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Bodas de sangre Summary
Bodas de sangre
by Federico García Lorca 1932 167 pages
3.87
31.4K ratings
Plays
Classics
Spanish Literature
The Missing Piece Summary
The Missing Piece
by Shel Silverstein 1976 112 pages
4.28
31.0K ratings
Poetry
Childrens
Picture Books
Rain of Gold Summary
Rain of Gold
by Victor Villaseñor 1991 576 pages
4.50
8.1K ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Magical Realism
White Fang Summary
White Fang
by Jack London 1906 252 pages
4.03
199.9K ratings
Classics
Adventure
Animals
The Sheltering Sky Summary
The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles 1949 342 pages
3.89
29.8K ratings
Classics
Africa
Travel
Four Great Tragedies Summary
Four Great Tragedies
Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 1606 592 pages
4.42
17.9K ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Summary
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages
4.09
20.4K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Lord Jim Summary
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad 1900 455 pages
3.61
32.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
A Room with a View Summary
A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster 1908 119 pages
3.90
195.0K ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
Sylvia Plath Summary
Sylvia Plath
Poems
by Sylvia Plath 1975 150 pages
4.07
1.4K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Feminism
Philosophy Summary
Philosophy
The Classics
by Nigel Warburton 2000 280 pages
3.95
791 ratings
Philosophy
History
Theology
The Concept of Mind Summary
The Concept of Mind
by Gilbert Ryle 1949 348 pages
3.93
1.7K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Perennial Philosophy Summary
The Perennial Philosophy
by Aldous Huxley 1945 336 pages
4.13
6.2K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Spirituality
On Human Nature Summary
On Human Nature
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 67 pages
3.98
715 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Classics
A Clockwork Orange Summary
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess 1962 192 pages
4.00
748.0K ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Marcovaldo Summary
Marcovaldo
by Italo Calvino 1963 128 pages
3.84
15.9K ratings
Short Stories
Italian Literature
Classics
The Education of Cyrus Summary
The Education of Cyrus
by Xenophon 320 pages
4.13
1.8K ratings
History
Philosophy
Biography
Brave New World Revisited Summary
Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley 1958 123 pages
3.94
21.5K ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Philosophy
The Shadow of the Torturer Summary
The Shadow of the Torturer
by Gene Wolfe 1980 262 pages
3.84
33.1K ratings
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Science Fiction Fantasy
2001 Summary
2001
A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke 1968 297 pages
4.17
328.0K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Science Fiction Fantasy
Objectivism Summary
Objectivism
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
by Leonard Peikoff 1991 493 pages
3.76
5.1K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
The Persian Boy Summary
The Persian Boy
by Mary Renault 1972 420 pages
4.18
10.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
LGBT
Dale Carnegie's Lifetime Plan for Success Summary
Dale Carnegie's Lifetime Plan for Success
How to Win Friends and Influence People & How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
by Dale Carnegie 2010 438 pages
4.15
2.8K ratings
Self Help
Business
Psychology
His Dark Materials Summary
His Dark Materials
by Philip Pullman 2000 1088 pages
4.29
166.0K ratings
Fantasy
Young Adult
Childrens
Memento Mori Summary
Memento Mori
by Muriel Spark 1959 224 pages
3.61
7.0K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Novels
The Origin of Species Summary
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin 1859 703 pages
4.01
119.4K ratings
Science
Classics
Biology
The Magician’s Nephew Summary
The Magician’s Nephew
by C.S. Lewis 1955 221 pages
4.05
581.6K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Young Adult
Inferno Summary
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages
4.03
198.0K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Palm Sunday Summary
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages
3.78
6.7K ratings
Essays
Short Stories
Classics
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke 1757 208 pages
3.69
2.6K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Art
My Left Foot Summary
My Left Foot
by Christy Brown 1954 184 pages
4.05
8.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Disability
The Anarchist Cookbook Summary
The Anarchist Cookbook
by William Powell 1971 160 pages
3.50
2.5K ratings
Politics
Banned Books
Reference
How to Be a Friend Summary
How to Be a Friend
An Ancient Guide to True Friendship
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 188 pages
3.87
3.2K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Summary
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison 1967 134 pages
3.90
46.4K ratings
Horror
Science Fiction
Short Stories
The Razor’s Edge Summary
The Razor’s Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham 1944 314 pages
4.19
51.8K ratings
Literature
Classics
Philosophy
At the Mountains of Madness Summary
At the Mountains of Madness
by H.P. Lovecraft 1931 194 pages
3.79
60.1K ratings
Horror
Classics
Science Fiction
Democracy in America Summary
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville 1835 983 pages
4.05
26.4K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Sybil Summary
Sybil
The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
by Flora Rheta Schreiber 1973 481 pages
3.99
90.3K ratings
Psychology
Biography
Mental Health
The Lost World Summary
The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 272 pages
3.93
70.7K ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Adventure
The English Patient Summary
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje 1992 320 pages
3.86
136.6K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Unknown 1375 144 pages
3.74
70.7K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Fantasy
Forever... Summary
Forever...
by Judy Blume 1975 178 pages
3.62
65.4K ratings
Young Adult
Romance
Contemporary
Corpus Hermeticum Summary
Corpus Hermeticum
The Divine Pymander
by Hermes Trismegistus 70 pages
4.18
663 ratings
Philosophy
Occult
Religion
Death of a Salesman Summary
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller 1949 144 pages
3.58
250.3K ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
The Old Regime and the French Revolution Summary
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville 1856 300 pages
4.05
2.5K ratings
History
Politics
France
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce 1922 783 pages
3.77
137.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
Ireland
Alamut Summary
Alamut
by Vladimir Bartol 1938 510 pages
4.31
13.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Novels
Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary
Music Immersive
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville 1851 720 pages
3.56
596.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide 1925 451 pages
3.83
10.0K ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary
The Yellow Wall-Paper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 pages
4.07
10.0K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Horror
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