The Language & Communication Collection gathers the foundational texts of linguistics, rhetoric, and the study of how human beings make meaning through words. The Brothers Grimm’s pioneering work on Germanic languages, Max Müller’s comparative mythology, and the great Victorian grammarians and etymologists all appear here as free EPUB downloads, representing the era when language study became a rigorous scientific discipline.
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- Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary, Part 1 (A–D)Unknown
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia James Wood
- The Sailor’s Word-Book William Henry Smyth
- Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents, Band 2Alexander von Humboldt
- The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and PhrasesPeter Mark Roget
- Phrases and Names, Their Origins and MeaningsTrench H. Johnson
- Woordenlijst voor de spelling der Nederlandsche TaalM. de Vries
- The Comic English GrammarPercival Leigh
- Latin Phrase-BookCarl Meissner
- A Dictionary of Cebuano VisayanJohn U. Wolff
- A Concise Anglo-Saxon DictionaryJ. R. Clark Hall
- Studien und Plaudereien. First SeriesSigmon M. Stern
- The Ontario High School ReaderAletta E. Marty
- De grondbeginselen der Nederlandsche spellingL. A. te Winkel
- The Circle of Knowledge Henry W. Ruoff
- The Art of Public SpeakingJ. Berg Esenwein
- A Middle High German PrimerJoseph Wright
- The book of wonders
- The VerbalistAlfred Ayres
- Dictionary of Quotations James Wood
- A Manual of the Malay languageSir William Edward Maxwell
- Familiar Quotations John Bartlett
- A Spelling-Book for Advanced ClassesOliver Optic
- Putnam’s Word BookLouis A. Flemming
- English Past and PresentRichard Chenevix Trench
- The slang dictionaryJohn Camden Hotten
- Concise Dictionary of Middle EnglishA. L. Mayhew
- A Dictionary of Slang, CantJohn Camden Hotten
- Die Deutschen Familiennamen, geschichtlich, geographisch, sprachlichAlbert Heintze
- The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
- The Grammar of English GrammarsGoold Brown
- Early Theories of TranslationFlora Ross Amos
- How to Write LettersMary Owens Crowther
- English: Composition and LiteratureW. F. Webster
- Helps to Latin Translation at SightEdmund Luce
- Hobson-JobsonSir Henry Yule
- Latin for BeginnersBenjamin L. D'Ooge
- Geographical etymologyChristina Blackie
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueFrancis Grose
- A First Spanish ReaderErwin W. Roessler
- ConversationMary Greer Conklin
- Diccionario Ingles-Español-TagalogSofronio G. Calderón
- De Nederlandsche Geslachtsnamen in OorsprongJohan Winkler
- Rustic Speech and Folk-LoreElizabeth Mary Wright
- A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs
- An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2John Locke
- The Spanish American ReaderErnesto Nelson
- English Surnames: Their Sources and SignificationsCharles Wareing Endell Bardsley
- A Latin Grammar for Schools and CollegesGeorge Martin Lane
- A Greek-English Lexicon to the New TestamentWilliam Greenfield
- An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish LanguageJohn Jamieson
- The American LanguageH. L. Mencken
- OrthographyElmer W. Cavins
- An Advanced English Grammar with ExercisesGeorge Lyman Kittredge
- Mr. Honey's Large Business Dictionary (English-German)Winfried Honig
- A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer Thomas Wilhelm
- Proverbs of All Nations Walter K. Kelly
- Language: Its Nature, Development and OriginOtto Jespersen
- Dictionnaire complet de l’argot employéAnonymous
- The CategoriesAristotle
- English-Esperanto DictionaryJ. C. O'Connor
- A Middle English VocabularyJ. R. R. Tolkien
- Synonyms and antonymsEdith B. Ordway
- Business English: A Practice BookRose Buhlig
- Lectures on the Science of LanguageF. Max Müller
- Principles of literary criticismI. A. Richards
- A Literary History of IrelandDouglas Hyde
- Mittelniederdeutsches HandwörterbuchAugust Lübben
- Robert’s Rules of Order Henry M. Robert
- Language: An Introduction to the Study of SpeechEdward Sapir
- An Elementary Spanish ReaderEarl Stanley Harrison
- History of Christian namesCharlotte M. Yonge
- English as She is WroteAnonymous
- German compositionHermann Lange
- Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez CodexWilliam Gates
- A dictionary of English proverbs
- German Science ReaderCharles Frederick Kroeh
- Korean—English DictionaryLeon Kuperman
- Argot and slangAlbert Barrère
- English Synonyms and AntonymsJames Champlin Fernald
- New Latin GrammarCharles E. Bennett
- Picture-Writing of the American IndiansGarrick Mallery
- Pearls of Thought Maturin M. Ballou
- Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen SeemannsspracheGustav Goedel
- French Idioms and Proverbsde V. Payen-Payne
- McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling BookAlexander H. McGuffey
- Grammar-landM. L. Nesbitt
- Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese LanguageDiego Collado
- Engelsk-Svensk och Svensk-Engelsk Ordbok Med Fullständig UttalsbeteckningFrederick Lönnkvist
- NamesLeopold Wagner
- Dictionnaire de la langue verteAlfred Delvau
- Lakeland WordsBryham Kirkby
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic ReaderWilliam Holmes McGuffey
- A Hausa botanical vocabularyJ. M. Dalziel
- A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature John W. Cousin
- Dictionary of Oldest WordsHerbert Coleridge
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds Louis Klopsch
- Dictionnaire d'argot fin-de-siècleCharles Virmaître
- How to Speak and Write CorrectlyJoseph Devlin
- Words; Their Use and AbuseWilliam Mathews
- Delsarte System of OratoryDelaumosne
- A Dictionary of English SynonymesRichard Soule
- The King’s EnglishH. W. & F. G. Fowler
- Sign Language Among North AmericanGarrick Mallery
- On Literary CompositionDionysius of Halicarnassus
- How to Master the Spoken WordEdwin Gordon Lawrence
- The English LanguageR. G. Latham
- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations George Whitefield Powers
- The Romance of WordsErnest Weekley
- Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)C. A. Toledano
- The life of Cardinal MezzofantiCharles William Russell
- Romano Lavo-LilGeorge Borrow
- A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics Daniel G. Brinton
- The Origin of Thought and SpeechM. Moncalm
- Write It RightAmbrose Bierce
- 1000 Things Worth Knowing Nathaniel C. Fowler
- The Art of Writing and Speaking the English LanguageSherwin Cody
- English As We Speak It in IrelandP. W. Joyce
- A Key Into the Language of AmericaRoger Williams
- The Translations of Beowulf Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Het Esperanto in Twintig LessenA. Blok
- The Ethics of RhetoricRichard M. Weaver
- Place Names in KentJ. W. Horsley
- Elements of Gaelic GrammarAlexander Stewart
- Noah WebsterHorace E. Scudder
- The International Auxiliary Language EsperantoGeorge Cox
- My Autobiography: A FragmentF. Max Müller
- A Book About WordsG. F. Graham
- The Philosophy of Life and of LanguageFriedrich von Schlegel
- A Short Introduction to English GrammarRobert Lowth
- Surnames as a ScienceRobert Ferguson
- English Dialects Walter W. Skeat
- A Handbook of the Cornish LanguageHenry Jenner
- Spanish and Indian Place Names of California Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
- Indian Linguistic Families of AmericaJohn Wesley Powell
- The History of LanguageHerbert A. Strong and others
- Dissertations on the English LanguageNoah Webster
- Essay on the Principles of TranslationAlexander Fraser Tytler
- The River-Names of EuropeRobert Ferguson
- Pennsylvania DutchS. S. Haldeman
- History in English WordsOwen Barfield
- A Finnish GrammarCharles Eliot
- The Comic Latin GrammarPercival Leigh
- The Philosophy of StyleHerbert Spencer
- The English Gipsies and Their Language Charles Godfrey Leland
- Practical Guide to English Versification Tom Hood
- OpusculaR. G. Latham
- Dialogues in French and EnglishWilliam Caxton
- International Language, Past, Present and Future W. J. Clark
- Proverbs and Their LessonsRichard Chenevix Trench
- A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew B. E.
- Preface to a Dictionary of the English LanguageSamuel Johnson
- A Grammar of the English TongueSamuel Johnson
- Slips of Speech John Hendricks Bechtel
- The Composition of Indian Geographical Names J. Hammond Trumbull
- Knowledge for the Time John Timbs
- Letters of George Borrow to the Bible SocietyGeorge Borrow
- StyleWalter Raleigh
- Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug BinisayaGregorio de Santiago Vela
- What Great Men Have Said About Women Marcet Haldeman-Julius
- Provincial Words and Phrases of Somersetshire Wadham Pigott Williams
- On the Study of WordsRichard Chenevix Trench
- Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature Thomas Young
- The Englishing of French Words Brander Matthews
- The Principles of the Art of Conversation J. P. Mahaffy
- The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland
- Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature Henry Watson Kent
- The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Frances E. Lord
- A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy James Elphinston
- Queer Questions and Ready Replies Samuel Grant Oliphant
- The Training of a Public Speaker Grenville Kleiser
- Stops, or How to Punctuate Paul Allardyce
- The Story of the Alphabet Edward Clodd
- The Letter H, Past, Present, and Future Alfred Leach
- The English Secretary Angel Day
- The Evolution of English LexicographyJames A. H. Murray
- Lars Porsena, or the Future of Swearing Robert Graves
- A Cursory History of Swearing Julian Sharman
- Extempore Speech William Pittenger
- A Manual of Italian Literature Francis Henry Cliffe
- An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities Elizabeth Elstob
- Impromptu Grenville Kleiser
- A Select Glossary of English Words Richard Chenevix Trench
- A Few Practical Suggestions Logan Pearsall Smith
- A Naval Expositor Thomas Riley Blanckley
- Account of the Romansh Language Joseph Planta
- English Spelling and Spelling Reform Thomas R. Lounsbury
- A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies Archer Taylor
- Why We Punctuate William Livingston Klein
- International Language and Science Louis Couturat
- Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue Alexander Hume