Plot Summary Gulliver’s Life before Sea Voyages: Gulliver was a doctor by profession, but...More
Plot Summary Tom’s Birth and Allworthy’s Kindness: The novel opens at Squire Allworthy’s country...More
Plot Summary Crusoe’s Birth and Desire to Travel: Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632....More
Summary of Oroonoko Introduction and Setting: The story begins with the narrator explaining...More
Summary Book One Summary (Chapters 1–18) Haunted House at 124: The story begins in...More
Life in Paris—Jake, Cohn, Brett, Mike, and Bill Jake Barnes lives in Paris after...More
At the beginning of the novel, we see that a fire kills three famous...More
Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan, a lower Nigerian...More
Background: Jean-Paul Sartre first named his book Melancholia. He got this name from a...More
Background Fyodor Dostoevsky began writing Crime and Punishment in 1865, and in 1866 it...More
Plot Summary Overview of the World State and Its Environment: Idea of the World...More
Background Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House (Et Dukkehjem) in 1879, and in the...More
Background Bertolt Brecht wrote Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder)...More
Background Albert Camus wrote The Outsider (L’Étranger) in 1940–41, and it was first published...More
Background Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) in 1912, and it was first...More
"The God of Small Things" is a novel written by Indian author Arundhati Roy....More
The novel Tree Without Roots was published in 1948. In this novel, Syed Waliullah...More
Summary The Custom-House and Discovery: The novel begins with a long introduction called The...More
Summary Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell The story begins after a plane...More
Summary Day One Santiago, an old fisherman, has gone 84 days without catching a...More
The poem “Punishment” is about a young girl who was killed long ago. Her...More
Summary "Seize the Day" is a novella by Saul Bellow (1915–2005). It tells the...More
First Section: “The Window” Desire for the Lighthouse Journey: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse...More
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