Classics Book Summaries

The Prelude Summary
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages
3.88
4.1K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romanticism
Die Physiker Summary
Die Physiker
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962 95 pages
3.89
41.6K ratings
Classics
Plays
German Literature
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
The Woman Destroyed Summary
The Woman Destroyed
by Simone de Beauvoir 1967 254 pages
4.02
42.6K ratings
Feminism
Classics
Short Stories
رباعيات خيام Summary
رباعيات خيام
by Omar Khayyám 1120 184 pages
4.17
22.5K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Westworld Summary
Westworld
by Michael Crichton 1974 107 pages
3.73
2.2K ratings
Science Fiction
Thriller
Fantasy
The Taming of the Shrew Summary
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare 1593 291 pages
3.74
177.4K ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Run With the Hunted Summary
Run With the Hunted
A Charles Bukowski Reader
by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages
4.26
4.5K ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Literature
How Do You Live? Summary
How Do You Live?
by Genzaburo Yoshino 1937 288 pages
4.00
16.3K ratings
Classics
Japan
Japanese Literature
Dom Casmurro Summary
Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis 1899 176 pages
4.32
35.9K ratings
Classics
Romance
Brazil
Up from Slavery Summary
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington 1900 224 pages
4.11
35.4K ratings
History
Biography
Classics
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Summary
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume 1748 96 pages
3.94
21.7K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Speedboat Summary
Speedboat
by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages
3.76
7.1K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Novels
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2 Summary
Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2
1962 - 1994
by Nelson Mandela 2003 450 pages
4.41
572 ratings
Biography
History
Africa
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 pages
4.20
9.4K ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
Space Trilogy Summary
Space Trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
by C.S. Lewis 1938 764 pages
4.18
11.6K ratings
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Classics
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations Summary
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1859 834 pages
4.02
17.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Summary
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson 1962 152 pages
3.92
278.9K ratings
Horror
Classics
Gothic
Moby Dick Summary
Moby Dick
by Christophe Chabouté 2014 256 pages
4.09
1.4K ratings
Comics
Graphic Novels
Classics
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us Summary
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
by Simon Critchley 2019 336 pages
3.89
342 ratings
Philosophy
History
Literary Criticism
Jude the Obscure Summary
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages
3.83
74.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Elements of Style Summary
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr. 1918 105 pages
4.18
85.9K ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Summary
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass 1845 158 pages
4.12
131.0K ratings
History
Classics
Biography
Black Like Me Summary
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin 1961 208 pages
4.11
69.0K ratings
History
Memoir
Classics
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
Summer of My German Soldier Summary
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene 1973 203 pages
3.70
17.6K ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Romance
Oliver Twist Summary
Oliver Twist
by Marian Leighton 1989 240 pages
4.04
3.1K ratings
Classics
Childrens
Young Adult
Letters on Cézanne Summary
Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 pages
4.18
897 ratings
Art
Poetry
Classics
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 1884 520 pages
4.10
42.7K ratings
Classics
Adventure
Literature
The White Company Summary
The White Company
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1891 416 pages
3.89
4.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Adventure
A Short History of the World Summary
A Short History of the World
by H.G. Wells 1922 371 pages
3.86
2.8K ratings
History
Classics
World History
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings Summary
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
by Karl Marx 2005 224 pages
3.63
1.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
The Lonely Londoners Summary
The Lonely Londoners
by Sam Selvon 1956 142 pages
3.70
13.1K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
20th Century
Gabriel García Márquez Summary
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Michael Wood 1990 132 pages
4.54
5.9K ratings
Classics
Novels
Literature
The First Circle Summary
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages
4.24
8.2K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Hour of the Star Summary
The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector 1977 96 pages
4.11
50.2K ratings
Classics
Brazil
Literary Fiction
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring Summary
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring
by Gary Russell 2002 192 pages
4.61
193.8K ratings
Fantasy
Art
Classics
Revolutionary Road Summary
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates 2001 355 pages
3.93
92.7K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Book Club
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
Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll Summary
Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll
by Robert G. Ingersoll 1942 334 pages
4.59
118 ratings
Philosophy
Skepticism
Religion
Tales from Watership Down Summary
Tales from Watership Down
by Richard Adams 1996 335 pages
3.83
9.3K ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Animals
The Woman in White Summary
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins 2003 672 pages
4.01
163.9K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Gothic
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.14
12.0K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages
4.09
3.2K ratings
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Grief Lessons Summary
Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
by Anne Carson 312 pages
4.37
2.0K ratings
Plays
Classics
Poetry
The Beautiful and Damned Summary
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 pages
3.73
63.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
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
Lord of the World Summary
Lord of the World
by Robert Hugh Benson 1907 296 pages
4.09
3.8K ratings
Catholic
Classics
Religion
The Lottery and Other Stories Summary
The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson 1949 302 pages
4.02
83.0K ratings
Short Stories
Horror
Classics
Go Set a Watchman Summary
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee 2015 278 pages
3.31
285.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Book Club
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