Classics

On http://classics.mit.edu/index.html, you can access the entire works of Plutarch, Livy, Tacitus, Thucydides, plus the Confucian Analects, the Tao-te Ching and Kayyam's Rubayiat. You can also read the lifetime diary of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the tender day-to-day entries of a young Marie Antoinette. On other sites, you can peruse the original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the famous "ghosted" diary of Daniel Boone. As for Alexander the Great, he is more robustly alive on the internet than in books. This is where the action is. Not only are his lifestyle, mindset, and quotes hotly debated, but you'll get updates on the competitive search for his tomb.

Bartleby.com Poetry, fiction, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Grey's Anatomy; if it's a book you were ever required to research in a 7th grade "library skills" unit, chances are good that you'll find it here. How can you not love a site that encompasses Einstein's theory of general relativity, Theodore Roosevelt's memoirs, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Anna Karenina, and poems by Gertrude Stein?

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