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Below you'll find a plethora of online resources for English.

Tips and style manuals for writing can be found on the Study & Writing Guides page.

• Author Webpage Directory
  A Mystical Unicorn, a Canada based online used bookstore, sponsors this directory of Web pages of hundreds of authors. Available elsewhere on the store's site (see the menu at the top of the page) are a list of pseudonyms and over five thousand individual author bibliographies.
  
  
• The Authors Guild
  Professional organization of published writers. Site includes links to member Web sites. Searchable. Some materials only available to members.
  
  
• Authors by Region
  Author websites browsable by geographic region. From the Librarians' Internet Index.

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• Biography
  Includes over 30,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures. Information varies from minimal to detailed. Part of the large Infoplease.com site.
  
  
• Biography.com
  Contains over 25,000 brief biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. Entries include dates, career information, and alternate spellings/versions of the name. Searchable and browsable.

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• Bibliomania
  Find searchable full-text editions of thousands of classic works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry; some reference titles and contemporary articles; plus study guides and book notes for standard high school and college assigned reading.
  
  
• Classic Reader
  Over 600 books and 900 short stories presented in unabridged versions that one can "read, search, and annotate." Browsable by author, title, or type of work. All works are in the public domain and may be read online or downloaded. Free registration is required for downloading and annotating.
  
  
• International Children's Digital Library
  Full-text historical and contemporary children's books from all over the world.
  
  
• An Online Library of Literature
  A collection of literary classics in full text. Works are added regularly.
  
  
• Project Gutenberg
  The first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

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• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
  Includes thousands of full-text poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain, as well as close to 100,000 quotations. Resources are carefully edited to ensure accuracy of data entry. Also includes older reference sources (encyclopedias and dictionaries). Searchable and browsable.
  
  
• Helpful Humanities Resources
  Provides links to various online resources in the Humanities, including the Arts, Literature, Politics & Political Science, Anthrolpology, and Religious Studies.
  
  
• Literary Resources on the Net
  List of websites of literary interest. Sites are grouped by topic, including Classical, Eighteenth-Century, American, Women's Literature, etc.
  
  
• LitLine
  Free to the public and easy to use. Browse through the author listings, and explore biographies, summaries, selected works, and related links. Searchable and browsable.
  
  
• Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author
  "This guide is intended to help readers identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase." Browse sections on finding novels, short stories, and poems. From Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Voice of the Shuttle
  A directory of briefly annotated "links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet." Searchable and browsable. From the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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• Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism Collection
  A list of websites with literary criticism and author biographies. Browse through the extensive, vetted (in other words, educators give them a thumbs up) list by author, title, nationality or literary period.

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• Poet's Corner
  Read biographies of more than thirty well-reviewed poets, follow a timeline of events in poetry's history, and discover two dozen poems and the explanations behind them.
  
  
• Poet's Paradise
  A collection of links all about poetry, including links to sites all about famous poets, types of poetry, collections of poems, help with learning to read and write poetry, and resources for teachers.
  
  
• Poetry 180
  A poem of day for American high schools. From the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Poetry Out Loud
  
  
• Poets.org
  Search for information on poets or poems. From the Academy of American Poets.
  
  

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• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  Also includes Columbia Quotations and Simpson's Quotations.
  
  
• Quotations for Creative Thinking
  This searchable database cites the source of each quotation. The quotations can also be brought up by month and day. Inlcudes various Indexes.
  
  
• The Quotations Page
  Contains thousands of quotations. Searchable, and browsable by author and subject. Includes daily motivational quotes.
  
  
• Quoteland.com
  Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible. Includes a Reference Library, with a short list of audio samples from historical speeches, TV commercials, TV and movie scripts, and music. Searchable.

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