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Salem on Literature: New and available online only at eNotes, this collection of more than 30,000 essays covers more than 15,000 works of literature. This highly regarded series is used in academic libraries all over the country.
3500+ Study Guides
Our flagship literature guides currently span 3500+ titles, all at your fingertips! Written by professionals for students and educators alike, our content-rich study guides are used by thousands of individuals every year. Available online, in printer-friendly format, and in PDF. See why more people choose eNotes.
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Lesson Plans
More than 100 of the most complete literature lesson plans available anywhere. Designed and written by teachers for teachers, these complete unit plans cover the most widely read books and plays. Lesson plans feature activities, assignments, quizzes, tests, and a whole lot more.
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Literary Criticism
More than 40,000 critical essays spanning decades of literary criticism. One of the largest online collections available.
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Salem on Literature
Coverage of more than 15,000 literary works and authors in this exclusive collection.
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Shakespeare at eNotes
The world's most complete online Shakespeare resource. Our Shakespeare collections features thousands of pages on the world's most renowned playwright, including full-featured study guides to the plays and sonnets.
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Feminism in Literature
Comprehensive coverage of important feminist writers and topics throughout history.
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Gothic Literature
Offering a wide range of historical accounts about, literary excerpts from, and critical interpretations of a long-standing mode of fiction-making that has come to be called "the Gothic."
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eTexts
Online texts of almost 200 classics. Read online or download as a PDF.
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Calendar of Literary Facts
More than 6,000 literary events from the beginning of written history.
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The Oxford Companion to American Literature
For more than half a century, The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers.
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
More than 3,000 entries compiled by a team of 100 internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries.
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Over 8,300 entries comprise this standard-bearer of English Literature, now in its sixth edition.
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Book Blog
Stay up-to-date in the world of books and authors with this blog from the editors at eNotes.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the 1,000 best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre.
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
This Companion is the first authoritative reference source for the complex and captivating genre of the fairy tale. It provides full coverage of stories and characters, from Ali Baba, Aladdin, and Cinderella, to Hansel and Gretel, the Moomins, and Tom Thumb, along with the writers who wrote and reworked them, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, J R R Tolkein, A S Byatt, and Gabriel García Marquez, and the artists who illustrated them, including Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, and Maurice Sendak.
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