Online references
Bartleby offers a large number of references online, many of them public domain and available elsewhere, like Project Gutenberg, many of them not.
Some highlights are:
- The American Heritage Dictionary,
- The American Heritage Book of English Usage
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
- Gray’s Anatomy
- The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
- The Encyclopedia of World History
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- The Harvard Classics
- Bulfinch’s Mythology
There are tons more.
Elsewhere you can find the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. And For convenient downloading (and sharing), Project Gutenberg offers large numbers of books packaged as CDs and DVDs. Get them with BitTorrent to ease their server load.
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