วรรณกรรม WANAKAM World Classics in Thai

Online dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri, glossaries, word banks

• Good links page for dictionaries: www.softouch.on.ca/rc/diction.htm

Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: www.m-w.com Download their very useful toolbar from www.merriam-webster.com/downloads.htm]
• American Heritage Dictionary: www.bartleby.com (audible pronunciation)
• Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com/public/contents.htm Purchase their Oxford Talking Dictionary CD - less than B200 at Pantip Plaza
• Dictionary of Science and Technology: www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/apr00/web1.htm
• Engineering dictionary, Thai-English, English-Thai (พจนานุกรมศัพท์ช่างวิศวะ):
• Dictionary of philosophical terms and names: http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/index.htm
• Slang dictionaries: http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/Slang/
• Find a quotation: http://www.quotesandsayings.com/finquoteframes.htm
• IT dictionary: www.widebase.net/itterm/termindex_0.htm
• Popular dictionary (English-Thai Dictionary) free download: http://www.populardictionary.com/downloads/index.htm
• Sor Sethabut dictionary (English-Thai Dictionary) พจนานุกรม สอ เสถบุตร free download: http://www.thaisoftware.co.th/dict5.htm
• Thai Idioms, Thai-Thai (พจนานุกรมสำนวนไทย ) : www.police.go.th/chil3.htmlThe Royal Institute Dictionary (เครือข่ายพจนานุกรมราชบัณฑิตยสถาน): http://rirs3.royin.go.th/riThdict/lookup.html

Encyclopaedia

• The Columbia Encyclopedia: www.encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopaedia Britannica: www.britannica.com Commercially oriented
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: www.bartleby.com/cambridge
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_novelists_by_nationality
• Classics in psychology history: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/index.htm

• Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project (สารานุกรมไทยสำหรับเยาวชน) : http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp6/GENERAL/encyclopedia/saranugrom.htm
• Tripitaka (พระไตรปิฎกออนไลน์) : http://www.tipitaka.com/
• Tripitaka download (พระไตรปิฎก ฟรีดาวน์โหลด) : http://dharma.school.net.th/tipitaka/offline/
• Libraries on the Web in Thailand (ห้องสมุดวิทยาลัยและมหาวิทยาลัยทั่วประเทศไทย) : http://arc.rint.ac.th/lib/thailib.html

Word banks

• Cutting-edge English at Wordspy: www.wordspy.com/index.asp Daily newsletter
• World Wide Words: www.quinion.com/words Weekly newsletter
• A word a day: www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

Free e-book readers

• Spacejock's yBook: www.spacejock.com 3.6 MB For reading Gutenberg books or your own documents
• BookReader: www.rudenko.com/ebook.html 917 K
• Microsoft Reader: www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.asp 3.58 MB

Free e-books

• Good links pages: UT Library Online: www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Etext.html
Also, The Online Books Page: digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Webrary Web Sites for Book Lovers: www.webrary.org/rs/rslinks.html

Main e-text publishers

• Best download site: Blackmask: www.blackmask.com/page.php More than 15 000 titles, eight download options

• Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.net/find.php More recent titles at gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html About 10 000 titles, mostly in antiquated ASCII format
• Bartleby: www.bartleby.com The Harvard classics, a bunch of paragraphs at a time
• Bibliomania: www.bibliomania.com The greats; strictly for reading, a page at a time
• Darkwing: darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm Works printed in English between 1477 and 1799
• Eldritch: www.eldritchpress.org Eclectic, swift
• Litrix: www.litrix.com Read or download chapter per chapter
• Luminarium: www.luminarium.org/sevenlit Classy presentation; medieval, Renaissance and 17th century texts
• Perseus: www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Parochial
• Under the Sun: underthesun.cc/Classics Read or download one chapter at a time
• Virginia: etext.lib.virginia.edu
• World Wide School Library: www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/byauthor-aaaatop.html Read or download a chapter at a time

• AmVerse -- http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/ The name says it all
• Emule: www.emule.com/poetry Idem
• Women: digital.library.upenn.edu/women Idem
• Sacred Texts: www.sacred-texts.com Amen

Thai literature (in English)

Thai literary sites (in Thai)

• Thai Writer: http://www.thaiwriter.net
• The Little Prince (เจ้าชายน้อย): http://www.geocities.com/piggyfoon
• Don Quixote (บทละครสู่ฝันอันยิ่งใหญ่): http://www.geocities.com/sathit_ropple
• Ramakian (รามเกียรติ์) : http://www.ramakian.cjb.net
• สามก๊ก : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4735/samkok000.htm
• Samgler Connection (เรื่องชุดสามเกลอ - พล นิกร กิมหงวน ของ ป. อินทรปาลิต): http://www.samgler.org/home.shtml
• ว่ายเวิ้งวรรณศิลป์ (รวมวรรณคดีไทยทั้งของเก่าและร่วมสมัยที่หาอ่านได้ยาก เช่น นิราศนรินทร์): http://www.geocities.com/thailiterature/
• Old Dreamz (วรรณกรรม-วรรณคดีไทย): http://www.olddreamz.com/
• นิทานเวตาล : http://www.geocities.com/thailiterature/

Other Asian literary sites (in English and/or in French)

Publishers worldwide

• Good links site: www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/email-ad.html
• Art & Letters Daily: aldaily.com With links to periodicals and other news media