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Le troisième mensonge Summary
Le troisième mensonge
by Ágota Kristóf 1991 192 pages
4.03
6.9K ratings
Novels
Hungary
France
Montauk Summary
Montauk
by Max Frisch 2001 206 pages
3.82
2.6K ratings
German Literature
Classics
Novels
The Old Curiosity Shop Summary
The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens 2001 576 pages
3.79
23.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Apocrypha Summary
The Apocrypha
by Anonymous 1989 528 pages
3.83
371 ratings
Religion
Theology
Christianity
Poesía completa Summary
Poesía completa
by Idea Vilariño 2008 328 pages
4.57
2.6K ratings
Poetry
Womens
Spanish Literature
The Conquest of Gaul Summary
The Conquest of Gaul
by Gaius Julius Caesar 1983 269 pages
4.02
13.5K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Nicholas Nickleby Summary
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens 2003 817 pages
3.94
46.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches Summary
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
by Erwin Schrödinger 1992 184 pages
4.13
7.7K ratings
Science
Philosophy
Biology
1066 and all that Summary
1066 and all that
A memorable history of England
by W.C. Sellar 2009 115 pages
3.92
3.5K ratings
History
Humor
Comedy
Magellan Summary
Magellan
by Stefan Zweig 2003 280 pages
4.42
6.0K ratings
History
Biography
Travel
Herodotus Summary
Herodotus
The Father of History
by Elizabeth Vandiver 2002 12 pages
4.24
418 ratings
History
Ancient History
Greece
M. Butterfly Summary
M. Butterfly
by David Henry Hwang 1998 72 pages
3.93
15.0K ratings
Plays
Drama
Classics
Musonius Rufus Summary
Musonius Rufus
Lectures and Sayings
by Musonius Rufus 2011 102 pages
4.08
875 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
Demian / Siddhartha Summary
Demian / Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse 1998 0 pages
4.2
12.6K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
Irisches Tagebuch Summary
Irisches Tagebuch
by Heinrich Böll 2008 137 pages
3.86
2.1K ratings
Travel
German Literature
Ireland
The Double Helix Summary
The Double Helix
by James D. Watson 1969 143 pages
3.84
20.0K ratings
Science
Biology
History
Heaven and Hell Summary
Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley 1956 80 pages
3.52
1.3K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
V. Summary
V.
by Thomas Pynchon 2001 640 pages
3.97
25.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Front Runner Summary
The Front Runner
by Patricia Nell Warren 1996 320 pages
4.12
6.2K ratings
LGBT
Gay
Romance
Spontaneous Activity in Education Summary
Spontaneous Activity in Education
by Maria Montessori 1984 355 pages
4.01
145 ratings
Education
Parenting
Classics
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is Summary
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 883 pages
4.27
8.1K ratings
Religion
Spirituality
Philosophy
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