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This website links you directly to the stock of 450 booksellers across Britain offering between them some 2.5 million old, rare and out-of-print titles.

Though translation is a vital part of any vibrant literary culture, no practical guide to the process of translating foreign works into English and preparing them for publication has yet been made available to prospective translators, editors, or readers. In February 2008, editors and translators from the US and UK came together at the British Council in London to discuss "best practices" for translation of literary works into English. This volume comprises the results of that meeting, a collection of summaries, suggestions, and instructions from the leading literary translators and publishers. It is intended as an introduction, the first in an ongoing series of documents to be published by Dalkey Archive Press that will address the challenges faced by translators, publishers, reviewers, and readers of literary translations.

Today in Literature is a website run by two retired English teachers. They have created a site which features original biographical information on writers, texts and events in literary history. After completing a free registration users can gain restricted access to the archives holding in-depth information on writers and their works.

The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies.

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Montana State University provide this annotated online full-text of Isabella Whitney's verse miscellany, 'A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posy Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers' (1573) compiled by a large team of editorial staff. Whitney's miscellany is regarded as the first publication of secular verse by a women in Renaissance England.

Portale della BBC dedicato alle trasmissioni televisive incentrate sul mondo del libro e della letteratura