Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- SPINE
- The spine of a book once served as a bookseller's billboard, before uniform shelving, books were stored with the spine facing inward, pages out, so readers could fan the leaves to find the title.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BOOKMARK
- Ribbon bookmarks were sometimes sewn directly into the binding during the hand-bookbinding era, a small luxury still found in high-quality editions today.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- NARRATOR
- The unreliable narrator, a storyteller whose account the reader quietly doubts, is one of literature's most enduring devices, used to powerful effect in classics from Gatsby to Wuthering Heights.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DRAFT
- F. Scott Fitzgerald revised The Great Gatsby so heavily in page proofs that his editor Maxwell Perkins famously warned him the printer's corrections were costing more than the book's advance.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Classic Novels: a free large-print word search
Classic novels word search, free and large-print. Settle in with the shelf, the spine, the bookmark, and the quiet world between the covers.
About Classic Novels
A great novel is a kind of furniture, it takes up space in a room and in your mind long after the last page. Libraries have always been sanctuaries: the hush of high shelves, the faint cedar scent of old bindings, the comfort of a familiar author's name along a well-worn spine. From Austen to Steinbeck, the classic novel endures not because it was assigned, but because it keeps giving something new each time you return.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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