encyclopedias

Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on various aspects of the life and writings of fifteenth-century French humanist Rabelais.

Contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide a wide variety of information about nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens, covering his novels and other writings, characters, biographical details, social themes, literary forms and terms, and other topics.

Contains over 2,200 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the life and career of twentieth-century author F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring synopses of his writings, descriptions of his characters, information about his friends, family, and associates, and other details of his life, work, and the times in which he lived.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of author Ernest Hemingway, including plot summaries for each of his novels, short stories, plays, and non-fiction writings; and biographical data on Hemingway, his family, friends, and circle of writers.

Contains over 450 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of early twentieth-century American novelist Edith Wharton; and includes photographs, illustrations, and a chronology of her writings.

Presents a comprehensive guide to the life and writings of early twentieth-century American poet and critic Ezra Pound along with over two hundred fifty alphabetically-arranged entries on his acquaintances, publications, and interests.

Ring Lardner remains one of the best baseball writers. Both characters and their counterparts have entries, as do the plots and details of some 35 stories devoted to baseball. But Lardner was more versatile, writing 92 hard-to-categorize non-baseball stories, focusing on athletes, writers, theatrical people, musicians, soldiers, embarrassed husbands, and puzzling wives.