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These articles collectively present an overview, including critiques, of Great Books educational methods:

• 'Where Did Great Books Come From Anyway?' by W B Carnochan, Stanford Humanities Review
• 'Why the Great Books Aren't the Answer' by Patrick Deneen, Minding the Campus
• 'Special Collections Tells the Story of a Cornerstone of American Education' by Carrie Golus, University of Chicago Chronicle
• 'Who Killed Homer?' by John Heath and Victor Davis Hanson, Stanford Magazine
• 'A Critical Appraisal of the St. John's College Curriculum' by Sidney Hook, The New Leader
• 'The 'Five-foot Shelf' Reconsidered' by Adam Kirsch, Harvard Magazine
• 'The Book-of-the-Millennium Club' by Dwight Macdonald, The New Yorker

Further resources about the "Great Books" or offering book lists:

• Thomas Aquinas College's explanation of The Great Books and its four-year Syllabus
• The Booklist Center
• Bureau of Public Secrets, especially the Gateway to the Vast Realms
• Reading Rat
• Center for the Study of Great Ideas
• Classic Learning Text
• The Classics Club
• Eclectic Indulgence
• Excellence in Literature
• The Graphic Canon
• The Great Books Academy
• Great Books and Classics
• Great Books Lists
• Great Conversation
• The Greatest Books
• A List of Books
• List Muse
• My Harvard Classics
• National Great Books Curriculum Academic Community
• 100 Best Books for an Education: A Revision and Update
• Online Great Books
• Roman Roads Media
• St. John's College's Great Books Curriculum Reading List
• Shimer College's Liberal Arts Curriculum
• Thinking West
• The Well-Trained Mind
• Woman of Letters

Bibliographic and other information crucial to the creation of this site, besides being obtained from World Cat, Wikipedia, copies of the literary works themselves, and bibliographies, came from the following sites:

• China Knowledge
• The Encyclopaedia Britannica
• The Library of America
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• The Nobel Prize
• The Poetry Foundation
• Translation

Sites offering "full text" scans of literary classics:

• AnthroBase
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, at Infomotions
• Site of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
• Authorama
• Avestan Digital Archive
• Bibliomania
• Sir Thomas Browne
• Buddha Net
• Buddhist E Library
• Robert Burns, at the B B C
• Catallus Translations
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Classical Utilitarianism Web Site (C U W S)
• Classic Reader
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Early Jewish Writings
• Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection
• Hume Texts Online
• The Internet Classics Archive
• IntraText Digital Library
• LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
• The Literature Network
• The Literature Page
• Logos Virtual Library
• Medicina Antiqua
• The John Milton Reading Room
• The Modernism Lab at Yale University
• National Institute of Newman Studies
• The Online Books Page
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Perseus Digital Library
• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Some Texts From Early Modern Philosophy
• Soto Zen Text Project
• The Tertullian Project
• The University of Oxford Text Archive
• Victorian Short Fiction Project
• Words

Additional similar sites:

• Louisa May Alcott Society
• The Augustinian Institute
• Authors' Calendar
• The Bibliographical Society of America
• The Ambrose Bierce Project
• Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum
• Karen Blixen Museum
• A Blog of Bosh: The Edward Lear Home Page
• The Bookman's Answer
• Brain Pickings
• Robert Burns Country
• The Captain Cook Society
• Lewis Carroll Society
• The Classics Circuit
• Classics in the History of Psychology
• Conrad First: The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive
• Creating the Ultimate List: 100 Books to Read Before You Die
• Darwin Online
• Dickens Society
• Digital Book Index
• Digital Yoknapatawpha
• Doollee
• The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• The English Literary Canon
• Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
• Episteme Links
• Erratic Impact: Philosophy Research Base
• Gita Govinda Interactive Multimedia Project
• Good Short Novels
• Haldeman-Julius: Pocket Series and the Little Blue Books
• Hermitary: Resources and Reflections on Hermits and Solitude
• Jeremy Norman's History of Information
• Infinita
• The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
• International John Bunyan Society
• International Dostoevsky Society
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Internet Sacred Texts Archive
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kant in the Classroom
• The Keats-Shelley House
• The Kipling Society
• Lardnermania: An Appreciation of Ring W Lardner and His Work
• Antonj van Leeuwenhoek "Father of Microbiology"
• Libri Vox
• Lifetime Reading Plan
• Livius
• Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
• Macumbeira
• Malaspina Global Portal
• D. J. McAdam's Guide to Stamp Collecting, Book Collecting, and Literature
• Melville Society
• The Middle English Compendium
• Modern British, Irish, and American Drama: A Descriptive Chronology, 1865-1965
• Toni Morrison Society
• Multicultural and World Literature Anthologies
• Old Book Illustrations
• Orwell Society
• Papyri
• Pathways through Literature
• Penguin Books 75th Anniversary
• Philosophy Pages
• Plato and His Dialogues
• Poetry in Translation
• Pragmatism Cybrary
• The Reading Room
• Riddley Walker Annotations
• Russian Art and Books
• Sexual Fables
• Smart Scholar's Philosophy Education Resource Guide
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Stoa Consortium
• Jonathan Swift Archive
• The System of W. B. Yeats's A Vision
• The Tannisho
• Theory and History of Ontology
• Tolkien Society
• Universal Short Title Catalogue
• Ur.text
• The Victorian Web
• Web Exhibits
• The Edith Wharton Society
• World History Encyclopedia
• Writers No One Reads
• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Finally, somewhat of a secret section of Greater Books: the Veritable Addendum.