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Online Reference Sources American Folklore
This site contains one or more folktales from each state. The target audiences are storytellers, teachers, folklore fans and students. The site is updated regularly. The folktales were rewritten by S. E. Schlosser.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Provides definitions for new words, biographical entries, and lists of synonyms, usage notes, or examples of usage taken from published works of well-known writers.
AskOxford.com
This site provides free access to a dictionary, a thesaurus, a dictionary of first names and a quotations resource.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Includes over 11,000 searchable quotations.
Bestseller Lists 1900-1995
Offers an archive of annual bestseller lists from Publisher's Weekly.
Bible Gateway
Allows you to search multiple editions of the Bible or look up specific passages.
Bulfinch's Mythology-
Provides the complete text of Thomas Bulfinch's "The Age of Fable or Beauties of Mythology" (1913). The text is searchable by key term or browsable by chapter/topic.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.
Columbia Encyclopedia
Provides over 50,000 articles, each consisting of a precise definition of the word or phrase being searched. Entries often include cross references to related articles or bibliographic references to other works.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Offers the full text of all of Shakespeare's plays and poetry as well as links to other resources online.
Dictionary of Sensibility
Provides a list of terms pertaining to eighteenth-century sensibility. Each term links to an introduction and relevant excerpts from the literature using the term. Also provides bibliographies of primary works and secondary critical sources.
English Department Home Pages Worldwide
A growing list of over 1300 English Department Homepages.
Literature Awards.com
Lists more than 100 international adult and children's literature prizes.
Merriam Webster Online
Contains more than 160,000 word entries plus a thesaurus and spelling help.
Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation
Provides historical and current information about Nobel Prizes, Nobel laureates, and the Nobel Foundation.
Online! A Reference Guide to using Internet Resources (Chapter on MLA style)
Includes this valuable guide to using MLA style to cite and document Internet resources.
Oxford English Dictionary
Can be searched for both current and historical definitions of a word, as well as provide quotations and the ability to search for the occurrence of a word in any definition. Updated periodically.
Oxford Reference Online
Contains entries from over 100 major discipline-related dictionaries and other publications from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the sciences, foreign languages, art and architecture, politics, business, literature and more.
Pulitzer Prizes
Contains a list of prize winners back to 1917, and offers searching capabilities by year, category, publication, author, and description of a work. Also includes an entry form and application guidelines for the Prize.
Quotations Page
Offers over 20,000 quotations from over 2,400 authors. Arranged by author and topic.
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
The 3rd edition of this standard reference provides 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format.
Verse: Poetry Anthologies and Thousands of Poems
Offers free access to thousands of poems by hundreds of poets.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
A searchable, full-text collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1932 texts included (1731 unedited, 201 fully edited and encoded) by 945 authors.
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