The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics

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Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Metro Books
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Summary

This useful guide is the key to unlocking the secrets of 100 of the world's most enduring novels, plays, and epic poems. More than simply a collection of tasty plot summaries, The Book of Great Books is a treasure chest of information. Provided with each entry are a thumbnail historical background, the story's main themes and symbols, insights into the language and style of the work, critical perspectives, and a remarkable character diagram that clarifies the relationships among the characters. High comedy, foul murder, political intrigue, and the world's greatest love stories -- the pantheon of great works is yours to enjoy with a landmark volume that makes great writing more accessible.

Table of Contents

Aeneid
1(9)
Virgil
All Quiet on the Western Front
9(8)
Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men
17(9)
Robert Penn Warren
Animal Farm
26(8)
George Orwell
As I Lay Dying
34(8)
William Faulkner
As You Like It
42(9)
William Shakespeare
The Awakening
51(12)
Kate Chopin
Beowulf
63(8)
Anonymous
Billy Budd
71(9)
Herman Melville
The Bluest Eye
80(11)
Toni Morrison
Brave New World
91(8)
Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild
99(9)
Jack London
Candide
108(8)
Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales
116(8)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Catch-22
124(9)
Joseph Heller
The Color Purple
133(8)
Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment
141(9)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crucible
150(8)
Arthur Miller
Daisy Miller
158(8)
Henry James
David Copperfield
166(8)
Charles Dickens
Death of a Salesman
174(9)
Arthur Miller
Diary of a Young Girl
183(8)
Anne Frank
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
191(8)
Dante
Doctor Faustus
199(9)
Christopher Marlowe
A Doll's House
208(8)
Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote
216(8)
Miguel de Cervantes
Ethan Frome
224(9)
Edith Wharton
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
233(9)
Plato
A Farewell to Arms
242(9)
Ernest Hemingway
Faust, Parts 1 and 2
251(8)
J. W. von Goethe
For Whom the Bell Tolls
259(9)
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein
268(8)
Mary Shelley
The Glass Menagerie
276(8)
Tennessee Williams
The Good Earth
284(11)
Pearl S. Buck
The Grapes of Wrath
295(8)
John Steinbeck
Great Expectations
303(8)
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby
311(8)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels
319(9)
Jonathan Swift
Hamlet
328(8)
William Shakespeare
Hard Times
336(9)
Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness
345(8)
Joseph Conrad
Henry IV, Part 1
353(8)
William Shakespeare
House Made of Dawn
361(12)
N. Scott Momaday
The House of the Seven Gables
373(8)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Huckleberry Finn
381(8)
Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
389(11)
Maya Angelou
lliad
400(9)
Homer
Invisible Man
409(8)
Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre
417(8)
Charlotte Bronte
The Joy Luck Club
425(10)
Amy Tan
Julius Caesar
435(9)
William Shakespeare
The Jungle
444(8)
Upton Sinclair
King Lear
452(8)
William Shakespeare
Light in August
460(9)
William Faulkner
Lord Jim
469(8)
Joseph Conrad
The Lord of the Files
477(9)
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
486(8)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Macbeth
494(8)
William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary
502(9)
Gustave Flaubert
The Mayor of Casterbridge
511(8)
Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice
519(9)
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
528(8)
William Shakespeare
Moby-Dick
536(9)
Herman Melville
Native Son
545(8)
Richard Wright
1984
553(8)
George Orwell
Odyssey
561(8)
Homer
The Oedipus Trilogy
569(9)
Sophocles
Of Mice and Men
578(8)
John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea
586(8)
Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Twist
594(9)
Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
603(8)
Ken Kesey
Othello
611(8)
William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
619(9)
John Milton
The Pearl
628(8)
John Steinbeck
The Plague
636(9)
Albert Camus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
645(8)
James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice
653(12)
Jane Austen
The Prince
665(8)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Red Badge of Courage
673(8)
Stephen Crane
Republic
681(8)
Plato
The Return of the Native
689(9)
Thomas Hardy
Richard III
698(8)
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
706(9)
William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter
715(8)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Separate Peace
723(10)
John Knowles
Silas Marner
733(9)
George Eliot
Sons and Lovers
742(8)
D. H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury
750(9)
William Faulkner
Steppenwolf
759(9)
Hermann Hesse
The Stranger
768(9)
Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises
777(8)
Ernest Hemingway
The Taming of the Shrew
785(9)
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
794(9)
William Shakespeare
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
803(8)
Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God
811(12)
Zora Neale Hurston
Tom Sawyer
823(9)
Mark Twain
Treasure Island
832(9)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Twelfth Night
841(8)
William Shakespeare
Waiting for Godot
849(9)
Samuel Beckett
Walden
858
Henry David Thoreau

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