…and half a dozen of the otherFolklore and mythology. Plenty to read here.
- Composition in Art by Henry Rankin Poore
- A painter’s guide to design and composition by Margot Schulzke
- Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Jill Butler, Kritina Holden
An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names with an essay on their derivation and import, by William Arthur M.A.
Digital library of illuminated books with large images of illustrations by Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, William Morris etc.
A few excellent blogs on book design. Loads more links on each one’s blogroll.
More than 800 images of vintage paperback books here. Go browse.
Online books at literature.org. A bit like gutenberg.org.
Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Downloadable etext. Quintilian texts elsewhere on same website.
A lot of authors write under a pseudonym, especially if they are writing a book that is different from their usual style. And some writers have a whole heap of noms de plume. The following page has a list of hundreds…
Literally excellent.
For word lovers everywhere. A general mish-mash of word- and book-related pages.
I have only ever read one book by Terry Pratchett. Correction: one and a half — the half was a collection of excerpts from various Pratchett works. I shall eventually get around to reading the complete Pratchett oeuvre. Especially after finding these pages that help you out with the correct or best order in which to read the great man’s works. We have also found a little market stall that stocks a full range of Pratchetalia (hey, Mabel, I’ve just invented a new word!) at bargain basement prices, but if you think I’m sharing that little nugget of info with everyone else, you are much-oh mistaken-oh.
- Discworld reading order
- Voidspace.org