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Dante's Inferno Summary
Dante's Inferno
by Dante Alighieri 1321 102 pages
4.03
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Volume II
by Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 pages
4.48
82k+ ratings
Classics
Mystery
Short Stories
Benito Cereno Summary
Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages
3.53
10k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
School
Tropic of Cancer Summary
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages
3.65
78k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Rojo y negro Summary
Rojo y negro
by Stendhal 1830 696 pages
3.86
84k+ ratings
Classics
France
French Literature
The World According to Garp Summary
The World According to Garp
by John Irving 1978 610 pages
4.11
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Contemporary
Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary
Immersive
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville 1851 720 pages
3.57
600k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
The Heart of Darkness Summary
The Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 1899 131 pages
3.43
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Dubliners Summary
Dubliners
by James Joyce 1914 352 pages
3.83
100k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Ireland
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide 1925 467 pages
3.83
10k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
Islands in the Stream Summary
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages
3.88
17k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Their Eyes Were Watching God Summary
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston 1937 238 pages
3.99
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
School
Desesperación Summary
Desesperación
by Vladimir Nabokov 1934 208 pages
3.90
11k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
The Arabian Nights Summary
The Arabian Nights
Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
by Anonymous 982 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Short Stories
Villette Summary
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages
3.78
81k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
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
12k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
Novels
Lord Jim Summary
Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad 1900 455 pages
3.61
33k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
Mercure Summary
Mercure
by Amélie Nothomb 1998 188 pages
3.70
8k+ ratings
France
Contemporary
Roman
The Custom of the Country Summary
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton 1913 370 pages
4.07
16k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Bell Summary
The Bell
by Iris Murdoch 1958 296 pages
3.93
10k+ ratings
Classics
Novels
British Literature
We the Living Summary
We the Living
by Ayn Rand 1936 464 pages
3.96
30k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Historical Fiction
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. Summary
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 128 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
Vathek Summary
Vathek
by William Beckford 1786 180 pages
3.23
7k+ ratings
Gothic
Classics
Horror
Midnight’s Children Summary
Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie 1981 647 pages
3.97
100k+ ratings
Magical Realism
Classics
India
1984 Summary
1984
by Michael Dean 1949 71 pages
4.40
38k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Summary
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley 1932 340 pages
4.16
100k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Angle of Repose Summary
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner 1971 569 pages
4.24
62k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Book Club
Maldita Roma Summary
Maldita Roma
La conquista del poder de Julio César
by Santiago Posteguillo 2023 896 pages
4.68
8k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Spanish Literature
Bartleby the Scrivener Summary
Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages
3.93
76k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
Kidnapped Summary
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 288 pages
3.79
68k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Long Day’s Journey into Night Summary
Long Day’s Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill 1956 179 pages
4.06
43k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
The Poetry of Robert Frost Summary
The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages
4.24
49k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Tortilla Flat Summary
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck 1935 256 pages
3.83
64k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
El hombre que calculaba Summary
El hombre que calculaba
by Malba Tahan 1938 227 pages
4.10
6k+ ratings
Mathematics
Classics
Novels
Lady Chatterley’s Lover Summary
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages
3.50
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Literature
Palm Sunday Summary
Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages
3.78
6k+ ratings
Essays
Classics
Short Stories
Gravity’s Rainbow Summary
Gravity’s Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages
4.02
48k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Science Fiction
بهترین داستان های کوتاه Summary
بهترین داستان های کوتاه
by Ernest Hemingway 1987 439 pages
4.29
38k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
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
3.91
6k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Poetry
Death of a Salesman Summary
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller 1949 144 pages
3.59
200k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
Cathedral Summary
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages
4.24
40k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
Too Loud a Solitude Summary
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages
3.97
26k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Literature
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Summary
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
by William Shakespeare 1609 458 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Shakespeare
Unaccustomed Earth Summary
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pages
4.14
97k+ ratings
Short Stories
India
Book Club
Faust, First Part Summary
Faust, First Part
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 327 pages
3.83
86k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Poetry
In the First Circle Summary
In the First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages
4.26
10k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
From Here to Eternity Summary
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones 1951 816 pages
4.08
18k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
War
Franny and Zoey Summary
Franny and Zoey
by J.D. Salinger 1957
3.96
200k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Literature
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 1885 327 pages
3.83
1.3M+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Day of the Oprichnik Summary
Day of the Oprichnik
by Vladimir Sorokin 2006 191 pages
3.74
9k+ ratings
Russia
Dystopia
Russian Literature
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