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Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format.
"The House" is a poem by Warsan Shire. It was published in 2011 in Shire's first poetry collection, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. It focuses on womanhood, comparing a woman's body to a house equipped with different rooms that serve...
"The Birth-Mark" is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most revered and gripping short stories. Published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer, the story examines human sin, evokes the perils of overweening ambition, and theorizes about gender...
The Big Lebowski is a stoner comedy and crime film from 1998 produced and directed by the Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan). It follows Jeffrey "the Dude" Lebowski, an unemployed bowler and general slacker as he navigates a convoluted instance of...
Don Miguel Ruiz has been declared a National Heirloom in his native Mexico; this might seem like a rather weighty honor to live up to, but as an apparent successor to Carlos Castaneda, who penned the highly influential The Teachings of Don Juan :...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a bestselling self-help and business book by Stephen Covey first published in 1989. Covey offers a different take on self-help material by not dwelling on ‘get rich quick’ schemes but on developing...
Robert T. Kiyosaki began to publicly emphasize the importance of financial literacy in 1997, around the same time that Suze Orman began to use the same term quite frequently on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Before Kiyosaki's book was released the term...
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is a 2016 self-help book by American psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth. The book was a New York Times bestseller for more than 20 weeks and integrates aspects of Duckworth's scientific background, making...
Gather all of your belongings around you. Ask yourself, does this bring me joy? If your answer is "no", then throw the offending and joyless item away. This, in a nutshell, is the KonMarie Method for tidying up.
Marie Kondo's de-cluttering Bible...
How to Win Friends and Influence People is without a doubt one of -- if not the -- most important business book of all time. Not only did it create the self-help genre, but it also helped offer guidance to transformative business leaders like...
The 4-Hour Workweek is a book by American author and entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss. The book helps readers get acquainted with better ways to live life and earn money and has become popular in the ever-growing genre of self-help books. Selling over...
A realistic fiction novel, Girl at War was published in 2015 and written by American author Sara Novic. The book follows the story of Ana Juric, who is ten years old when the novel opens in 1991. She lives in the capital of Croatia, but, soon...
“All in green went my love riding,” one of E. E. Cummings’s most celebrated poems, was published in 1923 in Tulips and Chimneys, Cummings' first published collection of poems. Written in the early years of Cummings’s career, it is perhaps one of...
"Anne Hathaway" appears in Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The World’s Wife, published in 1999. This collection moved women in well-known stories and myths to the foregrounds of their stories—spaces previously occupied by men. "Anne...
The Candy Shop War is a novel for children published by Brandon Mull in 2007. Mull is also the author of the very popular Fablehaven series of YA novels as well as its sequel series, Dragonwatch. The candy shop’s fictional setting of Colson is...
Aliens (1986) is James Cameron's follow-up to Ridley Scott's classic Alien (1976). It tells the story of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, who is rescued by a team after being in hypersleep for over 50 years. After, Ripley is tasked with helping marines...
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code is the third book in the Artemis Fowl series, which consists of eight science fiction, fantasy, and children’s literature books. The series was written by the Irish author Eoin Colfer and was released between...
"Warming Her Pearls" appears in Carol Ann Duffy's book Selling Manhattan, a collection that includes dramatic monologues, love poems, and poems concerned with the effect of money on society. This poem, told by an adoring servant about her...
Published in 1958, The Guide is a novel by Indian author R.K. Narayan set in his fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. It follows the life of an Indian man, Raju, as he evolves throughout his life to become one of the most prominent holy men in...
Edward Albee wrote The Sandbox on commission from the Festival of Two Worlds at the Spoleto Festival in Italy in 1959. Its first production took place in New York the following year. The Sandbox is linked to a longer play by Albee titled The...
First published in 1929, Tyrant Banderas is a critically-acclaimed novel by Spanish author and dramatists Ramon del Valle-Inclan. It was one of the most influential works in the Latin American genre of the "dictator novel", which consisted of...
2016's Arrival is based on a novella called "Story of Your Life" (1998) by Ted Chiang. Like the novella, the film tells the story of linguist Dr. Louise Banks (played by Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (played by Jeremy Renner) as they try...
David Bezmozgis published Natasha and Other Stories as his debut story collection. This story follows the family of the Bermans, who are Russian Jews, as they flee from Riga to Toronto. It highlights the struggles that immigrants experience as...
Aspects of the Novel is a literary work based on a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forester at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1927. It is a well-structured book that redefines the formula of a successful novel. He discusses seven vital...
Talent versus luck: this was a question that plagued Stephen King after his initial success as an author. How much of his success was due to talent, and how much due to the cult following he had amassed, and the fact that people bought his books...