Offers special glossaries, such as Tolkien Glossary, Chaucer's, Harry Potter.
Full-text of great books, such as Bartlett's Quotations, Harvard Classics, Poetry Collections, Strunk's Element of Style, King James Bible.
Gale Literature Resource Center
This database provides access to a wide variety of literary resources, including author biographies, interviews, and images, as well as full-text articles, essays, reviews, poems, short stories, plays, and more.
Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism
A guide to critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Literary Reference Center
This comprehensive database includes the full text of over a million plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, literary criticism articles and essays, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, classic texts, and more. Access to this database is provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Penguin dictionary of literary terms online.
Newark Public Library Guide to Literary Analysis and Criticism
A selection of authoritative websites for those looking for literary criticism.
Contains bibliography and citation maker, free MLA format (not APA).
Newark Public Library Guide to Writing
A guide to useful sites with writing tips, citation guides, and publishing advice.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Provides access to ESL material, grammar exercises, professional writings samples, such as business letters,MLA format, and; APA formatting and style guide.
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