LaBlanc, Michael L

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.

Presents a global view of soccer covering its history, team profiles, statistics, biographies, game rules, U.S. professional soccer, women's soccer, Olympic competition, and the FIFA.

Profiles Chester Brown, Jim Davis, Tina Fey, John Knowles, and twenty-one other authors, comic artists, filmmakers, and artists of interest to middle and high school students, providing biographical, bibliographic, and critical information on each.

A guide to fifteen short fiction stories, providing an introduction to each story and its author, plot summaries, descriptions of important characters, analyses of significant themes, explanations of literary techniques and movements, and historical and critical essays.

Historical essays trace the development of basketball as a spectator sport in the United States. Also highlights each current team in the National Basketball Association, and includes numerous photographs.

Presents a global view of soccer covering its history, team profiles, statistics, biographies, game rules, U.S. professional soccer, women's soccer, Olympic competition, and the FIFA.

Contains alphabetically arranged profiles of approximately eighty musicians and record industry figures from a variety of genres, providing personal data, career summaries, lists of major awards, mailing addresses, biographical/critical essays, selected discographies, photos, and lists of further print and nonprint resources.