Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism : Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1900 and 1999 - Vol 113

This series presents excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 - the era most frequently studied in high schools. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author.

A typical excerpt is prefaced by an annotation that explains the critic's reputation and critical philosophy and providing a synopsis of the excerpt.

Approximately 90-95 percent of critical essays are full text. Every fourth volume is a topics volume covering major literary movements, trends and other topics.

Volumes include author, nationality, topic and title indexes; a cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately.