Reference on the Web.(Review)

Publication: Booklist

Publication Date: 15-APR-01

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The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection. [http://www.ipl.org/ref/ litcrit/].

This page of The Internet Public Library (IPL) offers "4,346 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works." Three indexes provide access: author, title, and nationality and period. All three of the indexes are accessible from every page, so that the user does not have to go back to the home page to initiate a new search.

At the top of each author page are birth and death dates, nationality, and a brief identifying phrase; for example, Alice Munro is identified as an...

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