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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. Titles in this study guide include Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov.
As a collection of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century fiction, Chekhov's work communicates a strict sense of realism he adamantly believed fiction should...
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Titles in this study guide include The Flies, No Exit, Dirty Hands, The Roads to Freedom, Being and Nothingness, The Wall, Nausea, The Childhood Of A Leader, and Existentialism.
As a French philosopher and writer of the twentieth-century, Sartre was a foremost supporter of Marxism, sociology, and critical theory. Moreover, Sartre was a central figure in the philosophy of existentialism. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Graham Greene. Titles in this study guide include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, Burnt-Out Case, The Comedians, The Little Train, The Potting Shed, The Lawless Roads, The Lost Childhood, Stamboul Train, The Third Man, The Confidential Agent, Our Man in Havana, and The End of the Affair.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor and greatest practitioner of the historical novel. Titles in this study guide include Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, and Quentin Durward.
As a noteworthy voice of nineteenth century literature, Scott's writings gave way to a new and vivid telling of history into a recreation of the spirit of the time and events....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Joseph Conrad, Polish-British writer known as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. As a master prose stylist of nineteenth and twentieth-century modernism, Conrad's works shaped and inspired English narrative fiction. Moreover, his novels' anti-heroic characters inspired many other authors. This Bright Notes Study Guide...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Milton, who decided at a young age that God had called him to be a poet. Titles in this study guide include Paradise Lost, The Sonnets, and Minor Poems: On The Morning of Christ's Nativity, L'Allegro, And Il Penseroso.
As a body of work of the seventeenth-century, Milton's writing made use of popular Renaissance conventions in his day, such...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aldous Huxley. Titles in this study guide include Brave New World, Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, and Eyeless in Gaza.
As a gifted critic, with an unprecedented, intelligence, Huxley's science fiction vividly, expresses the power and corruption of technology and politics in contemporary society. Moreover, Huxley's lifelong...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alice Walker. Titles in this study guide include The Color Purple, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange, Revolutionary Petunias, Once, Meridian, and In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Good Night Willie Lee, and I'll See You in the Morning.
As a world renowned, author of African American literature, Walker established...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Ivan Turgenev, renowned Russian writer. Titles in this study guide include Fathers and Sons, Rudin, On the Eve, A Nest of Gentlefolk, and A Sportsman's Sketches.
As an author of the realism literary movement, his novel, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the most significant works of nineteenth-century fiction. Moreover, he translated and publicized...
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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. Titles in this study guide include The Loved One, Decline and Fall, Brideshead Revisited, and A Handful of Dust.
As an author of fantasy, satire, and romance, Waugh wrote in stages corresponding to world events like World War II, which divides his writing career into two distinct periods...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by H. G. Wells, whose science fiction pioneered society's ideas of the future. Titles in this study guide include Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and Tono-Bungay.
As a chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I, Wells took the ideas and fears that haunted the minds of this age and gave them symbolic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Steinbeck. Titles in this study guide include The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, and The Winter of our Discontent.
As an author of the Civil Rights Era, Steinbeck effectively writes symbolic structures and conveys social criticism in a progressively idealistic tone. Moreover, his proletarian themes strike...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Titles in this study guide include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises.
As an influential figure of 20th century fiction, Hemingway's eloquent prose style had a powerful influence on American and British fiction. Moreover, Hemingway...
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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. Titles in this study guide include Too Late the Phalarope, Cry, the Beloved Country, and A Troubled Land by Alan Paton.
As a collection of mid-twentieth-century novels, Paton's work offers incredibly realistic descriptions of existing cities and people...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot.
As an unconventional, but modernist author of the war ravaged 20th century, Beckett focused on essential elements of the human condition in dark, humorous ways. Moreover, Beckett was often associated...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alexander Pope, considered to be one of the greatest English poets to date. Titles in this study guide include The Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest, Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Eloisa to Abelard, Three Hours After Marriage, Pastorals, Messiah, his translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, the Dunciad, An Essay on Man,...
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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. Titles in this study guide include Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest.
As a collection of the late nineteenth-century, Wilde's work rebelled against many Victorian conventions...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Patrick White. Titles in this study guide include The Aunts, The Vivisector, The Solid Mandala, The Tree of Man, Riders in the Chariot, Voss, and The Eye of the Storm.
As a writer of the twentieth-century, his work, included a stream of consciousness technique and unique shifting narrative points. Moreover, White was the first and only Australian...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Keats, one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets. Titles in this study guide include Endymion, Hyperion, and The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream, Lamia, Ode to Psyche, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, and Ode on Indolence.
As a collection of the early-nineteenth-century, Keats' writing adopted...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Edward Albee, well renowned American dramatist and theatrical producer. Titles in this study guide include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and Tiny Alice.
As a major, playwright of the twentieth-century, Albee's work, established him as a sharp critic of American values. Moreover, he expertly displayed slashing insight and witty dialogue...
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