The Literary Encyclopedia

The Literary Encyclopedia is "an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1,400 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 3,700 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics". In 2007, they'll publish at least 800 new profiles. Also listed are nearly 19,000 works by date, country and genre.

There is a fee to join, but for the bibliophile and the researcher, this seems like a valuable resource.


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