Classic Stories Summarized
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(8 min summary) The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
20 Dec 2025
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Send us a textJohn Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come, a profound Christian allegory written in the f...
(9 min summary) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
05 Dec 2025
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Send us a textCharles Dickens wrote and published A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas in December 1843, completing the manusc...
(9 min summary) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20 Nov 2025
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Send us a textMary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818 when the author was only nineteen, emerged from a f...
(6 min summary) Candide by Voltaire
13 Nov 2025
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Send us a textCandide, ou l’Optimisme (1759) is a satirical novella by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, written in response to the dev...
(summary) Animal Farm by George Orwell
06 Nov 2025
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Send us a textAnimal Farm, published in 1945 by George Orwell, is a satirical novella that serves as an allegorical critique of the Russian Revolution...
Utopia, by Thomas Moore
28 Oct 2025
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Send us a textThomas More’s Utopia, published in Latin in 1516, emerged from the intellectual ferment of Renaissance humanism and More’s own compl...
The Phaedo by Plato
23 Oct 2025
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Send us a textThe Phaedo is one of Plato's Socratic dialogues, written around 360 BCE, which recounts the final hours of the philosopher Socrates...
The Book of Revelation
16 Oct 2025
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Send us a textThe Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, was written by the apostle John, traditionally identified as John the Evang...
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
01 Oct 2025
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Send us a textThe Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), published in 1924 by German author Thomas Mann, is a landmark novel of modernist literature, set in...
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
23 Sep 2025
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Send us a text"Romeo and Juliet", written by William Shakespeare around 1594–1596, is one of the most enduring tragedies in English litera...
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
19 Sep 2025
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Send us a text"The Trial", written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925, is a seminal work of modernist l...
Ulysses by James Joyce
09 Sep 2025
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Send us a text"Ulysses", written by Irish novelist James Joyce and first published in its entirety in 1922, is a modernist masterpiece that ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
30 Aug 2025
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Send us a textThe Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest known works of literature, originates from ancient Mesopotamia, likely composed around 2100 BCE...
Wuthering Heights
15 Aug 2025
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Send us a textWuthering Heights, by Emily BrontëWuthering Heights, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, is Emily Brontë’s only novel ...
Madame Bovary
12 Aug 2025
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Send us a textMadame Bovary, published in 1856 by Gustave Flaubert, is a seminal French novel that follows the life of Emma Bovary, a young woman trap...
Democracy in America
27 Jul 2025
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Send us a textIn 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States, tasked with studying its prison system. Wha...
All Quiet on the Western Front
27 Jul 2025
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Send us a textAll Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque and published in 1929, is a seminal anti-war novel set during World War ...
Le Morte d'Arthur
27 Jul 2025
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Send us a textLe Morte d'Arthur, written by Sir Thomas Malory in the late 15th century, is a seminal work of English literature that compiles and...
War and Peace
27 Jul 2025
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Send us a textWar and Peace, written by Leo Tolstoy and published serially between 1865 and 1869, is a monumental Russian novel that intertwines histo...
The Importance of Being Earnest
23 Jul 2025
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Send us a textThe Importance of Being Earnest, a comedic play by Oscar Wilde, premiered in 1895 in London and is widely regarded as one of the finest ...
Ivanhoe
05 Jul 2025
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Send us a textIvanhoe, written by Sir Walter Scott and published in 1819, is a historical novel set in late 12th-century England during the reign of R...
The Hound of The Baskervilles
29 Jun 2025
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Send us a textThe Hound of the Baskervilles, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1902, is one of the most famous novels featuring the d...
The Tempest
22 Jun 2025
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Send us a textThe Tempest, written by William Shakespeare around 1610–1611, is one of his final plays and a quintessential romance, blending element...
Moby Dick
18 Jun 2025
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Send us a textMoby-Dick, published in 1851 by Herman Melville, is a landmark American novel that follows the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab, a whalin...
The Scarlet Letter
16 Jun 2025
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Send us a textThe Scarlet Letter, published in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a classic American novel set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony du...
Tom Sawyer
09 Jun 2025
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Send us a textThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain and published in 1876, is a classic American novel set in the fictional town of St. ...
Robinson Crusoe
06 Jun 2025
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Send us a textRobinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719, is often regarded as one of the earliest English novels, blending ...
Dracula
04 Jun 2025
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Send us a textDracula, published in 1897 by Irish author Bram Stoker, is a seminal Gothic horror novel that introduced the iconic vampire Count Dracul...
Oedipus Rex
02 Jun 2025
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Send us a textOedipus Rex, also known as Oedipus the King, is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles around 429 BCE, considered one of the greatest work...
Pride and Prejudice
28 May 2025
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Send us a textPride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen and first published in 1813, is a classic English novel set in rural Regency-era England, ex...
Lysistrata
24 May 2025
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Send us a textLysistrata, a comedic play by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, was first performed in 411 BCE during the Peloponnesian War, a ...
The Odyssey
23 May 2025
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Send us a textThe Odyssey, attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, is one of the two major epic poems of ancient Greece, alongside The Iliad, like...
Gulliver's Travels
22 May 2025
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Send us a textGulliver’s Travels, published in 1726 by Jonathan Swift under the pseudonym Lemuel Gulliver, is a satirical novel that stands as one o...
Don Quixote
21 May 2025
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Send us a textDon Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes and published in two parts (1605 and 1615), is widely regarded as the first modern novel and...
The Divine Comedy
20 May 2025
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Send us a textThe Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and 1321, is an epic poem considered one of the greatest works of Western lit...
The Illiad
19 May 2025
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Send us a textThe Iliad, attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, is one of the oldest and most influential works of Western literature, likely com...
Faust, Part 2
18 May 2025
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Send us a textJohann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, a two-part dramatic masterpiece, is rooted in the German legend of a scholar who sells his soul to...
Faust, Part 1
18 May 2025
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Send us a textJohann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, a two-part dramatic masterpiece, is rooted in the German legend of a scholar who sells his soul to...
Macbeth
18 May 2025
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Send us a textMacbeth, written by William Shakespeare around 1606, is a dark tragedy that explores ambition, guilt, and the corrupting influence of po...
Hamlet
18 May 2025
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Send us a textHamlet, written by William Shakespeare around 1599–1601, is a tragedy set in the Kingdom of Denmark, exploring themes of revenge, madn...