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Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, Seamus Heaney was one of most prolific poets and playwrights of recent times. Born in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland in 1939, in his lifetime he published numerous poetry collections to great...
My Life is a book of poetry written by Lyn Hejinian and released in 2002. The book arrived forty years into Hejinian's long and prolific career. Hejinian was born in California in 1941, where still remains today. She is married to famous jazz...
Commencing in 1870 and continuing through 1893, French novelist Emile Zola produced twenty novels which have come to be termed the Rougon-Macquarts series. These novels, which essentially consumed the writing passion of Zola over the course of...
The Ghost Road is the third and final novel in the series of anti-war novels known collectively as "The Regeneration Trilogy". Written by acclaimed British author Pat Barker,it is both a historical novel and a book that shows how life can be both...
The Eye in the Door is the second in a series of three anti-war novels written by acclaimed British author Pat Barker. Known collectively as "The Regeneration Trilogy", each of the novels takes place during World War One and features the same...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) is the product of the collaborative effort of Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. To create the autobiography, Malcolm X endured several years of interviews with Haley. As Malcolm X shared the intricacies of...
Mao II is the tenth novel written by postmodernist author Don DeLillo. Published in 1991, Mao II gets its name based on Andy Warhol's famous prints depicting Mao Zedong. The book won the 1992 Faulkner Award. It was also the discussion and lecture...
Eliza Haywood is the author of The City Jilt: or the Alderman Turn'd Beau, which was originally published during 1726. Haywood was a British novelist, publisher, and actress. She was born during 1693 and died during 1756.
Regarding her novels,...
"Absurdistan", a novel by Russian-American author Gary Shteyngart, was published in 2006. It is a satirical and absurdist take on the post-Soviet world and the immigration experience, set in an unnamed former Soviet republic called "Absurdsvanï."
...The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a play that was first performed in 1696. It is a Restoration comedy that was written by John Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh wrote this work as a sequel to Colley Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift, or the Fool in Fashion. Cibber’s...
Published in 1985, Less Than Zero is the first novel of Bret Easton Ellis and was published when the author was twenty-one and still a student at the private liberal arts Bennington College, home to a lot of notable alumni. The novel scandalized...
“The Thirteenth Tale” is Diane Setterfield’s debut novel, first published in the United Kingdom in 2006. The manuscript was highly sought after, resulting in a lucrative publishing deal of 800 thousand pounds for the British edition and one...
Burned, written by Ellen Hopkins, was published during 2006 by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This novel tells the story of Pattyn Von Stratten navigating a challenging journey of abuse to find love and acceptance. It all starts when she has an...
Watership Down is a classic fantasy adventure novel written by British author Richard Adams and published in 1972. The novel is set in south-central England and focuses on a small displaced group of rabbits. Although they live in their own natural...
Winter in the Blood is a novel written by the Native American writer James Welch in the year 1974. In his novel, the author explores the consequences of Native culture clashing with White culture. The main character remains unknown and his name is...
The End of the Affair is one of the best novels written by Graham Greene. The novel about human love, which God has invaded into, was written in 1951. This Greene's novel is considered to be the best of his Christian books - the combination of...
Thunderball is the ninth James Bond adventure from Ian Fleming, published in 1961 just as Bond mania was about to break out on a global scale. The tale of James Bond’s to stop the theft of nuclear weapons began life as a screenplay co-written by...
Ian Flemming published his tenth James Bond novel in 1963. First published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on April 1, the novel was then released in America in August of 1963 by the New American Library. Fleming also signed 250 copies to...
From Russia with Love was the fifth novel by author Ian Fleming to feature his distinctively British secret agent James Bond. It would be the one that catapulted Bond from regional hero to global phenomenon because one day a reporter from Life...
The State and Revolution was written by Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist revolutionary. At the time of the pamphlet's completion in September 1917, the future of the Russian Revolution was uncertain after the February Revolution. During this...
Max Weber is a German writer known for his philosophical and political writings. Born in Prussia, Max Weber grew up to be one of the most influential philosophers of his era, his writings inspiring other great thinkers such as Karl Marx.
Weber was...
Published in 1963 by the German author Hannah Arendt, On Revolution is a book that glorifies the events of the American Revolution, and says that the French Revolution was meaningless compared to it. Arendt claims that the leaders of the American...
Written in the 5th century CE, City of God, or The City of God Against the Pagans, is one of the best known and most influential of Saint Augustine’s works. The book was completed less than two decades after the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in...
Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings is a collection of writings and reflections by the medieval philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Thomas Aquinas was an Italian friar, priest, and Christian philosopher. He was alive during the 13th century and...