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Book Links
Banned Books and Censorship Links to dozens of web pages that track attempts to ban books in the United States.
Booknotes: A Cyber Companion C-Span's popular author-interview show, Booknotes, now has an online component that includes transcripts and RealAudio interviews. Choose from dozens of writers who have appeared on the show, or get a schedule of upcoming guests.
BookWeb Home Page Comprehensive site of the American Booksellers Association. Easy to use.
BookWire For publishing junkies, this is full of reviews, industry gossip, opinion pieces and trade news. It includes the online version of the trade bible, Publishers Weekly.
Books On-Line Titles Search On-line books by title or keyword or browse a master list.
Dallas Public Library Community information as well as much library info.
Houston Public Library Search the card catalog and find out if the book you're looking for can be found at your nearest branch library and even determine if it's already checked out.
Newbery and Caldecott Medals Winners of the most important awards for children's book writing and illustration.
Project Gutenberg Begun in 1971, Project Gutenberg strives to put as many classic works of literature and important documents online as possible, and in the most accessible form. Choose from thousands of titles.
Drama Resources
Theater and Drama Resources
Justin's Drama and Theatre Links
Storytelling
The English Server Drama Collection
Creative Drama and Theater Education
Literature
The ALAN Review: A Multicultural Literature Bibliography Literature on multicultural American society.
English and American Literary Resources on the Net Resources for the study of Literature, gathered by Professor Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania.
Luminarium A selection of major authors and works associated with English literature.
General Resources
Authors Contains pointers to individual literary author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers.
Babel Fish Babel Fish Translation, Help. Translate a block of text - Enter up to 150 words Use the World Keyboard to enter accented or Cyrillic characters.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources.
Biography.com Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.
The Internet Public Library Literature Resources for the High School and College Student. Links from ancient to modern times.
Quoteworld.com A collection of close to 14,000 quotations that can be searched by title, author, quote, or exact words
Visual Thesaurus The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
Mythology
World Mythology: Myth by Image Great collection of images from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Click on the picture to find out more about the myths of these cultures.
Encyclopedia Mythica Encyclopedia of Myths
Poetry
American Verse Project An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
British Poetry 1780-1910 A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
British Romantic Poets 1789-1832
Modern British Poetry Edited by Louis Untermeyer
Representative Poetry Online Recommended by the British Broadcasting Corporation
The Poetry Archives Contains over 3600 full-text, non-copyrighted, classical poems from 140 poets, searchable by author, title, and first line.
Writing and Grammar
Random House: Sensitive Language This site examines sensitive language in today's society.
Guide to Grammar and Writing From Capitol Community College Foundation Review the rules and applications of writing.
University of Attawa: HyperGrammar An overview of grammar, including parts of speech, phrases, punctuation, and more.
Grammar Gym A short, easy course in grammar.
The Big 6 An information liteeracy molel for teaching information and technology skills.