Masterpieces of world literature /
edited by Frank N. Magill, editor.
- New York : Harper & Row, c1989.
- xvii, 957, ix p. ; 25 cm.
Includes indexes.
Absalom, Absalom! / Faulkner, William -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The / Twain, Mark -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The / Twain, Mark -- Aeneid / Vergil -- Age of Reason, The / Paine, Thomas -- Alchemist, The / Jonso Walden / Thoreau, Henry David -- War and Peace / Tolstoy, Leo -- Wasteland, The / Eliot, T. S. -- Waves, The / Woolf, Virginia -- Wealth of Nations, The / Smith, Adam -- Winter's Tale, The / Shakespeare, William -- Works and Days / Hesiod -- Wuthering Heights / BrontFe, Emily
Plot summaries and critical evaluations of 270 classic literary works, from ancient to modern, are provided, along with discussions of each work's literary significance and character sketches.
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Literature--Stories, plots, etc. Literature--History and criticism. Literatura--Historias, argumentos,etc. Literatura--Historia y crítica.