A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charlotte Brnte's Jane Eyre, a story of a young woman who challenged social norms.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, speculated to be one of the last plays he ever wrote as well as the most compressed.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Blake, a pivotal figure in poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles, one of Hardy's most recognizable novels featuring a strong heroine.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for the metaphysical poets, including Abraham Cowley, George Herbert, John Donne, and Henry Vaughn.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aldous Huxley, James Tait Memorial Prize Winner for Fiction in 1939.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, regarded by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as one of the key texts of the women's movement of the 1960s.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, a 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Oscar Wilde, who aside from drama also published short stories, essays, and poems in various magazines.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Owen Wister's The Virginian, considered by many to be the first fictional western written.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the book that arguably stands as the stepping stone for allother feminists work.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, a novel that contributed to Lewis' eventual Nobel Prize award.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Bleak House, said to be one of Dickens's most powerful novels due to the way it challenged Britains court system and caused legal reform in the 1870s.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for JRR Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of one of the most well-known series in the worldLord of the Rings Trilogy.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Petronius' Satyricon, a once hardly-known work that has become one of the most popular and certainly one of the most influential books of our time.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, arguably the most famous of all Middle English literature.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, the internationally acclaimed novel of opposing forces.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Dryden, England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hardys The Mayor of Casterbridge, the most controversial of Hardy's works as it toes the line between Victorian and modernism literature.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham, one of the many in Howells' movement into stronganti-romantic realism and social criticism.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Richard III, which explores fate and freedom as it plays out in the life of a monarch.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by James Hilton, who wrote his first novel at seventeen.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, who is considered one of the best detective-story writers in America.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was an immediate critical success upon its release in 1964.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, the second play in Shakespeares tetralogy portraying the succeeding reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespear's As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's ';great' or ';middle' comedies.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Christopher Marlowe, the foremost Elizabethian tragedian of his day.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which centers around the holiday time for rejoicing and practical jokes twelve days after Christmas.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alan Paton, whose wide knowledge of the Union of South Africa culture inspired much of his work.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kate Chopin's The Awakening, one of the earliest American novels that focuses on womens issues without condescension.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, written in 1929 as a reflection of WWI.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, a short story written during the Civil War.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which raises questions about antisemitism and the cultural stereotypes of the Jewish people during the sixteenth century.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Willa Cather, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, a novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrants in major US cities in the early twentieth century.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, arguably one of the most powerful Holocaust memoirs of the World War II era.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, a novel that influenced many future authors with its unique storytelling and themes.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Henry V, one of his most popular historical plays.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel.
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, regarded as one of literature's first counter narratives.