Book Review: Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia by Frank Gruber Oliver Quade is a traveling salesman, specializing in books, and in particular The Compendium of Human Knowledge, a thousand-page condensed encyclopedia. His sales gimmick is that he has an eidetic memory, able to retain every fact he’s ever read, and Mr. Quade is a prodigious… Continue reading Book Review: Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia