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Book Lists

 Three of the most extensive on-line book collections are:

Another great list of pointers to more pointers about books (definitely worth looking at) is UIUC's List of Book Lists

The IBIC's Virtual Literature page is another great resource.

CMU's English Dept. also offers a substantial collection of on-line works, and is certainly worth a visit.

Libraries

 The ultimate US library, the Library of Congress, is now Webbed.
Biblomania (U.S. mirror) has lots of good works on-line.
Literature.org sounds good, but I've been unable to get to the site.
The University of Michigan's Internet Public Library is a cool site with lots of on-line goodies.
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet is available, but currently unfunded. Alex allows search and retrieval (by author and title) of full-text documents on the Internet by author and title.
BIBSYS is a shared library system for most major Norwegian libraries. You can Search BIBSYS using WWW forms.

Reference Section

 Merriam-Webster online dictionary

William Strunk's The Elements of Style, 1918 edition, is on the web and looking good. Please read this before writing another sentence.

This is a part of Project Bartleby, The Public Library of the Internet.

Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science provides a page of On-line Reference Works.

Need a definition? Look it up in Webster's Dictionary.

The Jargon File is online, providing relieve to the millions groping for the proper definition of the term "hacker".

In other words... (1911 Roget's Thesaurus).

An interesting on-going project is the Interpedia, the project to build a freely accessible Internet encyclopedia with access to any of the resources on the Internet. Just an idea, but an attractive one.

OK, well, quotations aren't necessarily reference material, but where else was I gonna put it, huh? So, here they are:

Links to Fantastic Places

Favorites of Mine

 Some personal favorites of mine are linked here for your reading pleasure (and my ease of access :) ).
The Poets' Corner - 1,442 poems from 293 poets (at last count).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets From The Portuguese
John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901 edition (and has anyone really said much worth quoting since then?)
The Once and Future King has an Arthurian Booklist at MIT's RTFM FAQ archives.

Authors

 Tolkien fans, check out these pages: ElendorMUSH is a really good Middle-Earth MUSH. The telnet address is dana.ucc.nau.edu 1892.
C. S. Lewis homepage
The Bard has the complete works of The Great One. Don't miss this one.
The Robert A. Heinlein FAQ is available on the Web.

The Back Room

 Assorted verses from my fevered brain
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