JOHN'S
LITERARY LINKS

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer
Abaa Booknet ("Everything about books and writing")
Affixes: the Building Blocks of English (Michael Quinion’s dictionary of affixes, free online)
The American Dialect Society
The American Language (2nd edition of H. L. Menken's book online)
The American Library Association
The American Library Association's Banned & Challenged Book Page
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Beat
Bibliomania (The Network Library, electronic books)
Book2k (Free ebooks and etexts)
Bookbinding, a Tutorial
The Book Collector's Glossary
Book Links Unlimited
Book Lovers Central (BLC, "The best source for book reviews on the Web")
Booknotes (A companion web site to C-SPAN's Sunday author interview series)
BookRags (Comprehensive guides to classic literature)
The Bookseller (UK book trade weekly)
Bookwire (Electronic books)
Brian Kelk's Phonetic Alphabets Page
The Century Dictionary Online (1895 revised edition with the 1909 supplement)
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)
Crossref-it.info (Study guides, author biographies, literature time lines, background information, text analyses, essay and exam help, teacher resources and more)
Danny Yee's Book Reviews
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.)
Don Berry
Eldritch Press (Eric Eldred's electronic book library)
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")
Free eBooks: The Ultimate Guide
GIGA Quotes (Ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like)
A Glossary of Lingua Franca
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Online scholarly review journal)
How to Write Better Blog Posts that People Actually Read
The Hugo Awards
Idaho Review (Boise State University 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 (IPL, electronic books, reference)
Key-Z Productions (Ken Kesey)
  • The Kipling Society
    Language Log
    The Library of Congress
    Life Begins at 80 (Eric Shackle's ebook)
    Literary Kicks ("Intellectual curiosities and provocations")
    The McAllen Memorial Public Library (McAllen, Texas)
    Miskatonic University Press, William Denton, Prop.
    National Academy Press(Over 2000 free online books)
    The New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors (And where to find them on the net)
    Notes from the Windowsill (Celebrating children's books loved by adult readers)
    The Official Website of Lindsey Davis
    The On-Line Books Page
    The Open Library ("One web page for every book ever published")
    Pilot-Search.com (a literary search engine)
    The Project Gutenberg Official Home Site
    Quote Dark ("Bringing quotations out of the dark," a dynamic quote engine with a database of over 200,000 quotes)
    The Saint Home Page (Leslie Charteris' dapper sleuth)
    Scandinavian Mysteries in English
    The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA, presenter of the Nebula Awards)
    Take Our Word For It (A weekly word-origin webzine)
    The Timberland Regional Library (Washington)
    Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
    Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
    Washington Digital Newspapers (Archive of newspapers from the 19th century to the present)
    Wise Old Sayings and Quotes
    The A.Word.A.Day Home Page
    The Word Detective (The online version of Words, Wit and Wisdom)
    World Wide Words (An archive of Michael Quinion's language pages)
    The Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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