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Find information on thousands of authors and their works, such as author biographies, plot summaries, full-text essays and book reviews from leading publishers.
This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs. Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and original content from EBSCO, Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. It also includes literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and book reviews from the most prestigious publications. It offers poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.
This is a broad reference resource for literature, authors, literary criticism, and literary works across disciplines and timeframes. It contains plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticism, book reviews, author biographies and interviews, poems, and short stories.