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Bartleby Library        
A cyberspace library of the world's greatest literature.
Bibliomania     
Free online literature with more than 200 classic texts, literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries, and reference books. Complete texts and study guides
A collection of online electronic short stories by writers such as Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anton Chekhov, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ring Lardner, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas, Dorothy Parker, H. G. Wells, Jack London, William Carlos Williams, Evan Hunter and Roald Dahl.
Forbes ranks some of the richest characters in fiction. See how F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby compares to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, among others.  
At this site, you can find the lyrics (words) for over 100,000 songs. It's a search engine, so you can search for the song you want by artist or by song title or lyric.
Find over 500 biographies of important writers with an Authors' Index, selected bibliographies, and the winners, past and present, of the top literary prizes.
The aim of The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary is to provide profiles of the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language.  
Free Internet articles on English and American literature.
Annotations to show information about a work, its author, or period.
Song lyrics search engine.
Browse by artist, album title, or song through more than 240,000 current entries.
Huge lyrics database.   
Links to many sites about medieval literature
Students and teachers can easily find great titles on themes from Adventure to Romance and Survival.    
It's always better to read the original text, but sometimes you might find the need or the shortened version. The best scenario is to read the original text and use this guide to enhance what you've read.
Hundreds of teaching guides for books, author video clips, links to award winners and other book related pieces of information. 

American Literature


Alphabetical listing of major American authors.
Links to American literature sites, general literature sites, books online, nineteenth-century periodicals and primary sources, and miscellaneous resources.
Bibliographies of authors and works, background on movements, and some power point presentations.
Short chronology of events in American history and literature, linked to college course pages and       bibliographies and resources on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites.    
Over two dozen literary movements explained in detail.
Organized to provide both original content and links to other material on the Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and others.
Authors


The Foundation fosters understanding of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway with emphasis on his Oak Park origins and his impact on world literature. 
Includes The Catalog of the Ernest Hemingway Collection: Manuscripts and Hemingway Research Grants.
An on-screen introduction to Poe's vocabulary and poetic devices, with a few spooky touches to the presentation.        

Book Reviews


BookBrowser.com has joined Barnes and Noble.com to offer the most powerful way to explore the world of books.
Links to free and publicly available reviews of recently released books.
Lists of authors by genre and links to othe readers' advisory services
Browse through a hieradrchy of categories to find lits of authors.
Many different ways to find something to read

Dictionaries


The AIM acronym dictionary has the most common abbreviations that you (U) might come across while IMing with your friends
A searchable database of more than 253,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations. 
Assorted advertising quotes and its impact.
Assorted advertising slogans.
This site on Bartleby contains more than 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio pronunciations, and 900 color illustrations. Besides entry word and full text, several types of additional searches are also available.
An online tool that creates anagrams from any word or phrase you type in.       
Stores an abundance of aphorisms with iniormation on their origin.
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and  modern literature.      
The 65,000 essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this
authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided
into 6,500 subjects.
Browsable menu featuring indexes by keyword, author, subject, etc.
An idiom is a phrase where the words together have a meaning that is different
from the dictionary definitions of the individual words, which can make idioms hard for ESL students and learners to understand. This is a dictionary
of 1,950 English idiomatic expressions with definitions
The etymologies are compiled in alphabetical order and parsed into smaller sections for easy viewing
A collection of famous quotes organized by subject. Mainly positive or humorous quotes suitable to use for speeches, web sites, cards, and celebrations
English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one.
English Dictionary, Computer Dictionary, Thesaurus, Dream Dictionary, and Medical Dictionary.
This website provides an alphabetical listing of idioms. An explanation of the origin of the idiom and its meaning is provided for each term or phrase.
An online dictionary site. This is as easy a way as any to look up the definition of a word. There's the dictionary, the thesaurus, and then there's the "unabridged" field in which you can look for a definition of more obscure word.
Instead of a single dictionary, OneLook indexes 750 dictionaries and more than four million words.
Type in a concept into a search engine and receive a list of words and phrases related to that concept.
The largest list of oxymorons ever collected online.
Palindrome: A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
Sayings on dozens of subjects searchable by author, topic, and special occasions.
Thousands of quotations by a wide range of people and searchable by topic, author, etc.

The 2,100 entries in this collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate.
Complete citations to key quotations about science from scientists and other notable writers.
The 1988 edition of Simpson's Quotations.
An online reference book of over 12,000 song quotes, arranged by broad topics and searchable by keyword and artist.     
Browse over 20,000 quotations searchable by author or subject.
QuoteLand       
A large database of popular quotations on a wide variety of topics. You can interactively search for quotations on anything, search for quotations by anyone, or use the table of contents.     
An ever-growing collection of over 14,000 quotes organized by subject and author.
Plug in the word you need to rhyme to, and you'll receive options.
A collection of words and phrases arranged according to ideas rather than alphabetically.
Access to over 13,000 of the greatest quotations indexed by author and subject. 
Search the earth's largest dictionary
Quotations for a variety of occasions
A comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries covering 250 languages
                                                                
Odyssey/Mythology


Study guides and information on the myths of Rome and Athens and links  to other relevant sites
From Aphrodite to Zeus, Michael Wiik covers the immortals of Greek mythology.   
Includes all the Greek Gods, places, myths,figures, heroes, creatures and Olympian gods. It even includes links to online books and classic literature.
With 200 reference pages, Myth Man's Homework Help section is huge. It  includes an illustration gallery, two printable quizzes, Mythology in Modern Culture, and biographies of major and minor Olympians.     
This site answers all the questions that you may have about Homer and his epic poem
Discussion of the traits of the epic, reading tips for students, the heroic code, the role of the gods, reading comprehension and interpretation questions,questions for character analysis, analysis of irony, simile and metaphor, foreshadowing, imagery, and the role of tragedy.   
Pages on the people, mythology, daily life, death & burial, writing, and archaeology for the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa.        

Poetry


The largest organization in the United States dedicated to the art of poetry
An archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
Select poems from new and recent issues of The Atlantic along with essays, interviews and their "audible anthology of readings, with poems dating back a half-dozen years.
Thousands of poems by hundreds of authors
The home page of the Electronic Poetry Center, an edited site devoted to the presentation of full-text resources for innovative writing.
Created by Robert Pinsky featuring Americans reading the poems they love.
Presents 22 poets with biographies, selected poems, interviews, and lesson plans.
Phonetic pronunciation , cross references, a broad range of definitions, numerous examples a wealth of poetic quotations, writers' guidelines, hyper-linked keywords & cross references.
Includes award-winning examples of haiku.
Sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the North Carolina Arts Council, this site features seven contemporary poets so far: Seamus Heney,Yusef Komunyakaa, Phillip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur.
A searchable collection of love poems taken from Chadwyck-Healey's English, American and African-American Poetry databases
This website organizes 160 poets.
An anthology of contemporary poetry with a new poem every day.
Poetry 180      
Texts of 180 poems by contemporary poets geared for high school students.
The home page for the Poetry and Literature Center for the Library of Congress.
With a lyre serving as their organization's totem, the Poetry Society of America has served the poetry community of the United States for over seventy years.
This website offers thousands of representations of various kinds of poetry spanning a timeline from Old English poetry (449-1066) to Postmodern poetry (1980 to today). You can search the site by poem title, poet name, and even by the first line or last line of a poem. The site also contains a timeline of poetry and a poetry calendar that commemorates the days of   the year through the births and deaths and work of innumerable poets
Explores the connection between writing and reading literature.
                                                                                
Shakespeare


Completely annotated editions of text, plus video, illustrations, scholarly essays, a contextualized glossary, and a teacher's guide.
Life and times of Shakespeare, performance histories, plots, and much more.
An excellent site from England focusing on the Globe Theatre.
Pull down expressions to create your best Shakespearean insult
The 100 most famous Bardisms, each with an explanation and context
to help you fully appreciate the magic of Shakespeare's words.
Online texts, commentary, analysis, and teaching ideas.

Vocabulary


Learn a new word each day.
Oxford English Dictionary Daily Word.
Are you ready for the SAT vocab? You aren't ready unless you know these 150 words
As you read this fourteen-chapter novella, you can click on any of the capitalized SAT vocab words to view their definition in a frame at the bottom of your browser window.
A site to build your vocabulary.        
Vocabulary University presents eleven puzzles using many of the one-hundred most frequently tested SAT words.
Students are given a definition and five possible "answers." Simply click on the word that is being defined and you get instant feedback if your answer was correct or you're your percentage correct,
and the correct answer - if yours was incorrect. One recommendation is to click on Image Quizzes for quiz words with entertaining pictures that actually do help the student find the correct word.

Writing


An invaluable reference site for writers and would-be writers.
An online spelling and grammar checker for both teachers and students.
Definitions, with examples, of sixty rhetorical devices of writing style and arrangement to promote effective written expression.
Site is separated into the following sections--quick reference writing guides, writing tutorials, reading critically, source citation formats, business writing tips and a dictionary/thesaurus
A guide for writing better essays, including help with style, structure, evidence (including citation styles and citing the Internet), and mechanics.
A list of handouts available related to research and the construction of a bibliography available from the Purdue University English Department.
A comprehensive guide to writing nonfiction essays that includes activities and exercises.
Handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and exercises for learning grammar. The Spelling section includes sound-alike words; noun plurals; and suffixes. The Punctuation review covers apostrophes and quotation marks; commas; and hyphens.
Originally prepared for students in the English Department at the University of Victoria, the Guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature.