Contents

• Reading

• Writing/ Speaking

• References

• Quotations

• My Pages of Quotations

Reading

• American Writers

• Arts & Letters Daily - News, reviews, latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip in arts and culture. New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week.

• Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides

• Classic Reader - Site offers a large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. You can read, search and even add your own annotations to any of the classic books. A selection of author biographies and portraits are also made available. All functions of this site are free to use although some functions require free registration. This collection of classic stories currently contains 3226 works of literature (including 1830 short stories) by 326 authors

• Confusing Words

• Great Stories, People, Books and Events in Literature

• Literacy Through Photography - Overview

• Norton Anthology of English Literature

• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition

• Magazines and Newspapers Links - mj2's page

• Cambridge History of English & American Literature (18 vols.). 1907–21. The most important work of literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the English language. [Not WebTV Friendly]

• (The) Harvard Classics, The Shelf of Fiction Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD - The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. 

• LitLinks

• Masters, Edgar Lee. 1916. Spoon River Anthology. In these post-mortem autobiographical "epitaphs," 244 former citizens reveal the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.

• (The) Online Books Page - The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. LIsting over 25,000 free books on the web.

• Online Books Page - Book Listings

• Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - ReadPrint.com

• Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is a repository of more than 17,000 electronic books that can be downloaded for free. Most of these public-domain texts date from before 1923; they include titles by Shakespeare, da Vinci, Dante, Poe, Nietzsche, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, and H.G. Wells, as well as many other authors.

• Poetic Terms, Glossary of, from Bob's Byway

• Read Classic Books Online - Page By Page Books

• Reading Room Titles, Litrix

• Seven Questions, Tom Manger's site of

• Today in Literature - Today in Literature features a new original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history. Our articles are supplemented with links to recommended websites where you will find author biographies, electronic texts, reviews, quotes and other reference materials of interest to avid readers, members of book clubs, students, and teachers.

• Verse - Poetry anthologies and thousands of poems - Bartleby.com

• Wilde, Oscar. 1881. Poems. This first of Wilde's published works was well received and served as a springboard for his 1882 United States lecture tour.

• Wired for Books - For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

• All-time 100 Best Novels - Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

• Top 100 - Project Gutenberg - This site ranks the top 100 eBooks and top 100 authors downloaded yeterday, the last seven days, and in the last thirty days. Project Gutenberg is also asking for volunteer proofreaders at the rate of one page a day.

Writing/ Speaking

• American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996

• Commonly Confused Words - These are some of the pairs of words that are most often confused with each other.

• Common Errors in English

• Dr. Grammar - Your Rx for Writing Ills

• Grammar and Punctuation, Blue Book of

• Grammar and Style, Lynch, Guide to

• Indispensable Writing Resources Site

• Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

• OneLook Reverse Dictionary

• Punctuation Made Simple

• RhymeZone - Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Slang City

• Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style. Believing that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student or writer.

• Wordsmyth

• Writing for the Web

• Weekly Writing Tips

• 100 Most Often Misspelled Words - YourDictionary.com

• 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words - AlphaDictionary.com

• American Rhetoric - This site is a valuable resource for finding some of the most famous - and infamous - speeches ever made.

• American Sign Language Resources

• Handspeak - American Sign Language Online Dictionary, Baby Sign Language, International Sign, More

• Sign Language

• Sign Language Dictionaries Online

• Forms of Address

• Language Notes - Introduction

• Omniglot - A Guide to the Languages, Alphabets, Syllabaries and Other Writing Systems of the World

• Banished Words List, 2004

• The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993

• Cool Words

• English Tongue Twisters

• [Dead Link] Gay Slang Dictionary - (Wizard's)

• GreenGrocer's Apostrophe by Vivian Cook

• How to Use the Apostrophe

• Idiomsite.com - Idioms and Sayings

• "Language" - Hyperlinked Encyclopedia Article About Language.

• Luciferous Logolepsy - Obscure English Words

• Language Use In America (Links List)

• Learn, Write, Calculate (Links List)

• Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues

• Oxymoron List.com

• Phrases, Sayings, Idioms, and Cliches

• Street Drug Slang Dictonary

• "What You Can't Say" (Links List)

• Fact Or Fiction? Chainmail and Spam - What It Is, What To Do With It

• Page One Writers' Resources

• "Profanity" - Hyperlinked Encyclopedia Article About Profanity.

• Redundant Redundancies - Why Say It Twice?

• Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style

• Studs Terkel - Conversations with America (Audio Essays, Read By the Author)

• The - Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues - From Adam's-Apple-Jump to Zygomatic Smile - By David B. Givens © 2005

• Writing and Related Resources (Links List)

• World's Famous Orations - Bryan, William Jennings,

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References

• Acronym Finder - Searching over 3 million acronyms and abbreviations, including: common abbreviations, information technology, military, government, science, medicine, engineering, organizations, schools, colleges, business, finance, accounting, popular culture, slang, chat and many more.

• American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. 2000. - Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.

• American Heritage® Book of English Usage. 1996 With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style.

• Bloomsbury.com - Research Centre

• Book Dictionary

• The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. This most extensive handbook of the language ever published features over 6,500 descriptive and prescriptive entries with 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references.

• Cultural Literacy Dictionary, Third Edition. 2002

• Etymology Dictionary

• FindArticles - News, Magazines, Reference - On Health, Fitness, Business, Home, Arts, Computers

• Glossary of Literary Terms

• iTools

• Internet Library For Librarians

• Literary Encyclopedia - English Literature, American Literature, All Literature

• Lost in Translation

• Semiotics for Beginners

• Symbolism Dictionary

• Bartleby: Reference Resources - Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.

• OneLook Dictionary - Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, site will take you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine.

• Old Sayings Explained ("Mackerel skies and mare's tails, make tall ships set low sails.") - Starpath Weather Trainer Internet Tour

• Pseudodictionary - The Dictionary for Words That Wouldn't Make It Into Dictionaries

• Roget's Thesaurus Online (Yahoo! Education)

• Strange and Unusual Dictionaries

• Twists, Slugs and Roscoes - A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

• WordOrigins.com

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Quotations

• Attitude Quotes - The Quotations Page

• Attitude Quotes - Attitude Quotations - Attitude Sayings (Wisdom Quotes)

• Bartlett, John. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed - Including Over 11,000 Quotations, the First New Edition of John Bartlett's Corpus to be Published After His Death in 1905 Keeps Most of His Original Work Intact.

• The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 - 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.

• Confucius. 1909–14. The Sayings of Confucius - 500 Verses Attributed to the Ancient Chinese Teacher.

• Lily (Tomlin) Quotes

• Love Quotes and Romantic Sayings - 3,500 - Easy Search Categories and Phrases

• Motivational Quotes - Motivational Quotations - Motivational Sayings - Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings Network

• Motivational Quotations WebRing

• Quotations and Proverbs Search - This page attempts to collect the largest sources of quotations and related items (proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, clichÈs, etc.). Many of the websites included here also include things such as full text of speeches, author biographies, and quotes of the day. All search tools and links on this page have longer descriptions, which you can read by holding your mouse over their names

• Quotes 'R' Us

• Random Quotes, Random Quotations, Random Words of Wisdom

• Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. The 2,100 Entries In This Eminently Researched Collection Form the Constellation of Collected Wisdom In American Political Debate.

• Roger's Quotes

• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. 1988 - The Most Notable Quotations Since 1950 - Contains Over 9,000 Quotations from 4,000 Sources and is Organized Into 25 Categories and 60 Sections.

• Song Quotes (7000) - RockWisdom.com

• ThinkExist.com - Quotations - Find the Quotes You Need

• Top 50 Quality Quotations Resources

My Pages of Favorite Quotations - Personal Collection

• MoodyJudy2's Quotations Pages - Quotes by Mark Twain and George Carlin; Words to Live By, Quotes on Procrastination, Attitude, Anger, Fear, and Money; Personal Favorites

• JKBond17's Page - Quotations on Action, Maturity, Death and Dying, Time and Time Management, Love and Laughter; Selections from My Personal Collection, Celebrity Words of Wisdom, Steven Wright and Others.

• JKA's Quotations Pages - Quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Douglas Adams, Smart Women, and Miscellaneous Sources; Quotes from the United Kingdom, Amusing Quotes, and Best Friend Quotes and Sayings; Personal Favorites

• JB008's Quotations Pages - Quotes by Lily Tomlin, and Erma Bombeck; Quotes on Quotations and On Sex, Selections from My Personal Collection.

• [New] DeccaDentKidd's Favorite Quotations

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