encyclopedias

Contains alphabetically-arranged entries that profile the essential action and summarize the plots in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels, short stories, and essays and discusses who the characters are, what the works' significance was, how the works were influenced by Fitzgerald's life, and other related topics.

A collection of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about Benjamin Franklin, covering the categories of writings, people, events, and interests; with a chronology of major events in his life and career from 1706 to 1790, a selection of writings, and a bibliography.

Contains over eight hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on various aspects of the life and work of Irish novelist James Joyce, covering terms, people, places, and concepts.

Examines the life and works of T.S. Eliot and provides critical analyses of his writing.

125 biographers, historians, and political scientists present their views on 321 topics concerning Roosevelt's life and times.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about people, places, and events related to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, and includes photographs, and four appendixes.

Presents more than 3,400 alphabetized entries on nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe's life and career, covering all of his major and most of his minor literary works, and includes a chronology, a selected bibliography, and a list of U.S. research collections on the author.

An encyclopedia covering the life of Thomas Jefferson and the key issues, events, and personalities that shaped him.