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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Summary

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson 1890 716 pages

The Tempest Summary

by William Shakespeare 1611 218 pages

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Summary

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce 1890 36 pages

On the Genealogy of Morals Summary

On the Genealogy of Morals

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 208 pages

The Shining Summary

by Stephen King 1977 497 pages

Julius Caesar Summary

by William Shakespeare 1599 175 pages

by John Williams 1965 292 pages

Historical Fiction

On the Good Life Summary

On the Good Life

by Marcus Tullius Cicero 384 pages

The Man in the Brown Suit Summary

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie 1924 381 pages

Agatha Christie

Poor Folk Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 167 pages

Russian Literature

Murder on the Orient Express Summary

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie 1934 274 pages

Woman at Point Zero Summary

Woman at Point Zero

by Nawal El Saadawi 1975 108 pages

Neuromancer Summary

by William Gibson 1984 288 pages

Science Fiction

The Princess Bride Summary

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman 1973 429 pages

Meditations Summary

by Marcus Aurelius 254 pages

A Classic Tale of Lust

by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar 1963 251 pages

The House on Mango Street Summary

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros 1984 110 pages

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

Common Sense Summary

by Thomas Paine 1776 104 pages

مقدمة ابن خلدون Summary

مقدمة ابن خلدون

by Ibn Khaldun 1377 3864 pages

The Essential Tao Summary

The Essential Tao

by Thomas Cleary 1991 168 pages

Interview with the Vampire Summary

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice 1976 346 pages

The Handmaid’s Tale Summary

The Handmaid’s Tale

by Margaret Atwood 1985 311 pages

Science Fiction

The Thorn Birds Summary

The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough 1977 692 pages

Historical Fiction

Dream of the Red Chamber Summary

Dream of the Red Chamber

by Cao Xueqin 1761 329 pages

Historical Fiction

The Outsiders Summary

by S.E. Hinton 1967 208 pages

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 733 pages

Russian Literature

The Secret Garden Summary

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 331 pages

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Summary

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy 1985 351 pages

Historical Fiction

Mere Christianity Summary

Mere Christianity

by C.S. Lewis 1952 191 pages

The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 86 pages

Russian Literature

The World as Will and Representation, Volume II Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume II

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 720 pages

German Literature

The Fountainhead Summary

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand 1943 704 pages

Charlotte’s Web Summary

Charlotte’s Web

by E.B. White 1952 184 pages

The Arthashastra Summary

The Arthashastra

by Kautilya 878 pages

Journey to the Center of the Earth Summary

Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne 1864 240 pages

Science Fiction

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief Summary

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

by Maurice Leblanc 1907 279 pages

The Elements of Style Summary

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk Jr. 1918 105 pages

Anna Karenina Summary

by Leo Tolstoy 1878 964 pages

The Jungle Summary

by Upton Sinclair 1906 335 pages

Historical Fiction

The Saga of an American Family

by Alex Haley 1976 729 pages

Historical Fiction

Atonement Summary

by Ian McEwan 2001 351 pages

Historical Fiction

Flowers in the Attic Summary

Flowers in the Attic

by V.C. Andrews 1979 389 pages

The Wisdom of Life Summary

The Wisdom of Life

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 77 pages

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Summary

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

by Christopher Sergel 1960 128 pages

Historical Fiction

Pygmalion Summary

by George Bernard Shaw 1913 82 pages

Second Class Citizen Summary

Second Class Citizen

by Buchi Emecheta 1974 174 pages

African Literature

How to Tell a Joke Summary

How to Tell a Joke

An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor

by Marcus Tullius Cicero 2021 321 pages

Go Tell It on the Mountain Summary

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin 1953 256 pages

African American

by Stephen King 1974 272 pages

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