmar.com/

[escapistcorner]

Karen M. McManus' - "never saw that coming" YA mysteries!

Karen M. McManus thrillers always keep me out of reading slumps.

One of Us is Lying is my favorite ❤️.

One of Us is Next is the sequel I never knew I needed🤩.

Two Can Keep A Secret's last line keep me awake at night🤔.

The Cousins is the family drama that I've lived for☺️.

All of the endings make me realize I am not a good mystery solver as I thought. 😅

What is your favorite Karen M. McManus book?

What books keep you out of reading slump?

[escapistcorner]

The Song of Achilles had been on my TBR for so long and I picked this for bookly winter readathon!!!

I'm very regret that I didn't pick this up sooner!!! 😓

I really like how Madeline Miller retold Achilles and Patroclus' story.🤩 The Song of Achilles is heartbreaking yet beautiful. The portrayal of Achilles from Patroclus' view is humane and sympathetic. We get to experience the Trojan War and meet all the legendary heroes and kings through Patroclus. But it is Patroclus who proved again, and again that he is the best of them all.😊

If you haven't read this book, read it now! I can guarantee The Song of Achilles is an excellent read!❤️

To those of you who read it, leave your thoughts! 📝 Can't wait to hear from you guys! 😀

[escapistcorner]

Rereading PJO with my nephew and just realized that Clarisse called Annabeth "wise girl" first!!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[knifesonyu]

the 99!!!!

[thspecials]

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood, for nothing now can ever come to any good.

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

[yiqing]

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