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Selected E-Books

Bloom's How to Write about William Faulkner
by Anna Priddy and Harold Bloom

The Historical Novel
by Jerome De Groot

Shakespeare: The Basics
by Sean McEvoy

Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature
by Christina Alt

Selections from the Reference Collection

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Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction by Beetz, Kirk H. (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.P55 B43 1996 Ref v.1

ISBN: 0933833385

Publication Date: 1996
The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies by Kale, Tessa (Editor)
Call Number: PN1022 .H39 2007 Ref

ISBN: 0231139888

Publication Date: 2007
The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays from Ancient Greece to Modern Times by Shipley, Joseph T.
Call Number: PN6112.5 .S45 1984 Ref

ISBN: 0517553929

Publication Date: 1984
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters by Frank N. Magill (Editor); A. J. Sobczak (Editor); Janet Alice Long (Editorial Coordinator); Salem Press Editors (Editor)
Call Number: PN44 .M3 1998 Ref 5 vols.

ISBN: 9780893564384

Publication Date: 1998-02-01

Cyclopedia of Literary Characters provides critical descriptions of more than 20,000 characters that appear in 3,311 works of world literature, offering readers the opportunity to become familiar with both famous and less well-known personalities from the classics, popular fiction and plays.
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature by Wilfred D. Samuels; Loretta Gilchrist Woodard (Editor); Tracie Church Guzzio (Editor)
Call Number: PS153. N5 E48 2007 Ref

ISBN: 9780816050734

Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Encyclopedia of Southern Literature by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: PS261 .S515 1997 Ref

ISBN: 9780874369526

Publication Date: 1997-12-01
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature by Nelson, Emmanuel S. (Editor)
Call Number: PS153.M56 G74 2005 Ref 5 vols.

ISBN: 031333059X

Publication Date: 2005
Holocaust Literature by S. Lillian Kremer (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.H55 H66 2003 Ref

ISBN: 9780415929851

Publication Date: 2002-12-20
Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 by James B. Lloyd (Editor)
Call Number: PS266.M7 L5 Ref index table 2

ISBN: 9780878051397

Publication Date: 1981-10-01
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture : Literature by M. Thomas Inge (Editor)
Call Number: F209 .N47 2006 v.9 Ref

ISBN: 9780807858752

Publication Date: 2008-04-07
Reference Guide to Short Fiction by Watson, Noelle (Editor)
Call Number: PN3373 .R36 1994 Ref

ISBN: 1558623345

Publication Date: 1993
Short Story Writers by Magill, Frank N. (Editor); May, Charles E. (Consultant Editor)
Call Number: PN3373 .S398 1997 Ref v.1

ISBN: 089356950X

Publication Date: 1997

World Literature Selections from the Reference Collection

Concise Encyclopedia of Modern World Literature
Call Number: PN41 .C64 Ref
Cyclopedia of World Authors II by Magill, Frank N. (Editor)
Call Number: PN451 .C93 1989 Ref v.1

ISBN: 0893565121

Publication Date: 1989
Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century by Serafin, Steven R. (Editor)
Call Number: PN771 .E5 1999 Ref v.1

ISBN: 1558623736

Publication Date: 1999
The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present by Michael D. Sollars
Call Number: PN3503 .F33 2008 Ref

ISBN: 9780816062331

Publication Date: 2008-01-01
The Reader's Companion to World Literature by Hornstein; Calvin S. Brown (Editor); Lillian Herlands Hornstein (Editor); G. D. Percy (Editor)
Call Number: PN41 .R4 2002 Ref

ISBN: 0451205138

Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Timetables of World Literature by George Thomas Kurian
Call Number: PN524 .K87 2003 Ref

ISBN: 0816041970

Publication Date: 2003-02-01
World Literature and Its Times by Joyce Moss (Editor); Lorraine Valestuk (Editor); David Galens
Call Number: Check catalog record for call numbers.

This series includes volumes on ancient times, Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, the Middle East, and Africa.

Selections from the General Collection

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The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer by Lynch, Jack
Call Number: PR1874 .C35 2011

ISBN: 9781587657238

Publication Date: 2010
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition by Polk, Noel
Call Number: PS3511.A86 Z946353 2008

ISBN: 9781934110843

Publication Date: 2008
Guide to World Literature by Warren Carrier (Editor); Kenneth Oliver (Editor)
Call Number: PN44 .N37 1980

ISBN: 0814119492

Publication Date: 1980-06-01
A Place Like Mississippi by W. Ralph Eubanks
Call Number: PS144.M7 E93 2021 CIRC

ISBN: 9781604699586

Publication Date: 2021-03-16
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools by Bell, Robert H.
Call Number: PR2992.F6 B45 2011

ISBN: 9780230115118

Publication Date: 2011
Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance: Relative values by Brown,Cedric C. (Editor); Hadfield, Andrew(Editor); Wynne-Davies, Marion
Call Number: PR113 .W96 2007

ISBN: 140398641X

Publication Date: 2007
World Literature and Its Place in General Culture (Classic Reprint) by Richard Green Moulton
Call Number: PN524 .M67 1930

ISBN: 0259477885

Publication Date: 2017-05-17