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Novels, plays, poems and great books from world literature: for each one, a summary, its story, its characters, anecdotes and a link to the full text.
The Iliad
750 BC · summary and anecdotes
The Odyssey
700 BC · summary and anecdotes
Aesop's Fables
560 BC · summary and anecdotes
The Analects
400 BC · summary and anecdotes
Tao Te Ching
400 BC · summary and anecdotes
Apology
390 BC · summary and anecdotes
Enchiridion
125 · summary and anecdotes
Meditations
175 · summary and anecdotes
Le Morte d'Arthur
1485 · summary and anecdotes
The Prince
1532 · summary and anecdotes
Tottel's Miscellany
1557 · summary and anecdotes
Essays
1580 · summary and anecdotes
The Faerie Queene
1590 · summary and anecdotes
Astrophel and Stella
1591 · summary and anecdotes
Essays
1597 · summary and anecdotes
Romeo and Juliet
1597 · summary and anecdotes
Richard III
1597 · summary and anecdotes
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
1599 · summary and anecdotes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1600 · summary and anecdotes
Henry V
1600 · summary and anecdotes
The Merchant of Venice
1600 · summary and anecdotes
Hamlet
1603 · summary and anecdotes
Don Quixote
1605 · summary and anecdotes
Shakespeare's Sonnets
1609 · summary and anecdotes
Macbeth
1623 · summary and anecdotes
As You Like It
1623 · summary and anecdotes
Julius Caesar
1623 · summary and anecdotes
Twelfth Night
1623 · summary and anecdotes
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
1624 · summary and anecdotes
Holy Sonnets
1633 · summary and anecdotes
Songs and Sonnets
1633 · summary and anecdotes
Discourse on the Method
1637 · summary and anecdotes
Hesperides
1648 · summary and anecdotes
Lucasta
1649 · summary and anecdotes
Poems
1667 · summary and anecdotes
Paradise Lost
1667 · summary and anecdotes
Fables
1668 · summary and anecdotes
Poems
1673 · summary and anecdotes
Miscellaneous Poems
1681 · summary and anecdotes
An Essay on Criticism
1711 · summary and anecdotes
Robinson Crusoe
1719 · summary and anecdotes
A Modest Proposal
1729 · summary and anecdotes
An Essay on Man
1734 · summary and anecdotes
Poor Richard's Almanack
1735 · summary and anecdotes
Tom Jones
1749 · summary and anecdotes
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard
1751 · summary and anecdotes
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
1759 · summary and anecdotes
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
1759 · summary and anecdotes
The Declaration of Independence
1776 · summary and anecdotes
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
1786 · summary and anecdotes
Auld Lang Syne
1788 · summary and anecdotes
Songs of Innocence
1789 · summary and anecdotes
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1792 · summary and anecdotes
Songs of Experience
1794 · summary and anecdotes
A Red, Red Rose
1794 · summary and anecdotes
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1798 · summary and anecdotes
Rhymes for the Nursery
1806 · summary and anecdotes
Poems, in Two Volumes
1807 · summary and anecdotes
Faust
1808 · summary and anecdotes
Sense and Sensibility
1811 · summary and anecdotes
Household Stories
1812 · summary and anecdotes
Pride and Prejudice
1813 · summary and anecdotes
The Star-Spangled Banner
1814 · summary and anecdotes
Mansfield Park
1814 · summary and anecdotes
Hebrew Melodies
1815 · summary and anecdotes
Emma
1815 · summary and anecdotes
Northanger Abbey
1817 · summary and anecdotes
Persuasion
1817 · summary and anecdotes
Sibylline Leaves
1817 · summary and anecdotes
Endymion
1818 · summary and anecdotes
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
1818 · summary and anecdotes
Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems
1819 · summary and anecdotes
La Belle Dame sans Merci
1819 · summary and anecdotes
Don Juan
1819 · summary and anecdotes
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
1820 · summary and anecdotes
Prometheus Unbound, with Other Poems
1820 · summary and anecdotes
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
1820 · summary and anecdotes
Poems
1821 · summary and anecdotes
A Visit from St. Nicholas
1823 · summary and anecdotes
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
1825 · summary and anecdotes
Casabianca
1826 · summary and anecdotes
Poems for our Children
1830 · summary and anecdotes
Fairy Tales and Stories
1837 · summary and anecdotes
Oliver Twist
1838 · summary and anecdotes
Voices of the Night
1839 · summary and anecdotes
The Fall of the House of Usher
1839 · summary and anecdotes
Essays: First Series
1841 · summary and anecdotes
Ballads and Other Poems
1841 · summary and anecdotes
Bells and Pomegranates
1841 · summary and anecdotes
Poems
1842 · summary and anecdotes
Dramatic Lyrics
1842 · summary and anecdotes
A Christmas Carol
1843 · summary and anecdotes
The Tell-Tale Heart
1843 · summary and anecdotes
The Count of Monte Cristo
1844 · summary and anecdotes
The Three Musketeers
1844 · summary and anecdotes
The Raven and Other Poems
1845 · summary and anecdotes
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
1845 · summary and anecdotes
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
1845 · summary and anecdotes
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems
1845 · summary and anecdotes
A Book of Nonsense
1846 · summary and anecdotes
Typee
1846 · summary and anecdotes
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
1846 · summary and anecdotes
Jane Eyre
1847 · summary and anecdotes
Wuthering Heights
1847 · summary and anecdotes
Agnes Grey
1847 · summary and anecdotes
Poems
1847 · summary and anecdotes
Vanity Fair
1848 · summary and anecdotes
A Dream Within a Dream
1849 · summary and anecdotes
Annabel Lee
1849 · summary and anecdotes
The Bells
1849 · summary and anecdotes
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1850 · summary and anecdotes
David Copperfield
1850 · summary and anecdotes
In Memoriam A. H. H.
1850 · summary and anecdotes
The Scarlet Letter
1850 · summary and anecdotes
Moby-Dick
1851 · summary and anecdotes
The House of the Seven Gables
1851 · summary and anecdotes
Bartleby, the Scrivener
1853 · summary and anecdotes
Cranford
1853 · summary and anecdotes
Bleak House
1853 · summary and anecdotes
Villette
1853 · summary and anecdotes
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
1854 · summary and anecdotes
Hard Times
1854 · summary and anecdotes
Leaves of Grass
1855 · summary and anecdotes
Men and Women
1855 · summary and anecdotes
The Song of Hiawatha
1855 · summary and anecdotes
Maud, and Other Poems
1855 · summary and anecdotes
North and South
1855 · summary and anecdotes
Aurora Leigh
1856 · summary and anecdotes
Madame Bovary
1857 · summary and anecdotes
Little Dorrit
1857 · summary and anecdotes
A Tale of Two Cities
1859 · summary and anecdotes
The Mill on the Floss
1860 · summary and anecdotes
Great Expectations
1861 · summary and anecdotes
Silas Marner
1861 · summary and anecdotes
Goblin Market and Other Poems
1862 · summary and anecdotes
Les Misérables
1862 · summary and anecdotes
Auguries of Innocence
1863 · summary and anecdotes
The Gettysburg Address
1863 · summary and anecdotes
In War Time, and Other Poems
1864 · summary and anecdotes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865 · summary and anecdotes
Crime and Punishment
1866 · summary and anecdotes
New Poems
1867 · summary and anecdotes
Little Women
1868 · summary and anecdotes
The Moonstone
1868 · summary and anecdotes
War and Peace
1869 · summary and anecdotes
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
1871 · summary and anecdotes
Middlemarch
1871 · summary and anecdotes
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets
1871 · summary and anecdotes
Around the World in Eighty Days
1873 · summary and anecdotes
Far from the Madding Crowd
1874 · summary and anecdotes
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876 · summary and anecdotes
Daniel Deronda
1876 · summary and anecdotes
Anna Karenina
1877 · summary and anecdotes
Black Beauty
1877 · summary and anecdotes
A Doll's House
1879 · summary and anecdotes
The Portrait of a Lady
1881 · summary and anecdotes
Treasure Island
1883 · summary and anecdotes
The New Colossus
1883 · summary and anecdotes
Poems of Passion
1883 · summary and anecdotes
A Child's Garden of Verses
1885 · summary and anecdotes
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1886 · summary and anecdotes
Kidnapped
1886 · summary and anecdotes
A Study in Scarlet
1887 · summary and anecdotes
Underwoods
1887 · summary and anecdotes
A Book of Verses
1888 · summary and anecdotes
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1888 · summary and anecdotes
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
1889 · summary and anecdotes
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1890 · summary and anecdotes
The Sign of the Four
1890 · summary and anecdotes
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
1890 · summary and anecdotes
New Grub Street
1891 · summary and anecdotes
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
1891 · summary and anecdotes
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1891 · summary and anecdotes
Lady Windermere's Fan
1892 · summary and anecdotes
The Yellow Wall-Paper
1892 · summary and anecdotes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892 · summary and anecdotes
Barrack-Room Ballads
1892 · summary and anecdotes
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics
1892 · summary and anecdotes
The Story of an Hour
1894 · summary and anecdotes
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895 · summary and anecdotes
The Second Jungle Book
1895 · summary and anecdotes
The Time Machine
1895 · summary and anecdotes
The Red Badge of Courage
1895 · summary and anecdotes
Majors and Minors
1895 · summary and anecdotes
A Shropshire Lad
1896 · summary and anecdotes
Journals
1897 · summary and anecdotes
Dracula
1897 · summary and anecdotes
The Invisible Man
1897 · summary and anecdotes
The War of the Worlds
1898 · summary and anecdotes
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
1898 · summary and anecdotes
The Turn of the Screw
1898 · summary and anecdotes
The Awakening
1899 · summary and anecdotes
The Lady with the Dog
1899 · summary and anecdotes
Heart of Darkness
1899 · summary and anecdotes
The Darkling Thrush
1900 · summary and anecdotes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1900 · summary and anecdotes
Lord Jim
1900 · summary and anecdotes
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1901 · summary and anecdotes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902 · summary and anecdotes
The Call of the Wild
1903 · summary and anecdotes
A Little Princess
1905 · summary and anecdotes
The Four Million
1906 · summary and anecdotes
The Railway Children
1906 · summary and anecdotes
Anne of Green Gables
1908 · summary and anecdotes
The Wind in the Willows
1908 · summary and anecdotes
Rewards and Fairies
1910 · summary and anecdotes
The Secret Garden
1911 · summary and anecdotes
Peter and Wendy
1911 · summary and anecdotes
Ethan Frome
1911 · summary and anecdotes
Gitanjali
1912 · summary and anecdotes
Swann's Way
1913 · summary and anecdotes
Beasts and Super-Beasts
1914 · summary and anecdotes
For the Fallen
1914 · summary and anecdotes
Trees and Other Poems
1914 · summary and anecdotes
Dubliners
1914 · summary and anecdotes
1914 and Other Poems
1915 · summary and anecdotes
In Flanders Fields
1915 · summary and anecdotes
Fruit-Gathering
1916 · summary and anecdotes
The Wild Swans at Coole
1917 · summary and anecdotes
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
1918 · summary and anecdotes
The Age of Innocence
1920 · summary and anecdotes
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
1920 · summary and anecdotes
Poems
1920 · summary and anecdotes
Flame and Shadow
1920 · summary and anecdotes
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
1921 · summary and anecdotes
The Garden Party
1922 · summary and anecdotes
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
1924 · summary and anecdotes
Mrs Dalloway
1925 · summary and anecdotes
A Room of One's Own
1929 · summary and anecdotes
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