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The Teachings of Don Juan Summary

The Teachings of Don Juan

A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

by Carlos Castaneda 1968 288 pages

Self-Reliance Summary

An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 51 pages

The Old Man and the Sea Summary

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway 1952 96 pages

The Myth of Sisyphus Summary

The Myth of Sisyphus

by Albert Camus 1942 192 pages

The Metamorphosis Summary

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka 1915 201 pages

Critique of Pure Reason Summary

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant 1781 785 pages

German Literature

War and Peace Summary

by Leo Tolstoy 1869 1392 pages

Historical Fiction

Fahrenheit 451 Summary

by Ray Bradbury 1953 194 pages

Science Fiction

Bel-Ami Summary

by Guy de Maupassant 1885 416 pages

French Literature

Martin Eden Summary

by Jack London 1909 480 pages

Jurassic Park Summary

by Michael Crichton 1990 450 pages

Science Fiction

Anne of Green Gables Summary

Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery 1908 320 pages

Historical Fiction

And Then There Were None Summary

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie 1939 264 pages

Being and Nothingness Summary

Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 688 pages

Diary of an Oxygen Thief Summary

Diary of an Oxygen Thief

by Anonymous 2006 140 pages

Cry, the Beloved Country Summary

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton 1948 316 pages

Historical Fiction

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy Summary

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy

Curiouser And Curiouser

by William Irwin 2009 211 pages

Literary Criticism

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Summary

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel García Márquez 1981 120 pages

Magical Realism

Der Besuch der alten Dame Summary

Der Besuch der alten Dame

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1956 155 pages

Parable of the Sower Summary

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler 1993 345 pages

Science Fiction

Flowers in the Attic Summary

Flowers in the Attic

by V.C. Andrews 1979 389 pages

Sophie’s World Summary

Sophie’s World

by Jostein Gaarder 1991 403 pages

On the Suffering of the World Summary

On the Suffering of the World

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1850 132 pages

Les Liaisons dangereuses Summary

Les Liaisons dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782 402 pages

French Literature

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Summary

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain 1876 244 pages

Historical Fiction

Bushido Summary

The Soul of Japan

by Inazo Nitobe 1899 160 pages

Meditations Summary

by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages

A Thousand Splendid Suns Summary

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini 2007 372 pages

Historical Fiction

Treasure Island Summary

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 352 pages

Historical Fiction

Antigone Summary

by Sophocles 80 pages

by Thomas More 1516 113 pages

Look Back in Anger Summary

Look Back in Anger

by John Osborne 1956 96 pages

Man and His Symbols Summary

Man and His Symbols

by C.G. Jung 1964 415 pages

Meditations Summary

by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages

A Brief History of Time Summary

A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking 1988 226 pages

The Diary of a Young Girl Summary

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank 1947 283 pages

A Book of Five Rings Summary

A Book of Five Rings

The Classic Guide to Strategy

by Miyamoto Musashi 1645 192 pages

Kybalion Summary

A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

by Three Initiates 1912 223 pages

Faust, Part Two Summary

Faust, Part Two

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832 304 pages

Waiting for Godot Summary

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett 1951 109 pages

Oedipus Rex Summary

by Sophocles 75 pages

The Masnavi Summary

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1270 304 pages

Kafka on the Shore Summary

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami 2002 467 pages

Magical Realism

Japanese Literature

The Ramayana Summary

A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

by R.K. Narayan 1957 157 pages

by Elie Wiesel 1956 120 pages

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 534 pages

German Literature

Totem and Taboo Summary

Totem and Taboo

by Sigmund Freud 1913 224 pages

Oliver Twist Summary

by Charles Dickens 1838 608 pages

Historical Fiction

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Summary

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera 1984 314 pages

The Fellowship of the Ring Summary

The Fellowship of the Ring

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 398 pages

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