Free Literature Books : English Language

by JackD · Published 16/10/2013 · Updated 16/10/2013

• A Defence of Ryme by Samuel Daniel (HTML at Oregon)
• An Anthology of Chancery English, ed. by John Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane Fisher (HTML at Virginia)
• A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue by Jonathan Swift (text at Penn)
• A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words, ed. by Robert Cawdrey (HTML at Toronto) 
• Elementarie by Richard Mulcaster (HTML at Michigan)
• 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)
• Practical Precis Writing (adapted for distance learning) by Arthur Willis Leonard and Claude Moore Fuess (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• Slips of Speech (1901 edition) by John H. Bechtel (HTML at Naked Word) 
• The Elements of Style (1918 edition) by William Strunk (HTML at Bartleby)
• The English Language: A Historical Reader, ed. by A. G. Rigg (HTML at Toronto)
• The English Schoole-Maister by Edmund Coote, ed. by Ian Lancashire (HTML with commentary at Toronto) 
• The First Dixie Reader, Designed to Follow the Dixie Primer (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863) by Marinda Branson Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The King’s English (second edition) by Henry Watson Fowler (HTML at Bartleby)
• The New-England Primer (1777 edition, with modern commentary)
  1. HTML and page images at cfnweb.com
  2. illustrated HTML at infinet.com

   

• The New McGuffey First Reader (updated from McGuffey’s original), ed. by William Holmes McGuffey (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

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