Literature and Reading

Bloom’s Literature is rich with relevant content on the core authors and works most studied in the high school curriculum. Bloom’s Literature also contains important curriculum tools to help educators with lesson plans, assignments, and independent study.

Highlights:

• Complete coverage: Bloom’s Literature contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors—from William Shakespeare to J. K. Rowling—and their works.
• Full-length videos of classic plays and films.
• Hundreds of full-text, classic works: Bloom’s Literature includes a Literary Classics eBook shelf containing the full contents of more than 1,000 classic works of literature.
• “How to Write about Literature”: Bloom’s Literature offers specific, student-friendly guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works of literature.
• Shakespeare Center: Bloom’s Literature’s all-new Shakespeare Center houses in one convenient location a treasure trove of content on all things Shakespeare.

Designed for high school students, Explora Secondary Schools allows students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, or homework from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.

Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and original content from EBSCO, Literary Reference Source features an expansive collection of classic and contemporary full-text poems, short stories, and novels. Other content includes:

• More than 26,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
• More than 210,000 author biographies
• More than 12,000 author interviews
• More than 360 full-text literary journals
• More than 1.1 million book reviews