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jrdwyer@csuchico.edu ),
subject librarian for English.


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Oxford English Dictionary is an authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. online
Bartleby.com | Literature, reference, verse, etc. online

Contemporary Authors is a biographical and bibliographical guide to over 100,000 authors including: current writers of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and drama . . . [more] online

online

OneLook | dictionaries, including reverse dictionary online

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online
Compact Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

online
The Phrase Finder | The meanings and origins of phrases and sayings. online

The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | by E. Cobham Brewer online

Literary History of the American West online

American Fiction 1851-1875 | as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction. online

African-American Writers : A Dictionary

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The Literary Encyclopedia | Includes over 2550 profiles of writers, works and topics and indexed entries on 4000 writers and 17000 works.

online
Books in Print | Complete bibliographic, book ordering and subject classification information for over 3.4 million books, along some full text reviews of many of these books. Includes scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books published or distributed in the U.S. Contains all books in print and about to be published, as far as six months in advance.

online
In the Library
PS 129 A55 (Reference)
In the Library
PR 85 B688 (Reference)
In the Library
PR 85 C29 1992 (Reference)
In the Library
PR 502 C85 1992 (Reference)
In the Library
PN 3321 C7 (Reference)
Dissertation Abstracts International


In the Libary L11 D5 (Index)
1938 - 2002, see catalog record for library locations & formats.

In the Library
PE 1408 S772 (Main)
In the Library
PN 44.5 A2 1993 (Reference)
In the Library
PN 41 H6 (Reference)
LLBA: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts


In the Library 
P1 L3 (Index)
Have: 1967→
In the Library
PN 44 M324 (Reference)
In the Library
PN 44 M33 (Reference)
In the Library
LB2369 M62 (Reference)
In the Library
PN 1059 M3 M63 (Reference)
Quotation books In the Library
PN 6080-6246 (Reference)
In the Library
PN 161 W 83 (Reference)
 

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