About Literature Resource Center
Access to research on literary topics, authors, and their works. 
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Key features
Literature Resource Center covers all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. It includes:
- Biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors providing bibliographical and contextual information about an authors' lives and works;
- More than 850,000 full text articles, critical essays and reviews;
- More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works;
- More than 30,000 full text poems, short stories and plays;
- More than 8,500 interviews;
- Nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2800 author portraits.
Search tips
- Your results are organised into various tabs across the top of the results list — tabs with no results are grayed out.
- Roll your cursor over the tabs in the product to see a brief explanation of their content.
- The numbers in parentheses on each tab indicate how many results are in that tab.
More information
This resource supports research in English, world literature, film, theatre and across the humanities. Literature Resource Center is cross searchable with other Gale resources such as LitFinder and Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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