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The encyclopedia that comes after the list of entries contains brief, alphabetically arranged articles for performers, military personnel, theologians, composers, critics, educators, explorers, historians, industrialists, inventors, authors, artists, physicians, scientists, sculptors, and numerous events and creative works.

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Dashiell Hammett's writing career began with the publication of The Parthian Shot, a tiny short story in The Smart Set in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding stories in Collier's in 1934.

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Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history.

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This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to Melville's rich and complex literary career.

The volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for all of Melville's works and characters, and for his family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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This reference is a comprehensive guide to Hearn's life and career.

Included in the volume are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for individual works by Hearn and collections of his writings, for members of his family, and for the colleagues and acquaintances who figured prominently in his life.

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At one time, Mickey Spillane had authored seven of the top ten bestsellers in history, and may have been the most widely read author in the world. Lengthier entries summarize the plots of his works, including I, the Jury; Select entries list works for further reading, and the volume concludes with a brief bibliography.

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A guide to primary and secondary data on the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It comprises around 1500 entries, identifying all of Hawthorne's characters, summarizing the plots of his fiction and the substance of his essays, and introducing his family members, friends and associates.

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Ross Macdonald is best known as the creator of private detective Lew Archer and as the author of such works as The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Underground Man (1971).

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Identifies individual works, fictional characters, family members, and personal and professional friends of Sarah Orne Jewett, a nineteenth-century American woman writer. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was dismissed as a timid New England local colourist, known principally for her novels and short stories based in her native state of Maine.

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The bulk of the Companion comprises alphabetically arranged entries on Bierce's major works and characters and on historical persons and writers who figured prominently in his life and career.

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This reference book includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for Fitzgerald's works, characters, family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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From a vantage point of 100 years on, readers can, with this book, look back on the excitement and ferment of the turbulent decade of the "Gay Nineties" and find the seeds of the joys and anguish, the excesses and successes of the 20th century. It is suitable for browsing or research.