Books: What to Know
Classic Stories Without the Homework
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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1,001 classics
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15
Mark Twain · novel
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20
Mark Twain · novel
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30
Mark Twain · novel
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35
Mark Twain · novel
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last
Mark Twain · novel
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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments
Aeschylus · play
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Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus · play
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Æsop's Fables
Aesop · myth
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Æsop's fables in words of one syllable
Lucy Aikin · novel
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Æsop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices.
Aesop · novel
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Alcestis
Euripides · play
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Alcibiades I
A wealthy youth tries to rule Athens, but Socrates won't let him leave the house without defining justice first.
Plato · dialogue
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A bored girl follows a rabbit into a world where eating cake changes your height and logic is optional.
Lewis Carroll · novel
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Alice's Adventures Under Ground
A girl chases a rabbit, ignores the laws of arithmetic, and develops a very inconvenient neck.
Lewis Carroll · novel
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All's Well That Ends Well
Helena cures the King, marries the Count, and then has to deal with his fleeing.
William Shakespeare · play
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Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 2
Vasco de -1403 Lobeira · novel
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Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 4
Vasco de -1403 Lobeira · novel
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Among Famous Books
John Kelman · collection
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An Antarctic Mystery
Jules Verne · novel
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (8 of 8)
Edward Arber · history
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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
Two ancient tablets surface, and a pair of academics spend decades arguing about the translation.
Morris Jastrow · myth
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An Outline of Russian Literature
Maurice Baring · history
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
A Flea competes for a princess’s hand, a tree regrets growing up, and two rogues weave a suit of nothing.
H. C. Andersen · collection
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Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew
Robert K. Root · poetry
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Anglo-Saxon Literature
John Earle · novel
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Anna Karenina
A marriage ends in scandal while a farmer finds meaning in his cabbage patch.
Leo graf Tolstoy · novel
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Anne of Green Gables
An elderly farming duo requests an orphan boy for help; the orphanage sends an imaginative girl instead.
L. M. Montgomery · novel
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Anthology of Russian literature from the earliest period to the present time, volume 1 (of 2)
Leo Wiener · collection
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Anthropology and the Classics
R. R. Marett · science
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Antony and Cleopatra
A general chooses the Queen of Egypt over the Roman Empire. Rome disagrees.
William Shakespeare · play
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Apocolocyntosis
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · play
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Apology
A man is on trial for his life and decides the best defense is to tell the jury they are wrong.
Plato · ideas
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Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
Plato · ideas
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Ara vus prec
T. S. Eliot · poetry
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Around the World in Eighty Days
A man wagers his fortune on a clock, then realizes he miscounted the calendar.
Jules Verne · novel
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Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition
Jules Verne · novel
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Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love
Ovid treats seduction like a chariot race, offering a technical guide to hunting, catching, and keeping a lover in Rome.
Ovid · poetry
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As You Like It
A girl runs away in man's clothes. Her father is currently living in a tree.
William Shakespeare · play
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Atalanta in Calydon
Algernon Charles Swinburne · play
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Athaliah: A Tragedy
J. Donkersley · play
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Aucassin and Nicolete
Andrew Lang · poetry
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Aucassin and Nicolette
Francis William Bourdillon · poetry
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Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
A courtier decodes the secrets of power, the anatomy of anger, and the hidden political manuals buried inside ancient Greek myths.
Francis Bacon · collection
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Ballads of Romance and Chivalry
Frank Sidgwick · poetry
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Barchester Towers
A bishop dies, a chaplain overreaches, and the cathedral close descends into polite, high-stakes misery.
Anthony Trollope · novel
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Barlaam and Ioasaph
Saint John of Damascus · myth
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 05 of 10
Francis Beaumont · play
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10
Francis Beaumont · play