Masterplots II examines various works of literature. With strong interest in an analytical approach, story summaries are augmented by discussions of plot, theme, style and characters.

Masterplots II examines various works of literature. With strong interest in an analytical approach, story summaries are augmented by discussions of plot, theme, style and characters.

Masterplots II examines various works of literature. With strong interest in an analytical approach, story summaries are augmented by discussions of plot, theme, style and characters.

Masterplots II examines various works of literature. With strong interest in an analytical approach, story summaries are augmented by discussions of plot, theme, style and characters.

Presents a study of books that had their influence on generations of children and adults alike. This set offers articles on novels and biographical works and examines other literary forms in fiction and non fiction. It features works by Charles Dickens, Madeline L'Engle, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and E B White.

This updated eight-volume set contains new entries on poems by classic writers including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost, and contemporary poets including Marge Piercy, Robert Bly, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich and Margaret Atwood

This work covers 345 works of drama, including 92 plays new to this edition. It covers many plays by 20th century playwrights, such as Samuel Beckett, Noel Coward, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, John Osborne, George Bernard Shaw, Neil Simon, and Tennessee Williams.

Reference materials on short stories for teachers and libraries. This edition incorporates all the articles from the original six-volume set and four-volume supplement and adds 250 essays. It is organized in the standard Masterplots form, with articles aranged alphabetically by story title.

Masterplots II: Christian Literature covers over 500 classic and contemporary works of Christian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, providing a plot summary, analysis of Christian themes, and an annotated bibliography for each title. At the core of this work are the fiction and nonfiction ""classics"" to which most students and general readers, Christian or secular, will be exposed at some time in their lives, from Saint Augustine's Confessions to John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters. Many titles represent the boom in Christian literature of the past three...