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20th Century Book Summaries

The Fall Summary
The Fall
by Albert Camus 1956 147 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
France
Literature
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California Summary
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California
by Núria Añó 2020 237 pages
4.25
10+ ratings
Art
LGBT
Bisexual
What Is Existentialism? Summary
What Is Existentialism?
by Simone de Beauvoir 1944 128 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce 1922 783 pages
3.76
100k+ ratings
Literature
Classics
Ireland
The Trial Summary
The Trial
by Franz Kafka 1925 255 pages
3.95
300k+ ratings
Philosophy
Literature
German Literature
The Sound and the Fury Summary
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner 1929 366 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Literature
Classics
Novels
Amerika Summary
Amerika
by Franz Kafka 1927 336 pages
3.74
32k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
Literature
Zeno's Conscience Summary
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo 1923 437 pages
3.77
29k+ ratings
Italian Literature
Italy
Literature
To the Lighthouse Summary
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages
3.80
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 1916 329 pages
3.64
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Irish Literature
توتالیتاریسم Summary
توتالیتاریسم
by Hannah Arendt 1968 365 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Mother Courage and Her Children Summary
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht 1941 93 pages
3.62
21k+ ratings
Theatre
School
20th Century
Totality and Infinity Summary
Totality and Infinity
An Essay on Exteriority
by Emmanuel Levinas 1961 314 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Essays
The Common Sense of Science Summary
The Common Sense of Science
With a New Preface by Sir Hermann Bondi
by J. Bronowski 1951 160 pages
3.83
100+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
20th Century
Lectures on the Will to Know Summary
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
by Michel Foucault 2014 293 pages
4.26
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.15
11k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
A Passage to India Summary
A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster 1924 376 pages
3.68
83k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Literature
Homo Faber Summary
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch 1957 214 pages
3.69
29k+ ratings
Classics
German Literature
School
All My Sons Summary
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller 1947 112 pages
3.91
29k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Tortilla Flat Summary
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck 1935 256 pages
3.83
59k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Counterfeiters Summary
The Counterfeiters
by André Gide 1925 451 pages
3.83
9k+ ratings
France
Classics
French Literature
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Summary
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages
4.06
1k+ ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Dubliners Summary
Dubliners
by James Joyce 1914 352 pages
3.84
100k+ ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Ireland
The Custom of the Country Summary
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton 1913 370 pages
4.06
15k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
American
The House of Hunger Summary
The House of Hunger
by Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Africa
Short Stories
Zimbabwe
Ariel Summary
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath 1965 128 pages
4.19
84k+ ratings
Classics
Feminism
Poetry
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