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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which he claimed as his first true, novel despite having written several before it.
As an 1877 realist novel, Anna Karenina follows a Russian wife in the midst of a love affair, who risks all she has for a lover. Moreover, Tolstoy discusses the betrayal by weaving in themes such as forgiveness, social class, and jealousy. This Bright Notes...
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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.
As a dramatic comedy, The Merchant of Venice displays themes like friendship and unrequited love, as well as religious persecution. Moreover, the text conveys the perspective of Renaissance Christians,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, one of the best American plays of the twentieth-century.
As a play of the twentieth-century, Long Day's Journey into Night dives into universal themes of loneliness and love. Moreover, it masterfully displays integral human emotions in a way that pulls on the heartstrings of all audiences. This Bright Notes Study Guide...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Orwell's Animal Farm, one of the most famous political satires to this day.
As a book of the twentieth-century prior to the Cold War, it remains among the most celebrated allegorical novellas. Moreover, Animal Farm, while controversial at its time, became a success due to the political shift of the Cold War. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context...
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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 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 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 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 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 J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, regarded by The New York Times as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923.
As a 1951 coming-of-age novel, The Catcher in the Rye tells of the crises of a youthful teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Moreover, Salinger's work is, filled with rebellion and angst, which can be, seen through themes such as the...
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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 Charles Dickens's Bleak House, said to be one of Dickens's most powerful novels due to the way it challenged Britain's court system and caused legal reform in the 1870s.
As an 1830 novel set in London, Bleak House unveils a different way of life where the court system is corrupt and ruled by the affluent. Moreover, the struggles throughout the story highlight...
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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 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 John Knowles, A Separate Peace, a novel that portrays the events of World War II through the eyes of teenage boys.
As a novel of the 1950s, this story portrayed the loss of innocence that occurred during the war. Moreover, this novel continues to provide reader's a different perspective of World War II. 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 Ole Rolvaag's Giant in the Earth, a historical fiction novel originally published in Norwegian.
As a novel of the twentieth-century, Giants in the Earth tells the story of Norwegian pioneers. Moreover, many of the accounts throughout the book are personal encounters of Rolvaag and his wife. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Ole Rolvaag's...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature.
As Emily Brontës sole work, Wuthering Heights unveils the harsh reality behind a toxic and abusive relationship, in which the complex characters are unpredictable. Moreover, Brontë's lyrical and mystic novel allows the reader to explore various interpretations and metaphors....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Thomas Wolfe, skilled writer of impressionistic prose. Titles in this study guide include Look Homeward, Angel, and Of Time and the River.
As a collection of mid-20th-century novels, Wolfe's work displayed his quest for authority, fellowship, literary success, and identity. Moreover, Wolfe used his imagination to heighten and adapt every detail from...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Hermann Hesse's Demian, one of his most notable works.
As a book of the twentieth-century, Demian captivated those who endured World War I. Moreover, Hesse's novel contains psychological, historical, and religious themes as the protagonist, Sinclair, searches for his truest self. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Hermann Hesse's...
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