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Literature Book Summaries

The Man in the Iron Mask Summary
The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas 1847 470 pages
3.99
66.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Hamlet Summary
Music Immersive
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare 1601 289 pages
4.02
1.0M ratings
Plays
School
Literature
The House of Hunger Summary
The House of Hunger
by Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 pages
3.96
1.2K ratings
Africa
Short Stories
Zimbabwe
A Fraction of the Whole Summary
A Fraction of the Whole
by Steve Toltz 2008 530 pages
4.14
23.7K ratings
Australia
Novels
Contemporary
The Name of the Rose Summary
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco 1980 552 pages
4.14
383.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Classics
Nausea Summary
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre 1938 178 pages
3.94
131.9K ratings
Philosophy
France
Literature
Aesop’s Fables Summary
Aesop’s Fables
by Aesop 352 pages
4.05
128.1K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Childrens
Invisible Man Summary
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 1952 581 pages
3.92
197.0K ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Of Mice and Men Summary
Music Immersive
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck 1937 107 pages
3.89
2.7M ratings
School
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Sound of Waves Summary
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima 1954 183 pages
3.77
22.2K ratings
Japan
Japanese Literature
Classics
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة Summary
شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة
by José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 245 pages
4.38
77.6K ratings
Classics
Childrens
Novels
The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 86 pages
4.13
197.8K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Summary
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami 1994 607 pages
4.14
303.2K ratings
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Japanese Literature
Flowers for Algernon Summary
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes 1966 311 pages
4.23
750.4K ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Young Adult
East of Eden Summary
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck 1952 601 pages
4.43
589.3K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Zahir Summary
The Zahir
by Paulo Coelho 2005 336 pages
3.58
81.4K ratings
Novels
Philosophy
Contemporary
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Summary
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo 1831 510 pages
4.02
211.3K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
France
Animal Farm / 1984 Summary
Animal Farm / 1984
by George Orwell 1949 400 pages
4.30
209.3K ratings
Classics
Dystopia
Literature
Paradise Lost Summary
Paradise Lost
by John Milton 1667 453 pages
3.85
176.1K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Dead Souls Summary
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages
3.98
92.0K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Aspects of the Novel Summary
Aspects of the Novel
by E.M. Forster 1927 192 pages
3.80
4.8K ratings
Writing
Literary Criticism
Essays
Greek Lessons Summary
Greek Lessons
by Han Kang 2011 192 pages
3.61
29.4K ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Romance
Wide Sargasso Sea Summary
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys 1966 176 pages
3.59
101.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Historical
Candide Summary
Candide
by Voltaire 1759 129 pages
3.76
291.6K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
France
The Portable Nietzsche Summary
The Portable Nietzsche
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1954 692 pages
4.21
9.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
The Prophet Summary
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran 1923 127 pages
4.23
317.9K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Things Fall Apart Summary
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe 1958 215 pages
3.74
398.3K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Africa
Lolita Summary
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov 1955 368 pages
3.87
907.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Russia
Pygmalion Summary
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw 1913 82 pages
3.89
107.6K ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Ariel Summary
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath 1965 128 pages
4.19
85.4K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Feminism
The Satanic Verses Summary
The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie 1988 561 pages
3.71
69.6K ratings
Classics
Magical Realism
Fantasy
The Last Temptation of Christ Summary
The Last Temptation of Christ
by Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 506 pages
4.18
15.2K ratings
Religion
Classics
Historical Fiction
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka 2023 704 pages
4.31
347 ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Memoir
1984 Summary
1984
George Orwell
by SparkNotes 2014 80 pages
4.30
9.8K ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Dystopia
The Feast of the Goat Summary
The Feast of the Goat
by Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 475 pages
4.34
39.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Spanish Literature
Oil! Summary
Oil!
by Upton Sinclair 1926 528 pages
3.74
7.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Fountainhead Summary
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand 1943 704 pages
3.89
332.2K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
The Jungle Summary
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair 1906 335 pages
3.78
151.2K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
All Quiet on the Western Front Summary
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque 1928 296 pages
4.10
497.2K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
The Bestseller Code Summary
The Bestseller Code
Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel
by Jodie Archer 2016 242 pages
3.81
1.2K ratings
Writing
Books About Books
Research
Zorba the Greek Summary
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 335 pages
4.04
55.7K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Greece
The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Graphic Novel
by Ian Edginton 2008 122 pages
4.17
59.0K ratings
Classics
Graphic Novels
Comics
Women Summary
Women
by Charles Bukowski 1978 291 pages
3.80
83.4K ratings
Novels
Poetry
Literature
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Summary
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson 1890 716 pages
4.28
104.3K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh Summary
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous 1201 72 pages
3.75
112.8K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
The Red Badge of Courage Summary
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane 1895 149 pages
3.29
108.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy Summary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
One Book to Rule Them All
by Gregory Bassham 2003 240 pages
4.27
5.1K ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Books About Books
Mrs. Dalloway Summary
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf 1925 194 pages
3.78
334.6K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
A Tale of Two Cities Summary
Music Immersive
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens 1859 489 pages
3.87
990.1K ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
Historical
The Camp of the Saints Summary
The Camp of the Saints
by Jean Raspail 1973 316 pages
3.82
1.7K ratings
Politics
Literature
Dystopia
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