Classic Stories Summarized
7-10 minute audio summaries of classic literature you didn't have the time or attention span to read :-)
Classic Stories Summarized
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(10 min summary) Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd is a novel by the English author Thomas Hardy, first serialized anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine in 1874 and published in book form the same year. Set in the fictional rural county of Wessex (mod...
(8 min summary) Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land, published in 1961 by Robert A. Heinlein, is a science-fiction novel about Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars and raised by Martians who returns to Earth and challenges its social, religious, and sexual nor...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), the eldest of the three literary Brontë sisters, was an English novelist and poet who published under the pseudonym Currer Bell to navigate the prejudices of the Victorian literary world. Born in Thornton, Yorkshir...