About Magill on Authors, Magill on Literature

The University Libraries

Provides plot summaries and brief critical analyses of thousands of literary works.
Also provides brief biographies for more than 1,500 authors.
Provides the texts of many Salem Press print volumes such as Masterplots (including various specialty Masterplots series), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill’s Literary Annual, the Magill critical surveys of Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, World Philosophers and Their Works, and more.
Includes "principal characters" and "titles" lookups, "genres" and "movement" searches, and a glossary of literary terms.