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      A Sarah Orne Jewett Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      Identifies individual works, fictional characters, family members, and personal and professional friends of Sarah Orne Jewett, a nineteenth-century American woman writer. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was dismissed as a timid…

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      A Dashiell Hammett Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      Dashiell Hammett’s writing career began with the publication of The Parthian Shot, a tiny short story in The Smart Set in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding…

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      A Lafcadio Hearn Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      This reference is a comprehensive guide to Hearn’s life and career. Included in the volume are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for individual works by Hearn and collections of his…

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      A Ross Macdonald Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      Ross Macdonald is best known as the creator of private detective Lew Archer and as the author of such works as The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Underground Man (1971).

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      A Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia

      Robert L. Gale

      A guide to primary and secondary data on the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It comprises around 1500 entries, identifying all of Hawthorne’s characters, summarizing the plots of his…

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      A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850s in America

      Robert L. Gale

      The encyclopedia that comes after the list of entries contains brief, alphabetically arranged articles for performers, military personnel, theologians, composers, critics, educators, explorers, historians, industrialists, inventors, authors, artists, physicians, scientists…

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      An Ambrose Bierce Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      The bulk of the Companion comprises alphabetically arranged entries on Bierce’s major works and characters and on historical persons and writers who figured prominently in his life and career.

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      A Mickey Spillane Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      At one time, Mickey Spillane had authored seven of the top ten bestsellers in history, and may have been the most widely read author in the world. Lengthier entries summarize…

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      A Henry James Encyclopedia

      Robert L. Gale

      This brilliant, faultless, impeccably constructed work will maintain its status as an outstanding research tool invaluable both to undergraduate students and to scholars of James. It is unquestionably worthy of…

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      An F. Scott Fitzgerald Encyclopedia

      Robert L. Gale

      This reference book includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for Fitzgerald’s works, characters, family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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      Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace McCoy

      Tennessee-born Horace McCoy joined the American Air Service in WWI, was wounded flying over France, became a reporter-actor in Dallas. In Hollywood, he was popular as a handsome actor, then…

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      A Herman Melville Encyclopedia

      Robert L. Gale

      This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to Melville’s rich and complex literary career. The volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for all of Melville’s works and characters, and for…

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      A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion

      Robert L. Gale

      Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

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      Characters and Plots in the Novels of Horace McCoy

      Tennessee-born Horace McCoy joined the American Air Service in WWI, was wounded flying over France, became a reporter-actor in Dallas. In Hollywood, he was popular as a handsome actor, then…

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      The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s

      Robert L. Gale

      From a vantage point of 100 years on, readers can, with this book, look back on the excitement and ferment of the turbulent decade of the Gay Nineties and find…

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      An Edwin Arlington Robinson Encyclopedia

      Robert L. Gale

      A comprehensive encyclopedia which provides information on the poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, hailed by many in his day as America’s foremost poet, outranking T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Ezra…

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      Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Graham Greene

      Robert L. Gale

      Graham Greene was one of England’s most politically and theologically controversial, and most significant writers of the middle and late 20th century. This encyclopedia begins with a brief introductory essay…

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      Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Ring Lardner

      Robert L. Gale

      Intends to acquaint readers with the brilliant short stories of Ring Lardner, who was the first and remains one of the best contemporary baseball writers - accurate, colloquial, and funny…

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      Truman Capote Encyclopedia

      Robert L. Gale

      An encyclopedia which includes every item in Capote’s oeuvre, including novels, short stories, and non-fictional prose pieces. All of his fictional characters are identified, as well as family members and…

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      Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Raymond Chandler

      Robert L. Gale

      Raymond Chandler was a pioneer of what came to be known as hard-boiled mystery-detective fiction. His Philip Marlowe is America’s tough, realistic equivalent to Victorian England’s more refined Sherlock Holmes…

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      Characters and Plots in the Fiction of James M. Cain

      Robert L. Gale

      James M. Cain remains one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This reference guide to his oeuvre offers a chronology detailing his life as reporter, Hollywood scenarist…

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      Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Kate Chopin

      Robert L. Gale

      A feminist before such a term was created and most famous for The Awakening, the controversial Kate Chopin was also the author of a second novel, At Fault, as well…

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      Nineteenth-Century American Western Writers

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      This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and…

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