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Now the landmark guide to book series is updated and expanded in an essential new edition.

The Whole Story™, Second Edition is the most comprehensive guide to English-language series and sequels ever published, with over 104,000 titles in 20,000 sequences by 14,500 authors -- including 20,000 titles, 3,000 sequences, and 2,000 authors new to this edition.

Covering 3,000 years of literature from ancient Greek drama to Star Trek, The Whole Story features every kind of series -- drama, novels, history, politics, religion, science, family stories, travel, humor, and crime -- for adults, young adults, and children. It includes books by American, Canadian, British, Australian and other English-language authors, as well as thousands of titles translated into English.

This remarkable work is organized in three sections:

• A series list, with details of the titles in the 20,000 series, including dates of their first publication and notes concerning the authors, series, and related works.
• An alphabetical list of over 104,000 titles with details of the series to which they belong.
• An index of over 14,500 authors and the series to which they have contributed, with over 3,000 author cross-references.

From The Iliad and its heroic sequel, The Odyssey, to the classic Babar series for children to the ongoing detective adventures of Kinsey Millhone, this unparalleled resource provides librarians, booksellers, and readers with the most complete information available on series and sequels.

From D. W. Thorpe, edited by John Simkin.