Summaries of All-Time Great Books brings you more than 130 summaries of well-known and well-loved books, plus hundreds of trivia, quotes and quiz facts!  In spare moments you can acquaint yourself with a book you’ve always wanted to know and as a fan of literature you can now complete your education and become genuinely well-read.

Contents include:
LITERARY CLASSICS A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Faerie Queene (Spenser), Beowulf, Tales of King Arthur, El Cid, A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations (Dickens), The Lady of the Lake, The Last of the Mohicans, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick, Don Quixote (Cervantes), Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), Little Women, Jane Eyre, The Maltese Falcon, Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, King Solomon’s Mines, Robinson Crusoe, The Picture of Dorian Gray & The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde), Frankenstein, The Time Machine (Wells), The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe), The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), To Kill a Mockingbird, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Candide (Voltaire), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain), 1984, The Origin of Species (Darwin), The Prince (Machiavelli), The Republic (Plato), Das Kapital (Marx)

SHAKESPEARE Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing

CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS Hiroshima (Hersey), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez), Lord of the Flies (Golding), Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), Blue Highways (Moon), Invisible Man (Ellison), The Painted Bird (Kosinski), Ceremony (Silko), Moscow to the End of the Line (Erofeev), The Joy Luck Club (Tan), The Shell Seekers (Pilcher), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Taylor), The Chosen (Potok)

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein, Churchill, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Aristotle, Edison, Marie Curie, Wilber & Orville Wright, Pasteur, Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Columbus, Confucius, Helen Keller, Iacocca, Geronimo

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP The 100 Greatest Entrepreneurs, What They Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School, Megatrends, A Passion for Excellence, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, Thriving on Chaos, The Greatest Management Principle in the World, The One-Minute Manager, How To Talk So People Listen, You Can Negotiate Anything, Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey), How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, The Road Less Traveled (Peck), Love is Letting Go of Fear, Psycho-cybernetics, A Whack on the Side of the Head (von Oech), The Richest Man in Babylon (Clason), The Merrill Lynch Guide to Retirement Planning, One Up On Wall Street, Page-a-Minute Memory Book, Feed Yourself Right, The Stress Solution, Control Your Depression, Overcoming Overeating, The Popcorn-Plus Diet, Beverly Hills Medical Diet, The Rice Diet Report, The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure, Fabulous Fructose Recipe Book, The Story of Weight Watchers

TRIVIA, QUIZZES, QUOTES AND FACTS…

Bonus book: Spd Rdng –The Speed Reading Bible (Susan Norman & Jan Cisek)

Volume III  brings you more than 130 summaries of well-known and well-loved books – plus several books you would like to have read but haven’t got round to reading! So in spare moments you can acquaint yourself with a book you’ve always wanted to know. As a fan of literature you can now complete your education and become genuinely well-read.

You will love this opportunity to remind yourself of some old favorites – such as War and Peace, the Short Stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Salinger’s classic, The Catcher in the Rye. And if you missed out on some of the children’s classics, this is your opportunity to catch up on The Wind in the Willows, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Secret Garden, and many more. And to add to your knowledge (schema), discover the many hundreds of trivia challenges, quotations and pearls of wisdom to spice up your conversation.

Contents include:

The ancients … Antigone (Sophocles), The Cyclops, The Trojan Women and Medea (Euripides), The Birds (Aristophanes)

Operas … The Barber of Seville (Rossini), The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), Carmen (Bizet), Aida (Verdi), Madame Butterfly (Puccini), The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Plays … Saint Joan and Pygmalion (Shaw), Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), A Doll’s House (Ibsen), The Crucible (Miller), Equus (Shaffer), The Lesson (Ionesco), The Glass Menagerie (Williams), Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot)

Short stories by ... O. Henry, John Updike, Katherine Mansfield, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Cheever, Chekhov, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O’Connor, Isak Dinesen, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Novels … Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Verne), Treasure Island (Stevenson), War and Peace (Tolstoy), Sense and Sensibility (Austen), A Room with a View (Forster), The Sea-Wolf (London), Oliver Twist (Dickens), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo), Billy Budd (Melville), Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill), The Devil’s Dictionary (Bierce), The Screwtape Letters (Lewis), Life with Father (Day), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson), Dracula (Stoker), Murder on the Orient Express (Christie), The War of the Worlds (Wells), The Caves of Steel (Asimov), Dune (Herbert), Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevski), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Exodus (Uris), The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), Jurassic Park (Crichton), Patriot Games (Clancy), The Firm (Grisham)

Children’s classics … Charlotte’s Web (White), The Jungle Book (Kipling), The Wind in the Willows (Grahame), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum), The Secret Garden (Burnett), Matilda (Dahl), Stone Fox (Gardner), Ramona the Pest (Cleary), Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls), Hatchet (Paulsen), Anpao (Highwater), Sounder (Armstrong), Zeely (Hamilton), A Day No Pigs Would Die (Peck), Sing Down the Moon (O’Dell)

Cultural and religious chronicles … The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), The Nazarene (Asch), Two from Galilee (Holmes), The Talisman (Scott), Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Bach), The Tale of Genji (Shikibu), The Last Days of Pompeii and Pope John Paul II