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Is ongoing anxiety affecting your life? Do you find yourself chasing serenity? Anxiety might be quietly running in the background, hiding its influence and keeping you from achieving your highest potential.
Anxiety: To Peace, one of the selections in the GET A GRIP series by Derek O'Neill, offers timeless and valuable insight into the understanding of anxiety. This compact book, chock-full of information, covers many angles and perspectives including...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Arthur Miller, two-time Tony Winner and 1949 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama. Titles in this study guide include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory Of Two Mondays, A View From The Bridge, After The Fall, and Incident at Vichy.
As an influential, yet controversial, figure of American theatre, Miller expertly combined social...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose work has influenced many poets of the time. Titles in this study guide include Dejection an Ode, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
As a poet, critic, and philosopher of the early-nineteenth-century, he founded the Romantic Movement in England. Moreover, his poetry was characterized by imagination,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, one of the most beloved and widely read novels of the Victorian era.
As a novel of family endurance set in eighteenth-century England, The Vicar of Wakefield's strong moral tone and depiction of resilience has resounded with readers for more than 200 years. Moreover, the work is, considered a model example of the sentimental...
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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 Narcissus and Goldmund, a literary success upon its first publication in the 1930s.
As a novel of the Great Depression, Narcissus and Goldmund explores themes of brotherhood in spite of disparity. Moreover, Hesse's prevalent themes of conflict between spirit and flesh continue to ring true for readers throughout history. This Bright Notes Study...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Petronius' Satyricon, a once hardly-known work that has become one of the most popular and certainly one of the most influential books of our time.
As a collection of prose and passages of first-century A.D. Rome, Satyricon continues to inspire avant-garde novelists, film-makers, playwrights, and poets. Moreover, Pentronius provides an early written text that...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a leading figure in transcendentalism.
As a transcendentalist of the nineteenth-century, Thoreau's work reflected his belief in the correspondence between Man and Nature. Moreover, his anti-materialistic ideology was influential in Western philosophy. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pioneer of the crime fiction genre.Titles in this study guide include Sherlock Holmes.
As an author of the late- nineteenth and early- twentieth-century, Doyle's novels impacted English fiction with vivid characters and thought provoking plot lines. Moreover, his compilation of Holmes books continue to fascinate readers...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by J.D. Salinger, a prominent contender for the National Book Awards. Titles in this study guide include Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey.
As an author of the twentieth-century, he is best known for his novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Moreover, his novels were written in private, as he was reclusive. 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 Heinrich Böll, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. Titles in this study guide include Like A Bad Dream, And There Was The Evening And The Morning, The Balek Scales, The Death of Elsa Baskoleit, The Thrower-Away, Murke's Collected Silences, Action Will Be Taken, This Is Tibten, My Uncle Fred, Group Portrait With Lady, The Clown, Billiards...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth.
As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, The Good Earth was, inspired by Buck's experience living in China, during the Boxer rebellion with her missionary parents. Moreover, the novel shows the author's intense interest for people through description of the cycle of life. 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 A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of Shakespeare's most famous and widely performed plays for the stage.
As a comedy of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare expertly examines the unpredictability and impact of romantic love. Moreover, love is the most prominent theme, expressed through Shakespeare's portrayal of love as irrational, blind, and often...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Updike, two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction in 1982 and 1991. Titles in this study guide include Rabbit Run and Rabbit Redux.
As a prominent voice of literary realism for 1970s American fiction, Updike's Rabbit novels commented on the changing social and political hierarchies of late modernism in America's Eisenhour era. Moreover,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Jack London, an influential writer of the Industrial Revolution. Titles in this study guide include Call of the Wild and White Fang.
As works of adventure fiction, London's novels touched on important philosophical themes concerning the political climate in the author's day. Moreover, his writing not only portrayed a belief in socialism, but also...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Evelyn Waugh, one of the major satirists of the 20th century. Titles in this study guide include The Loved One, Decline and Fall, Brideshead Revisited, and A Handful of Dust.
As an author of fantasy, satire, and romance, Waugh wrote in stages corresponding to world events like World War II, which divides his writing career into two distinct periods...