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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Herbert Marcuse, a famous western philosopher. Titles in this study guide include A Critique of Pure Tolerance, An Essay on Liberation, Counterrevolution and Revolt, Eros and Civilization, and One Dimensional Man. As a sociologist, philosopher, and political theorist of the twentieth-century, his theories launched the New Left movement in the Western...
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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 Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
As a novel of the Civil Rights era, To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of a lawyer, who represented an African American accused of rape. Moreover, Lee weaves the theme of honor throughout the book and explores human dignity through her debut novel. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lee's classic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, with adaptations in film, radio, theatre, opera, and rock music.
As a work of 1869 historical fiction, War and Peace showcases a Russia before, during, and after the invasion by Napoleon. Moreover, Tolstoy writes of the glory of epic struggle, the horror of man-to-man combat, and the loveliness of peace. This Bright Notes Study Guide...
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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.
As an autobiography of the late 19th-century, Adams' book gives readers interesting perspective on educational theory and practice and Aristocracy leading into the turn of the century. Moreover, his life gives a glimpse at the...
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Nisa: The Life and Works of a !Kung Woman (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Majorie Shostak
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:*Chapter-by-chapter analysis
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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron: Conversation Starters
Since its original publication in 1996, Dr. Elaine Aron's book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You have been translated into 18 languages and has helped millions of people around the world. Author Elaine Aron introduced the world to a very distinct personality trait. She claimed that it affects one...
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This book summary and analysis is created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version. The year is 2044, and humankind has retreated into the virtual world. Wade Watts escapes the ugliness of the real world by spending most of the day inside OASIS-the virtual dreamland where...
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John Branch: Conversation Starters
Bill Wright and his ancestors have been ranchers on Smith Mesa for 150 years. Of recent years, however, the ranch that has been home to Wright's rodeo champion sons and their families have increasingly been threatened by corporate cattle raisers, tourism, environmental degradation, and federal regulators. Rodeo, a favorite cowboy past time during Bill's younger...
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Silas Marner (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by George Eliot
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams. Titles in this study guide include, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.
As an author of southern gothic and memory literature, Williams had a significant impact on theater and has been, established as one of America's most successful playwrights. Moreover, he brought symbolism and poetic language to the stage as...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee Conversation Starters. Discussing race from the viewpoint of a white family in the Deep South mired in racial politics, To Kill a Mockingbird is a bold novel that swept through the country for decades since release. The story is told by Scout, a young girl, who sees gradual changes happening around her. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who takes up the defense of a black man,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Harold Pinter, receiver of the New York Critics' Antoinette Perry Award for Best Broadway Drama in 1967. Titles in this study guide include The Homecoming, The Comedies of Menace, The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, and other minor works.
As an author of mid-twentieth-century drama, Pinter...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Franz Kafka, a pioneer of modernist movement. Titles in this study guide include The Trial, Amerika, The Castle, In the Penal Colony, A Country Doctor, The Metamorphosis, The Judgement, and The Great Wall of China.
As an author of the twentieth-century, Kafka's work combined themes of supernatural nature and realism. Moreover, the word Kafkaesque...
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by C.S. Lewis
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
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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 Mark Twain, the father of American literature. Titles in this study guide include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi, The Mysterious Stranger, Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
As an influential writer of the late-nineteenth-century, Twain became one of the greatest humorist in American...
98) American Dream
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American Dream (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Edward Albee
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.
Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: chapter-by-chapter analysis
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Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night...
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The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner Conversation Starters
From Rachel Kushner, bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba, comes another compelling novel The Mars Room. Kushner tells the story of Romy Hall as she begins her life sentences at California's Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. She was severed from her young son Jackson to be penalized with her second life sentence. Her new home is now with thousands of women...
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school:
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