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Originally Posted by ekbell
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Thanks for that, I wasn't at the stage of getting to this series but...
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Originally Posted by ekbell
For those who want to save money here is a site that lists the contents of GTTGB https://www.thegreatideas.org/gbgateway.html which includes the birth and death dates for authors and I'd expect that most of the works should be possible to find at public domain sites. |
...I'll probably link to this site (above) when I do.
My aim is to link to existing reputable sites - <1> The Wayback Machine's 06/08/2019 archive of the University of Adelaide's eBooks@Adelaide <2> Project Gutenberg <3> Librivox <4> Wikisource.
If Encyclopedia Brittanica have an issue with them I'll un-link them but the ones I'm seeing are the 1st edition from 1952 and not their later 1990 edition so not sure why they would.
After creating placeholder pages for all the 1st edition volumes, I'm going to do a quick search for the GBOTWW online which are downloadable (at the moment they only seem to be on the Internet Archive). My aim is to then focus on one book every week and...
- Link to the GBOTWW volumes that can be borrowed online (again on the Internet Archive)
- Link to other downloadable copies of the work (I'm doing Homer right now and I have found 8 different editions/translations of the Iliad so far)
- I am going to merge in free downloadable audiobooks (Librivox have 6 editions of the Iliad)
- Add some links to analysis
- ...and maybe give my own thoughts on the work for what they're worth.
Most of that is just searching, browsing, linking. I'm going to make the effort to get a sense of what the book is and it's significance whilst I'm doing that. It will be a snapshot as of the week I made each page <shrugs> a wiki would be better I suppose so that others could help to create or update it. That could easily be done at a future point in time though.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Cheers
K