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Great Expectations Summary

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens 1998 544 pages

Historical Fiction

David Copperfield Summary

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

Historical Fiction

Dante's Inferno Summary

Dante's Inferno

by Dante Alighieri 2009 102 pages

The Satanic Verses Summary

The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie 2000 561 pages

Magical Realism

Gone with the Wind Summary

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Historical Fiction

The Invisible Man Summary

The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells 2002 192 pages

Science Fiction

Les Misérables Summary

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

Historical Fiction

Zeno's Conscience Summary

Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo 1923 437 pages

Italian Literature

Sula Summary

by Toni Morrison 2002 192 pages

Historical Fiction

African American

The Prophet Summary

by Kahlil Gibran 2003 144 pages

by Yevgeny Zamyatin 1993 221 pages

Science Fiction

Heart of Darkness Summary

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad 2003 200 pages

Historical Fiction

A Room with a View Summary

A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster 2005 120 pages

Historical Fiction

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Summary

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare 2004 256 pages

King Lear Summary

by William Shakespeare

To the Lighthouse Summary

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Lady Chatterley’s Lover Summary

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence 1983 376 pages

White Teeth Summary

by Zadie Smith 2001 464 pages

Literary Fiction

Waiting for Godot Summary

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

White Fang Summary

by Jack London

Candide Summary

by Voltaire 2016 112 pages

The Gambler Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian Literature

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Summary

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

by Ken Kesey

The Sun Also Rises Summary

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

Song of Solomon Summary

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison 2004 352 pages

Historical Fiction

African American

The Red Badge of Courage Summary

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane 2004 152 pages

Historical Fiction

Invisible Man Summary

by Ralph Ellison

Historical Fiction

The Iliad Summary

by Homer 2023 848 pages

The Blind Owl Summary

by Sadegh Hedayat 1994 144 pages

The Remains of the Day Summary

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

Shahnameh Summary

The Persian Book of Kings

by Abolqasem Ferdowsi 2006 928 pages

Chess Story Summary

by Stefan Zweig 2005 104 pages

German Literature

The Spinoza Problem Summary

The Spinoza Problem

by Irvin D. Yalom 2012 321 pages

Historical Fiction

The Divine Comedy Summary

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri 1995 798 pages

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Summary

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce 2003 384 pages

Irish Literature

The Masnavi Summary

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 2004 272 pages

Twelfth Night Summary

by William Shakespeare 2004 272 pages

All the Pretty Horses Summary

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy 1993 301 pages

Historical Fiction

A Christmas Carol Summary

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens 1999 184 pages

Mrs. Dalloway Summary

by Virginia Woolf 2002 216 pages

The Call of the Wild Summary

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

The Heart of Darkness Summary

The Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Historical Fiction

A Farewell to Arms Summary

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway 1998 304 pages

Historical Fiction

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Summary

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo 2001 512 pages

Historical Fiction

Blindness Summary

by José Saramago

Science Fiction

Frankenstien (4) Summary

Frankenstien (4)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2018 128 pages

Science Fiction

Too Loud a Solitude Summary

Too Loud a Solitude

by Bohumil Hrabal 1993 112 pages

Czech Literature

Slaughterhouse-Five Summary

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1999 288 pages

Science Fiction

Historical Fiction

Oblomov Summary

by Ivan Goncharov 2006 443 pages

Russian Literature

The Bell Jar Summary

by Sylvia Plath

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