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Passing Time in the Loo: Volume 1 - Summaries of All-Time Great Books

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The 1st volume of the best-selling series ‘Passing Time in the Loo: Summaries of All-Time Great Books’ is now available in Kindle!

Passing Time in the Loo Volume 1, Summaries of All-Time Great Books brings you more than 130 summaries of well-known and well-loved books, plus hundreds of trivia, quotes and quiz facts! So in spare moments you can acquaint yourself with a book you’ve always wanted to know and as a fan of literature you can now complete your education and become genuinely well-read.

Contents include:
LITERARY CLASSICS A Farewell to Arms & For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Faerie Queene (Spenser), Beowulf, Tales of King Arthur, El Cid, A Tale of Two Cities & Great Expectations (Dickens), The Lady of the Lake, The Last of the Mohicans, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Moby Dick, Don Quixote (Cervantes), Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), Little Women, Jane Eyre, The Maltese Falcon, Call of the Wild, The Great Gatsby, King Solomon’s Mines, Robinson Crusoe, The Picture of Dorian Gray & The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde), Frankenstein, The Time Machine (Wells), The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe), The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), To Kill a Mockingbird, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Candide (Voltaire), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain), 1984, The Origin of Species (Darwin), The Prince (Machiavelli), The Republic (Plato), Das Kapital (Marx)

SHAKESPEARE Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing

CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS Hiroshima (Hersey), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez), Lord of the Flies (Golding), Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), Blue Highways (Moon), Invisible Man (Ellison), The Painted Bird (Kosinski), Ceremony (Silko), Moscow to the End of the Line (Erofeev), The Joy Luck Club (Tan), The Shell Seekers (Pilcher), Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Taylor), The Chosen (Potok)

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein, Churchill, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Aristotle, Edison, Marie Curie, Wilber & Orville Wright, Pasteur, Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Columbus, Confucius, Helen Keller, Iacocca, Geronimo

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP The 100 Greatest Entrepreneurs, What They Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School, Megatrends, A Passion for Excellence, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, Thriving on Chaos, The Greatest Management Principle in the World, The One-Minute Manager, How To Talk So People Listen, You Can Negotiate Anything, Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey), How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, The Road Less Traveled (Peck), Love is Letting Go of Fear, Psycho-cybernetics, A Whack on the Side of the Head (von Oech), The Richest Man in Babylon (Clason), The Merrill Lynch Guide to Retirement Planning, One Up On Wall Street, Page-a-Minute Memory Book, Feed Yourself Right, The Stress Solution, Control Your Depression, Overcoming Overeating, The Popcorn-Plus Diet, Beverly Hills Medical Diet, The Rice Diet Report, The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure, Fabulous Fructose Recipe Book, The Story of Weight Watchers

TRIVIA, QUIZZES, QUOTES AND FACTS...

BONUS book: Spd Rdng –The Speed Reading Bible (Susan Norman & Jan Cisek)

Also published as ‘The Great American Bathroom Book, Volume 1 - Summaries of All-Time Great Books’ and ‘A Touch of Classics, Volume 1’

1439 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 30, 2005

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