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The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1800 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides more than 4800 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics and grows by over 60 articles per month. We also list more than 21,000 works by date, country and genre. The Literary Encyclopedia offers good coverage of canonical literature originally written in English, French, German and Russian, and is extending its coverage of Spanish, Latin and Greek. It is built on historical principles so that all our data can be arrayed by date, country and genre and readers can explore writing in its historical context. We are now begining to add annotated and updating lists of recommended reading which will be of particular value to those studying literature. The publication is very much a living relationship between current scholars and readers and not a repository of information formerly published in printed works.

Membership costs $19.95 for a full year (circa £10.00 or €14) or $9.95 for a month and helps us to build this valuable resource.

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Secure payments can be made via WorldPay or PayPal using all major credit cards, or from a PayPal account. You can pay in any currency and your credit card company will bill you in local currency. Please note that our subscriptions DO NOT RENEW automatically so you need have no fear you will be getting into a relationship that will be difficult to escape.

Sudents and faculty at subscribing institutions are not charged. Please use your institutional email address when making your account, then follow instructions.

As a member you can

• read the full text of all articles
• print articles in an attractive format
• list an author’s works from within an author record
• generate lists of authors according to genre, date span and country
• generate lists of works by genre, date span and country
• generate lists of literary and historical topics by date and country
• list contemporary authors and texts from within any article by clicking on one button
• compose sophisticated timelines relating literary texts to historical events
• list approved internet resources related to the record being read
• save particular searches and articles to your own “bookshelves” and mail a link to this bookshelf to others

The Literary Encyclopedia is owned by its writers. Becoming a member pays our authors for their learning and helps us keep expanding the publication. We add about 1 million words each year.

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