Classic Stories Summarized

Send us Fan Mail Ayn Rand published Atlas Shrugged in 1957 as a long philosophical novel set in a deteriorating near-future United States, where expanding government controls, “need” as a moral claim, and the punishment...

Send us Fan Mail Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a novel by the English writer Thomas Hardy, first published in serialized form in 1891 and issued as a complete book the same year. Set in the fictional rural region of...

Send us Fan Mail When a young boy is found on a battlefield, it sets into motion a series of events that will have potentially catastrophic results unless that young boy – now a young man – can solve the puzzle that his...

Send us Fan Mail Hermann Hesse’s "Siddhartha", first published in German in 1922, is a philosophical novel set in ancient India around the time of the historical Buddha. It follows the spiritual journey of a young...

Send us Fan Mail Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero , written by William Makepeace Thackeray and first published in monthly installments from January 1847 to July 1848, is a landmark Victorian satire that chronicles...

Send us Fan Mail Great Expectations, Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel, was first published serially in his weekly periodical All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861 and issued in three-volume book form in...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Les Misérables is a monumental historical novel written by French author Victor Hugo and published in 1862. Set against the backdrop of early 19th-century France, spanning from the Battle of...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, serialized in The Russian Messenger and published as a complete book in 1880, just four months before his death...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in February 1932. Set in a futuristic World State in the year 2540 AD (or A.F. 632, “After...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Crime and Punishment is a landmark Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first serialized in The Russian Messenger in 1866 and published in book form the same year. Written during a period of...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, a historical tragedy in five acts, was written around 1599 and is believed to have been one of the first plays performed at the newly built...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984, published in June 1949, was written in the shadow of World War II and the rise of totalitarian regimes in Stalin’s Soviet Union and Nazi Germany...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>The Stranger (originally L’Étranger), Albert Camus’s first novel, was published in French by Gallimard on May 19, 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France, in a small initial print run of...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p><b>Heart of Darkness</b> is a seminal novella by Joseph Conrad, first serialized in three parts in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in February, March, and April 1899 (marking the magazine's...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Fahrenheit 451 is a landmark dystopian novel by American author Ray Bradbury, first published in 1953, which stands as one of his most celebrated works and a cornerstone of science fiction...