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Prokleta avlija Summary

Prokleta avlija

by Ivo Andrić 1954 120 pages

Historical Fiction

The Gospel Singer Summary

The Gospel Singer

by Harry Crews 1968 300 pages

Southern Gothic

The Taming of the Shrew Summary

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare 1593 291 pages

The Golden Notebook Summary

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing 1962 640 pages

A Writer's Diary Summary

A Writer's Diary

by Virginia Woolf 1953 355 pages

Books v. Cigarettes Summary

Books v. Cigarettes

by George Orwell 1946 126 pages

Emile, or On Education Summary

Emile, or On Education

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 501 pages

The Anti-Christ Summary

The Anti-Christ

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1895 126 pages

SCUM Manifesto Summary

by Valerie Solanas 1967 96 pages

The Jungle Book Summary

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages

Robin Hood Summary

The Prince of Thieves

by Alexandre Dumas 1862 224 pages

Historical Fiction

Charmides Summary

by Plato 64 pages

The Gulag Archipelago Summary

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages

The Campaigns of Alexander Summary

The Campaigns of Alexander

by Arrian 430 pages

رباعيات خيام Summary

رباعيات خيام

by Omar Khayyám 1120 184 pages

The Shadow Out of Time Summary

The Shadow Out of Time

by H.P. Lovecraft 1936 140 pages

Science Fiction

The Elements of Style Summary

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk Jr. 1918 105 pages

On the Beach Summary

by Nevil Shute 1957 296 pages

Science Fiction

Post Apocalyptic

Cancer Ward Summary

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

Russian Literature

Invitation to a Beheading Summary

Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov 1935 223 pages

Russian Literature

Sometimes a Great Notion Summary

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages

Self-Reliance and Other Essays Summary

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844 117 pages

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6 Summary

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

by Arnold J. Toynbee 1947 640 pages

And Then There Were None Summary

And Then There Were None

A Mystery Play in Three Acts

by Agatha Christie 1944 95 pages

Agatha Christie

War with the Newts Summary

War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek 1936 241 pages

Science Fiction

Czech Literature

The Call of the Wild / White Fang Summary

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

by Jack London 1906 292 pages

The Country Girls Summary

The Country Girls

by Edna O'Brien 1960 175 pages

Irish Literature

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Summary

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll 1871 228 pages

Cathedral Summary

by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages

The Rig Veda Summary

by Anonymous 1001 352 pages

The Great Divorce Summary

The Great Divorce

by C.S. Lewis 1946 160 pages

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka 1996 88 pages

The Price of Salt Summary

The Price of Salt

by Claire Morgan 1952 262 pages

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

The Secret of the Old Clock Summary

The Secret of the Old Clock

by Carolyn Keene 1930 210 pages

Dom Casmurro Summary

by Machado de Assis 1899 176 pages

A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations Summary

A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens 1859 834 pages

Historical Fiction

Far From the Madding Crowd Summary

Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages

Historical Fiction

The Pleasures of the Damned Summary

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages

The Art of War Summary

by Niccolò Machiavelli 1521 247 pages

Down and Out in Paris and London Summary

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell 1933 213 pages

The Adventures of Robin Hood Summary

The Adventures of Robin Hood

by Roger Lancelyn Green 1956 320 pages

Historical Fiction

To Build a Fire Summary

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings Summary

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

by Octavio Paz 1950 398 pages

Mount Analogue Summary

by René Daumal 1952 120 pages

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages

The Prelude Summary

by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages

by Mika Waltari 1945 904 pages

Historical Fiction

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Summary

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

by Sylvia Plath 2000 732 pages

A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard 2015 606 pages

Ancient History

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