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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Euripides, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Rhesus, Iphigenia In Aulis, Bacchae, Phoenissae, Orestes, Electra, Trojan Women, Helen, Iphigenia In Tauris, Ion, Suppliants, Hecuba, Heracles, Cyclops, A Satyr-Play, Andromache, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, Medea, and Alcestis.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, a political play that fictionalized the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
As a play of the 1950's, Inherit the Wind defended intellectual freedom. Moreover, the play intended to denounce the state of McCarthyism at the time. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Lawrence and Lee's classic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, believed by many readers to be, based on the true story of a real-life castaway, Alexander Selkirk.
As a novel of the eighteenth-century, Robinson Crusoe sparked the movement of realistic fiction as a literary genre and led to the rise in publication of castaway novels. Moreover, the book has gone on to become one of the most broadly...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which eponymously coined the term so frequently used today to describe the predicament of being, trapped by contradictory rules.
As a novel of post-World War II America, Catch-22 is profound in its conception, complex in its artistry, and radical in its message. Moreover, in some colleges it is, studied as the modern counterweight to Homer's...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, considered to be among the three foremost playwrights of twentieth-century American drama. Titles in this study guide include A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and The Glass Menagerie.
As playwright of the twentieth-century, Tennessee Williams' plays, uncovered a world of grievance in which violence...
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Yes, Chicagoland is an odd place. But, the word is out that Megan, Raf, and Raf's talking dog Bradley are the team to go to when weirder things than usual start happening. Their Chicagoland Detective Agency takes danger in hand (and paw) to find a mysteriously missing puppy and an even more mysterious pack of dogs that only shows up once a month. Bradley's nose knows from the start that this is more than a simple case of stray pets...and a whole,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country, a short story written during the Civil War.
As a work of patriotic literature, The Man Without a Country bolstered support across the U.S. for the Union in the North. Moreover, Hale uses irony, mystery, and realism to tell the gripping story of a man who feels seemingly no patriotism or connection to his country...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as "indisputably the greatest whaling novel."
As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain's expedition to track down and seek revenge on a whale from the point of view of one of the sailors. Moreover, Melville uses allusion, simile, and metaphor to showcase themes such as revenge,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Harold Pinter, receiver of the New York Critics' Antoinette Perry Award for Best Broadway Drama in 1967. Titles in this study guide include The Homecoming, The Comedies of Menace, The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, and other minor works.
As an author of mid-twentieth-century drama, Pinter...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aristophanes, is popularly, known as the Father of Comedy. Titles in this study guide include Plutus, The Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, Lysistrata, The Birds, Peace, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Knights, and The Acharnians.
As a playwright of Old Comedy, his work, explores the limits of comedy. Moreover, his work was pivotal in the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, published in 1859 and regarded as his best work.
As a philosophical novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel tells the story of an abusive father and his son who fell in love with a girl of a lower social class. Moreover, Meredith uses intellectualism, satire, and poetry to explore human motive and rationalization....
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, one of Shakespeare's most moving and richest works.
As a tragedy of Roman and Egyptian history, Shakespeare reaches the pinnacle point of his poetic evolution as he transitions in works. Moreover, by the use of rhythm, images, figures, and verse, he makes every experience personally felt by the reader. This Bright Notes...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, with adaptations in film, radio, theatre, opera, and rock music.
As a work of 1869 historical fiction, War and Peace showcases a Russia before, during, and after the invasion by Napoleon. Moreover, Tolstoy writes of the glory of epic struggle, the horror of man-to-man combat, and the loveliness of peace. This Bright Notes Study Guide...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aeschylus, the ancient greek playwright. Titles in this study guide include The Suppliant Maids, The Persians, The Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, The Eumenides, and The Libation Bearers.
As the world's first great dramatist, Aeschylus became, known as "the father of tragedy." Aeschylus greatly influenced Greek tragedies by expanding...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Anton Chekhov, who wrote as many as 600 to 800 tales in his lifetime. Titles in this study guide include Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, and Ivanov.
As a collection of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century fiction, Chekhov's work communicates a strict sense of realism he adamantly believed fiction should...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, arguably one of the most powerful Holocaust memoirs of the World War II era.
As an historic account of World War II, Anne Frank's diary has provided a firsthand account of a life in hiding as a Jew in Nazi Germany. Moreover, the journal has kept alive the spirit of an exceptional young person whose thoughts have broadened the...
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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...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which was the best selling book in 1939 and won the National Book Award.
As a 1939 American realist novel, The Grapes of Wrath follows a struggling family on their search for work, success, and safety during the Great Depression. Moreover, Steinbeck discusses social philosophy by weaving in themes such as family, betrayal,...
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