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Language and Literature
Bartleby
Search English language dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and standard
usage handbooks.
Critical Reading
A guide to how to analyze works of fiction and poetry.
Free Translation
Get free online translations for French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian,
and even Chinese.
International Children's Digital Library
Funded by the National Science
Foundation, the collection was launched on November 20. It includes
"200 books in 15 languages representing 27 cultures, with plans to grow
over five years to 10,000 books representing 100 different cultures."
Language Museum
Lists commonly used words by language families providing insight into the
relationships between languages.
Literature
An electronic version of the book of the same name by Robert DiYanni. Both
versions of the book serve as good introductions to the study of fiction,
poetry, and drama.
Literature Links
Organized alphabetically by author within five genres.
Literary Criticism
Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works
that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary
period, from Internet Public Library.
Literary Index
Master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines
and cross references more than 141,000 author names, including pseudonyms
and variant names, and listings for over 184,000 titles into one source,
from Galenet.
Modern Language Association
Language Map
"The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census
to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages
and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United
States."
Novel Guide
Premier free source for literary analysis on the web. Provides an educational
supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature
Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
Project Gutenburg
E-Books in the public domain in plain text format.
Representative Poetry Online
Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old
English period, to the work of living poets today.