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LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains literature content, including more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, 2,400 full-text speeches, and 1,250 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. Within LitFinder's collection, patrons have access to works from over 80,000 authors from 660 nationalities.

LitFinder's easy-to-use search paths allow users to easily target the information they are looking for or to browse the database through various refine search and results limiter options. For example, users can find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the love poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion. Person search quickly retrieves a particular writer or identifies authors linked by such qualities as gender, nationality, century, and genre. A works search provides similar limiters and the ability to browse works by thousands of subjects, themes, genres, and movements. Basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, century, and more.

Notable functionality includes: a cross-search with other Gale references like:

• Literature Resource Center
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Scribner Writers Series
• Twayne's Authors Series
• Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
• text-to-speech capability
• translation to several languages
• How-to-cite feature with export to citation tools

Review:

"As the name implies, LitFinder helps users find 135,000 stories, poems, essays, plays, and speeches in anthologies. Search by genre or subject as well as title or author; browse to see what's available alphabetically, and then refine the results."
--Library Journal, November 15, 2008

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• Product number: 220537
• Shipping Weight: 1.00 lbs (0.45 kgs)

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