Hemmingwhat? İt’s a fact of life. Whether we like it or not, everyone needs to know at least a little bit about literature. This book is a crash course in the books that you’ve never read, but will want to after you get a taste of them here. Hemmingwhat? İt’s a fact of life. Whether we like it or not, everyone needs to know at least a little bit about literature. This book is a crash course in the books that you’ve never read, but will want to after you get a taste of them here. Quotes from famous writers, the stories of their lives, insights about what kinds of people they were, summaries of famous novels, the historical contexts of when they were written. Hundreds of years and hundreds of writers worth of literature, this is a book across time for those who haven’t got time.