19th Century

Gas lamps flicker over cobblestone streets as characters navigate a world of strict social codes, forbidden passions, and transformative industrial change. Whether in London's grimy workhouses, Russian gambling dens, or the drawing rooms of English country estates, these masterful works capture humanity at its most raw and refined during an era of unprecedented upheaval.

19th Century Book Summaries

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 534 pages

German Literature

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

Russian Literature

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Summary

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 320 pages

The Birth of Tragedy Summary

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1871 121 pages

German Literature

Sense and Sensibility Summary

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen 1811 409 pages

Historical Fiction

Dead Souls Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 464 pages

Russian Literature

Wuthering Heights Summary

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë 1847 464 pages

Historical Fiction

Oliver Twist Summary

by Charles Dickens 1838 608 pages

Historical Fiction

Notes from Underground Summary

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

Russian Literature

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Summary

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy 1891 518 pages

Historical Fiction

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Summary

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson 1890 716 pages

by Jane Austen 1815 474 pages

Historical Fiction

Jude the Obscure Summary

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages

Madame Bovary Summary

by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages

On the Suffering of the World Summary

On the Suffering of the World

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1850 132 pages

Persuasion Summary

by Jane Austen 1817 249 pages

Historical Fiction

David Copperfield Summary

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages

Historical Fiction

Twilight of the Idols Summary

Twilight of the Idols

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 128 pages

German Literature

The Gambler Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages

Russian Literature

The World as Will and Representation, Volume II Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume II

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 720 pages

German Literature

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 256 pages

Essays and Aphorisms Summary

Essays and Aphorisms

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 240 pages

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

Agnes Grey Summary

by Anne Brontë 1847 226 pages

Oblomov Summary

by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages

Russian Literature

The Overcoat Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages

Russian Literature

Leaves of Grass Summary

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages

The Philosophy of History Summary

The Philosophy of History

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1831 480 pages

North and South Summary

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell 1855 521 pages

Historical Fiction

The Wild Duck Summary

by Henrik Ibsen 1884 128 pages

Poor Folk Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 167 pages

Russian Literature

Villette Summary

by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Summary

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë 1848 576 pages

The Return of the Native Summary

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages

Cranford Summary

by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 257 pages

Historical Fiction

Bel-Ami Summary

by Guy de Maupassant 1885 416 pages

French Literature

Père Goriot Summary

by Honoré de Balzac 1835 384 pages

French Literature

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

Attack and Die Summary

Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage

by Grady McWhiney 1982 232 pages

American Civil War

Far From the Madding Crowd Summary

Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages

Historical Fiction

Benito Cereno Summary

by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages

The Prelude Summary

by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages

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