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Life of Pi
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Life of Pi tells the story of a boy and a tiger trapped on a lifeboat for 227 days... or does it?

Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Their eyes may have been watching God, but we think we know who won that staring contest.

Gatsby's New York
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The Great Gatsby is set in and around New York City and Long Island. On the big L.I., there are two areas known as "West Egg" and "East Egg." East...

Night (Wiesel)
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In this memoir, Eliezer struggles with his relationship with his father during the Holocaust.

Our Town
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Our Town is your town, Shmoopers.

Romeo and Juliet
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But soft! What Shmoop through yonder window breaks?

Romeo and Juliet Summary
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Boy and girl meet, fall in love, and commit suicide in a tomb. You know, your average love story.

The Great Gatsby Summary
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This video summarizes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby goes from a rich party guy in love with a married woman to dead. W...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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One minute, we're crying out of sadness; the next thing you know, we're crying out of laughter. Arnold's diary puts ours to shame. Excuse us while...

The Aeneid
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Pious Aeneas goes from minor character in the Trojan War to founder of Rome, the city that conquered the world, meetin' ladies and experiencing maj...

The Aeneid 2
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Pious Aeneas strikes again. This time, with more destiny and hand-to-hand combat! (Of course, since we're talking about Aeneas, he's still harping...

The Catcher in the Rye Summary
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The Catcher in the Rye tells the story of Holden Caulfield’s Worst Weekend Ever, and this video tells the story of that story. From losing the fe...

The Fault in Our Stars
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Have you ever read a book and thought, "Whoa, this sounds like my life"? If you feel that way about The Fault in Our Stars, you're in for some majo...

The Great Gatsby
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Why was Jay Gatsby so great? Was it his ability to get away with bootlegging, his enduring love for Daisy, or his ability to throw epic parties tha...

The lliad
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So that's why Brad Pitt looks so fit in Troy! (The movie, not the city-state.) He's related to the gods, just like Achilles was. We always knew kne...

The Masque of the Red Death
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We know we say this for all of his stories, but here's Edgar Allan Poe at his creepiest. Well, if you don’t include that time you went into the b...

The Diary of Anne Frank Summary
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Anne Frank thought of herself as a normal teenage girl, but the legacy she left through her diary was special and powerful.

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Summary)
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A great marriage begins with a blooming pear tree and ends with a hurricane, rabies, and a murder trial…or something like that.

Night Summary
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If you associate "night" with darkness and depression and danger…then maybe you're not the happiest person to be around when the sun goes down. B...

Life of Pi Summary
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Sorry, guys: this novel doesn't follow the dramatic life events of pumpkin pie, nor does it explore what it truly means to be the mathematical cons...