A two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world's greatest modern novels and novelists.

Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of the American novel, providing author biographies and bibliographies; novel synopses and analyses; discussion of historical events and emerging trends; and lists of award winners; arranged alphabetically from "Paco's Story" to "Zuckerman Unbound."

The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.

French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.

Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.

A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.