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Classics Book Summaries

Kidnapped Summary
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 288 pages
3.79
66.7K ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Bless Me, Ultima Summary
Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya 1972 290 pages
3.82
36.3K ratings
Classics
Magical Realism
Young Adult
The Obscene Bird of Night Summary
The Obscene Bird of Night
by José Donoso 1970 438 pages
4.20
4.0K ratings
Horror
Magical Realism
Spanish Literature
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Summary
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith 1943 496 pages
4.30
492.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Classics
Islands in the Stream Summary
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages
3.88
16.5K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Where the Sidewalk Ends Summary
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein 1974 176 pages
4.34
1.5M ratings
Poetry
Childrens
Classics
The Professor Summary
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë 1857 269 pages
3.54
28.6K ratings
Classics
Romance
Victorian
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle 2015 536 pages
4.35
3.6K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Crime
Early Socratic Dialogues Summary
Early Socratic Dialogues
by Plato 399 pages
4.06
398 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Greece
The Essential Marcus Aurelius Summary
The Essential Marcus Aurelius
by Marcus Aurelius 111 pages
4.39
1.2K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Black Tulip Summary
The Black Tulip
by Alexandre Dumas 1850 246 pages
3.85
22.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
France
Too Loud a Solitude Summary
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages
3.98
24.9K ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Novels
Hercule Poirot's Christmas Summary
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
by Agatha Christie 1938 335 pages
3.98
97.6K ratings
Mystery
Agatha Christie
Christmas
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain 1876 244 pages
3.92
987.0K ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
The Cay Summary
The Cay
by Theodore Taylor 1969 156 pages
3.79
37.6K ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Classics
In the First Circle Summary
In the First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages
4.36
1.7K ratings
Russia
Classics
Literature
Philosophical Investigations Summary
Philosophical Investigations
by Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 246 pages
4.26
15.4K ratings
Philosophy
Language
Classics
Lonesome Dove Summary
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry 1985 960 pages
4.56
219.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Westerns
Classics
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Summary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages
4.00
35.8K ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
We the Living Summary
We the Living
by Ayn Rand 1936 464 pages
3.96
30.3K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Historical Fiction
An Old-Fashioned Girl Summary
An Old-Fashioned Girl
by Louisa May Alcott 1870 288 pages
4.09
21.6K ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Despair Summary
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov 1934 212 pages
3.91
11.1K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Code of the Samurai Summary
Code of the Samurai
A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
by Daidōji Yūzan 1943 128 pages
4.03
3.4K ratings
Philosophy
History
Martial Arts
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Summary
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell 1957 266 pages
4.01
21.8K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Atheism
City of Glass Summary
City of Glass
by Paul Auster 1985 203 pages
3.76
22.7K ratings
Mystery
Classics
Literature
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Summary
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
by Pablo Neruda 1951 1040 pages
4.44
20.2K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
True Grit Summary
True Grit
by Charles Portis 1968 224 pages
4.17
67.0K ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
Walden & Civil Disobedience Summary
Walden & Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau 1849 320 pages
3.94
38.5K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Essays
How to Do the Right Thing Summary
How to Do the Right Thing
An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly
by Seneca 2023 288 pages
3.73
174 ratings
Philosophy
History
Classics
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Summary
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
by Harold Bloom 2000 147 pages
4.17
1.2K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Summary
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus 1942 212 pages
4.22
62.6K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Riders of the Purple Sage Summary
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey 1912 320 pages
3.75
14.1K ratings
Westerns
Classics
Historical Fiction
How to Win an Election Summary
How to Win an Election
An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
by Quintus Tullius Cicero 128 pages
3.80
1.2K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense Summary
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages
4.17
18.8K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Ramona Forever Summary
Ramona Forever
by Beverly Cleary 1984 150 pages
4.08
34.9K ratings
Childrens
Middle Grade
Realistic Fiction
50 Economics Classics Summary
50 Economics Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2017 386 pages
4.20
516 ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Summary
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 269 pages
3.92
26.0K ratings
Feminism
Classics
Philosophy
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge Summary
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
by George Berkeley 1710 80 pages
3.72
3.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Metaphysics
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages
4.29
37.4K ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
The Kalevala Summary
The Kalevala
by Elias Lönnrot 1835 679 pages
4.05
5.9K ratings
Poetry
Mythology
Classics
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous Summary
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
by George Berkeley 1713 105 pages
3.73
2.4K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated) Summary
Stoic Six Pack (Illustrated)
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
by Marcus Aurelius 2014 520 pages
4.40
456 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Fire Next Time Summary
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin 1963 106 pages
4.55
112.7K ratings
Classics
Essays
Race
Potiki Summary
Potiki
by Patricia Grace 1986 192 pages
3.88
2.3K ratings
Indigenous
Classics
Magical Realism
Heroes Summary
Heroes
Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
by Stephen Fry 2018 415 pages
4.31
54.4K ratings
Mythology
History
Greek Mythology
50 Politics Classics Summary
50 Politics Classics
Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2015 336 pages
4.00
279 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Socialism Summary
Socialism
Utopian and Scientific
by Friedrich Engels 1880 86 pages
4.24
7.8K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Their Eyes Were Watching God Summary
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston 1937 238 pages
3.99
372.8K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
School
A Jane Austen Education Summary
A Jane Austen Education
How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
by William Deresiewicz 2011 255 pages
3.84
4.0K ratings
Memoir
Books About Books
Biography
The Lord of the Rings Summary
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 1216 pages
4.54
710.7K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Adventure
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