Other Literature Sites on the Web

[cinematography]

i m a student of english ltr. and lang. and i need for my studies over literature,periods,authors,movements and Bible...
if u know usefull sites with good content please let me know, thanks in advance...

[Robert E Lee]

I too would like to know if there are any sites out there that have information, essays, reviews, etc on literature in general.

[Zeno]

spark notes might be good

[iret]

i really need some info about the short story "vendetta", the charaterization and setting and what role it plays in the story. if anyone knows where i can find this... please mail me A.S.A.P! THNX! :)

[rex_yuan]

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

If you have any questions, or not satisfied, pleasse contact me. :rolleyes:
[email protected]

[boogernut]

Does anybody know any other sites like www.online-literature.com (here)
where you can read real books online?

Thanks in advance!:lol:

Thanks Amorphous!

[Amorphous]

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Is the best I know of.

[boogernut]

Some people have to know of some :(

[applepie]

I can't think of any. I found this one, and I just stuck with it. It is a great site, so I never bothered to look further. You can buy etexts pretty cheap at eBooks.com. Hope that helps, but I'm not too sure if that is what you are looking for.

[Bakiryu]

You should do a web search, i found the Lit-net by searching for Women and Feminism on literature!

[NikolaiI]

I think I probably found this site by searching for Dostoyevsky online..

Um, yeah, gutenburg is good, there are a couple others. A lot of times you can find what you're looking for just by searching for it, and that might be a good way to find other sites like this one. I found thishttp://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PasThou.html site when I searched for Pascal "Thoughts"...

Here is an index? http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/ I came here but I didn't find exactly what I was looking for (I was trying to find philosophy texts..) but I think it can be good if you are looking for American or English literature maybe.

Here are some more. :)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm (sacred texts)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/index.htm (legends and sagas)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/index.htm (celtic folklore)

There was another of which I was thinking, but I can't find it now. I remember it had on it that one famous old piece of philosophy which I never read. Uh, some famous name, I think it started with a B, and he was at the end of his life and then writing this. I can't remember anything else, but if you find his name and search for it, you're likely to find this site I am thinking of...it was a collection of old and obscure writing I think. I thought it had the Songs of Ossian, but I just found the sacred-texts sites. Anyway good luck and all.

[Bakiryu]

(Who's Dostoyevsky?)

[NikolaiI]

(Who's Dostoyevsky?)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The Brothers Karamazov was his last work. He is widely regarded as the best or one of the best Russian authors. He lived in the 19th century, died 1880s. A few months before he died there was a big ceremony honoring him, and all of Russia wept of his death...before he died he was hailed as a saint, a genius, a prophet, a speaker for the Russian people, all of that...a very interesting life. He was sent to prison for supposedly being in a radical element or something...then he wrote a book about being in prison.

Nietzsche loved him. I think I read he was describing that he picked up Dostoyevsky by chance like Schopenhaur...anyway he was influenced by him at least, and I think he said he got more from Dostoyevsky than any psychologist.

So anyway, Dostoyevsky is a russian author from the 19th century. :]

[Bakiryu]

Oh! Thank You. I love Nietzsche, so I'll see if I can find these books. I can only afford thrift store tittles now, so books are really hard to find. Wish me luck!

[NikolaiI]

Oh! Thank You. I love Nietzsche, so I'll see if I can find these books. I can only afford thrift store tittles now, so books are really hard to find. Wish me luck!

Actually if you type in "dostoyevsky works" into google, online-lit is the first on the list. Yay, Lit-Net! Baki, here are some other titles from Dostoyevsky. I also mentioned Tolstoy on your blog, as you will see...I've only read one book by him, Anna Karenina but liked it immensely. They are both very great authors, and I am also a big fan of Chekhov.

There was an early story by Dostoyevsky you might really like, called "The Double:A Petersburg Poem." Some other good ones are "The Gambler," and "Notes From The Underground." "The Double" has the main character Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, it describes he goes to work a day and then sees someone who looks exactly like them, and things begin to spiral out of control quickly; very soon the "double" takes over at his work, and later his house. It's very exciting. It was nice, I read it when I slept overnight at my friend's house, in the hot tub while listening to the beatles, and then in bed. It was a fabulous experience.


* Белые ночи (White Nights) (1848)
* Елка и свадьба (A Christmas Tree and a Wedding) (1848)
* Слабое сердце (A Weak Heart) (1848)
* Честный вор (An Honest Thief) (1848)
* Вечный Муж (The Eternal Husband) (1870)
* Мужик Марей (The Peasant Marey) (1876)
* Сон смешного человека (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) (1877)
* Кроткая (A Gentle Creature, sometimes translated as The Meek Girl) (1876)


"A Gentle Creature" I've also seen translated as "The Meek One." "A Weak Heart" is also translated as "A Faint Heart." I've only read one translation of it, but I highly recommend this short story to you, find it and read it as quickly as you can. That is, don't go out of your way to find it, but if you already going to expend the energy to get a book, get this one, "A Faint Heart." That is, it's not like life-changing, but in a way it can be if you get to like Dostoyevsky. It's a very touching and very moving story, an easy and enjoyable read, short. "White Nights" is sort of a romance story set in Petersburg. Has some great quotes. "A Christmas Tree and A Wedding" I remember reading, but I cannot think what it's about.
"The Eternal Husband" is a novella, I believe, and a couple are novels. These are his major works, as listed by Wiki:


The Double: A Petersburg Poem, Netochka Nezvanovna, The Village of Stepanchikovo, The House of the Dead, The Insulted and Humiliated, A Nasty Story (alsoA Nasty Anecdote, An Unfortunate Incident)Notes from Underground, The Gambler, The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov, A Writer's Diary

That's in chronological order, so I guess The Brothers Karamazov wasn't the last. I've seen A Writer's Diary but I haven't read it yet.
-So, the first is really good. I've never read the second or third, but I've heard the third is good, or classic. Before the forth he was arrested for political reasons, although he hadn't done anything wrong. They sent him to siberia where he lived from 1849 until they released him in 1854. He wrote The House of the Dead then, based somewhat on his experience, although I haven't read this either. Interestingly, he was originally to be shot, if I remember right, but was saved at the last instant and sent to prison. A world champion, or at least international chess player, or two was saved in this fashion.

uh, here you are boogernut. http://dostoyevsky.thefreelibrary.com/ this should be of help, i just found it. also, enjoy your stay here at lit-net, and i hope you stay a long time.

[bazarov]

(Who's Dostoyevsky?)
:( I thought Monroe's doctrine concerns only political issues :(


http://www.sharewareebooks.com/
http://www.lib.ru/
http://www.bibliomania.com/
http://www.readbookonline.net/
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://jrusk.tripod.com/russian/russian.html
http://ilibrary.ru/author/



That's in chronological order, so I guess The Brothers Karamazov wasn't the last. I've seen A Writer's Diary but I haven't read it yet.

Yes, The Brothers Karamazov are his last book. Writer's diary is not a book, those are his thought and ideas he wrote in his newspapers (Građanin - The Citizen on English) for about 10 years before his dead 1881. Concerns mostly politic and literature criticism.



Before the forth he was arrested for political reasons, although he hadn't done anything wrong. They sent him to siberia where he lived from 1849 until they released him in 1854. He wrote The House of the Dead then, based somewhat on his experience, although I haven't read this either. Interestingly, he was originally to be shot, if I remember right, but was saved at the last instant and sent to prison..

Great book. Dostoevsky said that that changed him totally, had a tremendous influence on his works.

[KidTruth]

Hey everyone - I'm new here, I'm an English major from Texas. I've been enjoying this site a lot, and posting as much as I can - I was wondering, are there other sites on the web that are as fun for literature geeks like myself? I've heard a lot of mention of "Lit Net," could I get a link to this site?

Thanks yos.

[Niamh]

This is Lit net.:)

[NikolaiI]

:lol: :)

There's another thread about this somewhere...