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Welcome to The Pauls' Reading room. There is an awful lot here so be sure to take your time looking around. Besides listing books and periodicals, I will start by providing links to a few online book repositories. From this page you will be able to obtain the text from literally thousands of books... enjoy!!

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NEWSPAPERS

San Francisco Chronicle on The Gate
Philadelphia Inquirer
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online
Miami Herald Online
HoustonChronicle.com
The Denver Post Online
BILD online
WELT online
Welcome to BERLINER MORGENPOST International
Chicago Tribune
The Village Voice Worldwide
Boston Globe Online
Welcome to TheWIRE
newsday.com / Home Page of Newsday / Long Island and Queens, New York
The New York Times on the Web
Welcome to washingtonpost.com
Los Angeles Times Web Site
The Washington Times-Front Page
The New Bedford Standard-Times
Welcome to The Greenwich Village Gazette

PERIODICALS

TV Guide
mostNEWYORK | HOME
New York Monk Magazine
New York Magazine
Arachnion. A Journal of Literature and Ancient History on the Web
LIFE Magazine Homepage
NATIONAL ENQUIRER ONLINE
Marijuananews Home Page
National Geographic magazine: @ nationalgeographic.com
Reader's Digest World
Atlantic Unbound | The Atlantic Monthly
Archaeology Magazine
Discover Magazine

ART

Paintings and Biographies

Web Museum Exhibit
World Wide Arts Resources

Psychedelic Art

Art by Dempa
Art by Bjorn Nalle Pett
Art by Bengvall
Art by Speed
Laughing Tiger Studios
JC Ball

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PHILOSOPHY AND THE GREEKS

Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)

Of God and His Creatures
Summa Theologica

About Thomas Aquinas:

D.J. Kennedy St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy

General Background

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

Categories
History of Animals
Metaphysics
Meteorology
Nicomachean Ethics
On Dreams
On Generation and Corruption
On Interpretation
On Longevity and Shortness of Life
On Memory and Reminiscence
On Prophesying by Dreams
On Sense and the Sensible
On Sleep and Sleeplessness
On Sophistical Refutations
On the Gait of Animals
On the Generation of Animals
On the Heavens
On the Motion of Animals
On the Parts of Animals
On the Soul
On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing
Physics
Poetics
Politics
Posterior Analytics
Prior Analytics
Rhetoric
The Athenian Constitution
Topics

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 b.c.)

Agamemnon
Cheophori
Eumendides
Persians
Prometheus Bound
Seven Against Thebes
Suppliants

Aristophanes (c. 445- c. 380 b.c.)

The Acharnians
The Birds
The Clouds

Saint Augustine (354-430)

Augustini Confesiones Latin text

Confessions (English)
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
Book 11
Book 12
Book 13

On Christian Doctrine
de dialectica latin text
de dialectica english text
99 Sermons and other writings
Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love

Background:


James J. O'Donnell


Augustine: Christ and the Soul
Augustine: Elements of Christianity
Augustine: Chrisianity and Society
An Introduction to Augustine's Confessions
Augustine: Reconsiderations

Papers

Haakon Sorenson See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Francis Bacon

The Essays
The New Atlantis

The Bible

The World Wide Study Bible
Bible Gateway (search utility)

Background

Stephan E. Robinson Background for the Testaments
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Backgroumd:

Facts on Descartes
Mathematics-Descartes
Rene Descartes 1596-1650
Rene Descartes and the Legacy of Mind/Body Dualism

Texts:

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

R.W. Emmerson

Essays: First Series
Essays: Second Series
American Scholar
Conduct of Life

Euripedes (c. 480-406 b.c.)

Alcestis
Andromache
The Bacchantes
The Cyclops
Electra
Hecuba
Helen
Heracleidae
Hippolytus
Ion
Iphigenia at Aulis
Iphigenia at Tauris
Medea
Orestes
Phoenissae
Rhesus
The Trojan Women

Homer ()

The Iliad
The Odyssey

William James (1842-1910)

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Friedrich Nietzsche

Also Sprach Zarathustra (Deutsche)
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Menschliches, Allzumenschliches
Vermischte Meinungen und Spruche
Der Wanderer und sein Schatten
Twilight of the Idols
from on the Genealogy of Morals
from Beyond Good and Evil
from The Gay Science
Assorted Mixed Opinions and Maxims

Plato (c. 428-c. 348 b.c.)

Crito
The Republic
Chaemides, or Temperance
Critias
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Ion
Laches or Courage
Laws
Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Philebus
Timaeus

Lao Tse

Tao Teh Ching

Virgil (70-19 b.c.)

Aeneid
Bucolics
Bucolics in Latin
The Eclogues
The Georgics
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MUSIC

George Crumb

Music: Does It Have A Future?

Jim Morrison

The complete writings of Jim Morrison

John Phillip Sousa

The Fifth String

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LITERATURE

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes
The Return of Tarzan
The Beasts of Tarzan
The Son of Tarzan
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
A Princess of Mars
The Gods of Mars
The Warlord of Mars
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
At the Earth's Core
The Lost Continent
The Monster Men

Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
The Hunting of the Snark

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carrol
Great Expectations
The Chimes

John Milton

Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained

Lucy Maude Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

Edgar Allen Poe

The Cask of Amontillado
The Pit and the Pundulum
The Assignation
The Tell Tale Heart

William Shakespeare

Comedy

All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Winsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer's Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

History

Henry IV part 1
Henry IV psrt 2
Henry V
Henry VI part 1
Henry VI part 2
Henry VI part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III

Tragedy

Anthony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Bram Stoker

Dracula

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenia
War and Peace
The Forged Coupon and other stories
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Devil
The Gospel in Brief
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
The Kreutzer Sonata
Epilogue to Kreutzer Sonata
Master and Man
S.T. Semenov's Peasant Stories

Photos:

Photo Album of Tolstoy and Chertkov

Mark Twain

A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sketches New and Old
Tom Sawyer
What is Man? and Other Essays of Mark Twain
The Writings of Mark Twain Volume XX

Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

Voltaire

Candide

H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds

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POETRY

William Shakespeare

The Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Funeral Elegy

Collections

Sonnet Central

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PSYCHEDELICS

William Bradden

The Private Sea

Paul DeRienzo

The Ibogaine Story

Micheal Hollingshead

The Man Who Turned on the World

Aldous Huxley

Doors of Perception

Brian Inglis

The Forbidden Game

Journals and Newsletters

M.A.P.S. Newsletter Backissues

Art Kleps

Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

Dr. Timothy Leary

Books:

Starseed
High Priest
The Politics of Ecstasy
Flashbacks
Chaos and Cyberculture

Documents:

Prison/Exile
Harvard Archives
Millbrook Archives

Pictures:

Photo Album

Media:

Press Clippings

John Marks

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

Carol Marshall

The Last Circle

Terrence McKenna

Collected writings on or about Terrence McKenna

Nicholas Saunders

E for Ecstasy

The Psychedelic Experience

A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
(By Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., & Richard Alpert, Ph.D.)

Charles S. Tart

On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication
States of Consciousness

Huck Getty Mellon Von Schlebrugge

Surfing the Conscious Nets

Alan W. Watts

The Joyous Cosmology

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SCIENCES

Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species

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REFERENCE

Encyberpedia(tm) by Bob Kerstein
MECCA - Chess Encyclopedia

John Bartlett (1901)

Familiar Quotations

Dictionaries

Webster's Dictionary
Rhyming Dictionary 1