Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Each entry contains the nationality, birth/death date, a brief biography, career summary, list of writings, and a bibliography of additional writings on the author.
Extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Entries include a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works and sources for further study.
An excellent site offering comprehensive literary criticisms and author biographies. One may browse the site by author, title, nationality, or literary time period.
A readers' advisory service that provides access to 155,000 fiction and non-fiction titles with features such as author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists, and more.
Link to Oprah' Book Club Archive. Discover titles by year, read summaries, reviews, author biographies and view the online discussion. You may need to join the Oprah Book Club, at no cost, to view all titles.
Based on the book, Reading Group Choices: Selections for Lively Book Discussions, this website offers book suggestions as well as discussion guides. If their website does not have a guide to a title, they give the Internet address (URL) to another site that does. Each guide contains a picture of the book jacket, plot summary, brief biography of the author, and discussion questions.
