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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.
That Marcus Aurelius is remembered several millennia after his death is primarily due to a diary that he kept during his lifetime which he referred to by the utilitarian title “Notes to Himself.” Over time those notes in a personal diary became...
Foucault's Pendulum is the follow-up by Umberto Eco to his wildly successful debut novel The Name of the Rose. The fact that that this makes Foucault’s Pendulum Eco’s second novel should not create the misconception that he was a young,...
Numero Zero is Umberto Eco’s seventh novel and final novel published before his death in 2016. Unlike Eco’s most famous novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, Numero Zero is short and relatively fast-paced with its less than 200...
The Mistletoe Inn is the second book in a series of three Christmas-themed romance novels by bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. The books are not a trilogy but all share the word "Mistletoe" in the title. Evans explains that the books are a...
The Mistletoe Promise is a romantic novel written by Richard Paul Evans. It tells the story of cynical, unlucky-in-love Elise Dutton and devastatingly handsome but emotionally unavailable Nicholas Derr, two lonely, successful people who draw up a...
The Letter is the third and final novel in Richard Paul Evans' "Christmas Box Trilogy". It is a love story that belongs specifically to MaryAnne and David Parkin, but the author's intention is to present the novel as the love story that could, and...
Timepiece is a novel written by Richard Paul Evans. It was published in 1995 and is a sequel to The Christmas Box. Evans has written many books, many for children, and all of the thirty-one include conservative Christian morals and themes and...
The Christmas Box is a short novel written by New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans. He did not originally intend it to become a book; it was merely a story he would tell his two younger daughters aloud, never committing it to...
Michael Vey: Storm of Lightning is a young adult science fiction novel written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink in September of 2016. It is the fifth installment in a seven-part series (Michael Vey) that revolves...
Michael Vey: Hunt for Jade Dragon is a young adult science fiction novel written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink in September of 2014. It is the fourth installment in a seven-part series (Michael Vey) that revolves...
Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen is a young adult science fiction novel written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink in September of 2013. It is the third installment in a seven-part series (Michael Vey) that revolves...
Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen is a young adult science fiction novel written by Richard Paul Evans and published by Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink in August of 2012. It is the second installment in a seven-part series (Michael Vey) that revolves around...
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 is a young adult novel written by Richard Paul Evans, and was published by Simon Pulse in 2011. The novel follows action and science fiction themes, with elements of supernatural powers.
This novel revolves...
Steelheart, which was published in 2013, is the first installment of Brandon Sanderson’s fiction trilogy. Sanderson is an American author who writes in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. He grew up in Nebraska and moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young...
Firefight is a young adult fantasy fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson. It was first published in 2015 by Random House in the United States. The novel is the second book in Sanderson's The Reckoners series and is the sequel to Steelheart and the...
The most striking difference in the original concept of Groundhog Day as envisioned by its screenwriter, Danny Rubin, is that the audience entered the endlessly cycling time loop in which TV weatherman Phil Collins find himself trapped at a point...
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a zombie/romantic parody novel written by Seth Grahame-Smith using Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice and combining zombie elements to the story. The story opens after a mysterious plague attacks the quiet...
The Ecclesiazusae is the last known surviving play written by the legendary ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. First produced almost four centuries before the birth of Christ, the play is an example of Middle Comedy in that it lacks the...
“A Gentle Creature” is a short story published by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876 under the Russian title "Кроткая (Krotkaya)". The story may also be found under such alternate English titles as “A Gentle Spirit” and “The Meek One.” All these variations...
The Idiot is a novel published by the man some consider the greatest literary figure in Russian history, Fyodor Dostoevsky. The title is ironic; titular Prince Myshkin is only thought to be an idiot by those around him who mistake his natural...
The Pine Barrens is a novel written by John McPhee, an American writer largely considered one of the leading influences of creative nonfiction. It was published in 1968, and is about the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a forested area spanning over...
So far, To Catch a Thief has not yet managed to become one of those films regarded as a rather lightweight addition to the canon of Alfred Hitchcock at the time of its original release that a later generation rediscovers and decides is high art....
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 suspense film Dial M for Murder presents a textbook case for why 3-D movies failed to catch fire in the 1950s and then again failed again to catch fire during a brief resurgence in the 1980s and has failed to become the...
The Family Under the Bridge is a beloved novel for children written by Natalie Savage Carlson and published in 1958. It tells the story of an old Parisian tramp named Armand whose gruff exterior hides a warm and caring personality. To his surprise...