Magill's Quotations in Context, First Series

Frank N. Magill

Reference

Harpercollins

"Magill's History of Europe surveys, in chronological order, 288 events which shaped the Western world, from the promulgation of Hammurabi's code (c. 1750 B.C.) to the negotiations surrounding the European economic union in 1992.  Within this framework, "Europe" is construed broadly to refer to both Eastern and Western Europe, as well as those ancient civilizations (Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and North African) which gave rise to many of the legal, social, and political institutions that have shaped Europe as we know it today...All material was written by history professors and scholars from campuses throughout the United States.  Reports of the events themselves average more than one thousand words in length, while the individual reviews of literature run about sic or eight hundred words each."  ~ from the Publisher's Note..."Unlike most historical works, it does not attempt to form a particular or overall impression of European history; instead, it strives to give the reader additional insight into specific events and better clarification of the situations surrounding them."  ~ wikipdeia.org

Magill's history of Europe

Grolier Educational Corp.

Masterplots 1981 Annual. Grolier's Literary Annual Essay Reviews of 100 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 1980

Grolier Enterprises, Inc.

1,300 Critical Evaluations of Selected Novels and Plays Volume One A-Eno 1-652 (Offprints of all the New Material from the 12-Volume Revised Edition of Masterplots)

Salem Press

Great Events From History (Worldwide 20th Century Series, Volume 1)

History

Salem Press, Inc.

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

Contemporary literary scene, II

Literature & Fiction

Survey of Science Fiction Literature/With Bibliographic Supplement

Aperture

***This is all 7 of the volumes.***Critical Survey of Short Fiction is provided as an exhaustive examination of the history, characteristics, structure, and prime examples of literature's most popular form. There are three major divisions in this seven volume work, as outlined below: Essays, Authors, Current Authors. Essays are long, detailed, analytic treatments which synthesize a wide range of information, from the social and historical to the philosophic and religious to the technical and semantic. Clusters of essays examine the genres roots in such ancient forms as the ballot, the Bible narrative, the medieval epic; its development through modern chronological.; Its unique evolution in particular countries, regions, and ethnic groups. Because of the nature of short stories, the authors a set is arranged by authors rather than by works. Each author article includes at the beginning a list of printable short fiction works and brief sections discussing other literary forms in which the author wrote, influences on his work as well as the influence of his work on the writing of others, characteristics of his short fiction as a whole, and his biography. Finally the current authors section is a result of an invitation to several hundred current authors to contribute a one-page description of their work - their background, style, thematic concerns, and the like.

Critical Survey of Short Fiction

History & Criticism

Salem Press Englewood Cliffs, NJ

***This is volume 2 of seven only.***Critical Survey of Short Fiction is provided as an exhaustive examination of the history, characteristics, structure, and prime examples of literature's most popular form. There are three major divisions in this seven volume work, as outlined below: Essays, Authors, Current Authors. Essays are long, detailed, analytic treatments which synthesize a wide range of information, from the social and historical to the philosophic and religious to the technical and semantic. Clusters of essays examine the genres roots in such ancient forms as the ballot, the Bible narrative, the medieval epic; its development through modern chronological.; Its unique evolution in particular countries, regions, and ethnic groups. Because of the nature of short stories, the authors a set is arranged by authors rather than by works. Each author article includes at the beginning a list of printable short fiction works and brief sections discussing other literary forms in which the author wrote, influences on his work as well as the influence of his work on the writing of others, characteristics of his short fiction as a whole, and his biography. Finally the current authors section is a result of an invitation to several hundred current authors to contribute a one-page description of their work - their background, style, thematic concerns, and the like. This particular volume deals with the first 406 essays with such topics as: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments; the Hasidic Tale; the Romance Form in the Late Middle Ages; the Gothic Influence on Short Fiction; British Short Fiction in the 19th and 20th Centuries; American Short Fiction in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Black Short Fiction; Short Fiction of the 19th Century American South; Italian Short Fiction; Themes of Women's Short Fiction; Detective Short Fiction; Short Fiction on Film; and Fiction Writers on Writing Short Fiction.

Critical Survey of Short Fiction (Essays, vol. 2)

salem

***This is volume 3 of 7 only.***
Critical Survey of Short Fiction is provided as an exhaustive examination of the history, characteristics, structure, and prime examples of literature's most popular form. There are three major divisions in this seven volume work, as outlined below: Essays, Authors, Current Authors. Essays are long, detailed, analytic treatments which synthesize a wide range of information, from the social and historical to the philosophic and religious to the technical and semantic. Clusters of essays examine the genres roots in such ancient forms as the ballot, the Bible narrative, the medieval epic; its development through modern chronological.; Its unique evolution in particular countries, regions, and ethnic groups. Because of the nature of short stories, the authors a Dah is arranged by authors rather than by works. Each author article includes at the beginning a list of printable short fiction works and brief sections discussing other literary forms in which the author wrote, influences on his work as well as the influence of his work on the writing of others, characteristics of his short fiction as a whole, and his biography. Finally the current authors section is a result of an invitation to several hundred current authors to contribute a one-page description of their work - their background, style, thematic concerns, and the like. 
This particular volume deals with authors from A through Dah, including such authors as Isaac Asimov, Samuel Beckett, Pearl S Buck, Truman Capote, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Roald Dahl.

Critical Survey of Short Fiction (Authors A-Dah, Vol. 3)

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