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  • 1984

A

  • About a Boy
  • A Christmas Carol Summary
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
  • Aeneid
  • Aesop's Fables
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • A Hero of Our Time
  • Alchemist, The
  • 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
  • And Quiet Flows the Don
  • And Then There Were None
  • Anna Karenina
  • Antigone Summary
  • A Rose for Emily Summary
  • Art of War, The
  • A Separate Peace
  • As I Lay Dying
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • A Tale of the Two Cities
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Atonement
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Awakening, The

B

  • Bald Soprano, The
  • Bambi, a Life in the Woods
  • Bean Trees, The
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Bell Jar, The
  • Beowulf Summary
  • Bible
  • Black Cat Summary, The
  • Bluebeard
  • Book of Judith
  • Brave Little Tailor, The
  • Brave New World
  • Breadwinner, The

C

  • Call of the Wild, The
  • Candide
  • Canterbury Tales, The
  • Canzoniere
  • Catcher in the Rye, The
  • Chairs, The
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Cherry Orchard, The
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • Christ Legends and Other Stories
  • Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
  • Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • Chrysalids, The
  • Cid, The
  • Cinderella Summary
  • Cipollino
  • Color Purple, The
  • Confessions
  • Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
  • Cyrano de Bergerac

D

  • David Copperfield
  • Day of the Bomb, The
  • Dead Souls
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Democracy in America
  • Diary of a Young Girl, The
  • Divine Comedy, The
  • Dog named Mister Bossi
  • Doll's House (Nora)
  • Donkeyskin
  • Don Quixote
  • Dracula
  • Dubliners
  • Dune

E

  • Electra
  • Emil and the Detectives
  • Emperor's New Clothes, The
  • Ender's Game
  • Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Escape Key
  • Ethan Frome
  • Eugene Onegin

F

  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fairies, The
  • Fall of the House of Usher, The
  • Fatalist, The
  • Faust
  • Federalist Papers, The
  • Fisherman and His Wife, The
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Flowers of Evil, The
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Frankenstein
  • Frog Prince, The

G

  • Gardener, The
  • Gargantua
  • Germinal
  • Giver, The
  • Glass Menagerie, The
  • Golden Goose, The
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears Summary
  • Gone With the Wind
  • Good Earth, The
  • Gospel of John, The
  • Government Inspector, The
  • Grapes of Wrath, The
  • Great Expectations
  • Great Gatsby, The
  • Grendel
  • Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Gypsies, The

H

  • Hamlet
  • Handmaid's Tale, The
  • Hansel and Gretel Summary
  • Happy Prince Summary, The
  • Hard Times
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Hedda Gabler
  • Heidi
  • Hills Like White Elephants Summary
  • Hiroshima
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
  • Hobbit, The
  • Hound of Baskervilles
  • House of the Seven Gables, The
  • Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The
  • Hunger Games, The

I

  • I Am Legend
  • If I Were a Grown-Up
  • Imaginary Invalid, The
  • Importance of Being Earnest, The
  • In Desert and Wilderness
  • Inferno
  • Invisible Man

J

  • Jack and the Beanstalk Summary
  • Jane Eyre
  • Jerusalem Delivered
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • Joy Luck Club, The
  • Jungle, The
  • Jungle Book, The

K

  • King's Fifth, The
  • King Lear

L

  • Lassie Come Home
  • Last Days of Socrates, The
  • Last of the Mohicans, The
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
  • Les Miserables
  • Letters from my Mill
  • Life Is a Dream
  • Life of Pi
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • Little Match Girl Summary, The
  • Little Mermaid, The
  • Little Nicholas
  • Little Prince, The
  • Little Red Riding Hood Summary
  • Little Thumb
  • Little Water Sprite, The
  • Little Women
  • Lolita
  • Lord of the Flies, The
  • Lottery and Other Stories, The
  • Lottie and Lisa
  • Love in the Time of Cholera Summary
  • Lovely Bones, The

M

  • Madame Bovary
  • Man in the Iron Mask, The
  • Martian Chronicles, The
  • Masque of the Red Death Summary, The
  • Master and Margarita, The
  • Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part One
  • Maus: A Survivors Tale Part Two
  • Maya the Bee
  • Medea
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The
  • Metamorphoses - Apollo and Daphne
  • Metamorphoses - Narcissus and Echo
  • Metamorphoses - Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Metamorphoses - Pyramus and Thisbe
  • Metamorphoses - Venus and Adonis
  • Metamorphosis, The
  • Misanthrope, The
  • Mistress of the Inn, The
  • Moby Dick
  • Momo
  • Mother Courage and Her Children
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
  • My Family Right or Wrong

N

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
  • Native Son
  • Nausea
  • Net Bandits
  • Neverending Story, The
  • Nightingale, The
  • No Exit
  • Notes from Underground

O

  • Oedipus the King Summary
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Old Man and the Sea, The
  • Oliver Twist
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude Summary
  • One Thousand and One Nights
  • On the River
  • Orlando: A Biography
  • Orlando Furioso
  • Othello Summary
  • Overcoat, The

P

  • Pale King, The
  • Pantagruel
  • Paradise Lost
  • Paul is Alone in the World
  • Paul Street Boys, The
  • Pearl, The
  • Persuasion
  • Peter Pan
  • Phaedra (Phèdre)
  • Picture of Dorian Gray, The
  • Pinocchio
  • Pippi Longstocking
  • Plague, The
  • Poem of the Cid, The
  • Poisonwood Bible, The
  • Pot of Gold, The
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Prince, The
  • Prince and the Pauper, The
  • Princess and the Pea Summary, The
  • Prometheus Bound
  • Puss in Boots
  • Pygmalion

R

  • Rapunzel
  • Raven Summary, The
  • Red Badge of Courage, The
  • Republic, The
  • Ricky of the Tuft
  • Ridiculous Wishes, The
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Romeo and Juliet

S

  • Scarlet Letter, The
  • Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The
  • Secret Life of Bees, The
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Siddhartha
  • Silas Marner
  • Sinbad the Sailor - One Thousand and One Nights
  • Six Characters In Search of an Author
  • Slaughterhouse Five
  • Sleeping Beauty, The
  • Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, The
  • Snow Queen, The
  • Snow White Summary
  • Song of Roland, The
  • Song of Songs
  • Song of the Nibelungs, The
  • Sorrows of Young Werther, The
  • Sound and the Fury, The
  • Speed Surf
  • Steadfast Tin Soldier Summary, The
  • Steppenwolf
  • Story of Doctor Dolittle, The
  • Story of the Three Bears Summary, The
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Stranger, The
  • Sun Also Rises, The
  • Swaggering Soldier, The
  • Swineherd, The

T

  • Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, The
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Tell-Tale Heart Summary, The
  • Tempest, The
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Therese Raquin
  • Three Musketeers, The
  • Thumbelina Summary
  • Time Machine, The
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Town Musicians of Bremen
  • Tragedy of Julius Caesar, The
  • Treasure Island
  • Trial, The
  • Twelve Dancing Princesses, The
  • Two Friends

U

  • Ugly Duckling Summary, The
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Uncle Vanya

W

  • Waiting for Godot
  • Walden and Civil Disobedience
  • War and Peace
  • Wild White Stallion, The
  • William Wilson
  • Winnie The Pooh
  • Wolf and the Seven Young Goats, The
  • Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
  • Wuthering Heights

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