Literature Resource Center

Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 135,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.

• Entries on 135,000 authors, from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism and other sources.
• More than 850,000 full-text articles, essays and reviews from 390 journals and magazines.
• More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review.
• More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction.
• More than 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays.
• More than 8,500 interviews.
• More than 6,000 links to web sites and 4,000 portraits.
• New and updated material is added continuously.

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