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The Witch of Blackbird Pond Summary
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare 1958 256 pages
4.03
158.1K ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Classics
The Red and the Black Summary
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal 1830 577 pages
3.86
81.5K ratings
Classics
France
French Literature
Sackett's Land Summary
Sackett's Land
by Louis L'Amour 1974 185 pages
4.16
14.0K ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Collected Ghost Stories Summary
Collected Ghost Stories
by M.R. James 1931 568 pages
4.13
7.6K ratings
Horror
Short Stories
Classics
Meditations on First Philosophy Summary
Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes 1641 59 pages
3.74
28.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
Midnight’s Children Summary
Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie 1981 647 pages
3.98
131.2K ratings
Magical Realism
Classics
India
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Summary
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C.S. Lewis 1952 248 pages
4.09
498.5K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Young Adult
Prometheus Bound Summary
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus 144 pages
3.94
20.9K ratings
Plays
Mythology
Poetry
Live Alone and Like It Summary
Live Alone and Like It
by Marjorie Hillis 1936 154 pages
3.67
1.2K ratings
Self Help
Feminism
Womens
Mansfield Park Summary
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen 1814 488 pages
3.86
369.7K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Aristotle’s Way Summary
Aristotle’s Way
How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
by Edith Hall 2018 336 pages
3.67
1.6K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
History
The Lonely Londoners Summary
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon 1956 142 pages
3.70
13.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
20th Century
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 688 pages
4.36
69.8K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Horror
Powers of Darkness Summary
Powers of Darkness
The Lost Version of Dracula
by Valdimar Ásmundsson 1901 309 pages
3.63
1.5K ratings
Horror
Vampires
Classics
Frozen Hell Summary
Frozen Hell
by John W. Campbell Jr. 2019 149 pages
3.74
1.7K ratings
Horror
Science Fiction
Classics
Pushing to the Front or Success Under Difficulties Summary
Pushing to the Front or Success Under Difficulties
by Orison Swett Marden 1894 424 pages
4.34
188 ratings
Self Help
Business
Leadership
That Mad Ache Summary
That Mad Ache
by Françoise Sagan 1965 311 pages
3.98
1.5K ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
Wonderland Avenue Summary
Wonderland Avenue
Tales of Glamour and Excess
by Danny Sugerman 1989 480 pages
4.25
2.7K ratings
Music
Biography
Memoir
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money Summary
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
by John Maynard Keynes 1935 423 pages
3.85
5.7K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III Summary
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume III
by Edward Gibbon 1788 1360 pages
4.25
1.4K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Northanger Abbey Summary
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen 1817 260 pages
3.85
433.5K ratings
Classics
Gothic
Historical Fiction
This Side of Paradise Summary
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 275 pages
3.64
78.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Beowulf Summary
Beowulf
by Unknown 1000 259 pages
3.50
339.2K ratings
Poetry
Fantasy
Classics
Economic Policy Summary
Economic Policy
Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
by Ludwig von Mises 1979 106 pages
4.36
1.9K ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan Summary
The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
by Helen Keller 1902 79 pages
3.95
528 ratings
Biography
Memoir
Classics
The Annals/The Histories Summary
The Annals/The Histories
by Tacitus 1852 640 pages
4.05
351 ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
The Canterbury Tales Summary
The Canterbury Tales
A Retelling
by Peter Ackroyd 2009 436 pages
3.56
2.5K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Historical Fiction
It Can't Happen Here Summary
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis 1935 400 pages
3.80
23.0K ratings
Classics
Politics
Dystopia
On the Incarnation Summary
On the Incarnation
by Athanasius of Alexandria 120 pages
4.35
14.3K ratings
Theology
Christian
Christianity
Moby Dick Summary
Moby Dick
by Rod Espinosa 1851
3.55
5.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Imaginary Lives Summary
Imaginary Lives
by Marcel Schwob 1896 90 pages
3.98
1.2K ratings
Short Stories
France
Literature
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics Summary
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 2004 197 pages
3.89
1.1K ratings
Philosophy
Art
Classics
Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus - Illustrated Summary
Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus - Illustrated
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 310 pages
4.02
1.9K ratings
Classics
Horror
Science Fiction
The Three Sisters Summary
The Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov 1900 81 pages
3.71
23.8K ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Hunting for Hidden Gold Summary
Hunting for Hidden Gold
by Franklin W. Dixon 1928 177 pages
3.93
6.8K ratings
Mystery
Young Adult
Childrens
Possession Summary
Possession
by A.S. Byatt 1990 555 pages
3.90
83.3K ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Classics
Fantastic Night & Other Stories Summary
Fantastic Night & Other Stories
by Stefan Zweig 1922 164 pages
3.99
1.7K ratings
Short Stories
Classics
German Literature
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I Summary
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume I
by Adam Smith 1776 550 pages
3.92
281 ratings
Economics
Philosophy
History
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood Summary
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
by James Malcolm Rymer 1845 809 pages
3.40
1.5K ratings
Horror
Vampires
Classics
Deux ans de vacances Summary
Deux ans de vacances
by Jules Verne 1888 544 pages
3.97
6.4K ratings
Classics
Adventure
France
The Case Against Satan Summary
The Case Against Satan
by Ray Russell 1962 140 pages
3.69
2.4K ratings
Horror
Classics
Gothic
The Beautiful and Damned Summary
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 pages
3.73
63.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
Tales from the Perilous Realm Summary
Tales from the Perilous Realm
by J.R.R. Tolkien 1997 178 pages
4.07
11.6K ratings
Fantasy
Short Stories
Classics
Ghosts Summary
Ghosts
by Edith Wharton 1937 288 pages
3.88
835 ratings
Short Stories
Horror
Classics
El amor, las mujeres y la vida Summary
El amor, las mujeres y la vida
by Mario Benedetti 1995 176 pages
4.23
5.8K ratings
Poetry
Spanish Literature
Romance
Pebble in the Sky Summary
Pebble in the Sky
by Isaac Asimov 1950 308 pages
3.90
26.8K ratings
Science Fiction
Science Fiction Fantasy
Classics
Child of All Nations Summary
Child of All Nations
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1981 352 pages
4.43
7.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Indonesian Literature
School Education Summary
School Education
Developing A Curriculum
by Charlotte M. Mason 1905 367 pages
4.63
411 ratings
Education
Parenting
Classics
Science and Sanity Summary
Science and Sanity
An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
by Alfred Korzybski 1933 927 pages
4.41
378 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Troy Summary
Troy
by Stephen Fry 2020 414 pages
4.35
40.1K ratings
Mythology
Greek Mythology
History
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