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A Farewell to Arms
Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.
2,502-word summary · 11 min read
classics + tragedy
13 books tagged both “classics” and “tragedy”.
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Madame Bovary
Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary for romance, then seeks lovers and luxury until debts ruin them both.
2,400-word summary · 11 min read
Othello
Iago's lies drive the Moor of Venice to murder his innocent wife in Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy.
2,409-word summary · 11 min read
East of Eden
In California's Salinas Valley, the Trasks and Hamiltons replay Cain and Abel through love, betrayal, and the hard choice to rise above the past across two…
2,734-word summary · 12 min read
Flowers for Algernon
Charlie Gordon's experimental surgery makes him a genius, then the mouse Algernon starts to slip.
2,074-word summary · 9 min read
Anna Karenina
Anna leaves Karenin for Vronsky while Levin seeks faith and farming outside Moscow.
3,942-word summary · 18 min read
Hamlet
Hamlet sees his father's ghost in Elsinore and pretends madness to test Claudius and Gertrude while Denmark slides toward duel and death.
2,996-word summary · 13 min read
Lolita
Humbert Humbert confesses his obsession with Dolores Haze and the road trip that ruins them.
2,706-word summary · 12 min read
Macbeth
Macbeth hears witches hail him king and murders Duncan with Lady Macbeth pushing him on.
4,056-word summary · 18 min read
Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men retold: George and Lennie on a California ranch, the dream farm, and why mercy ends it.
2,237-word summary · 10 min read
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet retold: Verona feud, balcony, Friar's plan, and why the last minutes collapse.
2,531-word summary · 11 min read
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.
2,056-word summary · 9 min read