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CliffsNotes Beowulf [Secure eReader]
by Stanley P. Baldwin, Elaine Strong Skill
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As one of the oldest existing poems in the English language, Beowulf is important for its historical account and its poetry and themes. Although filled with monsters and dragons, the story of Beowulf's actions and deeds still comes alive today.
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CliffsNotes Black Boy [Secure eReader]
by Carl Senna
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Black Boy, an autobiography of the author's boyhood, explores the theory of human behavior determined by environment. Richard Wright's novel is profoundly American by being a distinctly African-American chronicle. What makes the book unique is its tone, which is that of the blues, both lyrical and ironic, and yet purely tragic.
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CliffsNotes Black Like Me [Secure eReader]
by Margaret Mansfield
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This book recounts one of the most exciting sociological experiments of the 20th century. The Caucasian author undergoes chemical and physical changes to appear as an African American, to document the bias and social injustices of the white American society from personal experience.
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CliffsNotes Bleak House [Secure eReader]
by Salibelle Royster, Robert Beum
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A large book of much variety, it combines romance and realism and resembles more than one fictional genre. The story is partly an adolescent's initiation into the adult world, partly a romance, and partly a murder mystery. It is also a novel of social criticism and the inhumanity of the law.
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CliffsNotes Bless Me, Ultima [Secure eReader]
by Ruben O. Martinez
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This fascinating and mystical novel follows the sociopsychological maturation of a Chicano boy in New Mexico in the 1940s. A story pitting good against evil, Catholic beliefs against the "old ways," and education against the gift of intuition, it ends with acceptance and new life challenges.
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CliffsNotes Brave New World [Secure eReader]
by Charles Higgins, Regina Higgins
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Get an Alpha-Plus on your next paper by exploring Aldous Huxley's futuristic, dystopian London in CliffsNotes on Brave New World. Not only does this study guide give you insight into Huxley's life and writing, but it also provides you with expert commentaries and critical analyses to help you understand the novel's social and political themes. Character studies of Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Lenina Crowne enable you to discover what makes the people of Huxley's brave new world tick, and t... more info>>
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CliffsNotes Brontė's Jane Eyre [Secure eReader]
by Karin Jacobson
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This novel echoes the romantic conventions of the Victorian era at the same time that it recounts many incidents of Bronte's own life. The character of Jane, a young governess who falls in love with her mysterious employer, is a beacon of virtue and integrity against the wiles of life.
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CliffsNotes Crime and Punishment [Secure eReader]
by James L. Roberts
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This epic tells the story of Raskolnikov, a student who believes he is superior and entitled. He commits a crime and the book traces his downfall. After being shipped off to Siberia for a prison sentence, Raskolnikov finds suffering to be a means by which the soul is purified of all its sins.
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CliffsNotes Cry, The Beloved Country [Secure eReader]
by Richard O. Peterson, Eva Fitzwater
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Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s.
This concise supplement to Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters and the social and cultural perspective of the author.
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CliffsNotes Death of a Salesman [Secure eReader]
by Jennifer L. Scheidt
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Miller's most famous play, it is the story of the American Dream gone awry when a small man is destroyed by society's false values. Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 and continues to shine on stages throughout the world even today.
This concise supplement to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman helps students understand the overall structure of the play, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
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CliffsNotes Divine Comedy [Secure eReader]
by James L. Roberts, Nikki Moustaki
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Dante wrote three epic poems about heaven, purgatory, and hell. The Inferno is about the latter and is encyclopedic in scope and information. From Dante's own world of politics, theology, and learning, he poured everything he was and knew into this text.
This concise supplement to Dante's The Divine Comedy: Inferno helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
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CliffsNotes Emma [Secure eReader]
by Thomas J. Roundtree
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Jane Austen enjoyed writing with satiric stabs at manners and social classes. Emma Woodhouse's story is a progression in self-deception, both entertaining in a mild comic tone and a lesson for the moralist. A delightful story retold often by Hollywood.
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CliffsNotes Flowers for Algernon [Secure eReader]
by Janet Clark
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Flowers for Algernon made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a moderated television drama, and as a motion picture production. Full-bodied and richly-peopled, Flowers for Algernon became the daring novel of a starling human experiment! This concise supplement to Keyes' Flowers For Algernon helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characte... more info>>
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CliffsNotes Goldings Lord of the Flies [Secure eReader]
by Maureen Kelly
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At once an enthralling adventure story about a group of schoolboys stranded on an island and a richly textured moral tale, this is also Golding's attack on Western society and its institutions.
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CliffsNotes Great Expectations [Secure eReader]
by Debra A. Bailey
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This novel, the journey of Pip from boyhood to young manhood, has become Dickens' greatest novel. The many tests of character that Pip confronts, as well as Dickens' characters, remain in the mind a long time after the book is read.
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CliffsNotes Gulliver's Travels [Secure eReader]
by A. Lewis Soens
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A consciously funny book of travel, adventure, and caricature, Swift sets out to lampoon the conceits and puffery of people with stories of abominable behavior. Swift's book about a man lost at sea who encounters many strange lands is both a social commentary and a children's classic in its abridged form.
This concise supplement to Swift's Gulliver's Travels helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and culutural pe... more info>>
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CliffsNotes Hamlet [Secure eReader]
by Carla Lynn Stockton
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Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but your grades will be sweet when you rely on CliffsNotes on Hamlet as you digest Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece. Character studies shed new light on Prince Hamlet, his father King Hamlet, the malevolent Claudius, the troubled Ophelia--and the rest of the cast. You'll also explore the life and times of William Shakespeare, and unlock the play's themes and literary devices. Count on CliffsNotes on Hamlet for detailed summaries and commentaries o... more info>>
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CliffsNotes Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer [Secure eReader]
by Daniel Moran
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Each of these stories deals with the "dark side" of the human character. Heart of Darkness is a journey up a Congo river to where an ivory agent, Kurtz, mentally disintegrates into a grotesque creature. The Secret Sharer is about a murderous captain who is tragically alienated from other people.
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CliffsNotes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [Secure eReader]
by Durthy A. Washington
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The author, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs, speaks through her narrator Linda Brent to reveal a story of enslavement, degradation, and sexual exploitation. A book-length narrative, it is often cited as the counterpart to Frederick Douglass' An American Slave, Written by Himself. Addressing white women in the North about the bondage of black women in the South, it focuses on five distinct phases in Linda Brent's life.
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CliffsNotes Inherit the Wind [Secure eReader]
by Suzanne Pavlos
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An illuminating guide to the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee play, this teacher favorite dramatizes the evolution-versus-creationism debate. It pits fundamentalist Matthew Harrison Brady against gifted orator Henry Drummond in the courtroom trial of a high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution. The townspeople in this play also dramatize what freedom of thought--as well as "the right to be wrong"--truly mean.
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CliffsNotes Invisible Man [Secure eReader]
by Durthy A. Washington
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This novel about a young black man in Harlem reveals the process of self-discovery and emphasizes individuality. Through a difficult passage into manhood, Ellison writes of the alienation of humans in everyday life, yet he remains whole and optimistic.
This concise supplement to Ellison's Invisible Man helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
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CliffsNotes King Lear [Secure eReader]
by Sheri Metzger
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In this tragic play, Lear, a ruler in pre-Christian Britain, is described as a "very foolish old man, fourscore and upward." Grossly misjudging his daughters, he endures a harrowing experience and emerges as a man "more sinned against than sinning."
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CliffsNotes Measure for Measure [Secure eReader]
by L. L. Hillegass
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A terrific drama of social mixings, blending together pimps and spies, dukes and friars, this dark comedy examines the justice served by a flexible government. Nobody captures a snapshot of a social era like Shakespeare.
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CliffsNotes Much Ado About Nothing [Secure eReader]
by Richard O. Peterson
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One of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, this play is set in the seaport town of Messina, in Sicily. The drama concerns the "battle of the sexes" and focuses on the barbed wits and intrigues that two sets of lovers and their friends and family create. Brimming with wit and antagonism, the play has amused and provoked audiences for centuries.
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CliffsNotes Of Mice and Men [Secure eReader]
by Susan Van Kirk
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Many of Steinbeck's books took place in the world of migrant workers in California. Of Mice and Men follows two such drifters, Lennie and George, and recounts their peculiar difficulties and unusual bond. It is a sweet, sad, and moving American story and one of Steinbeck's greatest works.
This concise supplement to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the ... more info>>
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