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Gale Literary Sources offers an integrated approach to the full texts of literary works, journal articles, reviews, reviews, biographies, and author reviews of these resources:

  • Literature Criticism
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Contemporary Authors
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
  • LitFinder
  • Scribner Writers Series
  • Something About the Author Online
  • Twayne's Authors Series

The database Literature Resource Center provides biographical, bibliographic and contextual information to more than 150,000 authors. It includes:

  • more than 1.1 million full-text articles and reviews from nearly 500 periodicals and magazines
  • 80,000 full text critics
  • 7,000 production reports
  • more than 13,000 links to key websites
  • more than 140,000 biographies supplemented by 3,000 portraits
  • 10,000 passwords taken from Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature

Scribner Writers Series - contains more than 3,000 original detailed essays on the world’s 1,400 top authors.

Twayne’s Authors Series - includes critical contributions to the life and work of major writers, history and development of literary movements and genres from nearly 900 monographs.

Instructional videos can be found here.


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