Introductions to the Classics

The Literature Online Reference database includes fulltext reference works and essays, indexing to journals, selected fulltext artcles, and streaming audio on topics related to literature: movements, world fiction, poetry, and author biographies. Recent fulltext additions are introductions to 400 classic works of world literature, from the Penguin Classics series. You'll find Aeschylus represented, along with Balzac, Chaucer, Dickens, Euripides, Flaubert, Goethe, Hardy, Ibsen, Kempe, LeFanu, Machiavelli, Pushkin, Rilke, Schiller, Twain, Verne, Woolf, Zola, and more.

The content of an introduction will vary by the author and work described: general background and introductory material, with a chronology, are commonly found, plus reading lists for further information.

Literature Online Reference is available to students, faculty, and staff of Christian Brothers University. You'll find it listed on the Library's Databases Page.