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To Build a Fire Summary

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

Orthodoxy Summary

by G.K. Chesterton 2007 168 pages

Gabriel García Márquez Summary

Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Michael Wood 1990 132 pages

Hercule Poirot's Christmas Summary

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

by Agatha Christie 1938 335 pages

Agatha Christie

Islands in the Stream Summary

Islands in the Stream

by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages

Phenomenology of Perception Summary

Phenomenology of Perception

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1945 544 pages

Memento Mori Summary

by Muriel Spark 1959 224 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper Summary

The Yellow Wall-Paper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 pages

The Magician’s Nephew Summary

The Magician’s Nephew

by C.S. Lewis 1955 221 pages

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Summary

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

by Harold Bloom 2000 147 pages

Science Fiction

Charmides Summary

by Plato 64 pages

Girl with a Pearl Earring Summary

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier 1999 233 pages

Historical Fiction

The Lord of the Rings Summary

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien 1954 1216 pages

The Raven Summary

by Edgar Allan Poe 1845 64 pages

Celebrating Silence Summary

Celebrating Silence

by Ravi Shankar 2001 206 pages

Moonraker Summary

by Ian Fleming 1955 247 pages

Storm of Steel Summary

by Ernst Jünger 1920 289 pages

The Prelude Summary

by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages

Dom Casmurro Summary

by Machado de Assis 1899 176 pages

بوستان سعدی Summary

بوستان سعدی

by Saadi 1257 196 pages

Down and Out in Paris and London Summary

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell 1933 213 pages

Bless Me, Ultima Summary

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya 1972 290 pages

Magical Realism

Ringworld Summary

by Larry Niven 1970 288 pages

Science Fiction

Science Fiction Fantasy

Girl, Interrupted Summary

Girl, Interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen 1993 169 pages

Ancient Greece Summary

From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

by Thomas R. Martin 1992 254 pages

Ancient History

A User's Manual

by Georges Perec 1978 581 pages

French Literature

The Pleasures of the Damned Summary

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages

Collected Ghost Stories Summary

Collected Ghost Stories

by M.R. James 1931 568 pages

The Mysterious Island Summary

The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne 1874 723 pages

Science Fiction

Hell House Summary

by Richard Matheson 1971 301 pages

Ben-Hur Summary

A Tale of the Christ

by Lew Wallace 1880 620 pages

Historical Fiction

Planet of the Apes Summary

Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle 1963 276 pages

Science Fiction

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Summary

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by Roald Dahl 1964 176 pages

The Turn of the Screw Summary

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James 1898 121 pages

The Kalevala Summary

by Elias Lönnrot 1835 679 pages

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages

A Writer's Diary Summary

A Writer's Diary

by Virginia Woolf 1953 355 pages

The Obscene Bird of Night Summary

The Obscene Bird of Night

by José Donoso 1970 438 pages

Magical Realism

Spanish Literature

How to Keep Your Cool Summary

How to Keep Your Cool

An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

by Seneca 2019 240 pages

A Scanner Darkly Summary

A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick 1977 324 pages

Science Fiction

Robin Hood Summary

The Prince of Thieves

by Alexandre Dumas 1862 224 pages

Historical Fiction

The Gulag Archipelago Summary

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Summary

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

by Albert Camus 1942 212 pages

Live Alone and Like It Summary

Live Alone and Like It

by Marjorie Hillis 1936 154 pages

The Murders in the Rue Morgue Summary

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe 1841 38 pages

Five on a Treasure Island Summary

Five on a Treasure Island

by Enid Blyton 1942 256 pages

Wonderland Avenue Summary

Wonderland Avenue

Tales of Glamour and Excess

by Danny Sugerman 1989 480 pages

Speedboat Summary

by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages

The Everlasting Man Summary

The Everlasting Man

by G.K. Chesterton 1925 260 pages

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious Summary

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

by Sigmund Freud 1905 229 pages

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