Literature Book Summaries

White Fang Summary
White Fang
by Jack London 1906 252 pages
4.03
199.9K ratings
Classics
Adventure
Animals
Allah Is Not Obliged Summary
Allah Is Not Obliged
by Ahmadou Kourouma 2000 215 pages
3.68
2.3K ratings
Ivory Coast
African Literature
War
Madame Bovary Summary
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages
3.71
358.4K ratings
Classics
France
Literature
Gilead Summary
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson 2004 247 pages
3.85
119.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Literary Fiction
The Magic Mountain Summary
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann 1924 706 pages
4.13
55.4K ratings
German Literature
Literature
Philosophy
Women in Love Summary
Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence 1920 416 pages
3.66
33.0K ratings
Literature
Classics
Romance
Inferno Summary
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages
4.03
198.0K ratings
Classics
Poetry
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
4.26
682 ratings
Writing
Film
Reference
Middlemarch Summary
Middlemarch
by George Eliot 1872 912 pages
4.03
173.3K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Silence Summary
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages
4.09
37.2K ratings
Historical Fiction
Japan
Japanese Literature
The Arabian Nights Summary
The Arabian Nights
Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
by Anonymous 982 pages
4.01
4.2K ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Short Stories
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce 1922 783 pages
3.77
137.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
Ireland
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Volume II
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 pages
4.48
81.1K ratings
Classics
Mystery
Short Stories
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide 1925 451 pages
3.83
10.0K ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
The Professor Summary
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë 1857 269 pages
3.54
28.6K ratings
Classics
Romance
Victorian
Nostalgia Summary
Nostalgia
by Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 361 pages
4.22
4.6K ratings
Romania
Short Stories
Romanian Literature
The Palace of Dreams Summary
The Palace of Dreams
by Ismail Kadare 1981 208 pages
3.96
5.8K ratings
Fantasy
Dystopia
Classics
The Invisible Man Summary
The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells 1897 192 pages
3.63
208.7K ratings
Science Fiction
Horror
Fantasy
Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary
Immersive
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville 1851 720 pages
3.56
596.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
The World According to Garp Summary
The World According to Garp
by John Irving 1978 610 pages
4.11
234.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
Contemporary
1984 Summary
1984
by Michael Dean 1949 71 pages
4.41
33.6K ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Dystopia
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare 1595 298 pages
3.94
563.5K ratings
Plays
Fantasy
School
The Death of Virgil Summary
The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch 1945 493 pages
4.14
1.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
German Literature
Palm Sunday Summary
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages
3.78
6.7K ratings
Essays
Short Stories
Classics
Benito Cereno Summary
Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages
3.53
9.6K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
School
Dubliners Summary
Dubliners
by James Joyce 1914 352 pages
3.84
167.9K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Ireland
The Poetry of Robert Frost Summary
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages
4.24
48.8K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
بوستان سعدی Summary
بوستان سعدی
by Saadi 1257 196 pages
4.35
2.0K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Iran
The Bell Summary
The Bell
by Iris Murdoch 1958 296 pages
3.92
9.8K ratings
Classics
Novels
British Literature
Othello Summary
Othello
by William Shakespeare 1603 319 pages
3.89
424.2K ratings
Classics
Plays
School
The Plot Against America Summary
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth 2004 391 pages
3.81
66.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
Alternate History
Literature
Bartleby the Scrivener Summary
Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages
3.93
71.0K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Dialogues and Essays Summary
Dialogues and Essays
by Seneca 304 pages
4.31
1.2K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages
3.69
182.3K ratings
Contemporary
Book Club
Literature
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Summary
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
by William Shakespeare 1609 458 pages
4.19
2.8K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
Naked Lunch Summary
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pages
3.46
96.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Summary
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
by Pablo Neruda 1951 1040 pages
4.44
20.2K ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
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
3.92
6.5K ratings
Short Stories
Poetry
Classics
Despair Summary
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov 1934 212 pages
3.91
11.1K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Albert Camus Summary
Albert Camus
Elements of a Life
by Robert Zaretsky 2010 200 pages
4.13
164 ratings
Philosophy
Biography
Biography Memoir
Death of a Salesman Summary
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller 1949 144 pages
3.58
250.3K ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Villette Summary
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages
3.78
77.6K ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
The Custom of the Country Summary
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton 1913 370 pages
4.06
15.2K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
American
Vathek Summary
Vathek
by William Beckford 1786 180 pages
3.24
7.0K ratings
Gothic
Classics
Horror
Tortilla Flat Summary
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck 1935 256 pages
3.83
60.2K ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Nocturnes Summary
Nocturnes
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro 2009 221 pages
3.51
31.1K ratings
Short Stories
Music
Contemporary
A Christmas Carol Summary
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens 1843 184 pages
4.09
889.1K ratings
Christmas
Classics
Fantasy
The War of the End of the World Summary
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 568 pages
4.25
12.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
Novels
The Lonely Voice Summary
The Lonely Voice
A Study of the Short Story
by Frank O'Connor 1961 224 pages
3.90
233 ratings
Writing
Short Stories
Literary Criticism
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Summary
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus 1942 212 pages
4.22
62.6K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
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