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LITERARY LINKS

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer 19th Century American Women Writers Web AcqNet (A mailing list for acquisitions librarians and others interested in acquisitions work) AcqWeb (Sister publication of ACQNET and the gathering place for librarians and other professionals interested in acquisitions and collection development) Affixes: the Building Blocks of English (Michael Quinion’s dictionary of affixes, free online) The Alexandria Directory of Electronic Books The American Dialect Society The American Language (2nd edition of H. L. Menken's book online) Ancient Fiction Book Corner (Links to authors and publishers) Ann Skea's Literature Page (Book reviews) Arab Poems Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Banned Books Barbara'S Place (Home of the readers' ring) Beat Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Series BestsellerReviews.com Bibliomania (The Network Library, electronic books) The Bibliophile Home Page Book2k (Free ebooks and etexts) Bookbinding Tutorial Book Clubs and Catalogues List The Book Collector's Glossary Book Links Unlimited Book Lovers Central (BLC, "The best source for book reviews on the Web") Book News (The monthly journal for collectors and dealers) Booknotes (A companion web site to C-SPAN's Sunday author interview series) BookRags (Comprehensive guides to classic literature) Book Recommendations of Real Folks (Lists of favorite books) Book Related resources Book Reviews BookSearchEngine The Bookseller (UK book trade weekly) Bookweb Bookwire Electronic Books The Book Worm Homepage (BBC book show) Brian Kelk's Phonetic Alphabets Page British Comedy British Libraries The Cabinet of Dr. Casey (The Horror Web Page) Censorship stuff The Century Dictionary Online (1895 revised edition with the 1909 supplement) Chalidze Publications (Free books online) CIRT (International Center for the Retrieval of New, Ancient and Rare Books, Italy) Common Errors in English The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection (MOA, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction) Creative Quotations Crossref-it.info (Study guides, author biographies, literature time lines, background information, text analyses, essay and exam help, teacher resources and more) C. S. Lewis site C. S. Lewis (another site) C. S. Lewis Page (Douglas Shieh's) C. S. Lewis Page (Loren Johnson's) Danny Yee's Book Reviews Dan Richardt'S Book Page The Daphne du Maurier Site The Dialect Survey (A survey of North American English) The Dictionary of Newfoundland English Online A Dictionary of Slang (English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom) Digital Books.com (Totally digital book publishing & distributing co.) Donald R. Morris' Home Page Don Berry The Double-Tongued Word Wrester Douglas Clark's Home Page (Poet, links to other literary sites) The Dudley Pope Page The Economist's Style Guide Eldritch Press (Eric Eldred's electronic book library) The Electric Eclectic (Jim's word & writer's links) English Server Fiction Collection (Elecronic works of and about fiction) Ethnologue, Languages of the World The FAO Document Repository (FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format) Forvo ("All the words in the world pronounced") The G. A. Henty Historical Fiction Page The General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine Digital Library (US Army online field manuals, training films, etc.) GIGA Quotes (Ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like) A Glossary of Lingua Franca The Good Short Reading Page (Electronic texts) The Guild of Fans and Disciples (The unofficial Terry Pratchett page) The Harry Flashman Page H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Online scholarly review journal) Hugo Awards HyperDictionary (Online dictionary) IBIC (Internet Book Information Center) IBIC Authors Idaho Literary magazine The International Book Collectors Associatio (IBCA) The Internet Classics Archive (400 classical Greek and Roman texts, in English, at MIT) The Internet Public Library (Electronic books, reference) Jens Bjørneboe in English ("One of Norway's most cosmopolitan and controversial writers") Jim Zwick's Mark Twain Page Key-Z Productions (Ken Kesey) KillDevilHill.com (The Generation-X renaissance: conserving great literature and the great outdoors) The Kipling Society Language Log Lewis Carroll Home Page The Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page Life Begins at 80 (Eric Shackle's ebook) Literary, Jazz, Fine Arts site Literary Kicks Kerouac/Ginsburg site Literature Overview at CERN The McAllen Memorial Public Library (McAllen, Texas) the McAllen Memorial Library Index of Books on the Web Miskatonic University Press. William Denton, Prop. Mysterious Homepage (for paper crime fans) The Mystery Reader The Naked Word (Public domain ebooks and etext) National Academy Press(Over 2000 free online books) Nebula Awards The New Bartleby (A national digital library) The New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors (And where to find them on the net) Notes from the Windowsill (An electronic journal of Childrens' Book Reviews) The Official Website of Lindsey Davis The On-Line Books Page The Open Library ("One web page for every book ever published") Page One Literature Newsletter Patrick Conway's Amazing Book Reviews! Patrick O'Brian FAQ Pegasos (Authors calendar, Nordic authors, more) Pilot-Search.com (a literary search engine) Pink Monkey Books' Digital Library (Almost 2,000 classic books and historical documents in PDF format) The Poets' Corner (Online poetry library) Professor of English Charles Darling's Guide to Grammar and Writing Project Bartleby (Electronic books) The Project Gutenberg Official Home Site Pronunciation of Biological Latin Including Taxonomic Names Questia (An online library of thousands ofbooks and journals) The Reader's Robot (A reader's advisory service) rec.arts.book readers' Web pages Robb White III's Books The Royal Flashman Society of Los Angeles Rumpole site The Russian Classical Library for Foreign Readers The Saint Home Page (Leslie Charteris' dapper sleuth) Scandinavian Mysteries in English Sherlock Holmes E-texts The Small-Scale Publishing Mailing List Soon's Historical Fiction Site Take Our Word For It (A weekly word-origin webzine) Tangled Web UK (Crime and mystery fiction journal) Tardis Project (SF?) The Timberland Regional Library (Washington) Timothy Leary's Home Page Tolkien Poetry online Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang Type, Handwriting, and Lettering The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center The Unofficial Carl Hiaasen Homepage What's New for Book-Lovers The A.Word.A.Day Home Page The Word Detective (The online version of Words, Wit and Wisdom) World Wide Words (Michael Quinion's language pages) The Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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