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The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 1200 full books and over 2000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes.

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself For over two years, I have had the hobby of teaching speed reading to people in the community where I live. So far I have taught over 300 people (most of them children) to speed read.

Online English Grammar Pretty neat site. 

English Grammar on the Web. This site was planned to give ESL/EFL teachers background information on teaching grammar in ESL/EFL classes as well as material to use in their classes. The site includes grammatical information, course syllabi and lesson plans, and links to other sites. Links are also given to the Journal of English Grammar on the Web and Heinle & Heinle's Inventory of Published Grammar Activities.

English International Lyon is a world-class provider of English Language training, both face-to-face in the Lyon region of France and via the Internet. More than 250 FREE exercises are available for you on-line by clicking here.

A Handbook of Selected Punctuation Marks An online reference work by Doug Nygren and Sandra Penrose.

Modern English Grammar is a systematic and rigorous survey of the structure of contemporary English grammar. The course also explores the usage problems associated with contemporary grammar in both speech and writing. Grammar is that system of principles and rules that allow us to organize our words and sentences into coherent, meaningful language. Grammatical usage "errors" occur whenever any of us violate those principles or rules of grammatical organization. The topics we will cover are wide in scope.

English Composition 101 is a course in composition and English language studies. The two goals of English 101 are to achieve competence with the use of English and fluency with written English. To accomplish the first goal, we will study the structure of the English language, and to accomplish the second goal, we will study how several writers create their work. Ultimately we want to learn what one well known commentator called the essence of all good writing — to make meaning on paper.

English Composition 102 offers extensive practice in expository writing, focusing on diction, style, logic, and methods of development. Students who successfully complete English 102 should feel confident that they can read and analyze a variety of materials and that they can integrate their readings and analyses into their writing.

English Composition 103 The objective of English 103 is two-fold. On the one hand, the course stresses the composing process necessary to write longer, researched, documented papers. To master that task, we will learn about library resources, research methods, note taking, outlining, organizing, drafting, and revising longer papers. On the other hand, English 103 also focuses on the research process. To that end, we will look at our writing and the writings of others to increase our understanding of what research at this level of your education entails.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Website offers 13 general rules of grammar plus examples followed by an exercise and test to check knowledge. It also covers Subject & verb agreement, use of Who & Whom, Who vs Which vs That, effective writing, misplaced and dangling modifiers.

Guide to Grammar and Style Links to articles and essays on subjects as varied as: "When to Use Semi-colons," "What is a Dangling Participle?" Also includes additional suggested reading on English Usage and on-line sources to English and writing resources.

Online English Grammar Definitions of parts of speech. The list is quite extensive, but the definitions are very short and utilitarian. Examples are included following the definitions. This site also has a 'eForum' that looks very much like the COD eForum. By clicking on "Subject Index" you arrive at an alphabetic listing of all grammar subjects covered at this site.

Language Sites on The Net This site is a potpourri of all things relating to English grammar. There are 10 General headings with many, many related links under each. The headings and related links are: Etymology, Grammar & Usage (with link to COD Grammar 126), linguistic links, newsgroups, puns, reference (dictionaries and thesauri), word games, word & letter play and word watching and vocabulary development.

"Why Good Grammar?" While I often do claim, out of exasperation, to have students who have no native tongue at all, the simple truth is that there is no person on the face of the earth who doesn't know the grammar of his language, for who doesn't would have no language at all. He would be unable to utter anything that we would recognize. Grammar is a strange and as yet unfathomable power to utter, and without any deliberate thought at all, any sentence or any infinite number of possible sentences...

Guide to Grammar and Writing Topics start at the sentence level, progress to the paragraph level and culminate in the essay level where "Principles of Composition." are discussed. The site also includes examples of business letters, memos, resumes and research papers. It offers a help column, interactive quizzes, a list of online resources, quotes from famous writers about writing and grammar goofs and misspellings from college and high school essays. Ends with Webster's dictionary and thesaurus.

University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Writers Workshop This site offers assistance with the parts of speech, phrases and clauses, usage problems and sentence elements. It also has links to a writer's workshop and other sites that offer help with writing everything from research papers to resumes.

The Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr. Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

American Heritage® Book of English Usage. 1996. With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style.

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. This most extensive handbook of the language ever published features over 6,500 descriptive and prescriptive entires with 4,300 hyperlinked cross-references.

The King’s English, 2nd ed. 1908. This reference work has remained a standard resource—serving generations of students and writers with commonsense rules of style and grammar.

The American Language: Mencken, H.L. 1921. An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, 2nd ed. This classic defines the distinguishing characteristics of the language of the United States.

On the Art of Writing. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. 1916. This collection of lectures captures the artistic and vital nature of language.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995 Containing 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index by the Editors of the American Heritage^® Dictionary.

Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 1922 Mawson’s modernization of the classic structure becomes even more user-friendly on Bartleby.com with 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references. Additionally, over 2,200 quotations from classic and modern authors illustrate the 1,000-plus entries.

Common Errors in English Interesting web site that lists the most common errors in English and explains why they are errors. For Instance: affect/effect, capital/capitol, compare & contrast, for all intensive purposes, different than. There are also supplementary pages of usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are perfectly okay. Site lists other resources (with a link to Dan Kies' Modern English Grammar

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Tom Sawyer's Comrade)" by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens): I love this opening note: "NOTICE -  PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.    BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.

"The Adventures Of Pinnochio" by C. Collodi. [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini] Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa

"Aesop's Fables" Translated by George Fyler Townsend

The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens. Now also available OnSite, illustrated.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Cinderella Project University of Southern Mississippi: a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. The Cinderellas presented here represent some of the more common varieties of the tale from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

"The Adventures of Ulysses" by Charles Lamb, 1808 as edited by John Cooke, Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1892

"The Aeneid" by Virgil. Written ca. 19 B.C. Translated by John Dryden

"Agamemnon" by Aeschylus . Written ca. 458 B.C. - Translated by E.D.A. Morshead

"Agesilaus" by Xenophon. While this is the text of this book, it also contains encyclopedic hyperlinks to nearly every term used that may require explanation or further discussion/research. Nicely done.

"Ajax" by Sophocles. Written ca. 440 B.C. Translated by R. C. Trevelyan

"All’s Well That Ends Well" By William Shakespeare.

"Anabasis" by Xenophon. Another excellent production by the Perseus Project.

"Andromache" by Euripides . Written ca. 428-24 B.C. Translated by E. P. Coleridge

"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

"The Annals" by P. Cornelius Tacitus. Written ca. 109 A.D. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb

"Antigone" by Sophocles . Written ca. 442 B.C. Translated by R. C. Jebb

"Aphorisms" by Hippocrates . Written ca. 400 B.C. Translated by Francis Adams

"Apology" by Plato. Date Unknown. Translated by Benjamin Jowett

"The Art of Horsemanship" by Xenophon

"1850 - THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS" by Sir Richard Burton. (ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH) STORY OF KING SHAHRYAR AND HIS BROTHER

"Beowulf" Anonymous . Translated by: Francis B. Gummere Harvard Classics, Volume 49. : P.F. Collier & Sons New York 1910 Harvard Classics, volume 49, edited by Charles W. Eliot Published: 1910

1879 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

"THE CALL OF THE WILD" by Jack London.(Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, June 20-July 18, 1903)

"The cask of Amontillado" Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

Complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe; These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random "the rounds of the press." I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defense of my own taste, nevertheless, it is incumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations of mankind.

ROBERT FROST THREE VOLUMES, &c. The Complete Works to December 1920 With Selected Recordings by the Editor.

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake edited by David V. Erdman 27 August 1996

LEWIS CARROLL - The Complete Stories of Lewis Carroll

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The Divine Comedy (Complete, English) by Dante Alighieri: Welcome to the Research Edition of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. This site features 27 full editions of the Divine Comedy online: the original Italian text, English translations by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rev. H.F. Cary, and translations in German and Finnish. Annotations from the Cary and Longfellow editions are also available. The texts can be viewed in a variety of facing page, or parallel, formats. Graphics from Gustave Doré, Salvador Dali, and Sandro Botticelli are available to enhance your reading. There are also maps of the afterlife, and sample illuminated manuscript pages from printed versions of the Divine Comedy.

1821 DON JUAN by George Byron

1615 DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Decameron (in Italian and English) by Giovanni Boccaccio

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett

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