Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 13 minutes"The Gambler" is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor who becomes addicted to gambling. Dostoevsky himself was familiar with gambling and completed the novel in 1866 to pay off his own gambling debts. The story fo...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 9 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 15 minutes"Considerations on Representative Government" is a book written by John Stuart Mill and published in 1861. In the book, Mill argues in favor of representative government as the ideal form of government. He suggests that the role of...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 22 minutes"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" is a detective novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The story is narrated by Dr. James Sheppard, who lives with his sister Caroline in the village of Kings Abbot. T...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 7 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 16 minutesThe Enchanted April is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, published in 1922, which follows four women from 1920s England who leave their unhappy marriages to go on holiday in Italy. The women are Mrs. Arbuthnot, Mrs. Wilkins, Lady Car...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 1 hour- Reading time of the summarized text: 3 minutes"The Happy Prince and Other Tales" is a collection of stories for children written by Oscar Wilde. It includes five stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Rema...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 5 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 7 minutes"The Wind in the Willows" is a children's novel by British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. The book features the adventures of Toad, Mole, Ratty, and Badger. The novel initially received negative reviews but has s...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 7 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 11 minutes"Cranford" is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell that was first published in instalments in the magazine Household Words and later as a book in 1853. The novel is based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford where Gaskell grew up. The w...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 10 minutes"In the Fourth Year" is a collection of essays written by H. G. Wells in 1918, discussing the establishment of lasting peace after World War I. The book focuses on the League of Nations and post-war politics. Wells believed that a ...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 4 minutes"The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. The story follows Buck, a powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd mix, who is stolen fro...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 4 minutes"The People That Time Forgot" is a fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second of his Caspak trilogy. It was first published in Blue Book Magazine in 1918 and later combined with the other two segments for publication in book ...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 4 minutes"The Scarlet Plague" is a post-apocalyptic novel by Jack London, published in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after a deadly epidemic called the Red Death has wiped out most of the world's population. The protagonis...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 10 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 13 minutes"Civil Disobedience" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1849. Thoreau argues that individuals should not allow governments to overrule their consciences and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence t...