The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle's hungry caterpillar eats through the week and turns into a butterfly: what the holes, counts, and days teach, and why kids still ask for it again.
2,413-word summary · 11 min read
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The Time Machine
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
2,286-word summary · 10 min read
The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis's Narnia origin story retold: Digory and Polly, the Wood between the Worlds, the waking of Jadis in Charn, Aslan's singing creation, and the apple…
2,528-word summary · 11 min read
The Cat in the Hat
A tall Cat turns a rainy day upside down for Sally and her brother, with Thing One and Thing Two in tow.
2,546-word summary · 11 min read
The Art of War
Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting: laying plans, knowing ground, using spies, and why the best victory costs least, in the classic Giles…
2,029-word summary · 9 min read
Moby-Dick
Ishmael ships with Queequeg on the Pequod as Ahab hunts the white whale.
2,198-word summary · 10 min read
Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a last hearing.
2,204-word summary · 10 min read
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou recalls Stamps, St Louis and San Francisco, from childhood silence after trauma to voice through books and work.
2,607-word summary · 12 min read
Heart of Darkness
Marlow pilots a steamer up the Congo for a trading company and seeks Kurtz, the brilliant agent who stopped sending ivory and started sending reports no one…
2,315-word summary · 10 min read
Foundation
Seldon predicts the Empire will fall and seeds Terminus to cut the dark age to a thousand years.
2,706-word summary · 12 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