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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground, considered to be one of the very first existentialist novels.
As a novel of nineteenth-century Russia, Notes From the Underground challenged and created new methods of understanding towards the 'enlightened' utopian ideas that explored in Russia. Moreover, the novel dives deep into themes of isolation, folly, and extremist...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, known as an "actor's play" for its condensed script and the interpretive freedom it gives actors on stage.
As a tragedy of the early seventeenth century, Macbeth follows a man living in a constructed universe, in which he cannot toy with evil without facing consequences. Moreover, readers witness the primary theme that destruction comes...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thusydides' The Peloponnesian War, considered to be one of the earliest historical novels to be written in a scholarly setting.
As a historical novel of fifth-century B.C., The Peloponnesian War is an account of the war between Sparta and Athens. Moreover, the writer, Thucydides, was an Athenian general during the 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 John Steinbeck's, 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Titles in this study guide include The Red Pony and The Pearl.
As an author of the Civil Rights Era, Steinbeck effectively writes symbolic structures and conveys social criticism in a progressively idealistic tone. Moreover, his proletarian themes strike a universal chord with readers as they...
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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 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, regarded as one of literature's first counter narratives.
As a classic novel written two years before Nigeria's independence, Things Fall Apart showcases a pre-colonized Nigeria and the transformation of culture after English colonization. Moreover, Achebe is a colorful and gifted storyteller, allowing readers to experience a...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 selected works by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor and greatest practitioner of the historical novel. Titles in this study guide include Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, and Quentin Durward.
As a noteworthy voice of nineteenth century literature, Scott's writings gave way to a new and vivid telling of history into a recreation of the spirit of the time and events....
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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...