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Subject Guide: Literature

Illustrated Quixote

Illustrations from Don Quixote created before the turn of the 20th century, including renditions by artists like Manuel Peleguer, Gustave Dore, Robert Smirke, and Thomas Stothard.

Fiction - Videos

Alice Walker: A Stitch in Time. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2004

Alice Walker discusses her short story, Everyday Use, with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White.

Becoming Jan. Burbank, CA: Miramax Home Entertainment: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 791.4372 B398
ISBN: 0788876279

Tells of the life of Jane Austen that led to the writing of Pride and Prejudice.

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 813.69 L295T3 
Publication Date: 2011
Explores the "To Kill a Mockingbird" phenomenon, unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, and brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes it inspired after publication.

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.41 Z263
Publication Date: 2008
Biography of Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for writing Little women, that is based on primary sources shot in original locations.
 
Call Number: Available online from library catalog
Publication Date: 2003

In this lively round-table discussion, moderator Melvyn Bragg; the late writer and critic Anthony Burgess; Professor George Steiner, author of Language and Silence; literary critic Hermione Lee; and writer and series consultant Professor Malcolm Bradbury debate what constitutes modernist writing.

Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2006
Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative talent to write novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and essays.

Fiction - Books

Fiction - Ebooks

Children's and young adult fiction ebooks with an imprint earlier than 2005 from EBSCOhost.

Fiction ebooks with an imprint earlier than 2005 from EBSCOhost.

Fiction - Websites

Christian Fiction - Books

Christian Fiction - Videos

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 823.916 Z2 
Publication Date: 2009
Takes an in-depth look at the life of J.R.R. Tolkien, examining how his childhood in the English West Midlands influenced his ideas on language, literature, and mythology, and how the modest author felt about his immense success following publication of the Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings.
 
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2009
Chronicles C.S. Lewis' boyhood in Northern Ireland and the devastating loss of his mother, the profound impact of World War I on his belief system, his acclaimed academic career at Britain's Oxford and Cambridge Universities, his storied friendship with Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, his transition from atheist to Christian, and his late-in-life love story with his wife, Joy.

Christian Fiction by Genre & Time - Books