Over 100 Classic Novels Summarised in the Style of an Alphabetic Poem

/

Hands up: there are lots of classic novels I haven’t read. The advent of chatGPT has made it possible to summarise these classics very easily, which is at least a starting point for getting familiar with their outlines and themes.

But what about doing this in a more interesting and creative way - such as a poem where each line starts with the next letter of the Alphabet?

Let’s see! (Click the title to read the poem).

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens

  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

  • Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

  • A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

  • Howards End by E.M. Forster

  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

  • Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  • The Trial by Franz Kafka

  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

  • Middlemarch by George Eliot

  • Silas Marner by George Eliot

  • The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

  • 1984 by George Orwell

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  • The Iliad by Homer

  • The Odyssey by Homer

  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London

  • White Fang by Jack London

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

  • Dubliners by James Joyce

  • Ulysses by James Joyce

  • Emma by Jane Austen

  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

  • Persuasion by Jane Austen

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

  • The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

  • The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Red and the Black by Stendhal

  • The Once and Future King by T.H. White

  • Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

  • The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

  • Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

  • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

  • The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

  • The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Let me know if you’d like more added to the list.