19th Century

Gas lamps flicker over cobblestone streets as characters navigate a world of strict social codes, forbidden passions, and transformative industrial change. Whether in London's grimy workhouses, Russian gambling dens, or the drawing rooms of English country estates, these masterful works capture humanity at its most raw and refined during an era of unprecedented upheaval.

19th Century Book Summaries

The Gambler Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages

Russian Literature

Bel-Ami Summary

by Guy de Maupassant 1885 416 pages

French Literature

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 534 pages

German Literature

On the Suffering of the World Summary

On the Suffering of the World

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1850 132 pages

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Summary

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy 1891 518 pages

Historical Fiction

Oliver Twist Summary

by Charles Dickens 1838 608 pages

Historical Fiction

Poor Folk Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 167 pages

Russian Literature

Oblomov Summary

by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages

Russian Literature

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

Russian Literature

The Birth of Tragedy Summary

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1871 121 pages

German Literature

Dead Souls Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages

Russian Literature

by Jane Austen 1815 474 pages

Historical Fiction

Père Goriot Summary

by Honoré de Balzac 1835 384 pages

French Literature

The Double Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 144 pages

Russian Literature

Eugene Onegin Summary

by Alexander Pushkin 1833 240 pages

The Overcoat Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages

Russian Literature

The Philosophy of History Summary

The Philosophy of History

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1831 480 pages

The World as Will and Representation, Volume II Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume II

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 720 pages

German Literature

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Summary

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson 1890 716 pages

North and South Summary

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell 1855 521 pages

Historical Fiction

Twilight of the Idols Summary

Twilight of the Idols

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 128 pages

German Literature

A Hero of Our Time Summary

A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov 1839 185 pages

Russian Literature

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Summary

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë 1848 576 pages

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages

Wuthering Heights Summary

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë 1847 464 pages

Historical Fiction

The Wild Duck Summary

by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages

Leaves of Grass Summary

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

Russian Literature

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 pages

David Copperfield Summary

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages

Historical Fiction

Madame Bovary Summary

by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages

Middlemarch Summary

by George Eliot 1872 912 pages

Historical Fiction

Cranford Summary

by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 257 pages

Historical Fiction

Benito Cereno Summary

by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages

Agnes Grey Summary

by Anne Brontë 1847 226 pages

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

The Professor Summary

by Charlotte Brontë 1857 269 pages

Villette Summary

by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. Summary

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 128 pages

Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals Summary

Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 450 pages

German Literature

Essays and Aphorisms Summary

Essays and Aphorisms

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 240 pages

The Red and the Black Summary

The Red and the Black

by Stendhal 1830 577 pages

French Literature

The Anti-Christ Summary

The Anti-Christ

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1895 126 pages

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

The Return of the Native Summary

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Summary

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe 1838 288 pages

Far From the Madding Crowd Summary

Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages

Historical Fiction

Bleak House Summary

by Charles Dickens 1853 1017 pages

The Prelude Summary

by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages

Dom Casmurro Summary

by Machado de Assis 1899 176 pages

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