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Once an Eagle Summary
Once an Eagle
by Anton Myrer 1968 1312 pages
4.40
8k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Military Fiction
War
Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies Summary
Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies
by René Descartes 1641 265 pages
3.73
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
France
Válka s Mloky Summary
Válka s Mloky
by Karel Čapek 1936 273 pages
4.17
18k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Czech Literature
Sackett's Land Summary
Sackett's Land
by Louis L'Amour 1974 185 pages
4.16
14k+ ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Snow Falling on Cedars Summary
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson 1994 460 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Book Club
Master and Commander Summary
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian 1969 384 pages
4.07
64k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Adventure
My Life And Work Summary
My Life And Work
by Henry Ford 1922 384 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Biography
Business
History
Darkness at Noon Summary
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler 1940 216 pages
4.12
34k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Politics
Where the Sidewalk Ends Summary
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein 1974 176 pages
4.35
1.5M+ ratings
Poetry
Childrens
Classics
The Gulag Archipelago Summary
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages
4.35
14k+ ratings
History
Russia
Politics
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings Summary
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
by Thomas Paine 1776 416 pages
4.14
15k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
The Stoic Summary
The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
Classics
American
Novels
All Our Yesterdays Summary
All Our Yesterdays
by Natalia Ginzburg 1952 300 pages
3.99
5k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Italy
Italian Literature
True Grit Summary
True Grit
by Charles Portis 1968 224 pages
4.17
74k+ ratings
Westerns
Historical Fiction
Classics
Essays and Aphorisms Summary
Essays and Aphorisms
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 240 pages
4.16
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
Carmide Summary
Carmide
by Plato
3.53
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Ancient
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Summary
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith 1943 496 pages
4.30
500k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Book Club
On Writing Summary
On Writing
by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages
4.02
4k+ ratings
Writing
Classics
Literature
The Campaigns of Alexander Summary
The Campaigns of Alexander
by Arrian 430 pages
4.17
5k+ ratings
History
Classics
Biography
Robin Hood Summary
Robin Hood
The Prince of Thieves
by Alexandre Dumas 1862 224 pages
3.98
19k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Adventure
The Jungle Book Summary
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages
3.89
100k+ ratings
Classics
Childrens
Fantasy
Stone Soup Summary
Stone Soup
by Marcia Brown 1947 48 pages
4.25
46k+ ratings
Picture Books
Childrens
Classics
Foundation and Empire Summary
Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov 1952 256 pages
4.22
200k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Science Fiction Fantasy
مرگ ایوان ایلیچ و داستان های دیگر Summary
مرگ ایوان ایلیچ و داستان های دیگر
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 256 pages
4.12
17k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russia
Ringworld Summary
Ringworld
by Larry Niven 1970 288 pages
3.93
100k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Classics
Space Opera
Frankenstien (4) Summary
Frankenstien (4)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 128 pages
3.91
1.9M+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Science Fiction
L'Art de la joie Summary
L'Art de la joie
by Goliarda Sapienza 1998 640 pages
4.11
10k+ ratings
Italian Literature
Italy
Feminism
Men Without Women Summary
Men Without Women
by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages
3.58
16k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
How to Grow Old Summary
How to Grow Old
Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 217 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Complete Stories and Poems Summary
The Complete Stories and Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 821 pages
4.40
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Horror
A Vindication of the Rights of Women Summary
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
by Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 224 pages
3.92
27k+ ratings
Feminism
Classics
Philosophy
English Journey Summary
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley 1934 384 pages
4.09
483 ratings
Travel
History
British Literature
Why We Can't Wait Summary
Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 223 pages
4.55
9k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
Lord of the World Summary
Lord of the World
by Robert Hugh Benson 1907 296 pages
4.09
4k+ ratings
Catholic
Classics
Religion
The Conquest of Happiness Summary
The Conquest of Happiness
by Bertrand Russell 1930 183 pages
4.02
16k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
How to Keep Your Cool Summary
How to Keep Your Cool
An Ancient Guide to Anger Management
by Seneca 2019 240 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Classics
Down and Out in Paris and London Summary
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell 1933 213 pages
4.09
100k+ ratings
Classics
Memoir
Biography
It Can't Happen Here Summary
It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis 1935 400 pages
3.81
25k+ ratings
Classics
Politics
Dystopia
The Return of the Native Summary
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages
3.88
40k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Manual Summary
The Manual
A Philosopher's Guide to Life
by Epictetus 60 pages
4.24
37k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Self Help
Mount Analogue Summary
Mount Analogue
a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing / Rene´ Daumal ; translation & introduction by Roger Shattuck ; with a postface by Ve´ra Daumal ; translated from the definitive edition
by René Daumal 1952
4.08
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Novels
امیل Summary
امیل
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 408 pages
3.57
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Education
Classics
Ancient Greece Summary
Ancient Greece
From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
by Thomas R. Martin 1992 254 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
History
Ancient History
Greece
The Call of the Wild / White Fang Summary
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
by Jack London 1903 292 pages
4.12
78k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Animals
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Summary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages
4.00
36k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
Ramona Forever Summary
Ramona Forever
by Beverly Cleary 1984 150 pages
4.08
35k+ ratings
Childrens
Middle Grade
Classics
50 Economics Classics Summary
50 Economics Classics
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy
by Tom Butler-Bowdon 2017 386 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Song of Solomon Summary
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages
4.16
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Early Socratic Dialogues Summary
Early Socratic Dialogues
by Plato 399 pages
4.05
417 ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Ancient
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Summary
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell 1957 266 pages
4.00
22k+ ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Atheism
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