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Celebrating Silence Summary

Celebrating Silence

by Ravi Shankar 2001 206 pages

The Setting Sun Summary

The Setting Sun

by Osamu Dazai 1947 175 pages

Japanese Literature

The Gambler Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 188 pages

Russian Literature

My System Summary

A Treatise on Chess

by Aron Nimzowitsch 1925 378 pages

The Westing Game Summary

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin 1978 182 pages

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Summary

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

by Ken Kesey 1962 325 pages

The Sun Also Rises Summary

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway 1926 189 pages

Song of Solomon Summary

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

Neuromancer Summary

by William Gibson 1984 271 pages

Science Fiction

The Giver Summary

by Lois Lowry 1993 208 pages

The Red Badge of Courage Summary

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane 1895 149 pages

Historical Fiction

Suicide Summary

A Study in Sociology

by Émile Durkheim 1897 405 pages

Invisible Man Summary

by Ralph Ellison 1952 581 pages

Historical Fiction

The Iliad Summary

by Homer 683 pages

by Mika Waltari 1945 514 pages

Historical Fiction

An Inspector Calls Summary

An Inspector Calls

by J.B. Priestley 1945 117 pages

The Blind Assassin Summary

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood 2000 637 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

Les Nourritures terrestres Summary

Les Nourritures terrestres

Suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures

by André Gide 1897

The Baburnama Summary

Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor

by Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur 1531 608 pages

To Build a Fire Summary

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

The Blind Owl Summary

by Sadegh Hedayat 1937 148 pages

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 Remains of the Day Summary

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 258 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

Shahnameh Summary

The Persian Book of Kings

by Abolqasem Ferdowsi 1010 886 pages

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Summary

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison 1967 20 pages

Science Fiction

The Persian Boy Summary

The Persian Boy

by Mary Renault 1972 420 pages

Historical Fiction

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 256 pages

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

Irish Literature

The Clown Summary

by Heinrich Böll 1963 272 pages

German Literature

The Man in the Brown Suit Summary

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie 1924 381 pages

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Summary

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud 1917 560 pages

by Anthony Burgess 1978 240 pages

Science Fiction

سمفونی مردگان Summary

سمفونی مردگان

by Abbas Maroufi 1989 352 pages

The Masnavi Summary

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1270 304 pages

Four Great Tragedies Summary

Four Great Tragedies

Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth

by William Shakespeare 1606 592 pages

Essays and Aphorisms Summary

Essays and Aphorisms

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 240 pages

Das Kapital Summary

by Karl Marx 1867 356 pages

The Man in the High Castle Summary

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

Science Fiction

The Second Sex Summary

by Simone de Beauvoir 1949 746 pages

Long Walk to Freedom Summary

Long Walk to Freedom

by Nelson Mandela 2003 450 pages

Norwegian Wood Summary

by Haruki Murakami 1987 296 pages

Japanese Literature

Twelfth Night Summary

by William Shakespeare 1602 272 pages

What Is Art? Summary

by Leo Tolstoy 1897 252 pages

Bartleby the Scrivener Summary

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

Women Summary

by Charles Bukowski 1978 291 pages

Totem and Taboo Summary

Totem and Taboo

by Sigmund Freud 1913 224 pages

Metaphysics Summary

by Aristotle 365 pages

All the Pretty Horses Summary

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages

Historical Fiction

A Christmas Carol Summary

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens 1843 184 pages

Mrs. Dalloway Summary

by Virginia Woolf 1925 194 pages

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