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The Age of Innocence Summary

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton 1920 293 pages

Historical Fiction

The Lover Summary

by Marguerite Duras 1984 117 pages

French Literature

Letters to a Young Poet Summary

Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 80 pages

For Whom the Bell Tolls Summary

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages

Historical Fiction

Identity Summary

by Milan Kundera 1997 176 pages

Czech Literature

Survivor Summary

by Chuck Palahniuk 1999 289 pages

Lord of the Flies Summary

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding 1954 182 pages

Persuasion Summary

by Jane Austen 1817 249 pages

Historical Fiction

Of Love and Other Demons Summary

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel García Márquez 1994 160 pages

Magical Realism

Historical Fiction

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare 1595 298 pages

White Fang Summary

by Jack London 1906 252 pages

Four Great Tragedies Summary

Four Great Tragedies

Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth

by William Shakespeare 1606 592 pages

David Copperfield Summary

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages

Historical Fiction

Lord Jim Summary

by Joseph Conrad 1900 455 pages

The Sheltering Sky Summary

The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles 1949 342 pages

Interpreter of Maladies Summary

Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 198 pages

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages

A Room with a View Summary

A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster 1908 119 pages

Historical Fiction

The Scarlet Letter Summary

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 279 pages

Historical Fiction

A Clockwork Orange Summary

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess 1962 192 pages

Science Fiction

Marcovaldo Summary

by Italo Calvino 1963 128 pages

Italian Literature

Saturday Summary

by Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages

Literary Fiction

Inferno Summary

by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages

Palm Sunday Summary

An Autobiographical Collage

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages

The Razor’s Edge Summary

The Razor’s Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham 1944 314 pages

Death of a Salesman Summary

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller 1949 144 pages

Imaginary Homelands Summary

Imaginary Homelands

Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie 1991 448 pages

Jitterbug Perfume Summary

Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins 1984 342 pages

Magical Realism

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages

Ulysses Summary

by James Joyce 1922 783 pages

Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville 1851 720 pages

On Beauty Summary

by Zadie Smith 2005 445 pages

Literary Fiction

by Vladimir Bartol 1938 510 pages

Historical Fiction

The Counterfeiters Summary

The Counterfeiters

by André Gide 1925 451 pages

French Literature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 139 pages

Dubliners Summary

by James Joyce 1914 352 pages

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Summary

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 pages

Doctor Zhivago Summary

by Boris Pasternak 1957 592 pages

Historical Fiction

Russian Literature

Writing for Emotional Impact Summary

Writing for Emotional Impact

Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End

by Karl Iglesias 2005 238 pages

Shakespeare Summary

The Invention of the Human

by Harold Bloom 1998 745 pages

Literary Criticism

The Poetry of Robert Frost Summary

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages

by Michael Dean 1949 71 pages

Science Fiction

The Vendor of Sweets Summary

The Vendor of Sweets

by R.K. Narayan 1967 144 pages

Indian Literature

Allah Is Not Obliged Summary

Allah Is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma 2000 215 pages

African Literature

Anatomy of Genres Summary

Anatomy of Genres

by John Truby 2022 720 pages

Othello Summary

by William Shakespeare 1603 319 pages

The Death of Artemio Cruz Summary

The Death of Artemio Cruz

by Carlos Fuentes 1962 307 pages

Spanish Literature

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

Russian Literature

The Call of the Wild Summary

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London 1903 172 pages

Flatland Summary

A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 96 pages

Science Fiction

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