1900-1999 (20th century)

Contains the scripts of nine significant plays of the modern theater, written between 1944 and 1975 by playwrights including Harold Pinter, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, Tom Stoppard, and David Mamet.

Provides biographical and bibliographical information on more than one thousand of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, including novelists and short story writers, dramatists, poets, contemporary literary figures, genre writers, and twentieth-century thinkers; and includes nationality/ethnicity and genre/subject indexes.

A biographical-critical assessment of Hemingway as a man and of his work.

Features poetry and fiction written by authors representative of the Beat movement of the 1950s including classic and recent work, short biographies of the contributors, and a bibliography of Beat literature.

An anthology of articles originally published in "Time" magazine in the years between 1923 and 1994, which provides information about key moments and individuals in the history of American immigration and diversity.

A collection of poems on such topics as the family, childhood, isolation, identity, realities, illusion, dissent, love, war, and pain written by various authors.

A collection of American poetry about World War II by fifty-two poets.

Examines the ways in which social organizations such as the PTA, church, recreation clubs, political parties, and bowling leagues reflect life satisfaction, and suggests ways to rebuild the quality of American culture by a return to these types of activities.

An illustrated chronicle of the twentieth-century, offering an overivew of each decade; presenting a year-by-year account of happenings and people in sports, science, society, the arts, industry, and other areas; and featuring an essay that characterizes each decade as well as the top story for every year.

Presents two poetry volumes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including the 1976 "Who Are We Now?" and "Landscapes of Living and Dying," first published in 1979.