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Jude the Obscure Summary

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages

Code of the Samurai Summary

Code of the Samurai

A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke

by Daidōji Yūzan 1943 128 pages

Madame Bovary Summary

by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages

The World According to Garp Summary

The World According to Garp

by John Irving 1978 610 pages

by Louis L'Amour 1953 194 pages

Historical Fiction

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Summary

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

by Max Weber 1904 320 pages

The Wisdom of Life Summary

The Wisdom of Life

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 77 pages

On the Suffering of the World Summary

On the Suffering of the World

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1850 132 pages

Eichmann in Jerusalem Summary

Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt 1963 312 pages

Pippi Longstocking Summary

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren 1945 160 pages

Heretics of Dune Summary

Heretics of Dune

by Frank Herbert 1984 669 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Chapterhouse Summary

by Frank Herbert 1985 609 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

The Amityville Horror Summary

The Amityville Horror

by Jay Anson 1977 315 pages

The Call of Cthulhu Summary

The Call of Cthulhu

by H.P. Lovecraft 1928 43 pages

The Art of Rhetoric Summary

The Art of Rhetoric

by Aristotle 292 pages

The Imitation of Christ Summary

The Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis 1427 242 pages

Critique of Judgment Summary

Critique of Judgment

by Immanuel Kant 1790 686 pages

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Summary

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

by Immanuel Kant 1785 120 pages

German Literature

Being and Time Summary

by Martin Heidegger 1927 589 pages

The Taming of the Shrew Summary

The Taming of the Shrew

By William Shakespeare & Illustrated

by William Shakespeare

Civilization and Its Discontents Summary

Civilization and Its Discontents

by Sigmund Freud 1930 127 pages

Persuasion Summary

by Jane Austen 1817 249 pages

Historical Fiction

The Journey to the West, Volume 1 Summary

The Journey to the West, Volume 1

by Wu Cheng'en 1592 544 pages

Sophie’s World Summary

Sophie’s World

by Jostein Gaarder 1991 403 pages

A History of Western Philosophy Summary

A History of Western Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell 1945 906 pages

Great Expectations Summary

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages

Historical Fiction

Kybalion Summary

A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

by Three Initiates 1912 223 pages

Inferno Summary

by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages

The Satanic Verses Summary

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie 1988 561 pages

Magical Realism

Gone with the Wind Summary

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell 1936 1037 pages

Historical Fiction

The Invisible Man Summary

The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells 1897 192 pages

Science Fiction

Atonement Summary

by Ian McEwan 2001 351 pages

Historical Fiction

Howl’s Moving Castle Summary

Howl’s Moving Castle

by Diana Wynne Jones 1986 329 pages

The House on Mango Street Summary

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros 1984 110 pages

Illusions Summary

The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach 1977 144 pages

The Martian Chronicles Summary

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury 1950 182 pages

Science Fiction

شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة Summary

شجرتي شجرة البرتقال الرائعة

by José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1968 245 pages

In Cold Blood Summary

by Truman Capote 1966 343 pages

The Will to Power Summary

The Will to Power

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1901 575 pages

Norse Mythology Summary

Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman 2017 301 pages

Zeno's Conscience Summary

Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo 1923 437 pages

Italian Literature

The War of the Worlds Summary

The War of the Worlds

by H.G. Wells 1898 192 pages

Science Fiction

A Grief Observed Summary

A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis 1961 76 pages

by Toni Morrison 1973 174 pages

Historical Fiction

African American

The Prophet Summary

by Kahlil Gibran 1923 127 pages

The Hound of the Baskervilles Summary

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 256 pages

by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 256 pages

Science Fiction

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey Summary

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey

by Ingersoll Lockwood 1893 268 pages

Democracy and Social Ethics Summary

Democracy and Social Ethics

by Jane Addams 1902 88 pages

Heart of Darkness Summary

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages

Historical Fiction

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