Category: Classics book summaries

Overview Published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is one of the most important works in American history and literature. It blends sociology, history, philosophy, and lyrical reflection to explore what it means to be Black in post-slavery America—and what it means to be human in a divided…

Overview Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is both a personal experiment and a timeless philosophical reflection on how to live deliberately, simply, and meaningfully. Written after two years Thoreau spent living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts (1845–1847), the book is part memoir, part manifesto—a call to awaken from the sleep of conformity…