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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The Fables of Aesop
Aesop · collection
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The Fables of Æsop, and Others
Aesop · myth
The story in one page
The Fables of La Fontaine
The wolf is hungry, the fox is lying, and the ant is busy judging everyone.
Jean de La Fontaine · poetry
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The Fables of Phædrus
Phaedrus · myth
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The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
Edmund Spenser · poetry
The story in one page
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Ten stories where the woods are dangerous, the cats are devious, and magic rarely simplifies anything.
Charles Perrault · collection
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The Fall of British Tyranny; Or, American Liberty Triumphant
John Leacock · play
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The Fall of the Nibelungs
Margaret Armour · poetry
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The Fall of Troy
Smyrnaeus active 4th century Quintus · poetry
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The feast at Solhoug
Henrik Ibsen · play
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics
William James Harris · reference
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The Following of Christ, in Four Books
à Kempis Thomas · ideas
The story in one page
The Forsyte saga - Complete
A family treats marriage as an acquisition, until the ledger starts losing money.
John Galsworthy · novel
The story in one page
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Born in Newgate, she survives five husbands, one accidental brother, and twelve years of professional thievery to die a wealthy penitent.
Daniel Defoe · novel
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The Fortunes of Nigel
Walter Scott · novel
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The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad
Virgil · poetry
The story in one page
The Frogs
Dionysus goes to the Underworld to rescue a poet, but the candidates won't stop bickering.
Aristophanes · play
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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · novel
The story in one page
The Georgics
The poet tells you how to manage bees, trees, and cows. Your soil does the rest.
Virgil · poetry
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Kuno Francke · general
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01
Kuno Francke · play
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04
Kuno Francke · novel
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07
Kuno Francke · play
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 11
Kuno Francke · novel
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The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
Kuno Francke · novel
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The Giant Raft
Jules Verne · novel
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The Gilded Age, Part 1.
Mark Twain · novel
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The Gilded Age, Part 7.
Mark Twain · novel
The story in one page
The Golden Asse
A man obsessed with sorcery accidentally transforms into a donkey. Staying that way is harder.
Apuleius · novel
The story in one page
The Great Gatsby
A man builds a mansion to win a girl. She is already home.
F. Scott Fitzgerald · novel
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The Grecian Daughter
Arthur Murphy · play
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The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius
Rowland Smith · novel
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga
Charles William Eliot · myth
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The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Queen consort of Henry II King of Navarre Marguerite · reference
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The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Caliph Vathek
William Beckford · novel
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The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 02
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 03
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 04
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 05
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 06
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 07
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 08
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 09
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel
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The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 10
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · novel