A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Richard II, a political tragedy and historical play set during the Hundred Years' War.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most famous and widely performed plays for the stage.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1983.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a romance characterized by love sonnets, rhyme, and imagery of light and dark.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the bestselling novels of all time, and heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Toni Morrison's Beloved, a Pulitzer Prize winner and regarded as one of the greatest works of American Literature.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emile Zola's Germinal, a classic piece of literature due to its historically factual description of the class differentiation in France during the 1800s.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, one of the last books to come out of British Colonization in Africa.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Burdick and Lederer's The Ugly American, with commentary on Nationalism, Communism, foreign policy, and diplomacy across America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which eponymously coined the term so frequently used today to describe the predicament of being trapped by contradictory rules.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, the supreme example of Crane's war stories.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for W Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, agreed to be Maugham's most noted and most important work.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, arguably one of the most recognized novels to come from the 19th century and is still studied today.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, without a doubt the most popular drama written during the hundred years between 1700 and 1800.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, one of several plays based on true events from Roman history.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Theodore Dresier's Sister Carrie, known by many to be the greatest of the American urban novels.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams, an autobiography from a great-grandson of the second president of the United States John Adams.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Mark Twains The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the best-selling of Twain's work.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, one of West's great novels that comments on the social and cultural properties of American life.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, a literary classic that challenged social norms of the US in the 1920s.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Frank Norris's The Octopus, a novel based on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Dylan Thomas, popular Welsh poet in the twentieth- century.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Evelyn Waugh, one of the major satirists of the 20th century.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Updike, two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction in 1982 and 1991.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Hard Times, a novel that brought to light the harsh conditions of factory workers during the nineteenth century.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, thought to be written as the author approached the middle of his career.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Idiot, a literary classic due to Dostoyevsky's unique shifting writing styles and characterizations.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, thought to be a trailblazer for other books of its time and inspired by the great novelists: Francois Rabelais, Miguel de Cervantes, Michel de Montaigne, and Robert Burton.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as ';indisputably the greatest whaling novel.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, considered a literary classic due to the novel's religious themes contradicting the religious ideas of the time period.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, the poetic drama that establishes Goethe as a renowned Romantic author.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Arthur Koestler, one of the twentieth centurys greatest political writers.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Anton Chekhov, who wrote as many as 600 to 800 tales in his lifetime.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, an autobiographical novel of a scandalous, thieving woman.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aristophanes, is popularly known as the Father of Comedy.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an instant success across all popular media.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Jean-Paul Sartre, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, the publication attributed with Hardy's achievement of literary success.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Heinrich Boll, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's King Lear, listed as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident, said to be one of the greatest Western novels ever written.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, which was the best selling book in 1939 and won the National Book Award.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, the last novel written by Hardy before he moved his concentration to poetry.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virginia Woolf, one of the most controversial feminist writers.