Rediscover the World's Greatest Stories

Frank Lavallo hosts two readers and the three of them summarize the world’s greatest works of classic literature, giving their reactions along the way. If SparkNotes had an audio best friend, it would be us!

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"The Hobbit" by J.R.R Tolkien

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"True Grit" by Charles Portis

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This classic western novel tells the story of a Mattie Ross, a young girl who, with her unlikely companions, traverses the American West to avenge...
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"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

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Herman Melville's landmark novel follows the obsessive quest of Captain Ahab as he seeks revenge on Moby Dick, the huge white wale which had previ...
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'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

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A Tale of Two Cities is one of the most prolific fictional works to every be written in the English language. Its story explores the nature of sac...
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'Age of Innocence' by Edith Warton

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Edith Wharton's 1920 novel is set in 1870s New York City, and explores the conflict between individual desire and cultural expectations in New Yor...
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