A classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots provides fundamental reference data, plot synopses and critical evaluations of the most important works in all genres throughout history and around the world. titles new to this edition include Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, J. R. R. tolkien’s The Hobbit, John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, and John Irving’s The World According to Garp.