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- From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: Question About Online Resources
- Message-ID: <C0AJEE.1uI@world.std.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 18:30:14 GMT
- References: <9301031758.AA22626@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
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- >any suggestions you might have for that part. What, btw, is the best site
- >for Shakespeare's works? Is the OED online anywhere? Thanks for any help.
- > --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
- > in serious mode...
-
- The OED is online (well, the "concise" version anyway): telnet
- info.rutgers.edu, select "library", then "reference". The Oxford
- Dictionary of Familiar Quotations is also available there. Very easily
- searchable.
-
- IMHO, the best place online for Shakespeare is Project Gutenberg. Any of
- the following will getcha 'dere:
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- ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu, in /etext directory
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- ftp quake.think.com, in pub/extext directory
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- U. of Minnesota Gopher: Libraries/Electronic Books
-
- Via WAIS: proj-gutenberg.src
-
- For general info on the project, email hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
-
-
- Lots of other fun stuff at Gutenberg too: Alice in Wonderland, Federalist
- Papers, ad infinitum...if it's literature and don't got a copyright, it's
- probably in there somewhere.
-
- PG Newsletters, indexes and a README file are supposedly available at the
- mrcnext ftp site.
-
- --Aaron
-