Short Stories

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Part of Literary Criticism Online. Presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after Dec. 31, 1959.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography is the online version of the print reference series with the same name. The DLB provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of authors from all eras and genres.

Author and title index to all Gale sources such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

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Includes PoemFinder, EssayFinder, PlayFinder, SpeechFinder, and ShortStoryFinder. Indexes poetry, essays, stories, etc., from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author works, and over 4,000 periodicals. Searching for word or word combinations in titles, first and last lines in poems, book title, author, and thousands of designated subjects. International in scope and includes poetry from antiquity to the present.

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A collection of over 400 electronic scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Back issue archives are available, with some titles beginning with volumes as early as 1993.