Language & Literature

  • South and Southeast Asian Literature
    • South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collectio
  • History of Language
    • A history of language development from 3000 BC to the present, from Historyworld.net.
  • All Nobel Laureates in Literature
    • The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 105 persons since 1901. Find out more about about the recipients.
  • Whichbook
    • whichbook.net offers a completely new way to choose what to read based on what readers tell us they want.
  • The Literature of Asia
    • The library's very rich stocks of books, periodicals and newspapers in Oriental languages are concentrated in the Department of the Literature of Asian and African Countries, totalling more than two million items.
  • One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.
    • One Sentence is about telling your story, briefly. Insignificant stories, everyday stories, or turning-point-in-your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials.
  • The Fill-In-The-Blank Story Generator
    • Feeling creative? This is your chance to write a story, right here, just by filling in the blanks. We've even made it easy for you by providing choices for each blank.
  • Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
    • Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you
  • Words Without Borders
    • The online magazine for international literature
  • World Literature Forum
    • A community for readers and publishers of world literature
  • Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature
    • The tourist map of literature-Type in the name of an author and this site will map out similar authors...proximity indicates relationship
  • Comics in the Classroom
    • A comic site for teachers, parents and librarians
  • Book recommendations
  • Maples in the Mist
    • Hear Minfong Ho read children's poems from the Tang Dynasty in Chinese and English