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Free Literature Books - English Language
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A Defence of Ryme by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Oregon)
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An Anthology of Chancery English, ed. by John Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane Fisher (HTML at Virginia)
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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue by Jonathan Swift (text at Penn)
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A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words, ed. by Robert Cawdrey (HTML at Toronto)
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Elementarie by Richard Mulcaster (HTML at Michigan)
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First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863) by Levi Branson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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Practical Precis Writing (adapted for distance learning) by Arthur Willis Leonard and Claude Moore Fuess (HTML at Eldritch Press)
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Slips of Speech (1901 edition) by John H. Bechtel (HTML at Naked Word)
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The Elements of Style (1918 edition) by William Strunk (HTML at Bartleby)
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The English Language: A Historical Reader, ed. by A. G. Rigg (HTML at Toronto)
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The English Schoole-Maister by Edmund Coote, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML with commentary at Toronto)
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The First Dixie Reader, Designed to Follow the Dixie Primer (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863) by Marinda Branson Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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The King's English (second edition) by Henry Watson Fowler (HTML at Bartleby)
- The New-England Primer (1777 edition, with modern commentary)
- HTML and page images at cfnweb.com
- illustrated HTML at infinet.com
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The New McGuffey First Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
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The New McGuffey Fourth Reader (updated from McGuffey's original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
- searchable HTML at Bibliomania
- searchable HTML at Chicago
- A-B: HUGE Gutenberg text
- C: HUGE Gutenberg text
- D-E: HUGE Gutenberg text
- F-H: HUGE Gutenberg text
- I-L: HUGE Gutenberg text
- M-O: HUGE Gutenberg text
- P-Q: HUGE Gutenberg text
- R: HUGE Gutenberg text
- S: HUGE Gutenberg text
- T-W: HUGE Gutenberg text
- X-Z: Gutenberg text (zipped only)
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