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
- QUILL
- For centuries, the quill, trimmed from a large feather, usually goose or swan, was the primary writing instrument of poets and scholars across Europe and America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- STANZA
- The word 'stanza' comes from the Italian for 'room,' and that's exactly what it is: a self-contained space within a poem where an idea can breathe and settle.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MANUSCRIPT
- Before the printing press, every manuscript was copied by hand, 'manuscript' itself comes from the Latin manu scriptum, meaning 'written by hand.'Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TOME
- A 'tome' originally referred to one volume of a multi-part work, a single, substantial book in what might be a much longer series.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Famous Authors: a free large-print word search
Famous authors word search, free and large-print, dip into the world of the quill, the manuscript, and the voices that shaped storytelling.
About Famous Authors
Every great novel begins the same way: a blank page, a pen, and one person determined to fill the silence with story. From the candlelit drafts of Jane Austen to the typewriter-hammered prose of Ernest Hemingway, the tools have changed but the craft has not. A single stanza of poetry or a sweeping chapter of fiction can hold an entire world inside it, and the authors who built those worlds left fingerprints on the language we still speak today.
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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