Classic Stories Summarized
από Steven C. Shaffer
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(13 min summary) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
(13 min summary) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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7-10 minute audio summaries of classic literature you didn't have the time or attention span to read :-)
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- (13 min summary) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller · 14 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s 1961 debut novel, is a darkly satirical anti-war classic set on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa in 1944. Drawing on Heller’s own…
- (10 min summary) Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy · 11 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail Far from the Madding Crowd is a novel by the English author Thomas Hardy, first serialized anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine in 1874 and published in book…
- (8 min summary) Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein · 8 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail Stranger in a Strange Land, published in 1961 by Robert A. Heinlein, is a science-fiction novel about Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars and raised by…
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë · 7 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), the eldest of the three literary Brontë sisters, was an English novelist and poet who published under the pseudonym Currer Bell to…
- Paradise Lost by John Milton · 11 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an English epic poem in blank verse, first published in 1667 in ten books and reissued in a revised twelve-book form in 1674…
- Antigone by Sophocles · 8 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail Sophocles’ Antigone, first performed in Athens around 441 BCE at the City Dionysia, is a tragedy by the Athenian playwright Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE) and the…
- Beowulf · 9 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail Beowulf is an anonymous Old English epic of about 3,182 lines, preserved in a single damaged manuscript (the Nowell Codex, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.xv)…
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand · 11 λεπ.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…
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy · 8 λεπ.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…
- The Ultimate Question · 1 ώ. 55 λεπ.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…
- Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse · 9 λεπ.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…
- Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero - by William Makepeace Thackeray · 8 λεπ.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…
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal · 8 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir), published in 1830 by the French writer Stendhal (the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle), is a landmark psychological…
- For Whom the Bell Tolls · 17 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway, widely regarded as one of his masterpieces and a landmark of 20th-century American literature. Set…
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens · 11 λεπ.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…
- The Hobbit · 10 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is a fantasy novel written by the British author and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien. It was first published on 21 September 1937 by…
- Les Misérables · 9 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail 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…
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky · 10 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley · 9 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky · 11 λεπ.Send us Fan Mail 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…
