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Shakespeare's Freedom Summary
Shakespeare's Freedom
by Stephen Greenblatt 2010 168 pages
3.83
175 ratings
Shakespeare
Literary Criticism
History
The Hour of the Star Summary
The Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector 1977 96 pages
4.11
58k+ ratings
Classics
Brazil
Literary Fiction
To Build a Fire Summary
To Build a Fire
by Jack London 1902 32 pages
3.99
27k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Adventure
The Beautiful and Damned Summary
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 pages
3.73
65k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Romance
De la Tierra a la Luna Summary
De la Tierra a la Luna
by Jules Verne 1865 166 pages
3.75
39k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Adventure
The Ministry of Truth Summary
The Ministry of Truth
The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
by Dorian Lynskey 2019 368 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Magus Summary
The Magus
by John Fowles 1965 656 pages
4.05
64k+ ratings
Classics
Fantasy
Mystery
Prokleta avlija Summary
Prokleta avlija
by Ivo Andrić 1954 120 pages
4.24
11k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
School
Walden and Civil Disobedience Summary
Walden and Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau 1849 352 pages
3.93
39k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Essays
Kioto Summary
Kioto
by Yasunari Kawabata 1962 216 pages
3.73
7k+ ratings
Japan
Japanese Literature
Classics
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays Summary
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
by Henry David Thoreau 1866 188 pages
4.06
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
Give War and Peace a Chance Summary
Give War and Peace a Chance
Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
by Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 pages
3.89
364 ratings
Books About Books
Literary Criticism
Literature
El amor, las mujeres y la vida Summary
El amor, las mujeres y la vida
by Mario Benedetti 1995 176 pages
4.21
6k+ ratings
Poetry
Spanish Literature
Romance
The Complete Stories Summary
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor 1971 555 pages
4.38
41k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Literature
Lost Illusions Summary
Lost Illusions
by Honoré de Balzac 1843 656 pages
4.16
12k+ ratings
Classics
France
French Literature
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Summary
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard 2020 185 pages
3.44
5k+ ratings
Books About Books
Philosophy
Essays
Lyrical and Critical Essays Summary
Lyrical and Critical Essays
by Albert Camus 1970 384 pages
4.31
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
France
Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain 1893 160 pages
3.75
19k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Diary Of A Superfluous Man Summary
The Diary Of A Superfluous Man
by Ivan Turgenev 1850 332 pages
3.84
4k+ ratings
Russian Literature
Classics
Russia
The Pleasures of the Damned Summary
The Pleasures of the Damned
by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages
4.35
7k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Short Stories
Far From the Madding Crowd Summary
Far From the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages
3.97
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint Summary
Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint
Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints
by Nancy Kress 2005 232 pages
4.05
2k+ ratings
Writing
Reference
Crafts
Great Expectations Summary
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages
3.80
800k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages
3.94
54k+ ratings
Czech Literature
Classics
Literature
A Jane Austen Education Summary
A Jane Austen Education
How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
by William Deresiewicz 2011 255 pages
3.84
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Jane Austen
Books About Books
Dom Casmurro Summary
Dom Casmurro
by Machado de Assis 1899 176 pages
4.33
38k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Brazil
Hygiène de l'assassin Summary
Hygiène de l'assassin
by Amélie Nothomb 1992 221 pages
3.77
19k+ ratings
France
Contemporary
Novels
Less Than Zero Summary
Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages
3.61
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Novels
Classics
The Bridge on the Drina Summary
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić 1945 314 pages
4.33
25k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Nobel Prize
The Art of Subtext Summary
The Art of Subtext
Beyond Plot
by Charles Baxter 2007 182 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Writing
Crafts
Essays
The Land of Green Plums Summary
The Land of Green Plums
by Herta Müller 1994 256 pages
3.67
6k+ ratings
Romania
Historical Fiction
Nobel Prize
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Summary
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 1849 304 pages
4.19
9k+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Short Stories
How to Read and Why Summary
How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom 2000 288 pages
3.61
3k+ ratings
Literary Criticism
Books About Books
Literature
The Prelude Summary
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages
3.88
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romanticism
Choke Summary
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk 2001 293 pages
3.71
200k+ ratings
Contemporary
Humor
Novels
The Glass Bead Game Summary
The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse 1943 558 pages
4.10
42k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
The Warriors Summary
The Warriors
by Sol Yurick 1965 212 pages
3.37
2k+ ratings
Crime
Classics
Thriller
Foucault’s Pendulum Summary
Foucault’s Pendulum
by Umberto Eco 1988 623 pages
3.91
75k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Literature
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 1884 520 pages
4.10
43k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Literature
The Adolescent Summary
The Adolescent
by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1875 580 pages
3.93
11k+ ratings
Classics
Russian Literature
Russia
Run With the Hunted Summary
Run With the Hunted
A Charles Bukowski Reader
by Charles Bukowski 1994 497 pages
4.26
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Literature
Self-Reliance and Other Essays Summary
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1844 117 pages
4.12
20k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
The Island of Doctor Moreau Summary
The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H.G. Wells 1896 143 pages
3.73
100k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Horror
Daisy Miller Summary
Daisy Miller
by Henry James 1879 164 pages
3.37
38k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The First Circle Summary
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages
4.26
10k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Mansfield Park Summary
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen 1814 488 pages
3.86
300k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Jane Austen
The Lottery and Other Stories Summary
The Lottery and Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson 1949 302 pages
4.02
82k+ ratings
Short Stories
Horror
Classics
This Side of Paradise Summary
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 268 pages
3.63
80k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
Highcastle Summary
Highcastle
A Remembrance
by Stanisław Lem 1966 152 pages
3.65
500+ ratings
Biography
Polish Literature
Literature
Generation A Summary
Generation A
by Douglas Coupland 2009 320 pages
3.52
7k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Canada
Contemporary
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