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Summary of Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor is a novel told in seven stories. Of the seven stories, six are centered on individual characters, while the final story is about the entire community. Each woman has an individual story to tell. Their stories include the trials and tribulations they endured to end up at…
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Summary of Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street is a novella by Sandra Cisneros. It is set in Chicago and takes us through one year of Esperanza’s life who is a young twelve year old Chicana (Mexican-American) girl when we first meet her. The story is told through Esperanza’s point of view as she is the narrator. We…
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Summary of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. The novel appeared under the title, Jane Eyre, an Autobiography. The story of her life is, as such, narrated by Jane Eyre herself. There are in the main five movements of which the plot is composed and they all converge on the central point of…
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Short Summary of Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Sethe, a former slave, has been living at 124 Bluestone Road, in Cincinnati with her eighteen- year-old daughter, Denver since 1855, when she fled from a Kentucky plantation to Ohio, a free state at the tme. From the beginning, it is clear that something ghostly is happening around the house. Sethe’s two sons, Howard and…
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Summary of Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Beloved by Toni Morrison is set between 1855-1874 and revolves around a runaway slave Sethe, who when hunted down by her master, kills her infant daughter to save her from slavery. She is haunted by the ghost of her dead unnamed child for 18 years. The story is narrated through many flashbacks and interior monologues,…
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Summary of Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov has garnered much critical acclaim and has been considered a classic work of fiction in this genre. The story has proved instrumental in raising Asimov’s status as a science fiction writer of repute. Summary ‘Nightfall’ tells the story of planet Lagash which remains in perpetual sunlight and is about to experience…
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Summary of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is the second book in Christie’s Hercule Poirot series. It was published in 1926 and immediately gained popularity and notoriety with readers and critics alike for its unlikely plot twist. Summary Chapter 1: Dr. Sheppard at the Breakfast Table The story begins on a Friday morning, when…
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Summary of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a novel by Henry Fielding. Summary Mr. Thomas Allworthy the rich and benevolent owner of one of the largest estates in Somersetshire, and his oddly assorted household. In the Squire’s bed was discovered, one May evening, a mysterious infant, whom the good man determined to rear as…
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Summary of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California. Summary The novel takes place in the California valley along the Salinas River. There are two…
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Summary of Jane Austen’s Emma
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. Summary Emma Woodhouse is a young woman in Regency England. She lives in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her father, a valetudinarian (one who is afraid he will become ill) who is principally characterized by…