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Literature Book Summaries

Macbeth Moment by Moment Summary
Macbeth Moment by Moment
by William Shakespeare 2016 214 pages
3.89
900k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
School
Moby-Dick or, The Whale Summary
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
by Herman Melville 2002 720 pages
3.55
500k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Adventure
Pride and Prejudice Summary
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
4.29
4.4M+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Literature
The Road Summary
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy 2006 241 pages
3.99
900k+ ratings
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Post Apocalyptic
To Kill a Mockingbird Summary
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
4.26
6.3M+ ratings
Historical Fiction
School
Literature
Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) Summary
Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare 2005 288 pages
4.02
900k+ ratings
Plays
School
Literature
The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych
by Leo Tolstoy 2006 86 pages
4.13
100k+ ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Faust Summary
Faust
Der Tragodie Erster Und Zweiter Teil
by johann goethe 1994 432 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Plays
Poetry
German Literature
Siddhartha Summary
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
4.07
800k+ ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Spirituality
The Picture of Dorian Gray Summary
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
4.13
1.6M+ ratings
Classics
Horror
Fantasy
Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) Summary
Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
by Bram Stoker 1996 512 pages
4.02
1.3M+ ratings
Horror
Fantasy
Classics
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père 2003 1276 pages
4.31
900k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Adventure
Literature
Animal Farm / 1984 Summary
Animal Farm / 1984
by George Orwell
4.30
200k+ ratings
Classics
Dystopia
Literature
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer 2006 541 pages
3.81
1.1M+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain 2002 368 pages
3.83
1.2M+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Into the Woods Summary
Into the Woods
A Five Act Journey into Story
by John Yorke 2013 256 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
Writing
Film
Crafts
The Great Gatsby Summary
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.93
5.4M+ ratings
School
Historical Fiction
Romance
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Summary
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.21
100k+ ratings
Russia
Russian Literature
Literature
Ulysses Summary
Ulysses
by James Joyce
3.76
100k+ ratings
Literature
Classics
Ireland
Love in the Time of Cholera Summary
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2003 348 pages
3.94
500k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Literature
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) Summary
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens 2003 544 pages
3.87
900k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Jane Eyre Summary
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë 2003 576 pages
4.15
2.1M+ ratings
Classics
Gothic
Historical Fiction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain 2006 272 pages
3.92
900k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Wuthering Heights Summary
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
3.89
1.8M+ ratings
Gothic
Historical Fiction
Literature
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Summary
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Jules Verne 2002 270 pages
3.89
200k+ ratings
Classics
Science Fiction
Adventure
Don Quixote Summary
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
3.90
200k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Spanish Literature
Oliver Twist Summary
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
3.88
400k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics) Summary
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2005 176 pages
3.69
100k+ ratings
German Literature
Classics
Literature
The Canterbury Tales Summary
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer 2003 504 pages
3.52
200k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Of Mice and Men Summary
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck 2002 112 pages
3.89
2.6M+ ratings
School
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Catcher in the Rye Summary
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger 2001 288 pages
3.80
3.6M+ ratings
Classics
Young Adult
Literature
The Trial Summary
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
3.95
300k+ ratings
Philosophy
Literature
German Literature
Kafka on the Shore Summary
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
4.13
400k+ ratings
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Japanese Literature
Notes from the Underground Summary
Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.17
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
Russia
Russian Literature
Little Women Summary
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
4.16
2.3M+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Romance
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics) Summary
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
by Anonymous 2006 71 pages
3.74
100k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Mythology
The Three Musketeers Summary
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
4.09
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Adventure
Emma Summary
Emma
by Jane Austen
4.05
900k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Literature
Historical
Alices Adventures In Wonderland Summary
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll 2020 320 pages
4.00
300k+ ratings
Adventure
Middle Grade
Young Adult
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Summary
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami 1997 611 pages
4.15
200k+ ratings
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Japanese Literature
Snow Falling on Cedars Summary
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson 1995 460 pages
3.86
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Historical
The Sound and the Fury Summary
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
3.86
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) Summary
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
by Aesop 1998 96 pages
4.05
100k+ ratings
Short Stories
Classics
Childrens
Survivor Summary
Survivor
A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk 2018 304 pages
3.93
100k+ ratings
Contemporary
Thriller
Novels
Robinson Crusoe Summary
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
3.68
300k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Literature
Life Of Pi Summary
Life Of Pi
by Yann Martel 2006
3.94
1.6M+ ratings
Fantasy
Classics
Adventure
The Old Man and the Sea Summary
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway 1996 96 pages
3.80
1.1M+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Novels
The adventures of Tom Sowyer Summary
The adventures of Tom Sowyer
by Mark Twain
3.92
900k+ ratings
Classics
Adventure
Historical Fiction
Things Fall Apart Summary
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
3.74
300k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Africa
The Master and Margarita Summary
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov 1996 384 pages
4.29
300k+ ratings
Fantasy
Russia
Russian Literature
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