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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 Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, arguably the most famous of all Middle English literature.
As a series of twenty-four stories, The Canterbury Tales was written in 1392 and tells of the pilgrimage of thirty people from various social classes to Canterbury. Moreover, Chaucer uses each story to represent a theme in order to exemplify the changing of societal...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Eugene O'Neill, an American playwright and recipient of four Pulitzer Prizes. Titles in this study guide include Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Ah, Wilderness!, The Iceman Cometh, and A Touch of the Poet.
As a writer of the twentieth century, O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize. Moreover, his plays...
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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 John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which was the best selling book in 1939 and won the National Book Award.
As a 1939 American realist novel, The Grapes of Wrath follows a struggling family on their search for work, success, and safety during the Great Depression. Moreover, Steinbeck discusses social philosophy by weaving in themes such as family, betrayal,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, one of the first novels written in the English language.
As a novel of the eighteenth-century, Joseph Andrews seeks to uncover the faults and flaws of people, who view themselves Christan, but are resistant to valuing the importance of charity and philanthropy. Moreover, Joseph Andrews is the first "modern" type of novel to embrace...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Henrik Ibsen, the foremost playwright of the nineteenth century and the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Titles in this study guide include Brand, Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, Pillars of Society, Rosmersholm, and John Gabriel Borkman.
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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 the New Testament, including analysis of the Gospel, the history, correspondence, and apocalyptic literature. These traditionally accepted seven authors are recognized for bringing the life of Jesus to Christians.
As a body of work of the first century, the New Testament brings Christianity from a small group of followers to a large church with an established theology...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Wordsworth, who began the Romantic Age for English literature with his joint publication of Lyrical Ballads alongside Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Titles in this study guide include The Reverie Of Poor Susan, We Are Seven, The Thorn, Simon Lee, Lines Written In Early Spring, To My Sister, Expostulation And Reply, The Tables Turned, Strange Fits...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herodotus' The Histories, the earliest account of the rise and fall of the Persian Empire.
As an account of the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars , The Histories serve as an invaluable record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes between the cultures in Western Asia, Northern Africa, and Greece at that time. Moreover, the work established...
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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.
As a classic account and document of America's role in French Colonialism, The Ugly American was frequently referenced by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in their conversations on foreign policy,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, a fictional novel based on a sledding accident in Lenox, Massachusetts.
As a book of the early-twentieth-century, Ethan Frome contains a new form of fiction, as it contains extensive metaphors, intricately placed by Frome. Moreover, Wharton notably used some of her own personal experiences to convey her themes. This Bright Notes Study...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, a unique storytelling that expands the understanding of the French Revolution.
As a novel written in 1859 but set in the years leading up to the French Revolution, the major theme of social injustice that is, portrayed in this famous work allows readers to relate to the current political unrest. Moreover, this historic novel...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the bestselling of Twain's work.
As a novel written in 1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows the antics of a young boy during his childhood on the Mississippi River. Moreover, Twain examines the carefree spirit of children, manipulation, and race in this lighthearted novel, through the use of imagery and symbolism. This...
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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.
As an early nineteenth century play, Major Barbara provides political commentary on the matter of whether it is morally right or wrong to obtain something that is used for a good cause from death and destruction....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Billy Budd, his final novel.
As a book of the twentieth-century, Melville focused on society's limiting forces on people's individuality. Moreover, Billy Budd has two versions as it was, completed by different authors after Melville's death. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Herman Melville's classic work, helping...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Odyssey, possibly the most famous epic poems in history.
As an epic poem of ancient Greece, it is the second oldest surviving work in Western literature. Moreover, this work has achieved a title as a Western classic. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Homer's classic work, helping students to thoroughly, explore the reasons...
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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 strong anti-romantic realism and social criticism.
As a novel of the realism movement, The Rise of Silas Lapham began Howells' trend of incorporating Christian Socialism in his writing-a theory that the common welfare could be, improved along guidelines of Christian ethical...
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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.
As a novel of the turn of the twentieth century, The Jungle reflects not only the American scene of Sinclair's young manhood but also many of his own life circumstances. It becomes important to view the novel in...
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