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KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Literature

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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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Inside KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Literature

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Literature: Remembrance of Literature Past.

For his contribution to Italian literature, this author of The Divine Comedy is called "the father of modern Italian."
— Dante Allighieri.

Edmund Rostand told of a large-nosed fellow who stood up to his detractors with great courage and wit, and yet found it difficult to speak his true feelings to the girl he loved. The book is...?
— Cyrano de Bergerac.

Literature: A Little Dickens.

In the study of English literatury, what book begins, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"?
— A Tale of Two Cities.

Little Nell appears in which story?
— The Old Curiosity Shop.

Literature: Myth and Religion in Literature.

This "Classic of Changes" is the Chinese book of divination.
— The I Ching.

What are the first five books of the Old Testament?
— Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

This book contained spells that supposedly allowed the ancient Egyptians to enter Heaven.
— The Book of the Dead.

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KNOWLEDGE BLASTER! Guide to Literature
Table of Contents

This and That

Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes

Remembrance of Things Past

A Little Dickens

And They Wrote, Too!

This, That, and the Other

Detective Mysteries

More of This and That

The Literature of Religion

More of the Other

Mags, Papers, Comics and Awards

Q and A Hotline

Shakespeare

Knowledge Bowl

Who-Wrote-Its

Poetry Potpourri

...etc.

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