Quicklets are a new version of the classic Cliff notes that many people used instead of reading the books. I have not actually ever read a Cliff Note book, but from description these seem to be very similar. A number of these Quicklets have been offered free over the last couple weeks and my guess is that they will continue to be offered free for a few days at a time. Here is the link to all of the Quicklets that have been released so far. What is interesting is that these are not just of the Classics. Everything from the Twilight series to Stephen Covey are covered by Quicklets. Below the two full classics there are two Quicklet collections for free
Hamlet: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic by William Shakespeare and Sean Keilen - $0.01
1439 pages
Arguably William Shakespeare’s most influential play, Hamlet is the tragic story of how Hamlet seeks revenge for the murder of his father, the late king of Denmark, as his uncle Claudius takes the throne and Hamlet’s mother Gertrude as his wife. The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.
Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare’s life and the selection of texts
“I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation.”
- Patrick Stewart
Enriched eBook Features Editor Sean Keilen provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic:
* Chronology of Shakespeare’s Life
* Filmography
* Contemporary Reviews of Hamlet or of Shakespeare’s Work by His Peers
* Suggested Further Readings, including Works Influenced by Hamlet
* Character Sketches
* Shakespeare Places to Visit
* Hamlet’s Wisdom
* Enriched eBook Notes: Famous Phrases
* Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Illustrations of Hamlet
The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.
The Jungle: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic by Upton Sinclair and Ronald Gottesman - $0.01
452 pages, no reviews
Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was championed by more progressive thinkers, including then President Theodore Roosevelt, and was a major catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act, which has tremendous impact to this day.
Enriched eBook Features Editor Jonathan Beecher Field provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic:
* Chronology
* Filmography (and the 1914 The Jungle Film Poster)
* Early Twentieth-Century Reviews of The Jungle
* Suggestions for Further Reading
* The Jungle and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
* The Jungle Book Cover Designs
* Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906
* Immigrants and the Meatpacking Industry, Then and Now
* Images of the Chicago Stockyards
* Images of Cuts of Beef and Pork
* Enriched eBook Notes
The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.
The Ultimate American Literature Quicklet Bundle (Moby-Dick, The Sun Also Rises, To Kill a Mockingbird, and More!)230 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
This is a discounted bundle featuring 6 of Hyperink’s most popular Quicklets on American literature classics, including:
-Moby-Dick
-The Sun Also Rises
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-The Call of the Wild
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-The Slaughterhouse-Five
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
- Introduction
- Chapter-By-Chapter Summaries
- Additional Reading
- Introduction
- Chapter Summaries
- Additional Reading
- Quicklet: Jack London’s The Call Of The Wild
- Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Introduction
- Chapter-By-Chapter Summary
- Additional Reading
The Ultimate Ayn Rand Quicklet Bundle
175 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
This is a discounted bundle featuring Quicklets on 5 of Ayn Rand’s most important books, including:
-Atlas Shrugged
-The Fountainhead
-The Virtue of Selfishness
-Philosophy: Who Needs It
-The Romantic Manifesto
