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Book Summaries

A list of all our summaries for book reports, sorted alphbetically, to help you get ahead in the learning game. Each book summary is original and contains short brief and key points written by the book author but in the words of the summarizer.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• About a Boy
• A Christmas Carol
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Death in a Family
• Aesop's Fables
• A Farewell to Arms
• A Hero of Our Time
• Alas, Babylon
• Alias Grace
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• A Modest Proposal
• And Quiet Flows the Don
• And Then There Were None
• Angela's Ashes
• Anna Karenina
• Anna Louise and Anton
• Anne of Green Gables
• A Passage to India
• A Raisin in the Sun
• A Room of One's Own
• Around the World In Eighty Days
• A Separate Peace
• As I Lay Dying
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Atlas Shrugged
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• A Wrinkle in Time
• Bambi, a Life in the Woods
• Baron Munchausen
• Beauty and the Beast
• Bleak House
• Book of Judith
• Brave New World
• Buddenbrooks
• Cannery Row
• Cat's Cradle
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Charlotte's Web
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• Childhood's End
• Christ Legends and Other Stories
• Cold Mountain
• Common Sense
• Confessions
• Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy
• Crime and Punishment
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Daisy Miller
• David Copperfield
• Death in Venice
• Death of a Salesman
• Democracy in America
• Doctor Zhivago
• Dog named Mister Bossi
• Doll's House (Nora)
• Don Quixote
• East of Eden
• Emil and the Detectives
• Ender's Game
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Ethan Frome
• Eugene Onegin
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Fahrenheit 451
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• Father Goriot
• Fathers and Sons
• Flowers for Algernon
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Frankenstein
• From Here to Eternity
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Go Ask Alice
• Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece
• Gone With the Wind
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Great Expectations
• Gulliver's Travels
• Hadji Murat
• Hansel and Gretel
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Heart of Darkness
• Hedda Gabler
• Homage to Catalonia
• Hound of Baskervilles
• I, Claudius
• I Am Legend
• I Am the Cheese
• Idylls of the King
• If I Were a Grown-Up
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• In Cold Blood
• In Desert and Wilderness
• Inherit the Wind
• Invisible Man
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Jerusalem Delivered
• Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
• Johnny Tremain
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
• L'Impromptu de Versailles
• Lake Wobegon Days
• Lassie Come Home
• Leaves of Grass
• Les Miserables
• Letters from my Mill
• Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Life Is a Dream
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Little Nicholas
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Little Thumb
• Little Women
• Lost Horizon
• Lottie and Lisa
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Madame Bovary
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part One
• Maus: A Survivors Tale Part Two
• Maya the Bee
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Metamorphoses - Apollo and Daphne
• Metamorphoses - Narcissus and Echo
• Metamorphoses - Orpheus and Eurydice
• Metamorphoses - Pyramus and Thisbe
• Metamorphoses - Venus and Adonis
• Middlemarch
• Moll Flanders
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• Mrs Dalloway
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Murder in the Cathedral
• My Family Right or Wrong
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
• Net Bandits
• North and South
• Northanger Abbey
• Notes from Underground
• Oedipus Rex / Oedipus the King
• Of Mice and Men
• Olfi Obermeier
• Oliver Twist
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• One Thousand and One Nights
• On the River
• Orlando: A Biography
• Orlando Furioso
• Out of Africa
• Paradise Lost
• Paul is Alone in the World
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• Phaedra (Phèdre)
• Pippi Longstocking
• Pride and Prejudice
• Prometheus Bound
• Puss in Boots
• Resurrection
• Ricky of the Tuft
• Riders of the Purple Sage
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - The Jungle Book
• Rip Van Winkle
• Robinson Crusoe
• Romeo and Juliet
• Ronia the Robber's Daughter
• Sense and Sensibility
• Silas Marner
• Silmarillion
• Sinbad the Sailor - One Thousand and One Nights
• Six Characters In Search of an Author
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Song of Solomon
• Song of Songs
• Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Steppenwolf
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Swann in Love
• Taming of the Shrew
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Alchemist
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Animal Farm
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• The Awakening
• The Bald Soprano
• The Bean Trees
• The Bell Jar
• The Big Wave
• The Black Cat
• The Blue Arrow
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• The Brave Little Tailor
• The Brave Tin Soldier
• The Breadwinner
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Call of the Wild
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Cherry Orchard
• The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
• The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Chrysalids
• The Color Purple
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Crucible
• The Daydreamer
• The Day of the Bomb
• The Day of the Locust
• The Death of Ivan Ilych
• The Decameron
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Dispossessed
• The Divine Comedy
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• The Fairies
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Fatalist
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Federalist Papers
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Fisherman and His Wife
• The Flowers of Evil
• The Flying Classroom
• The Fountainhead
• The Frog Prince
• The Gambler
• The Gardener
• The Glass Bead Game
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Golden Goose
• The Good Earth
• The Gospel of John
• The Government Inspector
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Gatsby
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
• The Gypsies
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Happy Prince
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• The Heart of a Dog
• The Hiding Places
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The House of Mirth
• The House of the Scorpion
• The House of the Seven Gables
• The Human Comedy
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• The Hunger Games
• The Imaginary Invalid
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Invisible Man
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The Joy Luck Club
• The Jungle Book
• The Kalevala
• The King's Fifth
• The Kite Runner
• The Last Days of Socrates
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Lathe of Heaven
• The Left Hand of a Darkness
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• The Little Match Girl
• The Little Mermaid
• The Little Prince
• The Little Water Sprite
• The Little Witch
• The Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Lottery and Other Stories
• The Lovely Bones
• The Magic Mountain
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Martian Chronicles
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Master and Margarita
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• The Metamorphosis
• The Mill on the Floss
• The Misanthrope
• The Mistress of the Inn
• The Most Dangerous Game
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• The Neverending Story
• The Nightingale
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Outsiders
• The Overcoat
• The Pale King
• The Paul Street Boys
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Poem of the Cid
• The Poisonwood Bible
• The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• The Pot of Gold
• The Power anf the Glory
• The Prince and the Pauper
• The Princess and the Pea
• The Princess Bride
• The Red and the Black
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Republic
• Therese Raquin
• The Return of the King
• The Ridiculous Wishes
• The Robbers
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
• The Secret Garden
• The Secret Life of Bees
• The Sleeping Beauty
• The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods
• The Snow Queen
• The Song of Roland
• The Song of the Nibelungs
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
• The Sound and the Fury
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle
• The Stranger
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Swaggering Soldier
• The Swineherd
• The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
• The Tempest
• The Three Musketeers
• The Time Machine
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
• The Turn of the Screw
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses
• The Two Towers
• The Ugly Duckling
• The War of the Worlds
• The White Seal - The Jungle Book
• The Wild White Stallion
• The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats
• The Woman In White
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Things Fall Apart
• Three Sisters
• Through the Looking-glass
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Toomai of the Elephants - The Jungle Book
• To The Lighthouse
• Town Musicians of Bremen
• Treasure Island
• Trouble at Timpetill
• Twelth Night: Or, What You Will
• Two Friends
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Uncle Vanya
• Vanity Fair
• Waiting for Godot
• Walden and Civil Disobedience
• War and Peace
• Watership Down
• William Wilson
• Winnie The Pooh
• Wuthering Heights

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