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Literature Resource Center


Literature Resource Center is the world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and critical views and providing more substantive biographies and full-text literature criticism than any other resource. It’s no wonder Literature Resource Center won Reference Book Bulletin/Booklist Editors’ Choice Best Reference award and has recently garnered praise from Library Journal.

Literature Resource Center offers:

  • Biographical entries on more than 130,000 authors — from antiquity to the present – from Gale literature sources, providing detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors’ lives and works
  • More than 70,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews by a wide range of critics
  • More than 650,000 articles from more than 300 scholarly journals and literary magazines
  • More than 7,000 overviews of frequently studied works taken from Gale literature sources
  • Nearly 3,000 author portraits
  • Active links to nearly 5,000 selected Web sites
  • Merriam-Webster’s® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

This generous search capability provides for a marvelous approach to literature. There is a tremendous amount of flexibility…
— Library Journal

Click here to see why Gale’s Literature Resource Center is the best online resource for literature research!

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