Hi. No, but you can easily find summaries with a little searching. One
great resource is http://en.wikipedia.org/. Another is
http://1911encyclopedia.org/. Both are encyclopedias as you can tell from
the sites. For the more common works and authors, like Jack London, you
should have no problem with either resource. For the lesser known works
such as "The Great Round World," a magazine for boys and girls, it might be
more difficult. I couldn't find anything about it on either
site. Remember though that even though there isn't a synopsis, you can
read the books online. Often the preface and table of contents will tell
you what the book is about. For example, with The Great Round World, we
learn that it's a weekly magazine for younger teens or children and is an
overview of the news from the week. Also, since we're talking about
magazines, Project Gutenberg has many which you can't get from
bookshare.org. Included are many old issues of The Atlantic Monthly and
Scientific American Supplement. They are even starting to publish WWI
articles from the New York Times. Finally, another generally good source
of reviews is amazon.com. You can go to http://www.amazon.com/access/ and
search for the book title. That will usually give you a synopsis.
At 12:07 PM 12/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
The last time I was on Project Gutenberg (several years ago) there was no synopsis of the books, only titles. Has this changed?