KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Literature

KNOWLEDGE BLASTER Guide to Literature covers the most famous books, authors, poems (and nursery rhymes) of all time. From Aeschylus to Zane Grey, from the Iliad to Peter Pan, and from Hester Prynne to James Bond, interesting facts abound. Whether you're a student, game show contestant, or curious reader, you'll find the answers to your literary questions in these pages.Who said, "To thine own self be true," and "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"?Why did Hester Prynne wear the scarlet letter in Nathaniel Hawthorne's book?What is Homer famous for? (No, not Homer Simpson.)In The Divine Comedy, who served as guide in the Inferno?In which Dickens novel is young Pip introduced to decaying old Miss Havisham?Who created Frankenstein (in a literary sense)?According to T.S. Elliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, who's not there?The KNOWLEDGE BLASTER Series compresses a great mountain of available information into easily digestible morsels. You'll find the books are patterned in an efficient question-and-answer mode, stressing simplicity, brevity, and clarity.