Great reference book. Eventually I would love to have read all of those masterpieces present in this volume. I already have a bunch under my belt and some others on my TBR so that's good. There was also some that I never heard about and so I will have to look them up. Each works is well presented with the author, of course, the genre, the year of publishing, a description of the main characters, the plot and the critical evaluation. Not the most visually stunning book, it's old, it looks old, but still useful if you want to read your classic and need some help to gather them or maybe want tot look deeper to see what is best for you to start with. Well done and useful!