Showing posts with label listas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label listas. Show all posts

December 31, 2024

Perguntas de fim de ano impossíveis de responder

 


Ainda agora me enviaram uma pergunta para porem a resposta num post de uma rede social: "qual o melhor livro que leste em 2024?" Não sei responder a isso! Como é que é possível lembrar-me de todos os livros que li? Só se tivesse anotado tudo o que li. Por exemplo, neste Natal deram-me estes livros: 

Comecei a ler O Homem que Gostava de Cães, que é sobre Trotsky e o seu assassino, Rámon Mercader, bem como os horrores da ditadura totalitária comunista-soviética. Também já li o primeiro conto das Histórias de Ted Chiang, Tower of Babylon, por sinal muito bom.

Hoje, dado que vou ficar por aqui porque não me apetece ir para lado nenhum para festas e muito menos oganizá-las, quero ler mais uma porção de, O Homem que Gostava de Cães e ainda A Origem da Ciência

Ontem reli estes dois livros, embora um deles não totalmente mas uns capítulos  que me interessavam -o de Karl Jaspers que é editado pela Hanna Arendt- porque ando a organizar ideias sobre um assunto e precisava de lembrar-me ao certo do racionalismo iluminista de Kant e das suas ideias acerca da história e do seu progresso.

A questão é que, se bem que haja dias em que leio pouco -dois ou três artigos literários, filosóficos ou científicos- na maioria dos dias leio muito.

Esperar que um leitor se lembre de todos os livros que leu num ano e qual o melhor deles é o mesmo que esperar que um cozinheiro se lembre de todas as comidas que comeu e qual a melhor ou esperar que um cinéfilo se lembre de todos os filmes que viu e qual o melhor, etc.

Enfim, se tivesse mesmo que responder escolhia um livro de um filósofo. Por exemplo, dois que li recentemente: este de Kant ou o Tratado da Natureza Humana de Hume que reli há um mês e tal por causa de uma formação - mas não sou capaz de dizer qual deles é o melhor. Ambos são o melhor. Todos os livros dos filósofos são, todos eles, o melhor e nisto não há contradição. Cada filosofia de cada filósofo é uma resposta a outra filosofia de outro filósofo e nesse diálogo contínuo em espiral, todos têm insights, respostas e soluções para os problemas humanos que não se anulam mutuamente, antes são todas, em parte, válidas e supra-temporais. 

January 17, 2022

Listas - 47 filmes para quem se interessa por Filosofia





Lista de Zizek! (tradução minha com adaptações)



Filmes com pensadores:

* Zizek!

* Examined Life

* Derrida

* The Ister

* The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema

* Being In The World (2010)



Filmes com filósofos como personagens:

* Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (2001)* (Tony Steedman como Socrates)

* When Neitzsche Wept (2007)* (Armand Assante como Friedrich Nietzsche)

* The Last Days Of Immanuel Kant (1994) (David Warrilow como Immanuel Kant)

* The Alchemist Of Happiness (2004) (Abol Reza Kermani como Ahmad al-Ghazali)

* Um Estrangeiro em Porto Alegre (1999) (Nelson Diniz como Albert Camus)

* Cartesius (Ugo Cardea como René Descartes)

* Blaise Pascal ( Pierre Arditi como Blaise Pascal)

* Socrates (Jean Sylvère como Socrates)

* Socrates (1982)* (James Mason como Socrates)

* Augustine Of Hippo (Dary Berkani como St. Augustine)

* Beyond Good & Evil (Erland Josephson como Friedrich Nietzsche)

* Wittgenstein (Clancy Chassay como Young Ludwig Wittgenstein)

* Alexander (Christopher Plummer como Aristotle)



Experiências de pensamento famosas ou discussões de problemas filosóficos famosos:


* Rashomon – Introdução geral à Subjectividade/Objectividade

* Groundhog Day – Interpretação moderna de O Mito de Sísifo

* Being There – Realidade socialmente construída; o que gosto de chamar O Problema da Comunicação

* Being John Malkovich – A Subjectividade Inescapável da Mente Humana

* I ♥ Huckabees – Adaptação flexível da História da Filosofia em forma Narrativa

* A.I. – Qualquer filme que tenha robôs que pensem como os humanos

* Eternal Sunshine – Materialismo; Metafísica das memórias

* Minority Report – Livre arbítrio/determinismo

* The Matrix – A maioria das pessoas dirá que tudo isto se baseia na caverna de Platão. Eu penso no Dualismo Cartesiano. A principal razão para isto é que não se está no mesmo corpo quando se está na Matriz. É a famosa distinção entre consciência e corpo de Descartes.

* The Truman Show – Esta é a verdadeira Caverna de Platão dos filmes modernos. Embora Truman nunca abandone a caverna.

* Thank You for Smoking – Rétorica Pré-Socrática/Pós-Moderna

* A Clockwork Orange – Identidade da Pessoa; Teoria Política; Justiça; blá blá blá blá

* Lake Of Fire – Considerações éticas sobre o aborto

* Inception – Este filme é recente e está no centro de uma discussão feroz, que é o sangue vital da investigação filosófica. Tema: embora se possa argumentar que Nietzsche precedeu Freud na descoberta do inconsciente, a versão freudiana está na linha da frente em, Inception. O método psicanalítico de Freud teve muito a ver com os sonhos e como eles nos afectam e descrevem. Também o cepticismo cartesiano, ou «O Problema do Mundo Externo», estão presentes.

* Pi – A Ontologia dos Números

* Waking Life – Oferece de facto uma secção transversal algo realista da experiência académica filosófica. Alguns pensadores soam como se estivessem a apresentar brilhantemente soluções reais para problemas reais, alguns parecem estar a dizer algo perspicaz mas não são suficientemente articulados, alguns são demasiado esotéricos para dizer e outros estão simplesmente a consumir drogas.

* Stranger Than Fiction – O Individuo autêntico

* Ikiru – Ser-para-a-morte

* The Seventh Seal – A angústia do absurdo

* The Gods Must Be Crazy – Nem consigo contar quantas vezes este filme foi referenciado nas discussões sobre o "Ser e Tempo" de Martin Heidegger. A garrafa de coca-cola é uma peça de equipamento que de repente aterra numa cultura sem a totalidade referencial das garrafas de coca-cola. Como tal, para os bosquímanos, a garrafa de coca-cola deixa de ser um equipamento, embora retenha a disposição-à-mão como o seu modo de ser.



Filmes que apresentam as ideias de filósofos particulares:


* Nietzsche (2003)*

* My Night At Maud’s

* Nietzsche and the Nazis (2006)*



Filmes baseados em Novelas escritas por filósofos famosos:

* The Stranger (de Albert Camus)

* Le Journal Du Séducteur (1996) (de Soren Kierkegaard)

* The Fountainhead (de Ann Rand)



Outros:

* The Elegant Universe (2003)

* M.A. Numminen Sings Wittgenstein (1993) M.A. Numminen, acompanhado por Pedro Hietanen, canta um excerto do Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus de Ludwig Wittgenstein no seu estilo inimitável. -imdb

December 06, 2021

What do you love?

 


Livros para todos os gostos e paixões.

 

  1. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  2. The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  3. Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
  4. 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.
  5. Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  6. Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  7. Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  8. Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  9. The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  10. Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  11. Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  12. Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  13. Fiction.usFiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  14. Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.


Textbooks

If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.

  1. Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
  2. Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
  3. KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
  4. Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
  5. Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
  6. MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
  7. Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
  8. Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
  9. Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
  10. eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.


Math and Science

Turn to this list to find books about math, science, engineering and technology.

  1. FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
  2. Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.
  3. Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
  4. Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
  5. FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
  6. Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.


Children’s Books

Even children’s books are now available online. Find illustrated books, chapter books and more.

  1. byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
  2. Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
  3. International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
  4. Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.


Philosophy and Religion

For books about philosophy and religion, check out these websites.

  1. Bored.comBored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.
  2. Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.
  3. Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.
  4. The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.
  5. Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.


Plays

From Shakespeare to George Bernard Shaw to more contemporary playwrights, visit these sites.

  1. ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
  2. Plays: Read PygmalionUncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
  3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
  4. Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
  5. ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.


Modern Fiction, Fantasy and Romance

These websites boast collections of graphic novels, romance novels, fantasy books and more.

  1. Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
  2. The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
  3. Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
  4. Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
  5. Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
  6. The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
  7. Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
  8. John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
  9. SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.
  10. Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.


Foreign Language

For books in a foreign language like French, Spanish and even Romanian, look here.

  1. Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.
  2. ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.
  3. Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.
  4. Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.
  5. Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.
  6. KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.
  7. Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.
  8. Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.
  9. Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.
  10. Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.
  11. Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.
  12. Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.
  13. Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.
  14. CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.
  15. Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.


History and Culture

Refresh your memory of world history, the classics and U.S. history here.

  1. LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
  2. The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
  3. Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
  4. Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
  5. 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

Look for rare books online here.

  1. Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.


Arts and Entertainment

This list features books about celebrities, movies, fashion and more.

  1. Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
  2. 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.
  3. Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
  4. 2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
  5. Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
  6. Free Web design booksOnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
  7. Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
  8. Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.


Mystery

Here you can find mystery books from Sherlock Holmes to more contemporary authors.

  1. MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
  2. TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
  3. Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.


Poetry

These poetry sites have works by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

  1. The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
  2. Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
  3. Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
  4. Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
  5. Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
  6. QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
  7. CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
  8. PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.


Miscellaneous

For even more free book sites, check out this list.

  1. Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
  2. World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
  3. DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the more recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
  4. A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
  5. Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
  6. ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
  7. Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
  8. Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

SOURCE: JUSTENGLISH.ME ; bachelorsdegreeonline


December 29, 2020

Listas e outras cenas

 


Estamos naquela altura do ano em que as pessoas fazem listas, nomeadamente dos livros que leram. Isso não faço porque foram tantos e já estão arrumados nos sítios e agora ir lá buscar e ver quais foram dá muito trabalho, de modo que pus, em vez disso, a lista dos que estão a ser lidos (alguns, não ponho aqui o Hegel ou outros que ando a estudar) ou vão sê-lo proximamente.

Entretanto, hoje já andei 7.000 passos -já fui ao mercado às maçãs e à ourivesaria pôr uma pilha no relógio- e como tenho que sair à tarde, vou passar os 10.000 😊

O negócio da ourivesaria vai de vento em popa. Quem olha para ela não dá nada por aquilo mas está sempre com movimento, seja em que altura do ano for.

Enquanto esperava que o indivíduo pusesse a pilha no relógio entraram 6 homens a comprar ouro: para a mãe, para a filha, para a mulher, para a sobrinha... 

Quando saí estavam, um homem e uma mulher à porta para entrar. Enquanto lá estive pus-me a olhar as cenas nas montras e comprei uma pulseirinha de prata para alegrar o braço. Desde que fiz os tratamentos de rádio, onde não se pode entrar com metal, desabituei-me de andar com anéis, brincos, pulseiras, fios ou o que fosse, mas agora resolvi voltar a usar. É uma coisa que alegra. E hoje comprei esta pulseirinha porque vai bem com uns brincos que herdei da minha avó Beatriz, que os recebeu do pai dela, o meu bisavô, que viveu uma data de anos no Brasil (foi para lá enriquecer) e os trouxe de lá em forma de libras de ouro peruanas (século XIX) e mandou fazer uns brincos para lhe oferecer. Agora, enquanto a pulseira durar -isto deve oxidar em três tempos- vou andar com eles.


não é gira?

December 18, 2020

E-books gratuitos de tudo e mais um par de botas

 


100 links para websites com e-books grátis sobre os mais variados tópicos. Em inglês - em português pouca coisa cultural existe.

 

  1. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  2. The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  3. Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
  4. 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.
  5. Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  6. Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  7. Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  8. Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  9. The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  10. Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  11. Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  12. Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  13. Fiction.usFiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  14. Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

Textbooks

If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.

  1. Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
  2. Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
  3. KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
  4. Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
  5. Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
  6. MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
  7. Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
  8. Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
  9. Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
  10. eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

Math and Science

Turn to this list to find books about math, science, engineering and technology.

  1. FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
  2. Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.
  3. Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
  4. Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
  5. FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
  6. Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

Children’s Books

Even children’s books are now available online. Find illustrated books, chapter books and more.

  1. byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
  2. Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
  3. International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
  4. Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

Philosophy and Religion

For books about philosophy and religion, check out these websites.

  1. Bored.comBored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.
  2. Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.
  3. Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.
  4. The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.
  5. Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

Plays

From Shakespeare to George Bernard Shaw to more contemporary playwrights, visit these sites.

  1. ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
  2. Plays: Read PygmalionUncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
  3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
  4. Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
  5. ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

Modern Fiction, Fantasy and Romance

These websites boast collections of graphic novels, romance novels, fantasy books and more.

  1. Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
  2. The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
  3. Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
  4. Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
  5. Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
  6. The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
  7. Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
  8. John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
  9. SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.
  10. Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

Foreign Language

For books in a foreign language like French, Spanish and even Romanian, look here.

  1. Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.
  2. ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.
  3. Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.
  4. Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.
  5. Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.
  6. KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.
  7. Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.
  8. Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.
  9. Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.
  10. Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.
  11. Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.
  12. Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.
  13. Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.
  14. CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.
  15. Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

History and Culture

Refresh your memory of world history, the classics and U.S. history here.

  1. LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
  2. The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
  3. Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
  4. Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
  5. 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

Look for rare books online here.

  1. Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

Arts and Entertainment

This list features books about celebrities, movies, fashion and more.

  1. Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
  2. 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.
  3. Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
  4. 2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
  5. Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
  6. Free Web design booksOnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
  7. Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
  8. Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

Mystery

Here you can find mystery books from Sherlock Holmes to more contemporary authors.

  1. MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
  2. TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
  3. Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

Poetry

These poetry sites have works by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

  1. The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
  2. Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
  3. Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
  4. Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
  5. Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
  6. QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
  7. CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
  8. PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

Miscellaneous

For even more free book sites, check out this list.

  1. Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
  2. World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
  3. DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the more recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
  4. A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
  5. Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
  6. ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
  7. Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
  8. Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

SOURCE: JUSTENGLISH.ME ; bachelorsdegreeonline

 


November 30, 2020

Lista de desejos

 


Este ano não é bom para ninguém, mas foi pior para quem se foi. Nas escolas o trabalho deve estar esquizofrénico. Eu estou aqui numa alternância de chateada, assustada: num mês ponho-me a comer chocolates e corações, sobe-me o açúcar no sangue e engordo - fico chateada; no mês a seguir só como bróculos e couves e pouco mais e desato a emagrecer - fico assustada. Agora estou assustada. Porque isso e mais aquilo e mais a outra coisa acerca da outra coisa podem querer dizer, outra coisa. E estamos quase em cima da data de ficar deprimida. Até já desatei a escrever cenas poéticas. As outras é que estão atrasadas. Não tenho paz de espírito. Enfim...

Desejos para os próximos tempos? 

Em geral:

- que ninguém morra;

- que os governantes tenham consciência da realidade do país;

- que os corruptos tropecem nas linhas dos eléctricos ou em pedras da calçada, torçam um pé e tenham que ficar inactivos durante 5 anos;

- que as vacinas do covid cheguem a toda a gente;

- que as vacinas do covid sejam o que prometem, para trazer de novo os turistas (in)desejados antes que o país se afunde ao largo do cabo de S. Vicente;

- que o Natal seja seguro;

Em particular? 

- que a família fique bem e os amigos também;

- e isto; 

- e mais isto;

- e ainda isto.

É só isto.