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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alexander Pope, considered to be one of the greatest English poets to date. Titles in this study guide include The Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest, Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Eloisa to Abelard, Three Hours After Marriage, Pastorals, Messiah, his translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, the Dunciad, An Essay on Man,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, the author's first attempt at historical fiction.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, the story of The Prince and the Pauper continues to live on through video games, movies, TV shows, and books. Moreover, the novel presents timelessly relevant themes of justice and judgement, identity, and, society and class. This Bright...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sophocles, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Oedipus, Philoctetes, Trachiniae, Electra, Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Ajax.
As a playwright of fifth- century BCE, he is one of the most famous Greek Tragedians. Moreover, his surviving plays are proof of his perfection of the genre...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aldous Huxley. Titles in this study guide include Brave New World, Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, and Eyeless in Gaza.
As a gifted critic, with an unprecedented, intelligence, Huxley's science fiction vividly, expresses the power and corruption of technology and politics in contemporary society. Moreover, Huxley's lifelong...
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As a novel set after the American Civil War, Beloved acknowledges the millions of lives taken on the Atlantic slave trade and recognizes the hardships that faced freed slaves. Moreover, Morrison encompasses the supernatural, community, self and women-empowerment, and overall culture of both post-Civil War and post-Civil Rights America. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Morrison's classic work, helping students to thoroughly,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. These two English philosophers are recognized for being some of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
As two of the most prominent philosophers of the 17th century, Hobbes and Locke illustrated opposing and rebellious views on the ideal form of government and sovereignty, that included religion and empiricism. Moreover,...
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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 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 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 Graham Greene. Titles in this study guide include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, Burnt-Out Case, The Comedians, The Little Train, The Potting Shed, The Lawless Roads, The Lost Childhood, Stamboul Train, The Third Man, The Confidential Agent, Our Man in Havana, and The End of the Affair.
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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 in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, an autobiographical novel of a scandalous, thieving woman.
As a novel set in the early 1600s, Moll suffers a life of misfortune after her mother is sentenced to death, and her first husband dies. Moreover, she makes a way for herself and her children through lies and deceit as Defoe portrays an unconventional life in the 1600s for...
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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 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 selected works by H. G. Wells, whose science fiction pioneered society's ideas of the future. Titles in this study guide include Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and Tono-Bungay.
As a chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I, Wells took the ideas and fears that haunted the minds of this age and gave them symbolic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas More's Utopia, originally written in Latin in 1516 and considered a great political and philosophical satire.
As a rhetorical work from the early 16th century, there has been much debate amongst scholars on what More's intentions were for writing. Moreover, Utopia makes a mirror so that readers may be able to see themselves more clearly and more realistically....
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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 George Orwell's 1984, considered to be, a classic novel.
As a novel of the twentieth-century, it was among the first of many in the popular dystopian fiction genre. Moreover, 1984 focuses on the effects of an over involved government and the importance of freedom of expression. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of George Orwell's classic...