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Advice From Experts

Your go-to sources for expert knowledge you can trust. The best thing you can do when learning a new skill is ask an expert. Advice from experts in their respective fields of work can help you avoid making unnecessary mistakes.

Art And Culture

Would you like to wander through museums across the world? Factapedia’s Arts and Culture list features content from leading museums and internet archives. Get the treasures, stories and knowledge from cultural institutions at your fingertips.
  1. Allen Memorial Art Museum – Oberlin College
  2. American Ballet Theatre
  3. American Museum of Natural History
  4. Art of the First Cities – This Web site is designed to complement “Art of the First Cities,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum through August 17, 2003. The landmark exhibition surveys the flourishing of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and surrounding regions stretching from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Iran and Central Asia to the Indus Valley during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
  5. ArtDaily – Valuable resource for current information on the art world. Features a series of timely stories covering a variety of art-related news and events internationally.
  6. Art Institute of Chicago
  7. Art on the Net
  8. Atlas Obscura: Unusual Monuments in the United States – “Discover 202 unusual monuments in the United States.”
  9. Art on the Web – Extensive directory of art sites organized by historical time periods. Covers art therapy, conservation, iconography, professional associations, and women artists.
  10. ArtLex – Art dictionary with over 1,700 terms relating to all aspects of the visual arts, intended to be used by anyone interested or involved in the arts. Links art vocabulary to other Web sites. Provides images of works of art and quotations.
  11. Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism – Edited by Douglas McLennan, formerly an arts columnist and artsmreporter with theSeattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly, Arts Journal is a daily digest of some of the best online arts and cultural journalism.
  12. Artlink
  13. ArtsUsa
  14. ArtSource
  15. AskART – Site maintains a database on 25,000 American artists spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries. Information on the artists includes dates, states, methods, biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of 20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of auction lots sold and unsold of their works.
  16. Andy Warhol Museum
  17. Butler Institute of American Art, The
  18. Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer – “Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help us make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible. Join 19,910 “volunpeers” to add more to the total 553,328 pages of field notes, diaries, ledgers, logbooks, currency proof sheets, photo albums, manuscripts, biodiversity specimens labels that have been collaboratively transcribed and reviewed since June 2013.”
  19. Canadian Museum of Civilization
  20. Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
  21. Cezanne
  22. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
  23. Chinese New Year – Discover the traditions and taboos, dishes and drinks that are part of China’s most important holiday, the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival.
  24. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis – “World’s largest children’s museum dating back to 1925”
  25. Chinese New Year 2020: 21 Things You Didn’t Know About Chinese New Year – “Chinese New Year is celebrated by more than 20% of the world. It’s the most important holiday in China and to Chinese people all over. Here are 21 interesting facts that you probably didn’t know about Chinese New Year.”
  26. Christus Res – “Top 100 Web Sites – PC Magazine”
  27. Chrysler Museum of Art
  28. Communication Arts
  29. Cleveland Museum of Art
  30. Dale Chihuly Home Page
  31. Davis Museum and Cultural Center
  32. Detroit Institute of Arts
  33. Dia Center for the Arts
  34. Digital Archive of Art – collection of images of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the ancient Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists represented include Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraut, Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier, Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and many others.
  35. Diva Art Group – “We sell original artwork, fine art, paintings, sculptures, limited edition authentic art from some of the famous creators of their times. Buy and sell art with Divart, since1993.”
  36. George Eastman House — Museum of Photography and Film
  37. Electric Gallery, The
  38. Encyclopedia Smithsonian – Home page.
  39. Escher, M.C, The World of
  40. Exploratorium
  41. Expo – WWW exhibit organization
  42. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco – “With 60,000 works on paper our Imagebase is currently the largest searchable art imagebase in the world.”
  43. Franklin Institute Science Museum – Electronically tour the museum’s exhibits and access resources.
  44. Gauguin, Paul
  45. Google Shadow Art – “Shadow Art is a web browser-based game that lets you experience AI and shadow puppetry in a playful way.”
  46. Google Santa Tracker – Use Google Santa Tracker to follow Santa Claus on Google Maps as he makes his journey around the world.
  47. The Getty Museum – Site offers nearly 54,000 pages related to works of art and professional reports in conservation and art history. The heart of the site is the Explore Art section, which includes 3,300 works of art, 1,500 artist biographies, 1,500 glossary definitions, over 200 video clips, online exhibitions, and more.
  48. Guggenheim Museum of Art, The
  49. How Christmas Works – For hundreds of millions of people around the world, Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year. Have you ever wondered where traditions like Santa Claus come from? Find out at this How Stuff Works site.
  50. Hunterian Museum
  51. How Valentine’s Day Works – When did the Valentine’s Day frenzy begin? As is true of much of history, scholars tell slightly different versions of the history of this popular holiday. This HowStuffWorks ariticle looks at that history, with its Roman and Christian roots, as well as holiday traditions that have developed over the years. The site also checks out some old valentines and some new ones.
  52. Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum – displays a comprehensive collection of artwork by this sculptor (1904-1988) in a tranquil setting created by the artist.
  53. Illinois State Museum
  54. Internet for the Fine Arts – A comprehensive network of artists, galleries, museums, organizations, and resources relating to the fine arts.
  55. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology – Univ. of Michigan
  56. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design – includes images from their Georgia O’Keefe exhibit.
  57. John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts, The
  58. Kitchen, The – “The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film and Literature
  59. Knoxville Museum of Art
  60. Laserium Home Page
  61. Leonardo da Vinci Museum
  62. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts – mostly (Mozart) information about Festival ’96, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, and getting tickets to it all.
  63. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  64. Louvre Museum
  65. Mariner’s Museum
  66. Medieval Art and Architecture – collection of architectural images from the Middle Ages. Included for many of the buildings is a map of its location, a floor plan, photos, and a brief description.
  67. Metropolitan Museum of Art
  68. MIT Museum
  69. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The
  70. Montshire Museum of Science
  71. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
  72. Museum of the City of New York
  73. Museum of Modern Art
  74. Museum Views – Take a virtual tour of the some of the world’s greatest museums and heritage sites. Virtual tour.
  75. National Endowment for the Arts
  76. National Endowment for the Humanities
  77. National Gallery of Art – search for information on the more than 100,000 works in the collection.
  78. National Gallery of Canada
  79. National Museum of American Art, The
  80. National Portrait Gallery
  81. New York Botanical Garden
  82. Newseum – a D.C.-area museum that “will take visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made.”
  83. Open Culture – Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
  84. Old Farmer’s almanac, The – Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival celebrated in November or December each year. Learn about Hanukkah traditions, history and recipes for this celebrated holiday.
  85. On-Line Picasso Project
  86. Philadelphia Museum of Art
  87. Picasso – the official site
  88. Portland Art Museum
  89. Renaissance Exhibit – from the Annenberg/CPB Collection. “Renaissance,” French for “rebirth,” aptly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the Fourteenth through the Sixteenth centuries.
  90. Royal Ontario Museum
  91. Shuffle – Shuffle makes it easy to turn long audio into short video clips so you can share and discuss the best parts of your favorite shows.
  92. San Diego Aerospace Museum
  93. San Diego Museum Of Art
  94. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  95. Science Museum of Minnesota
  96. Sculptor.Org – comprehensive resource for sculptors in all media. There are links for tools and supplies, sculpting tips, schools, biographies, sculpture in museums and public places, associations, services, events, bibliographies, and more.
  97. Smithsonian Institution Home Page
  98. Smithsonian Institution’s HistoryWired – Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution’s HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things. This experimental site introduces visitors to some of the three million objects held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
  99. Smithsonian Open Access – With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
  100. The Holiday Spot – “Easter is a religious Christian festival that is celebrated by Christians worldwide. In fact, due to the lively appeal of the festival, even some non Christians celebrate it. Here we give an account of how Easter is celebrated in different parts of the world.”
  101. The Moth – The Moth is dedicated to promoting the art & craft of storytelling. The Moth’s stories are true, first-person narratives told live, and without notes in front of them.
  102. The Vore – “The best of international culture online.”
  103. UC Museum of Paleontology
  104. Victoria and Albert Museum – home to 145 galleries containing some of the world’s greatest collections of fine arts.
  105. Virtual Museums – Explore the world’s museums, virtually. Take a trip through the world’s best virtual museums & galleries, all without leaving the house.
  106. Van Gogh Gallery – “The definitive reference for Vincent van Gogh, his biography, his complete works, paintings, drawings and watercolors. Starry Night, Irises, and Sunflowers.”
  107. Vincent van Gogh Gallery
  108. Van Gogh Museum – The Van Gogh Museum is located on the Museumplein in Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum.
  109. Versailles – Official Site – A virtual tour of the magnificent chateau commissioned by the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Stroll the gardens, saunter through dining hall, or amble along the veranda.
  110. University of Michigan Museum of Art
  111. Web Gallery of Art – This Website “contains over 8,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750” supplemented with commentary on their technique and history.
  112. Web Museum – THE place on the web for all art buffs. Includes tours of renown museums around the world plus updates on the latest exhibits. Exploration of art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century with a concentration on the paintings from the Western tradition and a few samples of Japanese work. Provides overviews of the life and work of numerous artists; an outline of major Western art styles, with discussion of the characteristics and artists involved in each; and a glossary of art movements.
  113. Whitney Museum of American Art

ALSO:

Dreamscope – “Dreamscope turns your photos into amazing paintings! Go from photo to art in just one tap. Upload a photo, choose a painting filter, and magically turn it into fine art.”

Google Cultural Institute – With a team of dedicated engineers, Google is building tools that make it simple to tell the stories of our diverse cultural heritage and make them accessible worldwide.

Juilliard School – official site of the school of the performing arts.

National Air and Space Museum

Remembering Nagasaki

Tate Gallery – This museum contains the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present, as well as the national collection of international modern art. Approximately 8000 images of the museum’s holdings are available for view along with the descriptive text found by the works when they are displayed in the physical gallery.

Web of Arts – site consists of links to arts related sites for art lovers, artists and students.



Atlas And Maps

An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps presenting geographic features and political boundaries, many atlases and maps often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics.
  1. Atlapedia Online – key information on every country of the world.
  2. Atlas of Canada
  3. FreeTrip.com – “Create GREAT road trips throughout the USA and Canada! This easy-to-use trip and tour planner produces PERSONALIZED itineraries that display the things YOU want to see along the way!”
  4. Berkeley Earth Sciences & Map Libraries
  5. Bing Maps – “Maps of the world, street map search, route planner, directions and traffic, satellite and aerial images, birds eye view, yellow pages, 3D cities, white pages, and more.”
  6. CIA World Fact Book – Countries described in terms of geography, language, climate, economy, etc.
  7. Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  8. EarthMaps by Delorme – can search by zip code, street address, area code or exchange and by longitude and latitude.
  9. Earth Viewer – Displays Day and Night Regions in Real Time
  10. Earthquakes – Latest earthquake information from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program.
  11. Fast Company: 12 maps that tell the extraordinary story of 2018 – To mark the end of an extraordinary year, they compiled a list of some of the most compelling maps they’ve shared on Fast Company over the last 12 months. Most of these came from Esri, a spatial analytics company whose mapping software is used throughout the private and public sectors. The images in this link are just screen grabs, but you can click the links to find the corresponding interactive maps.
  12. Geostationary Satellite Server – real-time satellite images provide a view from above.
  13. Google Maps – an online service that allows users in the U.S. to find location information, navigate through maps, and get directions quickly and easily. Features include: Draggable maps, Integrated Local search results, and Turn-by-turn directions.
  14. HomeTownLocator Gazetteer – Site contains data for 1.8 million physical and cultural features, US census information for 98,000 local areas and distance calculations for 177,000 populated places. Links to aerial photos, regional, local and topographical maps.
  15. How Far Is It?
  16. Internet Map Resources – Site by the Univ. of Texas Library presents an extensive collection of maps resources available on the Internet. Categories include: Cartograhic Reference, City Map Sites, Country Map Sites, Historical Map Sites, State and Weather Map Sites.
  17. Latitude & Longitude of any US City
  18. Latitude & Longitude of World Cities
  19. Map Collections: 1500 – 2004 – Site contains the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world with collections numbering over 4.5 million maps including 60,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, numerous globes and plastic relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including electronic.
  20. Maps.com
  21. MapQuest
  22. Merriam-Webster’s Atlas – maps of countries and US States
  23. National Atlas of Canada – Learn about Canada’s geography through texts and maps; access datasets; use an interactive mapping tool; try the quiz and consult teaching resources section.
  24. National Atlas of Sweden
  25. National Atlas of the United States – You’ve seen other atlases. They’re typically big books of paper maps. The pages in this atlas are here on the Internet whenever you need them. This is a new portrayal of America in maps. You’ve found the single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web.
  26. National Geographic Map Machine – “Locate nearly any place on Earth, search and print historical, weather, and population maps, and more with our dynamic atlas.”
  27. Office of Geographic Information Services – Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.
  28. onX Maps – “OnX Is Home to the #1 Hunting, Mapping, Wind & Weather Tool Used by Millions On & Offline.”
  29. OldMapsOnline – The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world indexes over 400.000 maps.
  30. OpenStreetMap.org – “OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.”
  31. Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection – At this comprehensive site, you will find many different types of maps along with links to related maps all over the Internet. Available sections include: country maps, city maps, detailed maps, thematic maps, historical maps, country and thematic maps on other web sites.
  32. Quick Maps of the World
  33. Rare Map Collection – a collection of about 800 historical maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.
  34. Reference Maps – Locate states, counties, urban areas, school districts, places, zip codes, census tracts, census blocks, and other Census geographies.
  35. Road Construction – Rand McNally – Rand McNally gathers information from all 50 United States and some Canadian providences and updates its database once a month. You can search by state, road name, or construction start and ending date.
  36. Ryhiner Project, The – more than 15,000 maps, charts, plans and views from the 16th to the 18th century, covering the whole globe
  37. TerraFly: Virtual ‘Fly’ Over the Entire U.S. – This site by the School of Computer Science at Florida International University, allows users to view Geographic Information Systems images either by place (longitude/latitude) or street address. A unique feature of this service allows users to view the images continuously and seamlessly, giving the user a feeling of ‘flying over’ the photographed land areas.
  38. Thematic Maps – View census data in graphical format for all geographies from the nation to individual Census blocks. Data are available for Census 2000, the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, and 2001 Population Estimates.
  39. TIGER Mapping Service – U.S. Bureau of the Census.
  40. The New York Times: The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions in America – “Transportation is the largest source of planet-warming greenhouse gases in the United States today and the bulk of those emissions come from driving in our cities and suburbs.”
  41. Trailforks.com – “World’s largest mountain biking trail database and management system for trail associations, builders and riders.”
  42. UK Street Map Page – This site provides address searching and street map facilities for the whole of mainland Britain.
  43. U.S. Address Lookup – Using this site you can verify any U.S. address and get information on the county, time zone, house of representative member, latitude, longitude, income, home prices and more.
  44. U.S. Geological Survey Home Page
  45. Vox: The risk of lead poisoning isn’t just in Flint. So we mapped the risk in every neighborhood in America – “Neighborhoods where kids face the highest risk of lead poisoning exist all across America.
  46. WorldAtlas.com – comprehensive world atlas and geography info site.
  47. World Wide City Maps
  48. Yahoo! Maps – “Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, Satellite View and Traffic. Rated the best online mapping experience.”
  49. Zoom Into Maps – Maps help us make sense of our world. This Library of Congress site explores maps and how they are used, with sectionsfor local geography, exploration and discovery, migration and settlement, environmental history, travel and transportation, military, pictorial, and unusual maps.

Beginner’s Guides / Online Tutorials

Free Online Tutorials for Beginners. Informative guides to show you wise ways to get started with online tasks and research. This is the ultimate guide to online lessons for the the budget-conscious beginner. Great resources for those just starting out on the Internet. Guides to all the basics you need to get up and running immediately. Think of it as the quick-start internet tutorial you never knew you needed. An online Index Of Help By Subject
  1. 111 Google Tricks – “111 Google Tricks can save your tons of time and effort and give you the best Google search results.”
  2. About The World Wide Web – a handy reference that focuses on the history of the web, from its military origins up to the browser wars.
  3. Ask the Experts – hundreds of experts available in all walks of life
  4. Beginner’s Guide to Effective Email
  5. Beginner’s Guide to Internet Safety – “14 tips to being safe online.”
  6. Beginner’s Guide to WWW
  7. Best Website Builder – “There are many different types of website builder out there, and the one you choose depends on your individual needs. Will you be adding a lot of content daily or will it be more of a static website? Do you need advanced features or is it mainly just going to be text? These are some of the questions you will have to ask yourself if you plan to build the site yourself. Here are some of the types of best website builders available.”
  8. BuildYourOwnBlog.net – “Building your own blog doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. In less than an hour, you can start your own blog by following my free guide. Start Now!”
  9. Cheeky Monkey: Using the Internet for Seniors – Beginner’s Guide – “A beginner’s guide to using the internet for seniors. Talk to family, find information, pay bills, shop online and much more from the comfort of your home.”
  10. Create Your Websites – “A a step-by-step guide to help you create your own website without the need for having a technical background.”
  11. Divi Elegant Themes – The most powerful and affordable WordPress theme. Build a website with advanced features and a well-crafted design easily.
  12. Dave’s Beginner’s Guide to the Internet – “Online tutorial for those just starting out on the Internet. Walks through basics about Internet and World Wide Web and goes to more advanced topics like privacy and safety online.”
  13. Digital Grog – “Technology has just been smashing its own invention barriers since then, with new ground breaking technologies’ being introduced almost every year since then. Technology will keep changing, but rest assured you can count on digital grog to cover it.”
  14. Dog Vision – “This site was created to provide a web based image processing tool that can be used to demonstrate the differences in visual perception between humans and dogs. The Dog Vision tool can only show the differences that can be visualized on a static image.”
  15. EasyStoreHosting – “Start your online store for free: Create eCommerce Website using best online store builder for all your eCommerce website solutions.”
  16. Excel Easy – “Want to learn Excel quickly and easily? This website offers a fully illustrated Excel tutorial + 300 examples. It’s 100% free.”
  17. Excel Templates – ExcelTemplate.net is a library of free excel templates that solve common problems in private life and business, improve productivity, and save time.
  18. Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial – This tutorial presents the substance of the NEW two-part Internet Workshops offered year-round by theTeaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley.
  19. FirstSiteGuide.com – “Want to Start a Blog, Website, or Online Business? This Free Guide is a blueprint that takes you from learning the basics to becoming a knowledgeable and talented blogger, webmaster, or online business owner.”
  20. Glory Webs – Glorywebs builds suitable websites for companies and small businesses. We help them to find customers online and increase their sales.
  21. Glossary of Internet Terms
  22. Howpen – “Howpen provides professional online services reviews and instructions, you can find the answers to your questions and discuss as well.”
  23. How To Make a Website – “A step-by-step guide to creating your own website by the fastest growing marketing company in New Jersey.”
  24. Hosting Manual – Understanding the Domain Name System.
  25. How To Make SEO Friendly Content for WordPress – “Step-by-step instructions on how to use Yoast SEO to optimize your website for search engines and how to get green circles on all your pages.”
  26. How to Streamline Your Hiring Process – “Learn a proven recruiting process to hire the best employee and ensure their success with our quick start guide.”
  27. HowStuffWorks: How Internet Infrastructure Works – “Do you ever wonder how the Internet really works? How do Web pages and e-mail move to and from your computer? See how the Internet infrastructure works.”
  28. How To Start a Blog: Beginners Guide – “Learn how to start a blog. From deciding what to blog about, finding a domain name & web hosting, installing WordPress to promoting your blog.”
  29. How to Start a Blog in 3 Simple Steps – “If you’re thinking about starting a Blog, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed or confused right now. Don’t worry. I’ll tell you exactly what you need to know so you can start a blog in just a few minutes. So let’s get started!”
  30. How to Start a Blog Online – This step-by-step guide will teach you exactly how to start your blog in just 20 minutes.
  31. Hosting Sprout: How to Start a Blog and Make Money – So, you want to start a blog and make money online but don’t have any idea how to start? We spent 2 weeks to create this huge “How to Start a Blog” guide for you. In this A-Z guide, you’ll learn how to choose niche/topic of your website.
  32. HTML Code Tutorial
  33. HTML Primer
  34. HTML Tutorial
  35. MyTipsHub.com: Best Domain Registrar – There are numerous top domain registrars and WordPress hosting companies available on the web offering various services like domain name registration, web hosting & designing, and email storage services.
  36. How To Make A Website – “This site will teach you how to make a website in just 3 easy to follow steps. There’s also lots of really useful resources to help you build traffic.”
  37. How To Start A Blog Online – This step-by-step guide will teach you exactly how to start your blog in just 20 minutes.
  38. Internet 101 – “Internet 101 was created for those who want to know just the basics. This guide will provide you with enough knowledge to have fun on the Internet, yet will not bore you with too many details.”
  39. InspireBlogger – “In this guide you will learn just how easy it is to build a blog from scratch in just a few short minutes and write your first blog post.”
  40. Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – “Introduction to CSS. Welcome to the guide – your guide providing a thorough understanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).”
  41. JavaScript Tutorial and Guide
  42. Kottke.org – “Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture, design, music, cities, food, architecture, sports, endless nonsense, and carefully curated current events, all of it lightly contextualized.”
  43. LivingInternet.com – site describes the Internet’s history, how it works, how to use it (including advanced use), security issues, and related information.
  44. Loyal Review: Step-By-Step Guide to Use Online Services – “Loyal Review is a website dedicated to provide detailed guidance to use a wide range of popular online services, just like the help from a loving family.”
  45. Lenstore UK: Color Test – “Test Your Color Perception Skills (and See How They Stack Up Against Your Fellow Humans). Being able to perceive a wide spectrum of colors takes more than great eyesight. Your color perception depends on several factors, including your color vocabulary, your home country, and the languages you speak.”
  46. MyBlogStarter – “Set up your blog within 20 minutes. Launch it and start blogging! This guide will kick-start your blog in no time.”
  47. Mental Floss: Test Your Color Perception Skills (and See How They Stack Up Against Your Fellow Humans) – “Test Your Color Perception Skills (and See How They Stack Up Against Your Fellow Humans). Being able to perceive a wide spectrum of colors takes more than great eyesight. Your color perception depends on several factors, including your color vocabulary, your home country, and the languages you speak. That’s part of why two people can look at the same image of a dress and see completely different color schemes.”
  48. ManualsLib – “Looking for a manual online? ManualsLib is here to help you save time spent on searching.”
  49. New User Tutorial – site designed to teach new users basic computer skills such as using the mouse and the scrollbar, typing commands into dialog boxes, double clicking, and using the File menu and other basic Windows functions. Basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips – just a mouse click away!”
  50. Object Oriented Programming Tutorial
  51. OnBlastBlog.com – “How to Start a Blog – The Step by Step Guide.”
  52. Power Spreadsheets – “Excel VBA tutorials and training. Learn how to use Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel now.”
  53. PennyStock: The Internet in Real-Time – “From tweets to likes, see how fast data is generated every second on the internet in this interactive visualization.”
  54. Review Squirrel – “Browse online tools and resources that will help you start or grow your small business website or online store.”
  55. REI: Wildest Ideas Worth Living – Conversations with people who took the path less traveled and brought their wildest ideas to life.
  56. Scribblrs.com – “Thinking about starting a blog? Before starting a blog, there are a few important things you need to know to succeed. Read this first, then let’s start!”
  57. SetupABlogToday.com – “How to build a money making blog in eight hours.”
  58. Spreadsheeto – “Check out our updated blog posts about Microsoft Excel. All tutorials are updated for Excel 2016, contain free exercise files and videos. Check it out!”
  59. StartABlog123.com – “A guide on how to start a blog.”
  60. StartBloggingOnline.com – “Learn how to start a blog and become a blogger. Our website gives you step by step tutorials on how to create a personal blog using WordPress.”
  61. Steps to Start a Blog – “Learn how to start a blog properly. In 5 easy steps, this free guide walks you through how to create a blog in little time. Suitable for beginners.”
  62. SEO Tools – 100% Free SEO Tools, The – “The SEO Tools is a bundled collection of best seo tools website. We offer all for free of charge, such as Plagiarism Checker, Backlink Checker, Keyword Position, Article Rewriter and more.”
  63. Trace My House – “Even the most humble home has a history and on these pages we help you to discover how to go about uncovering it’s story.”
  64. Ultimate Guide On How to Make a Website From Scratch, The – “SMC Digital takes you through a step by step tutorial on how to build a website from scratch. Beginners will learn how a business or blog website can be setup with no coding skills, a free website builder, website templates and less than one hour of time.”
  65. WP Reviews – “We review all things WordPress from WordPress plugins, hosting and themes. We’ve got you covered.”
  66. Web Hosting Beginner Guide – “Web hosting basics 101: How web hosting works? How domain name works? What are the types of web host? How to start a website/blog?”
  67. Web Hosting Reviews – “On this site, you can expect genuine, accurate and up-to-date reviews from people who have actually bought hosting from the companies they write about. We do our own research, too – comparing hosting companies based on metrics we actually track: average up-time, page load speed, support quality and price.”
  68. Website Builder Comparison – “Guides and information on choosing the best website builder and how to make a website.”
  69. Wise Startup Blog: About Me Page – The Ultimate How to Guide – “About Me Pages are what make blogs truly unique. Read our How to Guide and you will be able to write the best about me page to turn browsers into followers.”
  70. Website Setup: HTML Tutorial for Beginners – WebsiteSetup.org is a free online resource for learning web development, design and WordPress. Our goal is to help beginners to create their own website, blogs and online stores using the right tools and platforms.
  71. Website Setup: Website Coding HTML/CSS – WebsiteSetup.org is a free online resource for learning web development, design and WordPress. Our goal is to help beginners to create their own website, blogs and online stores using the right tools and platforms.
  72. WordPress Tutorial – “This step-by-step WordPress tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about creating a professional looking website from scratch.”
  73. Zen and the Art of the Internet – A Beginner’s Guide

Biographies And Who’s Who

Find your next favorite biography featuring people from literature, media, military. politics, religion, science, history, and more. Discover fascinating stories about your favorite icons, musicians, authors & historical figures.
  1. A Brillant Madness – From the PBS series program, American Experience: “A Brilliant Madness: The story of Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash.” Mr. Nash is the scientist whose story was used to make the recently released film, A Beautiful Mind. The show will be broadcast by PBS on Sunday, April 28, 2002 at 9:00PM Eastern.
  2. All Popes, Listing – Comprehensive list and background of all popes serving as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
  3. Author Webliography
  4. Biography Center – site lists more than 10,500 manually indexed biographies.
  5. Biographical Dictionary – “The Biographical Dictionary contains information on 33,000 notable people from ancient times to the present day. The Dictionary is searchable by names, keywords, and dates.”
  6. Biography.com
  7. BrightSPARCS – Biographical information about people from science, technology & medicine
  8. Catholic Online – FAQs about saints & sainthood, patron saints, saints’ days, etc.
  9. CIA: World Leaders – “The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments regularly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States.”
  10. Colonial Hall: Biographies of America’s Founding Fathers – ongoing project to put the biographies of the founding fathers on the Web. These are currently divided into three categories: Signers of the Declaration, Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution.
  11. Composer Biographies by Time Period
  12. Congressional Biographical Directory
  13. Distinguished Women of Past & Present
  14. Einstein Online – Detailed web directory to Einstein’s life and scientific theories.
  15. Einstein’s Big Idea – NOVA – PBS online special about the 20th century’s greatest physicist, with games to illustrate his theories.
  16. Famous Sports People – “Famous Sports People is a resource to get information on some of the most famous people in sports.”
  17. Feynman, Richard, 1918-1988 – excerpts from biographies, postings from people who knew him, and many anecdotes about the legendary man. Included is a concise explanation of how Feynman discovered the cause of the Challenger disaster.
  18. Noteworthy Find a Grave – “Find A Grave is a free resource for finding the final resting places of famous folks, friends and family members. With millions of names, it’s an invaluable tool for genealogist and history buffs. Find A Grave memorials are rich with content, including dates, photos and bios. You can even leave ‘virtual flowers’ on the memorials you visit to complete the online cemetery experience. Find A Grave also contains listings for thousands of celebrity graves, making it the premier online destination for tombstone tourists.”
  19. Bob Hope and American Variety – Throughout his extraordinary professional career of nearly seventy years, Bob Hope practiced the arts he learned in vaudeville and perpetuated variety entertainment traditions in stage musical comedy, motion pictures, radio, television, and the live appearances he made around the world in support of American armed forces. This Library of Congress tribute provides a chronicle of his life and achievements.
  20. Info Please Biography – Features 30,000 notable people.
  21. Invention and Inventors Index – An index of famous inventors and inventions.
  22. Inventors’ Hall of Fame – Searchable by inventor’s name or by invention, mainly American.
  23. Jefferson, Thomas – 1743-1826 – site from the foundation that maintains Jefferson’s home
  24. Namebase Index – Over 200,000 citations.
  25. Omnibiography.com – “OmniBiography.com is the largest directory of biographies available on the Web containing information on more than 110,000 important people from antiquity to the present time.”
  26. Poe, Edgar Allen – The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore created this exhaustive resource on Poe’s life and work.
  27. Presidents of the United States – biographical directory of the 41 men that have been President, from Washington to George Walker Bush
  28. Rock Musicians – People Magazine’s Rock Hall of Fame.
  29. Short Biography – “Short Biography of Famous Personalities and Celebrities in History. List of thousands of famous people from all over the world.”
  30. Social Security Death Master File (fee-based)
  31. Steinbeck, John — 1902-1968 – The National Steinbeck Center is home to a museum and library devoted to this great writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. The collections include books by and about him, local and oral history, audio-visual materials, artwork, and theses.
  32. Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead – A “site that helps you keep track of which famous people have died and which are still alive!” If they’re one of the more than 1,700 people listed, you can find out if they are still with us and, if not, when and why they went.
  33. Women’s International Center Biography Index –
  34. Women Mathematicians Biographies

Books And Literature

Great classic books for literature-lovers. Explore Factapedia’s list of fiction and literature. 

These are some of the most beloved books in literature….

  1. A Short History of the World – by H.G. Wells, 1922 – “Wells’s two-volume Outline of History published in 1920 was the first general history constructed on an evolutionary, sociological, and anthropological basis. It was immensely popular and set the basis for this Short History, which Wells created ‘to meet the needs of the busy general reader, too driven to study the maps and time charts of that Outline in detail, who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind.’ “
  2. Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America – “The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America was founded in 1949 to promote interest in rare books and foster collegial relations. We maintain the highest standards in the trade.”
  3. AbeBooks.com – “AbeBooks is your source for Used, New, Rare and Out of print books. Find classic collectibles, rare signed editions, used textbooks, and inexpensive bestsellers from independent booksellers worldwide.”
  4. A Celebration of Women Writers – Find links to Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf and a whole slew of other great authors and their works.
  5. ALEX – A Catalogue of over 1800 Electronic Texts on the Internet.
  6. Absolute Shakespeare – Online resource for William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre. Also includes study guides, quiz and a timeline.
  7. Alibris – source for used, rare, and hard-to-find books
  8. AllReaders.com – Search by any combination of over 2,000 literary criteria to find precisely the kind of book you’re looking for.
  9. Audible Stories Libraray – Kids everywhere can stream an incredible collection of stories that will help them continue dreaming and learning.
  10. American Hypertexts – online texts of American literature: Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more.
  11. American Writers – On this companion web site for a C-SPAN special series, this site offers an in-depth look at 45 American writers who helped shape a nation, featuring biographical and historical background information for each featured author.
  12. AntiStudy.com – A search engine that searches for free cliff notes online from all the major book notes sites such as Sparknotes and Pinkmonkey. The site makes it easy to find study guides on over 500 novels, plays, and poems.
  13. Arts & Letters Daily – This site delivers updated report of news and reviews in the field of Arts and Letters – the latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip. Featured sections include announcements of new books and articles of note and essays and opinions from many online publications.
  14. W. H. Auden Society – “The W. H. Auden Society commemorates the life and work of one of the greatest poets in the English language.”
  15. Banned Books On-line
  16. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online – Excellent literature, reference, and verse resources.
  17. Bartlett, John – Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
  18. Beasts of Tarzan, The – by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  19. Best Book Buys – site compares prices at 28 independent and chain online bookstores. Your search will show whether a book is in stock or back-ordered, how soon it will be shipped, and the approximate shipping cost.
  20. Biblio.com – “Biblio brings together thousands of independent booksellers worldwide to offer you over 50 million used, rare, out-of-print, signed and first edition books and textbooks. Searching is done by author, title, keyword, or isbn number. Search Biblio for great used books and text books at great prices!”
  21. Bibliophile.net – “The web site for everyone interested in reading, buying and selling books.”
  22. Bonavendi.com – “More than 20 vendor websites for buying and selling used items. Sell your used books, your CD collection, DVD and Blue Ray collection as well as video games. Of course for the best price possible thanks to the free Bonavendi price comparison – we compare prices and find the best deal within seconds.”
  23. Books AtoZ
  24. BookLending.com – BookLending.com instantly matches people who want to borrow and lend Kindle books. Always free of charge. Come borrow a book today.
  25. Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
  26. Bookreporter.com – explore the latest book reviews while interacting with other involved literary experts and popular authors from around the world.
  27. Books to Borrow – “The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Their mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.”
  28. Book Terms & Glossary
  29. BookWire Reading Room – “Tremendous Resources!”
  30. Bookwolf – Site offers free book notes, homework help and message boards for high school and college students.
  31. British Library
  32. Bronte, Emily – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  33. Burroughs, Edgar Rice – Literary Works,Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  34. C-SPAN: American Writers – “C-SPAN’s American Writers: A Journey Through History explores American history through the lives and works of American writers who have influenced the course of our nation. C-SPAN presents each program from a historic site associated with a writer’s life and work. Every program features selected writers’ novels, speeches, diaries, essays and life stories, creating a snapshot of American history.”
  35. Corona Virus Books for Children – Chloe Drulis and Mary Gianatasio are child development specialists who wrote these two FREE books to help children understand and cope with the effects of the coronavirus on their lives.
  36. Cambridge History of English and American Literature – All eighteen volumes of this distinguished scholarly encyclopedia are now on the Web, thanks to Bartleby.com.
  37. Campbell, Joseph Foundation Web Site
  38. Carroll, Lewis – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  39. Cervantes International Bibliography – An annual bibliography about the life and works of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616).
  40. Chapman, George, trans. The Odysseys of Homer
  41. Chapter One – peruse the first chapters of select new fiction and non-fiction compliments of The Washington Post
  42. Children’s Literature Web Guide, The
  43. ClassicBookshelf.com – “We offer free electronic classic books in a new Java format which makes them far easier to read on a computer screen than any other electronic book existing today.”
  44. Classic Reader – At this site you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 651 books and 906 short stories by 196 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of readers.
  45. ClassicsNotes – site provides free literature summaries and analysis.
  46. Classic Reader – At this site you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 743 books and 1041 short stories by 211 authors.
  47. Classics Unveiled – “The ultimate source in Classical studies with information on Greek Mythology, Roman History, Roman Life and Latin Vocabulary and Derivatives.”
  48. Cliffs Notes
  49. Coker, Robert Anthony – “The Onancoche Curse” – “Christian Kincaid is an eager young archeologist with a bright future. While exploring a cave in the mountains of rural Maryland he stumbles upon a tribe hidden from society for decades. He soon learns that they have the power to shape shift and a hidden agenda. What starts out as the greatest discovery of his career soon turns into an adventure that tests his loyalty to the tribe, his love of his family and his duty to his country. Follow Chris as he races against time to find a cure to save both the tribe and the town from destruction. The Onancoche Curse, by Robert Anthony Coker, is an action packed thriller filled with drama, humor, romance, horror and scientific discovery.”
  50. Contemporary Poetry Review
  51. Daily Haiku, The – “All the news that’s fit to print – in 17 syllables.”
  52. Darwin, Charles – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  53. Descartes – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  54. Diary of Samuel Pepys – This site is a presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist who lived in London, England. A new entry written by Pepys will be published each day; 1 January 1660 was published on 1 January 2003.
  55. Dickens, Charles – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  56. Dickinson, Emily – Poems
  57. Doyle, Arthur Conan – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  58. Dr. Jekyll ad Mr. Hyde
  59. D.C. Reads – The D.C. Public Library recently announced its book club D.C. Reads is going digital, and now anyone can participate from home.
  60. Dracula – by Bram Stoker
  61. eNotes – “Need help with an assignment? eNotes offers a large resource of study guides, lesson plans, literary criticism, and a vibrant community of knowledgeable teachers and students in our discussion forum.”
  62. Electronic Beowulf, The – “The Third Edition of Electronic Beowulf is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations.”
  63. FullBooks.com – This site offers thousands of full text free books. With a limited interface, this site will be most useful if you know the title of the book you would like to read.
  64. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner’s fourth novel, first published on October 7, 1929, is a difficult work that has posed many problems for both readers and teachers. This hypertext of the novel and related materials is designed as a unique means of exploring the text of the novel, and of augmenting its study, for all levels of readers.
  65. Flatland – The complete Edwin Abbott science fiction fantasy, “Flatland.”
  66. Fooling with Words – Based on the 1998 PBS poetry special, this site features the works of 21 poets reading and talking about their work. You’ll also find links to dozens of other poetry sites.
  67. FreeBookCentre.net – “Freebookcentre.net contains thousands of free online technical books. Which Include core Computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books,Unix Books, Database books, Medical books, Electronics, Mathematics books, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Law Books.”
  68. FreeBooknotes.com – Looking for free study guides, book notes, or book summaries online? You’ve come to the right place. Site lists over 200 books, and has indexed book notes from all the major study guide sites.
  69. Gods of Mars, The
  70. Goodreads – “Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations!”
  71. Great Expectations – by Charles Dickens
  72. Grey, Zane – 1872-1939 (Zane Grey’s West Society) – This romantic western author is responsible for 57 novels, 10 nonfiction titles, 130 movies, and for creating the “myth of the West.” Essays on his importance to cowboy literature, bibliography, filmography, and a biography are included. Also includes his fishing records, the geography of his writing, book and film collectors FAQ, information on the annual convention, links to bookstores that have extensive holdings of his titles, and links to related museums.
  73. HarperAudio – “HarperAudio proudly traces its roots back to 1952, when Dylan Thomas first recorded for our Caedmon label. For more than five decades, HarperAudio/Caedmon has been synonymous not only with distinguished poets reading their works, but also with equally distinguished authors and readers performing classic and contemporary texts.”
  74. Harvard Classics The Shelf of Fiction, The – The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume, 5-foot shelf of books, and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.
  75. Harpers Bazaar: Best New Books of 2019 – “Catch up on the year’s most remarkable, influential and simply page-turning reads.”
  76. HathiTrust – “HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.”
  77. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
  78. International Standard Book Number (ISBN) – During the nineteenth century there developed in the U.K. and the U.S. pioneering efforts to systemize and cumulate the catalogs of publishers’ output, to the benefit of booksellers, wholesalers and librarians.” The Standard Book Number is the result of these efforts. Use this site to study this numbering scheme and discover its history.
  79. Internet Classics Archive, The. – searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary
  80. Keats, John – Poetical Works
  81. Literary Hub: Our 50 Favorite Books of the Year – “Highlights From a Year in Reading.”
  82. Kidsreads.com – “site for children 6-12. Listed as a Yahooligan destination for children, the site’s mascot, Booker T. Worm, guides readers through titles that include series books, new titles and author features. Reading lists and reviews are grouped by reader ability.”
  83. Kindlepreneur: Book Marketing for Self-Publishing Authors – “Learn how to become a bestselling author and market your ebook like a professional. Free guides, lessons and case studies on how to build your author brand.”
  84. LitCharts – “LitCharts take a completely new approach to analyzing and explaining literature. LitCharts break mold in several ways. LitCharts present a bulleted-list-style summary of every single plot point in the book side-by-side with analysis and color-coded themes for each point. Every LitChart includes a color-coded Themes Key, which assigns a specific color to each theme. Readers can then trace the prevalence of themes as they develop throughout the book.”
  85. Local Tools: Find Your Local Tool Lending Library – “Local Tools is a library of things that you can check out and use without the cost of purchasing.”
  86. Literature Post – Welcome to the Literature Post where you can read hundreds of classic books, plays, poems and stories. Our collection currently contains 145 works from 71 authors. New works are being added on a regular basis.
  87. Little Women
  88. MX Bookfinder – this is the search engine to start with for used, fine, and out-of-print books. It searches Advanced Book Exchange, Amazon, Antiqbook, Bibliocity, Interloc, and Powell’s Books at once.
  89. Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition – Features editions of all of Marlowe’s plays, his two known poetic works, his translations of Ovid and Lucan, his short miscellaneous works and others.
  90. Melville, Herman – Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall-street.
  91. Henry Miller Library – located in Big Sur. Online journal, events calendar and forum.
  92. MyBookCart.com: Fast Cash for Your Books – MyBookCart.com was started when some of our family and friends were wondering what to do with their used books. Most people don’t want to throw books away, so what do you do with them? We already owned a used bookstore Mediabuster Books, so we thought ‘why not give people cash for their books through a convenient online website! You now have at your fingertips a no hassle way of receiving cash for your books.
  93. Milton, John – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literature Library.
  94. National Book Foundation – sponsor of the National Book Awards.
  95. Nothing In The Rule Book: 45 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free – “In an increasingly digital world, literature is evolving. Sales of e-readers continue to rise, yet the cost of digital books and texts has not necessarily decreased to the extent to which many initially predicted. With authors’ incomes collapsing to near “abject” levels, and with public libraries under threat from swinging public spending cuts, they felt honour bound to provide their fine readers with some valuable resources that could help save valuable money.”
  96. New York Review of Books, The
  97. New York Times Books
  98. New York Public Library: Digital Gallery – “NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library’s vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.”
  99. NovelGuide – site provides an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature through Chapter Summaries, Character Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
  100. Onancoche Curse, The – “Christian Kincaid is an eager young archeologist with a bright future. While exploring a cave in the mountains of rural Maryland he stumbles upon a tribe hidden from society for decades. He soon learns that they have the power to shape shift and a hidden agenda. What starts out as the greatest discovery of his career soon turns into an adventure that tests his loyalty to the tribe, his love of his family and his duty to his country. Follow Chris as he races against time to find a cure to save both the tribe and the town from destruction. The Onancoche Curse, by Robert Anthony Coker, is an action packed thriller filled with drama, humor, romance, horror and scientific discovery.”
  101. Online Books Page
  102. Online Literature Library
  103. Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 – 1900
  104. PEN America – a consortia of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors and novelists (thus PEN), contains a variety of works, opinions and essays from such noted writers.
  105. Perseus Project Home Page
  106. PickTextBook.com – “PickTextBook.com allows you to make an optimal choice when you are buying your textbooks online. We offer comparison of the latest and previous editions of textbooks, price comparison of various printed and digital formats, and of course, you can select between new and used books.”
  107. PinkMonkey.com – Literature Notes, Literature Classics, Study Guides and Online Textbooks.
  108. Plays for the Day – site of playwright Paul Thain
  109. Playwrights on the web
  110. Poe, Edgar Allan – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  111. Poetry 180 – Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.
  112. Poets.org – “A resource from the Academy of American Poets with thousands of poems, essays, biographies, weekly features, and poems for love and every occasion.”
  113. Poetry Publishers Online
  114. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – by James Joyce
  115. Powell’s Books – “The Largest New and Used Bookstore in the World.”
  116. Project Gutenberg
  117. Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing – eBooks: BS Murthy – “Books by BS Murthy.”
  118. Publishers Lunch – a daily book publishing news and information site.
  119. Pulitzer Prize Winners – Site offers a list of the Pulitzer winners and their citations, the finalists, links to the works, short biographies, and lists of jurors. Winners from previous years also available.
  120. Quarantine Book Club – Join your favorite authors on Zoom where you can have spirited discussions from the privacy of our own quarantined space!
  121. ReadPrint – This site offers free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
  122. Red Badge of Courage, The
  123. Read.gov – “Explore new worlds: Read. The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invites people of all ages to discover the fascinating people, places and events that await you whenever you read. This site provides free resources for reading and encourages kids, teens, adults and families to read books.”
  124. Return of Tarzan, The – by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  125. SearcheBooks.com – a search engine that indexes the full text of thousands of online books. Site offers a simple keyword search interface and caches the versions of pages that its robots find, and returns two URLs for each hit, one for the provider’s page, and one for the full text of the book.
  126. Sell My Text Book – “Sell My Text Book is the only site you ever need for selling and buying your old textbook; here you can list, sell, and buy textbooks without any additional charge.”
  127. Shakespeare on the Web
  128. Self-Publishing Checklist for Indie Authors – This checklist guides your self-publishing project to completion, to ensure you don’t miss any important steps.
  129. Shelley, Mary – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  130. Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Complete Poetical Works
  131. Short Stories – free classic short stories sorted by genre: fiction, nonfiction, children, humor, romance, science, etc.
  132. SimonSays.com – Offers live author events, reader reviews, subject and title-driven forums, and access to and information about 11,000 titles
  133. So You Wanna Publish Your Poetry?
  134. Spark Notes – Created by Harvard University students and alumni, SparkNotes is a collection of free online study guides to approximately 100 literature classics. Each SparkNote contains sections on context, characters, overall summary, chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for collaborative learning.
  135. The Steinbeck Center
  136. Stoker, Bram – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  137. Strunk, William, Jr – The Elements of Style
  138. Tuck.com – guide to the best bedtime stories.
  139. Tech Classics Archive, The
  140. Teenreads.com – “a site where teens sound off about the books and issues they care about.”
  141. Tender Buttons – by Gertrude Stein.
  142. TextBookRush – “We buy and sell books, movies and video games at seriously low prices, and offer textbook rentals for those one-and-done classes.”
  143. The Guardian: 25 Amazing Long Reads to Distract You
  144. Thoreau Reader, The – site includes three complete books and four essays by Henry David Thoreau, with a brief introduction, annotated copies of Walden and Civil Disobedience, the Walden Express for students, and links to other Thoreau and Walden sites.
  145. Today in Literature – Today in Literature features a new original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history.
  146. Treasure Island – by Robert Lewis Stevenson
  147. Twain, Mark – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library
  148. Ulysses – by James Joyce
  149. Used Books Search.net – “Our simple worldwide used book search will give a price comparison from online book stores. Find the best price on used books in the UK, USA, Australia…”
  150. Verne, Jules – Literary Works, Courtesy of The Online Literatue Library.
  151. viaLibri – “Search engine for finding old and rare books available from booksellers and libraries around the world. Provides the world’s largest international markeplace for early and rare books, helping book collectors locate early and valuable books.”
  152. William Faulkner on the Web
  153. William Shakespeare – The Complete Works
  154. Whitman, Walt – Home Page
  155. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
  156. Wilde, Oscar – Poems
  157. Wordsworth, William – Complete Poetical Works
  158. The World eBook Library – This site has thousands of downloadable ebooks, including classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. You can browse and search by author and title.
  159. Writer’s Guild of America, The
  160. Writers Write

Dictionary, Thesaurus And Language Resources

Links To Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Computing Dictionaries, Medical Dictionaries Legal Dictionaries Financial Dictionaries, Acronyms and other language resources
  1. A.Word.A.Day
  2. Acronym Finder – With more than 900,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
  3. Acronyms Used in the Computer Community
  4. Advice on Research and Writing
  5. AllAcronyms.com – “All Acronyms is the most comprehensive and user-friendly dictionary for all acronyms and abbreviations, including Internet slang terms.”
  6. Allwords.com – English dictionary with multi-lingual search.
  7. Anagram Server
  8. Antagonyms – words that have opposite meanings (e.g., “bad” can mean bad or good depending on usage).
  9. ArtLex – “Welcome to ArtLex. You will find definitions of more than 3,100 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.”
  10. bab.la: Online Dictionaries – “Online dictionary for 24 languages. And much more about languages and translation: Conjugation, Quizzes, Games, Forum, etc.”
  11. Barkley’s Financial Glossary
  12. Basic Dictionary of American Sign Language Terms
  13. BestLittleBaby.com – “BestLittleBaby.com has pregnancy resources and tons of fun ways to find the best baby name.”
  14. Book of Cliches, The
  15. Book Terms & Glossary
  16. Bouviers Law Dictionary
  17. Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable – Classic dictionary presented by Infoplease.
  18. Collins Dictionary: Discover the New Scrabble Words – “Over 6,500 new words have been added to the Collins Official Scrabble Wordlist. Influenced by all parts of life including social media, slang, technology and food, plus English from around the world. Delve into some of the new words below and discover the full Wordlist.”
  19. Cambridge Dictionaries Online – An online search engine allowing users to find definitions.
  20. Common Errors in English – site which simply and entertainingly explains a number of common spelling and usage errors in English.
  21. Copyediting – “Copyediting newsletter helps copy editors, editors and corporate communications pros improve their copyediting skills by presenting the latest trends in grammar, word usage and style.”
  22. CyberItalian – interactive language course as well as culture, chat, and links.
  23. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms – DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.
  24. Devil’s Dictionary, The
  25. Dictionary.com – “Dictionary.com – the largest and most trusted free online dictionary. Quickly find accurate definitions and audio pronunciations of words.”
  26. Dictionary of Computing
  27. Dictionary of Dental Terms
  28. Dictionary of Digital Camera Terms
  29. A Dictionary of Quotations – The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate.
  30. Dictionary of Math Terms for Kids – An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 400 common mathematical terms in simple language.
  31. Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  32. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable – E. Cobham Brewer’s 1898 collection of more than 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog ‘words with a tale to tell.’
  33. Dictionary of Symbolism – From abnormality to zodiac, this dictionary lists common literary symbols and their connotations.
  34. DOT – Dictionary of Occupational Titles – It’s the official dictionary of occupational titles. DOT’s database is arranged alphabetically and can be read online or downloaded in one file.
  35. Duhaime’s Law Dictionary – Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge, to the WWLIA and its users, by lawyer Lloyd Duhaime.
  36. Elements of Style – by William Strunk
  37. English as a Second Language Home Page
  38. English/Cockney Rhyming Slang Dictionary
  39. English Grammar – “Download English grammar rules review, English grammar lessons and grammar exercises for free, or get grammar help and ESL tips on proper grammar usage.”
  40. English-Spanish Library and Information Studies Dictionary
  41. Ethnologue Database – on-line database of information about 6,500 languages. Includes alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic data.
  42. Etymology Sites: Behind the Name | Etymologyically Speaking | Online Etymology Dictionary | Phrase Finder | Roots of English: an Etymological Dictionary | Take Our Word for It | Word Detective, The | Word Origins | Word Spy
  43. Etymology of First Names, The – This site looks into the meaning and history of common first names.
  44. FindMeWords – “Find the words that can be formed with a group of letters to solve any crossword game. Convert letters into words.”
  45. Fine Dictionary – “FineDictionary.com includes definitions from 4 dictionaries (WordNet, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia and Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary), illustrations, example sentences, interesting acts, quotations, idioms and etymology as well as related words (synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms).”
  46. Fluency MC – “How to speak English fluently? 34 renowned English learning specialists share their #1 tips for how to speak fluent English.”
  47. – translating dictionaries from English to the following languages: Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
  48. FontMatcherator – “The Font Matcherator will find out what the font is in an image. Upload an image and we will match the fonts.”
  49. Free Online Spell Checker – “This free online spell checker and spell check enables you to check your texts for spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistakes and offers instant feedback to correct spelling errors.”
  50. FreeTranslation.com – “FreeTranslation.com is a straight forward, easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the ‘gist’ of foreign language text and web pages.”
  51. Glossary of Business Terms: Washington Post
  52. Glossary of Cancer
  53. Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms
  54. Glossary of Internet Terms
  55. Glossary of Investment Terms
  56. Glossary of Literary Terms
  57. Glossary of Poetic Terms
  58. Glossary of Solar Physics
  59. Glossary of Statistical Terms
  60. Glossary of Stock Market Terms: Nasdaq
  61. Glossary of Weather Terms: Washington Post
  62. Glossary of Wireless Terms
  63. Grammar and Style Notes – by Jack Lynch
  64. GrammarCheck.net – “Now you can grammar and spell check any text or document online. Simply copy and paste your text onto our website to proofread, review, and correct it.”
  65. Grammar Guide: Improve Your Spelling, Punctuation and Writing – “Nothing can cause you to lose credibility faster, or make you look sillier than having your writing riddled with all kinds of grammatical errors. I mean, if you don’t know enough to spell something properly, why should anyone trust a word you’re saying? There are some commonly made mistakes that are easy for most to spot, and some other not so easily spotted mistakes that’ll just make you look like a linguistic genius when you get them right.”
  66. Guide to Grammar and Writing – The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing — from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing.”
  67. Hawaiian Dictionary Online – Hawaiian-English and English-Hawaiian words.
  68. Hebrew Tutorial
  69. Heteronyms – words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently (e.g., wind or lead).
  70. HyperDictionary – This dictionary looks up the word and presents the definitions twice. First a clean definition then with every work in the definition hyperlinked.
  71. Idiommaster.com – “Translate idioms into Spanish, French, German and Italian accurately.”
  72. iLoveLanguages
  73. Internet Dictionary: Net Lingo
  74. Jane’s Defence Glossary – search over 20,000 defence-related acronyms and abbreviations in the Janes’ database
  75. Japanese Online
  76. King’s English, The – by H.W. Fowler
  77. LangToLang.com – Free multilingual dictionary offers bidirectional, single and multiple words translation from/to: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian and Turkish language pairs.
  78. Languages – This BBC site provides resources to help you learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages through online lessons. You can also learn holiday phrases in 34 languages and more.
  79. Latin-English Dictionary
  80. Latin Terms and Phrases in Mathematics
  81. Legal Dictionary: FindLaw
  82. Lexical FreeNet – a directory of over 500 translation dictionaries and glossaries.
  83. Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary – The aim of The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary is to provide profiles of the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language, and to do so within an electronic publication which will enable readers to explore literary history as never before.
  84. Little Explorers Picture Dictionary with Links – Fun and educational use of the Internet. Great place for kids to explore.
  85. LOGOS – Multilingual Dictionary
  86. Love France, Learn French – “Our awards for the best blogs, sites and resource pages to help you learn French online for free. You’ll not find another list like it.”
  87. Luciferous Logolepsy – a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words.
  88. Medical Dictionary – Site features encylopedic dictionary of over 9,000 classic and contemporary medical terms. Written entirely by physicians for both professional and non-professional readers site assists everyone concerned about health — their health and the health of those that matter to them.
  89. Music Dictionary Online – Our Music Dictionary Online explains words and terms you may meet when reading musical scores, books about music or programme notes on CDs or at concerts. We have made it more comprehensive, by providing copious links to supplementary material in our own Music Theory Online resource, our Musical e-Monographs and external websites.
  90. Merriam-Webster: Visual Dictionary Online – “Welcome to the Visual Dictionary Online, the dictionary with a new point of view. A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images. Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.”
  91. Native Monks: English Classes – “Learn a language online anywhere anytime with our Native Teachers! Choose from hundreds of tutors, contact your chosen tutor; and get your personalised, one-to-one lesson started at a time convenient to you.”
  92. Newbury House Online Dictionary – This online dictionary contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English. Providing simple and clear definitions, this online tool provides a wealth of sample sentences, idioms, and a wide array of cultural facts and figures.
  93. Nihongo Master: Learn Japanese Online – “Learn Japanese online with easy lessons, powerful study tools and a great community. Score points and rank against others to become a Nihongo Master.”
  94. OneLook Dictionary Search – Look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated database of words, terms, names, and acronyms.
  95. On-line Chinese Tools – “These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language.”
  96. On-line Dictionaries
  97. Online Etymology Dictionary
  98. Online Language Dictionaries and Translators
  99. Omniglot: A Guide to Writing Systems -This website provides a guide to over 150 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems including a few you will find nowhere else. It also contains details of many of the languages written with those writing systems and links to a wide range of language-related resources, such as fonts, online dictionaries and online language courses.
  100. Oxford English Dictionary
  101. Oxymoron List – “The Largest List of Oxymorons Ever Collected Online.”
  102. Paradigm Online Writing Assistant – guide to writing, composition, rhetoric, editing, and style.
  103. Phrase Finder – Phrases, sayings, idioms and cliches.
  104. Picture Dictionary For Kids – “Free online Picture Dictionary for Kids.”
  105. Polish-Dictionary.com – This online English-Polish Dictionary contains approximately 2000 words, phrases, and expressions.
  106. Poker Glossary
  107. Power Thesaurus – “Power Thesaurus is a fast, comprehensive and easy-to-follow online thesaurus for writers, journalists, students and teachers.”
  108. Purdue Univ. OWL – Online Writing Lab
  109. RhymeDB.com – “What rhymes with Rhyme? – Find all words that rhyme with other words at RhymeDB.com.”
  110. RhymeZone – site offers rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, related words, and other phonetic and semantic functions; it also has integrated cross-referencing of famous quotations, Shakespeare, Biblical passages, Mother Goose rhymes, and user-submitted poetry.
  111. Skeptic’s Dictionary
  112. Slangit – The Slang Dictionary – “Slangit is a clean slang dictionary of slang words, acronyms, abbreviations, and emoticons.”
  113. Smartling – “Simplify and accelerate translation and localization of your websites, mobile apps, and documents.”
  114. Spanish Dictionary – “The world’s most popular Spanish translation website. Over 1,000,000 words and phrases. Free. Easy. Accurate.”
  115. Specialty Dictionaries – Not even a native speaker knows all the words of his own language. Technical vocabulary is used only by specialists and so is not generally known by non-specialists. At this site you will find dictionaries and glossaries of specialized words in the English language, from Accounting to Wine.
  116. SpellCheck.net – Free online spell checker. Copy and paste a word or document up to 5000 characters to check and correct it online.
  117. Signing Savvy – “Signing Savvy is a sign language dictionary containing several thousand high resolution videos of American Sign Language (ASL) signs, fingerspelled words, and other common signs used within the United States and Canada.”
  118. Take Our Word For It – Archive of etymology questions
  119. TechDictionary.com – Search for thousands of computer and technology terms by term or keyword. Included are; computer, Internet and telecommunications terms, acronyms, emoticons or smilies, chat abbreviations, filename extensions, HTML tags, and domain suffixes.
  120. Teach Language through fun activities & games – Join over 32,000 schools and 4.2 million students who decided to leave the verbs, vocabulary and grammar to us!
  121. Tech Terms Computer Dictionary – “The free online dictionary of computer and technology terms. The goal of the Tech Terms Dictionary is to not just define computer terms, but explain them as well. Definitions of computer terms are helpful, but explanations with examples are even better. TechTerms.com contains hundreds of computer and technology terms, all with detailed explanations.”
  122. TheFreeDictionary.com – English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
  123. TheFreeThesaurus.com – “Free Thesaurus is a comprehensive online thesaurus of synonyms, antonyms, and related words. The thesaurus contains more than 145,800 unique entries from three top sources: Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged, The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus, and WordNet.”
  124. Typography Resources – “Typography Resources is a curated directory of resources to buy, learn and acknowledge great typography.”
  125. Victorian London Dictionary – period resources guide to the social history of Victorian London.
  126. Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves – including description, history, formulas, properties, and links for each.
  127. Vocabulary.com: Dictionary – “Try the world’s fastest, smartest dictionary: Start typing a word and you’ll see the definition. Unlike most online dictionaries, we want you to find your word’s meaning quickly. We don’t care how many ads you see or how many pages you view. In fact, most of the time you’ll find the word you are looking for after typing only one or two letters.”
  128. WordDB – We have developed this website to make it easy for you find word to use for whatever reason you wish including popular word based games.
  129. Where Do Languages Come From? – “We don’t ask ourselves where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France, English in England, Chinese in China, Japanese in Japan, and so forth. Yet if we go back only a few thousand years, none of these languages were spoken in their respective countries and indeed none of these languages existed anywhere in the world. Where did they all come from? This question is examined by this site by Exploratorium Magazine.”
  130. Word2Word – Language Resources.
  131. Word Game List – “The internet’s most comprehensive Scrabble Word Finder / Scrabble Cheat Site. Discover high scoring Scrabble and Words with Friends words.”
  132. WordLab – “Nomenclature + Phraseology + Punmanship Exercises.”
  133. Your Dictionary.com – “YourDictionary is a free online dictionary that offers definition search from Webster’s dictionary for word meanings and thesaurus. Use this dictionary search as a crossword or scrabble dictionary. Also find legal dictionary, technical words, glossary, foreign language translation, medical dictionary, and rhyming dictionary lists.”

Electronic Texts

E-text (from “electronic text“; sometimes written as etext) is a general term for any document that is read in digital form
  1. 18th Century E-text Resources
  2. Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
  3. Alive and Free – A page of links to recent works (free) on-line from living authors: Books, Book Excerpts, Long Fiction/Non-Fiction.
  4. American Hypertexts – online texts of American literature: Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more.
  5. Banned Books On-line
  6. Bibliomania – “The Best Classic Books and Reference on the Web.”
  7. Bibliophiles Universels Library – etexts in French
  8. Blake, William Archive – An electronic archive of Blake’s works with high quality images of his texts, paintings, drawings, and commercial illustrations.
  9. Candlelight Stories
  10. Children’s Literature Web Guide
  11. Christian Classics Ethereal Library – The library provides classic Christian books in electronic format.
  12. ClassicBookshelf.com – “We offer free electronic classic books in a new Java format which makes them far easier to read on a computer screen than any other electronic book existing today.”
  13. Constitution of the United States, The
  14. Electronic Beowulf, The – “The Third Edition of Electronic Beowulf is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations.”
  15. Elements of Style, The – by William Strunk
  16. eserver.org – collections in the arts and humanities
  17. Great Writers and Poets
  18. IPL Online Texts Collection – over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification.
  19. Internet Classics Archive, The. – searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary
  20. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The
  21. Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  22. Franz Kafka
  23. Library of Congress
  24. Literature Network, The – over 300 full books and over 1000 short stories and poems by over 90 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes.
  25. Manualgo.com – “Manualgo.com is designed to provide free services and resources, including thousands of online PDF manuals, user guides and handbooks that you can download for free for your personal use.”
  26. Most Frequently Banned Books in the US in the 1990s
  27. National Academy Press Reading Room – 1000+ books , free for the reading, first page to last. Available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
  28. netLibrary – ‘The World’s Largest Collection of Electronic Books.”
  29. Online Books Page, The
  30. Online Literary Criticism Collection – over 1043 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
  31. Online Literature Library
  32. Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250 – 1900
  33. Perseus Project – Tufts University digital library focusing on the ancient Greek world.
  34. Phrase Finder – Handy source provides the meanings and origins of more than 3,000 English language phrases.
  35. Project Bartleby – Columbia University
  36. Project Gutenberg – “Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.”
  37. Project Muse – access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins Univ. Press’s 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
  38. Project Wittenberg – Lutheran etexts
  39. ReadPrint – This site offers free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
  40. William Shakespeare – Complete Works
  41. Short Stories at East of the Web – this site is dedicated to new, previously unpublished fiction, as well as to classic short stories .
  42. Shakespearean Insult Generator
  43. Spark Notes – Created by Harvard University students and alumni, SparkNotes is a collection of free online study guides to approximately 100 literature classics. Each SparkNote contains sections on context, characters, overall summary, chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary, study questions, and a message board for collaborative learning.
  44. University of Virginia Electronic Text Library, The
  45. Victorian Women Writers Project
  46. VIVA: Virtual Library of Virginia
  47. Voice of the Shuttle – English Literature Page
  48. Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
  49. William Wordsworth – Complete Poetical Works.