| Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day | It would be really nice if this actually led to the whole Oxford English Dictionary online, but either they haven't finished it yet or you have to pay money to access it. Either one's a drag, so just enjoy the FREE word of the day feature. Maybe it'll be useful. |
| Virtual Bibles | This page contains links to lots of Bibles that have been put on the Internet. I like to use it for tracking down random Biblical references that pop up in the stuff I read. I used this link so you can explore and pick a favorite; personally, I prefer this one. |
| Britannica Online | This is the Encyclopædia Britannica (and I humbly apologize to you if that ae squished together letter thingy doesn't display properly). They charge you for access, of course--I hate it when people do that--but you can register and use it free for a week, which is good if you absolutely have to do a research paper right now. |
| Modern Language Association's Citation Page | One of my teachers at school adores MLA citation. (We worry about her.) And since we, the students, have to include MLA citations with everything we hand in, I thought I'd share the address for the people who are, however indirectly, responsible for our suffering. And this way, we can attempt to cite things properly. |
| Merriam Webster Online | My friend Alison reminded me to include a normal dictionary. I still prefer paper-based dictionaries, and I usually have difficulty finding what I'm looking for at this site, but she says the thesaurus feature is quite useful. Thanks, Alison! |
| MIT's Shakespeare Page | All of Shakespeare's works at one place, on one page. Maybe I should have gone to MIT. |
| Paradise Lost | One of the greatest epic poems of the English language, and a comprehensive history of hell, Milton's Paradise Lost is one of those books you should read because it turns up everywhere else in literature. |
| Dante's Inferno | Speaking for myself, Dante's vision of Hell is far more intriguing than Milton's, maybe because it's given to us through the eyes of a mortal man, thus rendering it more comprehensible. I'm still looking for a good online translation of The Inferno. My favorite translation of The Inferno is the one by Robert Pinsky, but I haven't seen it on the web anywhere. In the meantime, try this instead. |
| Ulysses for Dummies | Okay, so this isn't really James Joyce's mind-numbing masterpiece. It's an extremely condensed version, complete with stick figure illustrations. If this site strikes you as humorous, you should major in English. |
| The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne | This is a great site if you have insomnia. Sorry. I know that Hawthorne is supposed to be one of the forefathers of American literature, without whom we would have no Mark Twain, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc. Can I help it if I thought The Scarlet Letter was really boring? Anyway, if you want to reread The Scarlet Letter without buying it, go here. I implore you, don't go see the movie instead. |
If you have a reference work or famous chunk of literature you would like to see in the library, go ahead and tell me about it.
I prefer to use my back button to return to the front page, but you can click here instead.