The entire Critical Insights series is available from Salem Press as a standing order. Standing orders enjoy a full 15% discount. For information on this opportunity, please call (800) 221-1592. Below you will find a description of the entire series: PUBLISHED IN 2009 Jane Austen Gwendolyn Brooks T.S. Eliot Benjamin Franklin Robert Frost Gabriel García Márquez Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway Barbara Kingsolver Toni Morrison PUBLISHED IN 2010 Stephen King Tennessee Williams Mark Twain Charles Dickens F. Scott Fitzgerald Arthur Miller Isabelle Allende James Baldwin Emily Dickinson John Steinbeck For more information on these Author Titles, click here. PUBLISHED IN 2009 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Dracula Bram Stoker The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee PUBLISHED IN 2010 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe For more information on these Works Titles, click here. All of the Critical Insights titles are available online, at no cost to owners of the print reference, through Salem Literature. Purchasing one or more of these works entitles a school or library to a free subscription to Salem Literature, including all the content of each purchased set. For more info, just click Salem Literature. For info call (800) 221-1592.

Salem's new Critical Insights series distills the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world's most-studied literature. The series focuses on an individual author's entire body of work and on single works of literature. Edited and written by some of academe's most distinguished literary scholars, Critical Insights provide authoritative, in-depth scholarship suitable for students and teachers alike. For in-depth information on specific titles from the "Author" titles, click AUTHORS. TARGETED CURRICULUM SUPPORT Unlike multi-volume literary reference, Critical Insights allows libraries to tailor their support to the precise curriculum they serve. Specific works and individual authors can be selected from our growing list of titles. Your library can respond to the exact needs of teachers and their classrooms. UNLIMITED USERS Often, when reference is needed in support of specific assignments, dozens of students need the same resource. But, with Critical Insights, your library has unlimited, simultaneous literary reference available online. This online access is a complimentary element in the product Salem provides. Salem Literature is easy to use and is available in the library or remotely, from home or dorm room. CIRCULATING REFERENCE Critical Insights single volumes are ideal for "circulating reference." In combination with our online access to the full content, the series brings the most flexible access to information available anywhere. For information on specific "Works" titles, click WORKS. WORKS & AUTHORS Those Critical Insights that focus on an author's entire oeuvre include novelists, dramatists, short-story writers and essayists. Those focused on a specific title include the most popular and routinely studied classroom works. This superior series offers the most up-to-date collection of scholarly thinking about authors and individual works from all standard critical perspectives - social, gender, postmodern, psychological, and cultural, as well as more traditional historical and close readings. Students come away with an enriched sense of the many ways the work can be approached. Every volume contains an editor's introduction to the author or work, a perspective from the editors of the venerable literary magazine The Paris Review, and a biography of the author. Following these ready-reference chapters is a section, "Critical Contexts," that presents four original essays by current scholars: The "critical lens" chapter offers a close reading of the author or work from a particular critical standpoint, such as feminism, narratology, or New Criticism. A chapter on "cultural and historical context" addresses how the time period influenced the author or work, as well as what makes the author or work relevant to a contemporary audience. A compare/contrast chapter analyzes the work or author in the light of another work or author. The "critical reception" chapter reviews the major concerns that critics of the author or work have attended to over the years. The "Critical Readings" section follows, presenting half a dozen or more seminal essays, chosen by the volume's editor and written by renowned scholars from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These chapters round out the perspectives offered by the original material in the first section - offering full coverage of all the key issues and interpretations. Each essay is 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of MLA-style "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources: a chronology of the author's life a complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication a general bibliography a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor notes on the individual chapter authors a subject index Critical Insights - the "Bloom" series for the twenty-first century - is well on its way to becoming the premier starting point for literary studies-whether by the undergraduate undergoing a literature survey course or the graduate student seeking the "best of the best" between two covers. THE COMPLIMENTARY DATABASE The purchase of any Critical Insights title provides a school or library to a complimentary subscription to Salem Literature, our online literary database, including all the content in each volume purchased. For more information on the database, click Salem Literature. Brief summaries of the first ten "Author" titles, click Critical Insights: AUTHORS. Summaries of the first ten "Works" titles, click Critical Insights: WORKS.

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