Dune Messiah
Emperor Paul faces jihad fallout as Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu plot with ghola Duncan to break him.
2,593-word summary · 12 min read
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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
The Witches
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
2,738-word summary · 12 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
Oliver Twist
An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.
2,763-word summary · 12 min read
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
3,297-word summary · 15 min read
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's edge.
2,330-word summary · 10 min read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
2,427-word summary · 11 min read
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
3,187-word summary · 14 min read
The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
2,489-word summary · 11 min read
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
2,856-word summary · 13 min read
The Iliad
Achilles quits the fight over Briseis, Patroclus falls to Hector, and Troy burns toward its fate in Homer's war epic.
2,320-word summary · 10 min read