Literary reference works Books

First published in 2001. Part of the Routledge Who's Who series, this is an accessible, authorative and enlightening definitive biographical guides to a range of subjects. Focusing on mythology, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to world...

The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education, specialised in material about everyday life in Britain and recorded material through a panel of around 500 volunteer observers...

An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction is a book written by William Adolphus Wheeler and published in 1872. The book is a reference guide to the names of characters in works of fiction, including novels, plays, and poems...

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Fact, Fancy, and Fable: A New Handbook for Ready Reference on Subjects Commonly Omitted from Cyclopaedias is a book written by Henry Frederic Reddall and published in 1892. The book is a comprehensive reference guide that covers a range of topics that...

In this exploration of the most innovative and iconoclastic modernist fiction, James J. Miracky studies the ways in which cultural forces and discourses of gender inflect the practice and theory of four British novelists: Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster,...

A study guide for Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide for Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography;...

A study guide for Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary themes for Students: the American Dream series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study...

A study guide for Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A study guide for Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A Study Guide to Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide for D. H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical...

A study guide for Michael Frayn's "Noises Off", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A study guide for Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A study guide "Surrealism", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A study guide for Dennis Lehane's "Mystic River", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for John F. Kennedy's "John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary themes for Students: the American Dream series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography;...

A study guide for Maxine Hong Kingston's "Women Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood Among Ghosts", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary themes for Students: War and Peace series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author...

A study guide for John Hersey's "Hiroshima", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary themes for Students: War and Peace series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for J. D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide for Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide for T. H. White's "The Once and Future King", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A study guide for Walter M. Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle For Leibowitz", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for Franz Kafka's "The Castle", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A study guide for Tim O'Brien's "Going After Cacciato", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide for Evelyn Waugh's "Handful of Dust", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide forSalman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A study guide for Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A study guide for Nguyen Thi Vinh's "Thoughts of Hanoi", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A study guide for William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A study guide for Robert Frost's "Home Burial", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A study guide for William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide to James Baldwin 's Sonny's Blues, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide to Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical...

A Study Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Gimpel the Fool, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide to Truman Capote's Christmas Memory, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A study guide for Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study guide examines major political theories and is organized into the following easily digestible sections: overview, history, theory in depth, theory in action, analysis and critical response, topics...

A Study Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide to Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide to Elie Wiesel's "Night," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and...

A Study Guide for Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...