Library & Links

Welcome to the Liberal Arts Society online library. Here you can find free to access online editions of almost all LAC texts. Please note, however, that these are not the translations recommended by the college, and sometimes use rather antiquated language. Most of these texts are provided by gutenberg.org, however where possible dedicated websites have been provided.

LBCL 291
Book Class Number Dedicated Website Gutenberg & MIT Classics
The Bible 291 [BibleGateway]
Plato, Republic 291 [MITClassics]
Thucydides, Peloponnesian Wars 291 [MITClassics]
Aristotle, Politics 291 [MITClassics]
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 291 [MITClassics]
Google Drive Readings (Cicero) 291
Machiavelli, N., Prince 291 [Gutenberg]
Machiavelli, Discourses on ivy 291 [Gutenberg]
More, Utopia 291 [Gutenberg]
Pascal, Pensées 291 [Gutenberg]
Descartes, Discourse on Method 291 [PDF] [Gutenberg]
Hobbes, Leviathan 291 [PDF] [Gutenberg]
Google Drive Readings (Aquinas, Petrarch, Pico, Luther, Calvin, Theresa) 291
LBCL 292
Book Class Number Dedicated Website Gutenberg & MIT Classics
Course Reader (available at Concordia Bookstore) 292    
Hebrew Bible 292 [BibleGateway]  
Homer, The Odyssey 292   [Gutenberg]
Sophocles, Oedipus the King 292   [MITClassics]
Aristophanes, The Clouds 292   [MITClassics]
Plato, The Symposium 292   [MITClassics]
Aristotle, Poetics 292   [MITClassics]
Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe 292   [MITClassics]
Virgil, The Aeneid 292   [MITClassics]
Ovid, Metamorphoses 292   [MITClassics]
St. Augustine, The Confessions 292   [Gutenberg]
Dante, The Divine Comedy 292 [Digital Dante]  
Boccaccio, The Decameron 292 [Decameron Web] [Gutenberg]
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales 292 [Harvard’s Chaucer] [Gutenberg]
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel 292   [Gutenberg]
Montaigne, Essays 292   [Gutenberg]
Cervantes, Don Quixote 292   [Gutenberg]
Shakespeare, King Lear 292 [Folger Shakespeare] [Open Source Shakespeare]  
Milton, Paradise Lost 292   [Gutenberg]
Madame de Lafayette, The Princesse de Clèves 292   [Gutenberg]
LBCL 393
Book Class Number Dedicated Website Gutenberg & MIT Classics
Pope, Essay on Man 393 [Epistle 1][Epistle 2] [Gutenberg]
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels 393 [Gutenberg]
Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew 393 [PDF] [Gutenberg]
Kant, Critique of Judgement 393 [Gutenberg]
Shelley, Frankenstein 393 [Gutenberg]
Goethe, Faust 393 [PDF] [Gutenberg]
Austen, Pride and Prejudice 393 [Molland’s] [Gutenberg]
Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 393 [PDF]
Stendhal, The Red and the Black 393 [Gutenberg]
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling 393 [Gutenberg]
Melville, Moby Dick 393 [PowerMobyDick] [Gutenberg]
Whitman, Leaves of Grass 393 [WhitmanArchive] [Gutenberg]
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 393 [PDF] [Gutenberg]
Flaubert, Madame Bovary 393 [Gutenberg]
Eliot, Middlemarch 393 [Gutenberg]
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground 393 [Gutenberg]
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra 393 [Gutenberg]
Conrad, Heart of Darkness 393 [Gutenberg]
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard 393 [Gutenberg]

Useful Links

This section features links to free online resources which might be useful to students of the Liberal Arts College, especially so long as physical resources in the College and at Concordia are inaccessible.

  • archive.org – A Digital library which lends a large selection of books, music, movies, software, and other online files.
  • gutenberg.org – A digital library of free digitized versions of works in the public domain i.e., Published before 1924. Many if not all Liberal Arts College texts are available here for download, albeit not in the recommended translations.
  • wikisource.org – A free content collection of source texts, as well as translations of source texts into any given language.
  • geacron.com – A really nifty interactive world history map which can render political borders in any given year from 3000 BC to the present.
  • loc.gov – Library of Congress digital collections.
  • digitalcollections.nypl.org – New York Public Library digital collections.
  • library.harvard.edu/digital-collections – Harvard Digital Collections.