Short Stories

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Summary

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Essays and Arguments

by David Foster Wallace 1998 368 pages

Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary

Not Quite What I Was Planning

And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Ob

by Larry Smith 2009 242 pages

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Summary

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Uncommon Thoughts

by Robert Fulghum 2004 221 pages

This Is Water Summary

Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

by David Foster Wallace 2009 137 pages

Creatures of a Day Summary

Creatures of a Day

And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom 2015 224 pages

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul

More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

by Jack Canfield 2012 355 pages

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

More Stories of Life, Love and Learning

by Jack Canfield 2012 371 pages

Chicken Soup for the Soul - 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle The Spirit Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul - 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle The Spirit

by Mark Victor Hansen Jack Canfield 1995 352 pages

Men Without Women Summary

Men Without Women

by Haruki Murakami 2017 240 pages

Japanese Literature

Modern Love, Revised and Updated Summary

Modern Love, Revised and Updated

True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

by Daniel Jones 2019 304 pages

I Used to Be Charming Summary

I Used to Be Charming

The Rest of Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics)

by Eve Babitz 2019 424 pages

Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2 Summary

Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2

8 More Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Spanish the Fun Way! (Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners) (Spanish Edition)

by Olly Richards 2015 236 pages

Spanish Literature

Well-Read Black Girl Summary

Well-Read Black Girl

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

by Glory Edim 2018 272 pages

AI 2041 Summary

Ten Visions for Our Future

by Kai-Fu Lee 2021 452 pages

Artificial Intelligence

These Precious Days Summary

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett 2021 331 pages

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Think Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude

by Jack Canfield 2010 435 pages

Inciting Joy Summary

by Ross Gay 2022 336 pages

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship (O’s Little Books/Guides 3) Summary

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship (O’s Little Books/Guides 3)

by The Oprah Magazine O 2016 192 pages

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship Summary

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship

by Jack Canfield

Consider the Lobster Summary

Consider the Lobster

And Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 468 pages

The Book of (More) Delights Summary

The Book of (More) Delights

by Ross Gay 2023 336 pages

Taking Flight Summary

A Book of Story Meditations

by Anthony De Mello 1990 192 pages

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

And Other Tales of Terror

by Robert Louis Stevenson 2003 224 pages

The Metamorphosis Summary

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

The Death of Ivan Ilych Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Leo Tolstoy 2006 86 pages

Russian Literature

The Canterbury Tales Summary

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer 2003 504 pages

A Visit from the Goon Squad Summary

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan 2010 288 pages

The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) Summary

The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)

by Aesop 1998 96 pages

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Summary

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe 1966 832 pages

how to play better tennis Summary

how to play better tennis

by william t. tilden 1962 144 pages

The Martian Chronicles Summary

The Martian Chronicles

by Ray Bradbury 1984 192 pages

Science Fiction

Chicken Soup for the Soul Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Random Acts of Kindness: 101 Stories of Compassion and Paying It Forward

by Amy Newmark 2017 384 pages

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