Untitled Document
Combining the best features of a dictionary and an encyclopedia, this remarkable reference provides detailed coverage of the world's major authors, works, and literary terms and topics. Students, teachers, writers, editors — as well as anyone who reads for pleasure — will delight in this rich source of information about the world's finest literature.
"This is an extraordinarily useful reference work...Highly recommended."
-- Library Journal
Product Details
- More than 10,000 entries and 250 illustrations
- Covers a diverse variety of literature, including children's literature, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and detective fiction
- Entries for all literary forms and genres, plot summaries, biographical sketches (with pronunciations) of authors and critics
- Definitions, pronunciations, and etymologies of literary terms
- 1,248 pages
- Hardcover
|