title: Masterplots: 1,801 Plot Stories and Critical Evaluations of the World's Finest Literature (12 Volume Set)
author: Frank N Magill
description: This edition of <i>Masterplots</i> is expanded and updated from the 1976 version. It retains the original purpose of the series, which is "providing fundamental reference data, plot synopses, . . . and critical evaluations of a comprehensive selection of world literature that is available in English." Titles were dropped from the 1976 set because they were no longer addressed in schools or are not critically recognized today. The 425 new titles were added based on high-school and college curricula and were considered by the editors to be previously overlooked classics. Even though the titles included are overwhelmingly American and British, an attempt has been made to include contemporary classics that represent varied cultural identities. Latin Americans account for approximately 50 new entries, and Asian and Asian Americans 25. The most represented author is Shakespeare, with 41 works treated.
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  ALSO BY MARTIN AMIS
  
  
  FICTION
  
  
  _The Rachel Papers_
  
  
  _Dead Babies_
  
  
  _Success_
  
  
  _Other People_
  
  
  _Money_
  
  
  _Einstein’s Monsters: Stories_
  
  
  _London Fields_
  
  
  _Time’s Arrow_
  
  
  _The Information_
  
  
  _Night Train_
  
  
  _Heavy Water: Stories_
  
  
  _Yellow Dog_
  
  
  _House of Meetings_
  
  
  _The Pregnant Widow_
  
  
  _Lionel Asbo_
  
  
  _The Zone of Interest_
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  _Invasion of the Space Invaders_
  
  
  _The Moronic Inferno_
  
  
  _Visiting Mrs Nabokov_
  
  
  _Experience_
  
  
  _The War Against Cliché_
  
  
  _Koba the Dread_
  
  
  _The Second Plane_
  
  
  _The Rub of Time_
  
  
  EDITOR
  
  
  _Philip Larkin: Selected Poems_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Afterthought
  
  
  # Masada and the Dead Sea
  
  
  I scaled Masada in 1986 and I scaled it again in 2010. For some reason (and no
  one has yet told me why), it was much more difficult the second time. It would
  seem that during the passage of that quarter-century certain processes were at
  work…Nevertheless, I hope to scale Masada a third time, one of these days.
  Perhaps (you never know) it will be even mor