Literature Resource Center provides entries on more than 130,000 authors with detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works; more than 70,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews; more than 7,000 overviews of frequently studied works; more than 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 300 scholarly journals and literary magazines; nearly 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays; more than 4,500 interviews; nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2800 author portraits; the ability to identify groups of authors who share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender; and, Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms
