War and Peace
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
2,536-word summary · 11 min read
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Things Fall Apart
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries and courts remaking…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
2,230-word summary · 10 min read
The Trial
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
2,318-word summary · 10 min read
The Three Musketeers
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
2,569-word summary · 11 min read
The Prince
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
The Name of the Rose
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
2,580-word summary · 11 min read
The Master and Margarita
Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.
2,535-word summary · 11 min read
The Lorax
The Once-ler fells Truffula Trees for Thneed greed despite the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warning him to stop.
2,563-word summary · 11 min read
The Karamazov Brothers
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
2,512-word summary · 11 min read
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
2,538-word summary · 11 min read
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read