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Literature Book Summaries

Macbeth Summary
Music Immersive
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare 1623 249 pages
3.89
979.6K ratings
Classics
Plays
School
A Farewell to Arms Summary
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway 1929 293 pages
3.82
340.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
War
The Sun Also Rises Summary
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway 1926 189 pages
3.79
474.6K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Sorrows of Young Werther Summary
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 149 pages
3.69
146.4K ratings
German Literature
Classics
Literature
Of Human Bondage Summary
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham 1915 684 pages
4.15
59.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
مثنوی معنوی Summary
مثنوی معنوی
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1273 1145 pages
4.45
4.1K ratings
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature
How Proust Can Change Your Life Summary
How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton 1998 208 pages
3.76
18.2K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Biography
Poetics Summary
Poetics
by Aristotle 144 pages
3.83
28.1K ratings
Philosophy
Poetry
Writing
We Summary
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 256 pages
3.88
106.0K ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Dystopia
Dogeaters Summary
Dogeaters
by Jessica Hagedorn 1990 272 pages
3.61
3.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Literature
The First Man Summary
The First Man
by Albert Camus 1994 359 pages
3.97
11.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
The Merchant of Venice Summary
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare 1596 249 pages
3.78
197.7K ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
The Clown Summary
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll 1963 272 pages
3.93
30.9K ratings
German Literature
Classics
Novels
Kokoro Summary
Kokoro
by Natsume Sōseki 1914 256 pages
4.04
38.2K ratings
Japan
Classics
Japanese Literature
The Iliad / The Odyssey Summary
The Iliad / The Odyssey
by Homer 1556 pages
4.07
81.4K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 1916 329 pages
3.64
159.6K ratings
Classics
Literature
Irish Literature
Spring Snow Summary
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima 1967 389 pages
4.16
21.8K ratings
Japan
Japanese Literature
Classics
The Black Book Summary
The Black Book
by Orhan Pamuk 1990 466 pages
3.92
12.8K ratings
Turkish Literature
Turkish
Mystery
White Noise Summary
White Noise
by Don DeLillo 1985 320 pages
3.86
122.5K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Sense and Sensibility Summary
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen 1811 409 pages
4.09
1.3M ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Summary
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 pages
4.03
35.8K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russian Literature
Gulliver’s Travels Summary
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages
3.59
291.6K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Adventure
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Summary
Music Immersive
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll 1871 239 pages
4.06
592.4K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Childrens
The Corrections Summary
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen 2001 653 pages
3.84
192.6K ratings
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Novels
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Summary
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 233 pages
4.19
77.8K ratings
Classics
Russia
Philosophy
The Iliad Summary
The Iliad
by Homer 614 pages
3.92
487.5K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
Walden or, Life in the Woods Summary
Walden or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau 1854 352 pages
3.78
199.1K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Nature
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction Summary
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
by Alan Jacobs 2011 162 pages
3.94
2.9K ratings
Books About Books
Education
Essays
Wuthering Heights Summary
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë 1847 464 pages
3.90
1.9M ratings
Gothic
Historical Fiction
Literature
King Lear Summary
King Lear
by William Shakespeare 1605 339 pages
3.91
230.5K ratings
Plays
Classics
School
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea Summary
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima 1963 181 pages
3.84
48.1K ratings
Japan
Classics
Japanese Literature
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages
4.23
4.1K ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Russia
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters Summary
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters
Storytelling Secrets From the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization
by Michael Tierno 2002 191 pages
3.83
622 ratings
Writing
Film
Philosophy
Freedom Summary
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen 2010 562 pages
3.79
172.6K ratings
Book Club
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Crash Summary
Crash
by J.G. Ballard 1973 224 pages
3.59
28.0K ratings
Science Fiction
Horror
Novels
A Moveable Feast Summary
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 pages
4.02
160.9K ratings
Memoir
Biography
France
Leaves of Grass Summary
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages
4.12
113.7K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
The Wild Duck Summary
The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages
3.80
10.8K ratings
Plays
Classics
Theatre
The Sound and the Fury Summary
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner 1929 366 pages
3.86
190.5K ratings
Literature
Classics
Novels
The Namesake Summary
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 304 pages
4.02
278.4K ratings
Book Club
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Heart of Darkness Summary
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages
3.43
540.5K ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The White Castle Summary
The White Castle
by Orhan Pamuk 1985 145 pages
3.48
16.2K ratings
Historical Fiction
Turkish Literature
Turkish
Ficciones Summary
Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges 1944 174 pages
4.40
75.2K ratings
Short Stories
Magical Realism
Fantasy
What Is Existentialism? Summary
What Is Existentialism?
by Simone de Beauvoir 1944 128 pages
3.91
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Eugene Onegin Summary
Eugene Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin 1833 240 pages
4.10
68.4K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Russia
The Spinoza Problem Summary
The Spinoza Problem
by Irvin D. Yalom 2012 321 pages
4.26
17.5K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Historical Fiction
The Canterbury Tales Summary
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages
3.52
233.3K ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Disgrace Summary
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee 1999 220 pages
3.86
113.0K ratings
Africa
South Africa
Classics
The Good Earth Summary
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 pages
4.01
256.5K ratings
Historical Fiction
China
Classics
The Maniac Summary
The Maniac
by Benjamín Labatut 2023 368 pages
4.34
20.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Philosophy
Literary Fiction
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