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Totality and Infinity Summary
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
by Emmanuel Levinas 1961 314 pages
4.21
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Theory
Homo Faber Summary
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch 1957 214 pages
3.68
31k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
School
Zeno's Conscience Summary
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo 1923 437 pages
3.77
33k+ ratings
Classics
Italian Literature
Italy
The House of Hunger Summary
The House of Hunger
by Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Africa
Short Stories
Zimbabwe
Ethics and Infinity Summary
Ethics and Infinity
Conversations with Philippe Nemo
by Emmanuel Levinas 1982 126 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Religion
All My Sons Summary
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller 1947 112 pages
3.92
30k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Ariel Summary
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath 1965 128 pages
4.18
90k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Feminism
Mexico Summary
Mexico
Biography of Power
by enrique-krauze 1997 896 pages
4.27
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Biography
What Is Existentialism? Summary
What Is Existentialism?
by Simone de Beauvoir 1944
3.91
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Amerika Summary
Amerika
by Franz Kafka 1927 336 pages
3.74
34k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
Literature
The Concept of Mind Summary
The Concept of Mind
by Gilbert Ryle 1949 348 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 1916 329 pages
3.64
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Irish Literature
Women in Love Summary
Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence 1920 416 pages
3.66
33k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce 1922 783 pages
3.76
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Ireland
Dubliners Summary
Dubliners
by James Joyce 1914 352 pages
3.83
100k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Ireland
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters
by AndrΓ© Gide 1925 467 pages
3.83
10k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
The Custom of the Country Summary
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton 1913 370 pages
4.07
16k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Lectures on the Will to Know Summary
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
by Michel Foucault 2014 293 pages
4.26
242 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Poetry of Robert Frost Summary
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages
4.24
49k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Ψ¨Ω‡ΨͺΨ±ΫŒΩ† Ψ―Ψ§Ψ³ΨͺΨ§Ω† Ω‡Ψ§ΫŒ کوΨͺΨ§Ω‡ Summary
Ψ¨Ω‡ΨͺΨ±ΫŒΩ† Ψ―Ψ§Ψ³ΨͺΨ§Ω† Ω‡Ψ§ΫŒ کوΨͺΨ§Ω‡
by Ernest Hemingway 1987 439 pages
4.29
38k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
Life Summary
Life
A User's Manual
by Georges Perec 1978 581 pages
4.17
10k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
The Real Thing Summary
The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard 1982 81 pages
3.91
5k+ ratings
Plays
Drama
Theatre
To the Lighthouse Summary
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages
3.81
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages
3.58
16k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
LE GONE DU CHABAA Summary
LE GONE DU CHABAA
by Azouz Begag 1986
3.63
1k+ ratings
France
School
Literature
The Man Without Content Summary
The Man Without Content
by Giorgio Agamben 1970 144 pages
4.15
383 ratings
Philosophy
Art
Theory
Lies of Silence Summary
Lies of Silence
by Brian Moore 1990 192 pages
3.23
2k+ ratings
School
Ireland
Irish Literature
The Lonely Londoners Summary
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon 1956 142 pages
3.70
14k+ ratings
Classics
London
Historical Fiction
Les Soleils des indΓ©pendances Summary
Les Soleils des indΓ©pendances
by Ahmadou Kourouma 1968 196 pages
3.58
500+ ratings
Africa
France
African Literature
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.14
12k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Ghosts Summary
Ghosts
by Edith Wharton 1937 288 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Short Stories
Horror
Classics
The Common Sense of Science Summary
The Common Sense of Science
With a New Preface by Sir Hermann Bondi
by Jacob Bronowski 1951 160 pages
3.83
141 ratings
Science
Philosophy
20th Century
I Used to Be Charming Summary
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
by Eve Babitz 2019 360 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
Essays
Memoir
Classics
That Mad Ache Summary
That Mad Ache
by FranΓ§oise Sagan 1965 311 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
Contesting Democracy Summary
Contesting Democracy
Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe
by Jan-Werner MΓΌller 2006 304 pages
4.00
159 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Fantastic Night & Other Stories Summary
Fantastic Night & Other Stories
by Stefan Zweig 1922 164 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
German Literature
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California Summary
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism
by NΓΊria AΓ±Γ³ 2020
4.21
14 ratings
Art
Bisexual
20th Century
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 Summary
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1994 627 pages
4.29
7k+ ratings
History
Politics
World History
Tik-Tok Summary
Tik-Tok
by John Sladek 1983 192 pages
3.70
500+ ratings
Science Fiction
Humor
Robots
Vineland Summary
Vineland
by Thomas Pynchon 1990 480 pages
3.75
18k+ ratings
Literature
Literary Fiction
Novels
Philosophy of Existence Summary
Philosophy of Existence
by Karl Jaspers 1938 128 pages
3.79
323 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
German Literature
La Rue Cases-Negres Summary
La Rue Cases-Negres
by Joseph Zobel 1950
4.06
500+ ratings
France
Classics
School
The Erasers Summary
The Erasers
by Alain Robbe-Grillet 1953 256 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
France
Mystery
French Literature
Dark Tide Summary
Dark Tide
The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by Stephen Puleo 2003 273 pages
4.03
5k+ ratings
History
American History
Book Club
I the Supreme Summary
I the Supreme
by Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 433 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Spanish Literature
Historical Fiction
Latin American
Under the Volcano Summary
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry 1947 423 pages
3.76
27k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Spontaneous Activity in Education Summary
Spontaneous Activity in Education
Fostering Curiosity and Self-Directed Learning for Child-Centered Education
by Maria Montessori 1916 262 pages
4.01
146 ratings
Education
Parenting
Classics
The Populist Vision Summary
The Populist Vision
by Charles Postel 2007 397 pages
3.65
201 ratings
History
American History
Politics
White Collar Summary
White Collar
The American Middle Classes
by C. Wright Mills 1951 416 pages
4.04
269 ratings
Sociology
History
Economics
Public Citizens Summary
Public Citizens
The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism
by Paul Sabin 2024 272 pages
3.81
192 ratings
Politics
History
American History
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