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You'll love the diversity of this little study guide! It 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.

See if you can answer these:

• 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?
• 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?

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You can use this reference work as a launch pad to propel yourself into more in-depth studies. However, if you find this little study guide provides all the information you need, then consider your knowledge....

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