Ebook: Faker''s Guide to the Classics: Everything You Need to Know About the Books You Should Have Read (But Didn''t)

With a chatty voice and sarcastic style, The Faker''s Guide to the Classics condenses the great-but long and often complicated-novels, plays, and poems into bite-size nuggets of info that are easy to digest, cutting out the bloated analysis and nauseating debate of other reading guides. From Anna Karenina and Beowulf to Ulysses and Wuthering Heights, each of the 100 books profiled here is a classic that everyone talks about but only hardcore lit majors have actually read.;Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Lolita; Little Women; The Last of the Mohicans; Lady Chatterley's Lover; The Jungle Book; The Jungle; Jude the Obscure; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Jane Eyre; Ivanhoe; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame; The House of Mirth; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Heart of Darkness; Hamlet; Gulliver's Travels; The Great Gatsby; Great Expectations; The Grapes of Wrath; The Good Earth; Gone with the Wind; Frankenstein; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Faust; Dracula; Don Quixote of La Mancha; A Doll's House; Doctor Zhivago.