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LIBRARY
World Authors |
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| Link to St. Francis Online Catalog | |
| NONFICTION | |
| 808.83 SOL | Facts on File companion to the world novel |
| 808.83 YOU | You've got to read this |
| 809.2 BLO | Dramatists and dramas |
| 809.2 GRE | Great playwrights / |
| 809.3 BLO | Novelists and novels |
| 813 CRI | Critical essays on Richard Wright's Native son / |
| 813 HEM BUR | Ernest Hemmingway and his world. |
| 813 SNO | Amy Tan : a literary companion / |
| 813 WOM | Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / |
| 813.4 THE | Kate Chopin's The awakening / |
| 813.52 ERN | Ernest Hemingway / |
| 813.52 ERN | Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises / |
| 813.52 ROV | Ernest Hemingway. |
| 813.52 WAN | Readings on The sun also rises / |
| 818 RAC | Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / |
| 818.54 MAY | Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / |
| 820.9 ROG | The Oxford illustrated history of English literature / |
| 822.3 BLO | Shakespeare : the invention of the human. |
| 822.3 BLO | William Shakespeare's Romances |
| 822.3 CAM | Shakespeare's tragic heroes, slaves of passion / |
| 822.3 HAL | Shakespeare, a pictorial biography / |
| 822.3 HAR | Shakespeare: the tragedies; a collection of critical essays. |
| 822.3 SHE | Shakespeare's language |
| 823.509 BRA | Companion to the British novel, 18th and 19th centuries / |
| 823.509 GAY | The Facts on File companion to the British novel. |
| 823.9 CON HAR | Conrad's Heart of darkness and the critics. |
| 823.912 CON | Joseph Conrad / |
| 823.914 CHI | Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / |
| 843.009 TAY | The Facts on File companion to theFrench novel. |
| 843.91 THO | Albert Camus : a study of his work / |
| 843.914 CUN | Readings on The plague / |
| 909 DEN | Great books |
| 920 SHI | Latin American writers / |
| REFERENCE | |
| REF 803 ENC | Encyclopedia of world literature in the 20th century. |
| REF 808.8 MAS | Masterpieces of women's literature / |
| REF 809 BLO | The Bloomsbury guide to women's literature |
| REF 809 GRE | Great writers of the English language. |
| REF 809 LIT | Literary movements for students |
| REF 809 MUL | Multicultural writers since 1945 |
| REF 809 WOR | World Literature Criticism : 1500 to the present. |
| REF 809.2 BUR | The drama 100 |
| REF 809.3 BEA | Beacham's encyclopedia of popular fiction. : Analyses / |
| REF 809.3 NOV | Novels for students |
| REF 810 HAR | The concise Oxford companion to American literature |
| REF 810.3 HAR | The Oxford companion to American literature |
| REF 810.3 REF | Reference guide to American literature / |
| REF 810.9 AME | American history through literature: 1870-1920 |
| REF 810.9 AME | American writers; a collection of literary biographies. |
| REF 810.9 CON | Concise dictionary of American literary biography : The Twenties, 1917-1929. |
| REF 810.9 CON | Concise dictionary of American literary biography : The Age of maturity, 1929-1941. |
| REF 810.9 CON | Concise dictionary of American literary biography / : Broadening views, 1968-1988 / |
| REF 810.9 MER | Merriam Webster's dictionary of American writers |
| REF 810.9 TWE | Twentieth-century American literature. |
| REF 820 REF | Reference guide to English literature /. |
| REF 820.9 BRI | British writers / |
| REF 820.9 KRU | Encyclopedia of British writers |
| REF 820.9 MAJ | The major authors edition of the New Moulton's library of literary criticism /. |
| REF 820.9 STA | Encyclopedia of British writers |
| REF 822.3 CAM | The reader's encyclopedia of Shakespeare, |
| REF 822.3 SHA | The annotated Shakespeare. |
| REF 822.33 OLE | All things Shakespeare : an encyclopedia of Shakespeare's world |
| REF 860 CON | Latin American literature |
| REF 860.9 LAT | Latin American writers. |
| DATABASES |
| The African American Experience |
| The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. |
| http://aae.greenwood.com/default.aspx |
| The American National Biography |
| A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name. |
| http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html |
| Bloom's Literary Reference |
| Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. |
| http://www.fofweb.com/Direct2.asp?ItemID=WE00&ID=16926 |
| Encyclopedia Britannica |
| The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource. To access the following additional databases, click on the Additional Britannica Databases button. |
| www.school.eb.com |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| The Latino American Experience |
| The Latino American Experience marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos, the largest, fastest-growing minority group in the United States. LAE offers unparalleled depth and content. Much needed; very timely; muy fresca . |
| http://lae.greenwood.com |
| Literature Resource Center |
| Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=LitRG |
| Lit Finder |
| LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, full-text short stories, full-text essays, full-text speeches, and 1full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes the stories of 50,000 men and women who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the explorer Pytheas of the fourth century B.C. to modern figures who died before December 31, 2000. 10,000 portrait illustrations illuminate the articles. |
| www.oxforddnb.com |
| Scribner Writers Series Online |
| Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Twayne's Authors Online |
| Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| WEBSITES |
| Absolute Shakespeare |
| Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre. |
| http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/ |
| Biography |
| A site based on the television program, Biography , that features the lives of famous people past and present. |
| www.biography.com |
| The History Channel |
| The A&E site for history based on the television series. |
| www.historychannel.com |
| Internet Public Library |
| The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. |
| www.ipl.org |
| Literary Resources on the Net |
| This site provides a collection of links to literature resources and is maintained by an associate professor form Rutgers University. |
| http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ |
| Nobelprize.org |
| The Nobel Literature Prize has distinguished the works of authors from many different languages and cultural backgrounds. It has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide. |
| http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/ |
| SAC LitWeb |
| Website of San Antonio College providing links to information on not only British literature and authors but a wide variety of literature resources. |
| http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/britlit.htm |
| Schmoop |
| Schmoop wants To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. |
| http://www.shmoop.com/public/about_us.php |
| The Sweet Search |
| SweetSearch Biographies offers profiles and outstanding search results for thousands of famous-or infamous-people. |
| http://www.sweetsearch.com/biographies |
| Many living authors like Amy Tan have their own websites |
| SEARCH ENGINES |
| Ask.com |
| Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. |
| www.ask.com |
| MLA CITATION AIDS |
| easyBib |
| The free automatic bibliography composer. Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| NoodleTools |
| Individual citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian format |
| http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/citeone_s.php?style=MLA |
