Content: Critical overviews of literature from all cultures and time periods. Includes these popular "for students" resources:
Useful Feature: Each literary work has a summary page to orient you to further themes to explore.
Content: summaries of short stories, novels, poems and plays, along with scholarly criticism regarding theme, setting, symbolism, and more.
Content: Full-text database covering all genres and time periods. It includes synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus the full-text of classic novels, short stories and poems. Just search by title.
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Content: Information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and eras in World History.
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