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Gray's Anatomy Summary

by Henry Gray 1858 1257 pages

The Jungle Book Summary

The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling 1894 277 pages

The Kite Runner Summary

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini 2011 132 pages

Historical Fiction

Rebecca Summary

by Daphne du Maurier 1938 449 pages

The Persian Expedition Summary

The Persian Expedition

by Xenophon 375 pages

Ancient History

Sex and Rage Summary

by Eve Babitz 1979 256 pages

Utilitarianism Summary

by John Stuart Mill 1861 71 pages

The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A Graphic Novel

by Ian Edginton 2008 122 pages

Being and Nothingness Summary

Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre 1943 688 pages

Anne of Green Gables Summary

Anne of Green Gables

by L.M. Montgomery 1908 320 pages

Historical Fiction

Heart of Darkness Summary

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad 1899 188 pages

Historical Fiction

Like Water for Chocolate Summary

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel 1989 222 pages

Magical Realism

Historical Fiction

Charlotte’s Web Summary

Charlotte’s Web

by E.B. White 1952 184 pages

A Farewell to Arms Summary

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway 1929 293 pages

Historical Fiction

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Summary

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo 1831 510 pages

Historical Fiction

Blindness Summary

by José Saramago 1995 326 pages

Science Fiction

I Who Have Never Known Men Summary

I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman 1995 208 pages

Science Fiction

Too Loud a Solitude Summary

Too Loud a Solitude

by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages

Czech Literature

God Emperor of Dune Summary

God Emperor of Dune

by Frank Herbert 1981 587 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Bulfinch's Mythology Summary

Bulfinch's Mythology

by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages

Agnes Grey Summary

by Anne Brontë 1847 226 pages

Suite Française Summary

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky 2004 431 pages

Historical Fiction

Journey to the End of the Night Summary

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 453 pages

French Literature

Slaughterhouse-Five Summary

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1969 275 pages

Science Fiction

Historical Fiction

Oblomov Summary

by Ivan Goncharov 1859 586 pages

Russian Literature

I, Robot Summary

by Isaac Asimov 1950 224 pages

Science Fiction

Medea Summary

by Euripides 59 pages

Doctor Zhivago Summary

by Boris Pasternak 1957 592 pages

Historical Fiction

Russian Literature

Silence Summary

by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages

Historical Fiction

Japanese Literature

A Thousand Splendid Suns Summary

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini 2007 372 pages

Historical Fiction

Beloved Summary

by Toni Morrison 1987 325 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

The Theory of Moral Sentiments Summary

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

by Adam Smith 1759 368 pages

The Sign of Four Summary

The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 129 pages

Jonathan Livingston Seagull Summary

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach 1970 112 pages

Story of Civilization Summary

Story of Civilization

by Will Durant 1975 14777 pages

Gulliver’s Travels Summary

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift 1726 306 pages

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Summary

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel García Márquez 2003 128 pages

Magical Realism

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book Summary

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

by Better Homes and Gardens 1953 576 pages

Mother Courage and Her Children Summary

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht 1941 93 pages

The Overcoat Summary

by Nikolai Gogol 1842 57 pages

Russian Literature

Leaves of Grass Summary

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages

Parable of the Sower Summary

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler 1993 345 pages

Science Fiction

Gilead Summary

by Marilynne Robinson 2004 247 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

For Whom the Bell Tolls Summary

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages

Historical Fiction

Less Than Zero Summary

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages

Where the Sidewalk Ends Summary

Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Shel Silverstein 1974 176 pages

Ecce Homo Summary

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1908 144 pages

The Phantom of the Opera Summary

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux 1910 360 pages

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Summary

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages

Czech Literature

The Importance of Living Summary

The Importance of Living

by Lin Yutang 1937 462 pages

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