Virtual Reference Desk: Language and Literature

The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary by Richard A. Tennant; Marianne Gluszak Brown; Valerie Nelson-Metlay (Illustrator)

A Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages by Gerrit Bos

American Sign Language by Suzie Chafin; Johnston Bell Grindstaff (Photographer)

Latin Grammar by Liliane Arnet; Rachel Jacobs

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish by Mark Davies; Kathy Hayward Davies

Multicultural Spanish Dictionary by Augustin Martinez; Morry Sofer

Dictionary of Languages: The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages by Andrew Dalby

ESL - English As a Second Language by Misa Lindberg, MEd, TESOL

Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur (Editor); Jacqueline Lam-McArthur (Editor); Lise Fontaine (Editor)

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots by Horace Gerald Danner

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

Words in Time and Place by David Crystal

Historical Dictionary of U. S. Latino Literature by Francisco A. Lomelí; Donaldo W. Urioste; María Joaquina Villaseñor

American Literature Before 1880 by Robert Lawson-Peebles

Modern American Literature by Catherine Morley

Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects by Theresa Bane

Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore by Theresa Bane

The Handbook of Creative Writing by Steven Earnshaw

A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language by T. J. Carty (Editor)

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by Alex Preminger (Editor); O. B. Hardison (Editor); Frank J. Warnke (Editor)

The Language of Fiction by Brian Shawver

Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary by J. Madison Davis (Editor); A. Daniel Frankforter (Editor)

The Promise of the Suburbs: A VIctorian History in Literature and Culture by Sarah Bilston

Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Suvir Kaul

Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature by Jean-Michel Ganteau (Editor); Susana Onega (Editor)

Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Graham MacPhee

The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature by Ashley Dawson

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature by M. Keith Booker

Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature by Paul Varner

Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature by William Hughes

Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement by Paul Varner

Where the Wild Books Are by Jim Dwyer

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce; Jeri Johnson (Editor)

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Salvador Dalí (Illustrator); Mark Burstein (Editor); Thomas Banchoff (Editor)

Antigone by Sophocles

Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland (translator), Heather O'Donoghue (editor)

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

Oedipus the King by Sophocles; Nicholas Rudall (Translator)

Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained by John Milton

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables by Wendy Elizabeth Barry (Editor); Margaret Anne Doody (Editor); Mary Doody Jones (Editor); L. M. Montgomery

The Best of Jules Verne by Jules Verne

The Idiot: New Translation by Ignat Avsey (Translator); Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Little Prince (Analysis) by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas; David Coward (Editor)