English and Literature

The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students, teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States.

The Government of Canada's terminology and linguisticdata bank.

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofed them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

Free e-books from the University of Adelaide.

From Penn State University. These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work. To that end, these guidelines contain advice, models, and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science.

LangMedia has a special mission to provide materials in languages less-commonly offered by colleges and universities in the United States. The site also has a commitment to providing authentic materials depicting differences in regional dialects and language-usage among speakers of the more commonly taught languages worldwide.

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening.

The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation.

Wellesley College and Baylor University have created this online archive with more than 1,400 letter of the Victorian poets Robert Browing and Elizabeth Barrett. There is a complete set of love letters and also correspondence to others.

Welcome to the Third Edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, which we are publishing online in collaboration with Gollancz and the SF Gateway. This new version climaxes thirty-five years of work (with breaks) for the senior editors, and is much expanded from previous editions of the Encyclopedia: from the 1979 First Edition.

This site provides a selective compilation of secondary material that supplements and explains 13 important literary works: The Epic of Gilgamesh, My Name Is Red, The Odyssey, The Bacchae, The Bhagavad Gita, The Tale of Genji, Journey to the West, Popul Vuh, Candide, Things Fall Apart, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The God of Small Things, and The Thousand and One Nights.

The titles ranges from Don Quixote to Middlesex. The editors of American Book Review selected what they consider the most memorable first lines of novels. The titles on the list span centuries and genres and include classics and contemporary novels that are certain to become classics.

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

Shakespeare Animated is a YouTube channel containing twelve playlists ten of which are animated adaptations of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Some of the animated plays that appear in the Shakespeare Animated playlist are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth, and The Taming of the Shrew.

The American Society for the History of Rhetoric was organized, in 1977, as the American Branch of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Its purpose is to foster the study of rhetoric in all historical periods in American as well as other cultures. In 1977, a small group of historians of rhetoric gathered at the Speech Communication Association (now National Communication Association) convention in Washington, D.C. Concerned about the lack of panels on the history of rhetoric at SCA conferences and encouraged by the inaugural meeting of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (held in Zurich in June of 1977), these scholars proposed at least one panel on the history of rhetoric at the 1978 SCA meeting in Minneapolis. Between 1978 and 1990 the organization grew both in size and in diversity. It sponsored panels at the annual SCA conference and, in 1986, held its first "pre-conference" on the day before the SCA conference. In 1990, the organization changed

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.

The Browser is distinguished from other news or literary aggregators by its subtitle. Not limited to news only, it brings together well-written material of varying lengths on a wide range of topics from online journals, newspapers, and blogs. Samples of aggregated sources include The Economist, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, with web-based writing from Palate Press, Ars Technica, and The Huffington Post. Original content is featured in the FiveBooks section. The Browser offers both print and video content.

The legendary writer’s reporting from the Toronto Star archives, featuring historical annotations by William McGeary, a former editor who researched Hemingway’s columns extensively for the newspaper, along with new insight and analysis from the Star’s team of Hemingway experts.

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

The English language is forever changing. New words appear; old ones fall out of use or change their meanings. World Wide Words tries to record at least some part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, the background to words in the news, and the curiosities of native English speech. This site is the archive of pieces that have appeared in the free e-magazine. Weekly issues include much more than appears here, including discussion by readers, serendipitous encounters with unfamiliar language, and tongue-in-cheek tut-tuttings at errors perpetrated by sloppy writers.

Poetry Center Digital Archive makes available significant portions of early audio recordings from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives collection, supplemented by select archival texts and images. New files will be added incrementally as recordings are prepared and as we proceed through the collection from the 1950s onward.

There had not been a scholarly edition of the works of the influential Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) in over a century, the last having been published in 1900. A five-volume print edition of EBB’s works was published in 2010, with Sandra Donaldson as the general editor. The new edition provides readers accurate and accessible texts with annotations on context, composition, and publication, creating a reliable foundation for more complete analysis and interpretation of EBB’s works and of Victorian Britain.

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), edited by John Clute and John Grant, was conceived as a sister volume to the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993) edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls. For contributing and consultant editors, plus further publication details, see Title Page and Copyrights. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy won the Eaton Award for best critical book, the Hugo Award as best related book, the Locus Award as best nonfiction, the Mythopoeic Award for general fantasy scholarship and the World Fantasy Award in the category Special Award: Professional. The online version appears by kind permission of John Clute and John Grant, and is primarily intended to clarify references to Encyclopedia of Fantasy theme or motif entries referenced in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: Third Edition (2011-current web) edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls and Graham Sleight.

Verbling is a language learning service that launched back in July. When it launched its purpose was to match native speakers of Spanish and English to help each other learn a new language. Since then it has added support for French, Italian, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian.

Mysteries of Vernacular is an interesting site that is developing a series of videos about the history and nuances of the English language.

These animated videos could be help some students gain a better understanding of the overall themes of some classic works. The videos could also be used as a model for students to create their own animated or claymation videos about stories that they're reading in your classroom.

Biography, audio, documents, images, and bibliographies relating to Jack London.

Created by the University of Chicago, this site offers general advice in a friendly, encouraging tone for a student audience.

The manuscript of Beowulf, the greatest poem in the Old English language, can now be viewed online for the first time.

Kate Chopin: Her Novels and Stories American author Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote two published novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s. Most of her fiction is set in Louisiana and most of her best-known work focuses on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women.

The Digital Temple offers diplomatic and modern-spelling transcriptions of Williams MS. Jones B62, Bodleian MS. Tanner 307, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, first edition (STC 13183, Folger Shakespeare Library copy). These may be viewed, alongside digital images of the sources, either as discrete witnesses in their entirety, or as individual poems in parallel display, the latter with a full set of critical annotations and textual notes.

Shakespeare Uncovered is designed for high school students to explore more than just the writing of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Original Pronunciations could be a good resource to support classroom readings of some of Shakespeare's works.

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.

The Princeton University Library has digitized the handwritten manuscript and corrected galleys of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel and made them available online.

Produced by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the multi-institution collaborative Folger Institute, this digital-text component of the pedagogical Folger Editions provides a vast array of materials, all cleanly presented and intuitively linked together.

This also includes the Hemingway childhood scrapbooks.

The encyclopedia covers nearly two hundred years of Indiana's literary history (1816–1980), and contains approximately 7,000 author entries. Each of the author entries, in turn, contains a bibliography collectively referencing close to 21,000 citations.

Students can search the glossary alphabetically, by form & type of poem, by rhyme & meter, by schools & projects, by technique, and by theory or criticism.

Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.

Llyfr Aneirin (‘The Book of Aneirin’) is one of the Four Ancient Books of Wales. It is a relatively small medieval manuscript of 38 pages containing an unique text of what may be the earliest surviving Welsh literature. Historically, it may testify to the former existence of Welsh-speaking peoples beyond the territory that we recognize today as Wales, during the post-Roman period.

A product of the Early Modern Center at the University of California--Santa Barbara, the Archive is a free resource offering researchers legible facsimiles and expert transcriptions of broadside ballads.

The website forms one part of executive director Laurie Kahn's ambitious plan to explore the history and current state of romances on a global scale.

Created and maintained by Michigan State University's College of Arts and Letters, the site is a "commemorative online archive" spanning a decade of public lectures that occurred there.

The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek.

Discover 1,200 Romantic and Victorian literary treasures, new insights by 60 experts, 25 documentary films, 30 inspirational teachers’ notes and more.

Grammar Bytes offers teachers and students a glossary of terms, handouts, interactive exercises, and slide show presentations.

This website provides links to current and archived issues, audio files, interviews, books for sale, the online Paris Review store, and current literary events.

This website offers "digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.