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The Importance of Being Earnest Summary
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde 1895 89 pages
4.17
400k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations Summary
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1859 834 pages
4.02
17k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Charles Dickens in Love Summary
Charles Dickens in Love
A Biography
by Robert Garnett 2012 368 pages
3.93
70 ratings
Biography
British Literature
Literature
How Dante Can Save Your Life Summary
How Dante Can Save Your Life
The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
by Rod Dreher 2015 320 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Poetry
Literature
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Summary
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
by Gabriel García Márquez 1961 104 pages
3.80
68k+ ratings
Classics
Spanish Literature
Literature
The Man Who Was Thursday Summary
The Man Who Was Thursday
A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton 1908 182 pages
3.82
46k+ ratings
Classics
Mystery
Fantasy
The Book of Mirdad Summary
The Book of Mirdad
The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
by Mikhail Naimy 1948 192 pages
4.30
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Spirituality
Novels
El ruido de las cosas al caer Summary
El ruido de las cosas al caer
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2011 272 pages
3.84
21k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Spanish Literature
Book Club
Oliver Twist Summary
Oliver Twist
by Marian Leighton 1989 240 pages
4.03
3k+ ratings
Classics
Childrens
Young Adult
Sentimental Education Summary
Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert 1869 460 pages
3.81
25k+ ratings
Classics
France
French Literature
The Turn of the Screw Summary
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James 1898 121 pages
3.38
100k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Gothic
The Facts Summary
The Facts
A Novelist's Autobiography
by Philip Roth 1988 208 pages
3.70
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
(The Unconsoled) [By Summary
(The Unconsoled) [By
Ishiguro, Kazuo] [Feb, 2013]
by Kazuo Ishiguro 1995
3.59
18k+ ratings
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Literature
Science Fiction Summary
Science Fiction
A Very Short Introduction
by David Seed 2011 147 pages
3.31
500+ ratings
Literature
History
Literary Criticism
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us Summary
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
by Simon Critchley 2019 336 pages
3.89
388 ratings
Philosophy
History
Drama
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Summary
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by Ayi Kwei Armah 1968 183 pages
3.87
3k+ ratings
Africa
Ghana
African Literature
Blue Bamboo Summary
Blue Bamboo
Japanese Tales of Fantasy
by Osamu Dazai 1993 184 pages
3.71
3k+ ratings
Short Stories
Japan
Japanese Literature
The Anatomy of Influence Summary
The Anatomy of Influence
Literature as a Way of Life
by Harold Bloom 2011 368 pages
3.93
477 ratings
Literary Criticism
Literature
Poetry
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist Summary
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
by Orhan Pamuk 2010 81 pages
3.95
3k+ ratings
Writing
Essays
Turkish Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
by Oscar Wilde 1891 320 pages
4.08
3k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Literature
Jude the Obscure Summary
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages
3.84
76k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Writing Begins with the Breath Summary
Writing Begins with the Breath
Embodying Your Authentic Voice
by Laraine Herring 2007 190 pages
4.09
376 ratings
Writing
Spirituality
Journaling
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes Summary
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
by Peter Bevelin 2013 77 pages
3.63
500+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
The Flowers of Evil Summary
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire 1857 464 pages
4.19
82k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
France
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Summary
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by Omar Khayyám 1120 52 pages
4.17
23k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Narcissus and Goldmund Summary
Narcissus and Goldmund
by Hermann Hesse 1930 315 pages
4.22
73k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
German Literature
The Tin Drum Summary
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass 1959 580 pages
3.95
46k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
Historical Fiction
The Wisdom of the Heart Summary
The Wisdom of the Heart
by Henry Miller 1941 250 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Writing
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Summary
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace 2005 505 pages
4.18
54k+ ratings
Essays
Philosophy
Short Stories
Finnegans Wake Summary
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce 1939 628 pages
3.68
13k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Ireland
Gabriel García Márquez Summary
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Michael Wood 1990 132 pages
4.54
6k+ ratings
Classics
Novels
Literature
Colección integral de Sófocles Summary
Colección integral de Sófocles
(Electra, Edipo Rey, Antígona)
by Sophocles 164 pages
3.95
16k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
The Art of X-Ray Reading Summary
The Art of X-Ray Reading
by Roy Peter Clark 2016 288 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Writing
Books About Books
Reference
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.14
12k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
El Evangelio según Jesucristo Summary
El Evangelio según Jesucristo
by José Saramago 1991 496 pages
4.32
38k+ ratings
Religion
Historical Fiction
Portugal
Bandersnatch Summary
Bandersnatch
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
by Diana Pavlac Glyer 2016 202 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Writing
Biography
History
Thug Notes Summary
Thug Notes
A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature
by Sparky Sweets 2015 304 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
Humor
Classics
Books About Books
The Book on the Bookshelf Summary
The Book on the Bookshelf
by Henry Petroski 1999 307 pages
3.75
1k+ ratings
Books About Books
History
Microhistory
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Summary
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
by William Shakespeare 1594 245 pages
3.39
17k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Shakespeare
Mother Tongue Summary
Mother Tongue
by Demetria Martínez 1990 208 pages
3.82
500+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Feminism
School
Beowulf Summary
Beowulf
by Unknown 1000 259 pages
3.50
300k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Fantasy
Certain Women Summary
Certain Women
by Madeleine L'Engle 1992 368 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Literary Fiction
Religion
Literature
Child of All Nations Summary
Child of All Nations
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1981 352 pages
4.44
8k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Novels
Indonesian Literature
Brisbane Summary
Brisbane
by Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
Russia
Literature
Historical Fiction
Labyrinths Summary
Labyrinths
Selected Stories & Other Writings
by Jorge Luis Borges 1962 260 pages
4.44
33k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Magical Realism
The Mayor of Casterbridge Summary
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy 1886 393 pages
3.87
66k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Canterbury Tales Summary
The Canterbury Tales
A Retelling
by Peter Ackroyd 2009 436 pages
3.57
2k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Historical Fiction
The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Summary
The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844 1141 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Classics
By Night in Chile Summary
By Night in Chile
by Roberto Bolaño 2000 118 pages
3.90
18k+ ratings
Latin American
Literature
Novels
Vidas imaginarias Summary
Vidas imaginarias
by Marcel Schwob 1896 218 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Short Stories
France
Literature
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