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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Beowulf
Beowulf is an anonymous Old English epic of about 3,182 lines, preserved in a single damaged manuscript (the Nowell Codex, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.xv) copied around the year 1000, though the poem itself was likely composed earlier, m...
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand published Atlas Shrugged in 1957 as a long philosophical novel set in a deteriorating near-future United States, where expanding government controls, “need” as a moral claim, and the punishment of ability are collapsing industry...
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a novel by the English writer Thomas Hardy, first published in serialized form in 1891 and issued as a complete book the same year. Set in the fictional rural region of Wessex (Hardy’s reimagining of southwes...