TY - BOOK AU - Joyce Moss AU - George Wilson. TI - Literature and its times: profiles of 300 notable literary works and the historical events that influenced them SN - 0787606073 U1 - 809.93358 LIT 22nd ed PY - 1997/// CY - Detroit PB - Gale KW - Classical literature -- History and criticism. Literature and history -- Rome N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - Literature and Its Times provides the historical background of 300 of the most-studied novels, plays, poems, speeches and short stories. This 5-vol. set is arranged chronologically from ancient times to the present, with the entries in each volume arranged alphabetically by title. Each entry examines both the historical setting of the literary work and the historical events taking place at the time the work was written ER -