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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, noted as his first great novel of his mature career.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, Crime and Punishment tackles the still fascinating subject of psychological and moral dilemmas. Moreover, this book continues to intrigue and shock readers to this day. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Othello, the inspiration behind many operas, films, and literary adaptations.
As a tragedy of the seventeenth century, Othello's performance continues today due to the timeless themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. Moreover, Shakespeare was, inspired by English, French, and Italian works, but Othello was primarily,...
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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 William Shakespeare's Richard II, a political tragedy and historical play set during the Hundred Years' War.
As a historical drama of 1595, Richard II contains imaginative descriptions and characterizations of real people in history and balances poetic language with harsh realism. Moreover, Richard II expresses themes of betrayal, leadership, and father-son relationships....
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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 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, a 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner.
As an expositional novel of the 1930s, Rawlings wrote of the Florida Crackers, wildlife, and vegetation of the region in such minute detail that readers become intimately acquainted not only with the people of the region and their customs and way of life, but with the physical and natural surroundings....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Emily Dickinson, famous American poet. Titles in this study guide include Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers, A Bird Came Down The Walk, 'Twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch, The Last Night That She Lived, I Cannot Live With You, Pain Has An Element Of Blank, My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close, and Remorse Is Memory Awake.
As a poet of the nineteenth-century,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alfred Tennyson, appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria's reign. Titles in this study guide include The Idylls Of The King, Ulysses and Tithonus, The Palace of Art, Lucretius, In Memoriam, and Demeter and Persephone.
As a celebrated British poet of the nineteenth-century, he was one of the most renowned poets...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, the best known work composed by one of the most influential German authors of the twentieth-century.
A semi-autobiographical and existential novel, Hesse blends Eastern and Western philosophy in Steppenwolf to explore man's struggle for spiritual liberation. The protagonist's spiritual crisis continues to resound with readers seeking authenticity...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for socialist and communist systems, including the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx. These several philosophers are, recognized for creating socioeconomic analysis to view social conflict and class relations.
As ideologies of the nineteenth-century, they helped to develop, inspire, and revolutionize elements of the labor and socialist movements and became the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published first in installments between 1837 and 1839 in the literary magazine, Bentley's Miscellany.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, Oliver Twist exposes the unromantic truth of being a criminal and the ruthless treatment of London orphans during this time. Moreover, the novel contains themes that are still prevalent in today's...
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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 Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century.
As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, Under the Volcano is an almost autobiographical tale of self-destruction inspired by Lowry's real experiences. Moreover, the text is considered one of literature's most powerful...
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A comprehensive study guide offering an in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for analyzing works of fiction, including the analysis of plot, theme, style, and tone.
As students of literature, understanding the tools, and methods for understanding fiction is critical to becoming better readers, writers, and thinkers. Knowledge of the components of fiction, the various structures of fiction writing, and the literary devices used, all enhance...
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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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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James' Washington Square, a simple tragicomedy that is, based on a true story.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, illustrates family conflict between a daughter and her unemotional father. Moreover, Washington Square's omniscient point of view and uncomplicated prose continues to entice readers. 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 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, without a doubt, the most popular drama written, during the hundred years between 1700 and 1800.
As a comedy of the Restoration period of British drama, the humor in The Beggar's Opera serves as a medium for carrying the author's meaning, social satire, which is applicable in all countries at all times. Moreover, the basis of the play's...
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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 Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, a political play that fictionalized the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
As a play of the 1950's, Inherit the Wind defended intellectual freedom. Moreover, the play intended to denounce the state of McCarthyism at the time. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lawrence and Lee's classic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by E.M. Forster, one of the most gifted writers of his time. Titles in this study guide include Howards End and A Passage to India.
As a thirteen-time Nobel Prize in Literature nominee, Forster created well-plotted and ironic stories that explored themes of class and hypocrisy in English society. Moreover, Forster employed an intricate structure of...