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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(13 min summary) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s 1961 debut novel, is a darkly satirical anti-war classic set on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa in 1944. Drawing on Heller’s own service as a U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier during World War II, the book follows Ca...
(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...