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Middlesex Summary

by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 529 pages

Historical Fiction

Jock of the Bushveld Summary

Jock of the Bushveld

by J. Percy FitzPatrick 1907 280 pages

The Scarlet Pimpernel Summary

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emmuska Orczy 1905 182 pages

Historical Fiction

The Most Dangerous Game Summary

The Most Dangerous Game

by Richard Connell 1924 48 pages

A Moveable Feast Summary

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 pages

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Summary

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë 1848 576 pages

by J.G. Ballard 1973 224 pages

Science Fiction

Leaves of Grass Summary

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages

The Psychology of Love Summary

The Psychology of Love

by Sigmund Freud 2006 368 pages

On Liberty Summary

by John Stuart Mill 1859 187 pages

The Wild Duck Summary

by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages

The Sound and the Fury Summary

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner 1929 366 pages

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Summary

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn 1962 226 pages

Carmilla Summary

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 108 pages

Hiroshima Summary

by John Hersey 1946 152 pages

The Witches Summary

by Roald Dahl 1981 208 pages

What Is Existentialism? Summary

What Is Existentialism?

by Simone de Beauvoir 1944 128 pages

Heart of Darkness Summary

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages

Historical Fiction

Eugene Onegin Summary

by Alexander Pushkin 1833 240 pages

Glimpses of World History Summary

Glimpses of World History

by Jawaharlal Nehru 1934 1193 pages

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages

Prometheus Unbound Summary

Prometheus Unbound

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820 112 pages

Disgrace Summary

by J.M. Coetzee 1999 220 pages

Drawing the Head and Hands Summary

Drawing the Head and Hands

by Andrew Loomis 1956 154 pages

The Good Earth Summary

by Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 pages

Historical Fiction

by Karel Čapek 1920 58 pages

Science Fiction

The Martian Chronicles Summary

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury 1950 182 pages

Science Fiction

Crystallizing Public Opinion Summary

Crystallizing Public Opinion

by Edward L. Bernays 1923 218 pages

The Age of Innocence Summary

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton 1920 293 pages

Historical Fiction

The Dispossessed Summary

The Dispossessed

An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 387 pages

Science Fiction

We Were the Mulvaneys Summary

We Were the Mulvaneys

by Joyce Carol Oates 1996 454 pages

Literary Fiction

A Wrinkle in Time Summary

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle 1962 218 pages

An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana

by Devdutt Pattanaik 2013 328 pages

Indian Literature

The Time Machine Summary

The Time Machine

by H.G. Wells 1895 118 pages

Science Fiction

For Whom the Bell Tolls Summary

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages

Historical Fiction

Toward a Psychology of Being Summary

Toward a Psychology of Being

by Abraham H. Maslow 1961 274 pages

Letters to a Young Poet Summary

Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 80 pages

The Collector Summary

by John Fowles 1963 283 pages

Watership Down Summary

by Richard Adams 1972 478 pages

Ancient Philosophy Summary

Ancient Philosophy

A Very Short Introduction

by Julia Annas 2001 133 pages

Identity Summary

by Milan Kundera 1997 176 pages

Czech Literature

The Federalist Papers Summary

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton 1788 688 pages

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Summary

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl 1964 176 pages

Lord of the Flies Summary

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding 1954 182 pages

Persuasion Summary

by Jane Austen 1817 249 pages

Historical Fiction

Chapterhouse Summary

by Frank Herbert 1985 609 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Of Love and Other Demons Summary

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel García Márquez 1994 160 pages

Magical Realism

Historical Fiction

Second Foundation Summary

Second Foundation

by Isaac Asimov 1953 256 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

by Mario Puzo 2000 369 pages

Bodas de sangre Summary

Bodas de sangre

by Federico García Lorca 1932 167 pages

Spanish Literature

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