We are wisely framed to be as warmly interested for a fictitious as for a real personage. The field of imagination is thus laid open to our use, and lessons may be formed to illustrate and carry home to the heart every moral rule of life.

—On Fiction

Thomas
Jefferson

The Reader’s Digest of Books

Helen Rex Keller

With more than 2,000 synopses of works by some 1,200 authors—sorted by title, author and date—this unique reference work is the ultimate great book finder through the early twentieth century.

NEW YORK: WARNER LIBRARY Co., 1917
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2015

Content

Alphabetical Listing by Title
The Abbé Constantin	to	The Aztec Treasure-House
Babylonian Influence on the Bible	to	A Christian Woman
Christie Johnstone	to	Donovan
Don Quixote	to	A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Gabriel Conroy	to	Hypnotism, Mesmerism, and the New Witchcraft
An Iceland Fisherman	to	The Liars
On Liberty	to	The Myths of the New World
The Nabob	to	Progress and Poverty
Prometheus Bound	to	The Strenuous Life
Strife	to	Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County

Alphabetical Listing by Author
Edwin Abbott Abbott	to	Giovanni Boccaccio
Boethius	to	Joseph Conrad
Hendrik Conscience	to	John Evelyn
Ferdinand Fabre	to	Arnold Guyot
William Henry Hadow	to	Josephus
Elisha Kent Kane	to	E. Marlitt (Eugenie John)
Christopher Marlowe	to	Pius II.
Plato	to	William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw	to	William Makepeace Thackeray
Octave Thanet (Alice French)	to	Charles Zueblin

Chronological Listing
900 B.C.	to	1799
1801	to	1864
1865	to	1882
1883	to	1896
1897	to	1917