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Provides a detailed introduction to writing an essay about literature and presents and discusses sample topics based on the works of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Bront?.

Provides a detailed introduction to writing an essay about literature and presents and discusses sample topics based on twenty of poet Emily Dickinson's works.

Provides a detailed introduction to writing an essay about literature and presents and discusses sample topics based on author Alice Walker's works.

Presents guidance on essay writing and sample essay topics on thirteen works of fiction and poetry by nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe, providing suggestions for how to approach them.

Provides a detailed introduction to writing an essay about literature and presents and discusses sample topics based on six of author Jane Austen's works.

Provides general instructions on how to write a good essay, features an overview of the issues involved in writing about Ralph Waldo Emerson, and includes suggestions for paper topics and writing strategies based on specific works by Emerson.

Provides a detailed introduction to writing an essay about literature and discusses sample topics based on twelve of author J.D. Salinger's works.

Contains a representative selection of contemporary criticism on the work of twentieth-century American author Alice Walker, and includes an introductory overview of her life and writing as well as a chronology.

Presents twelve critical essays on the writings of twentieth-century English author Aldous Huxley, and includes a chronology of his life, a bibliography, and an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Profiles five short stories by nineteenth-century French writer Guy de Maupassant, providing plot summaries, character guides, and several works of criticism on each, and includes a brief Maupassant biography and primary and secondary bibliographies.