Literature & Criticism

Contemporary Authors offers students and patrons continuous access to deep and current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 145,000 of today’s most influential novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.

Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres.

The world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today’s researcher. Its rich critical, biographical and contextual content supports interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy and the development of critical-thinking skills.

LitFinder is Gale’s core repository of literary works. International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content. This includes approximately 140,000 full-text poems, 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays, 2,000 full-text speeches and 1,700 full-text plays. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.

NoveList Plus is Readers Advisory service of reading recommendations for fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

Twayne's World, US, and English Authors contains the full text of 600 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors. Playwrights from the Greeks (Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Sophocles) to the present day (Pinter, Soyinka, Miller) are included.