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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 George Orwell's 1984, considered to be, a classic novel.
As a novel of the twentieth-century, it was among the first of many in the popular dystopian fiction genre. Moreover, 1984 focuses on the effects of an over involved government and the importance of freedom of expression. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of George Orwell's classic...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Mark Twain, the father of American literature. Titles in this study guide include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi, The Mysterious Stranger, Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
As an influential writer of the late-nineteenth-century, Twain became one of the greatest humorist in American...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Titles in this study guide include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises.
As an influential figure of 20th century fiction, Hemingway's eloquent prose style had a powerful influence on American and British fiction. Moreover, Hemingway...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential figures in psychology and founder of psychoanalysis. Titles in this study guide include The Interpretation of Dreams, Studies in Hysteria, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and Totem and Taboo.
As a collection of psychological studies, these works, led to and explain, Freud's theory of psychoanalysis....
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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 John Knowles, A Separate Peace, a novel that portrays the events of World War II through the eyes of teenage boys.
As a novel of the 1950s, this story portrayed the loss of innocence that occurred during the war. Moreover, this novel continues to provide reader's a different perspective of World War II. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
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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 Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, written in 1929 as a reflection of WWI.
As a work considered to be historical fiction, All Quiet on the Western Front focuses less on the story of war and more on the mental and physical destruction of those involved. Moreover, as a WWI veteran himself, Remarque delivers authentic and raw accounts of war using...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Wallace Stevens including a brief commentary on a number of Stevens' works, which explore his philosophies on reality and imagination.
As an author of the early twentieth-century, Stevens considered his work as continuing the ideas American realization introduced by Emerson and Whitman. Moreover, Stevens' poetry is structured around literary devices like iambic pentameter,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for an Introduction to Aristotle, a philosopher whose ideas were largely a product of Greek culture.
As a commentary of ancient literature, the Introduction to Aristotle summarizes the topics and philosophical concepts in the author's works. Moreover, it comments on themes such as unity, reason, politics, and ethics. 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 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 Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, which he claimed as his first true, novel despite having written several before it.
As an 1877 realist novel, Anna Karenina follows a Russian wife in the midst of a love affair, who risks all she has for a lover. Moreover, Tolstoy discusses the betrayal by weaving in themes such as forgiveness, social class, and jealousy. This Bright Notes...
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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 William Shakespear's As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's "great" or "middle" comedies.
As a satirical tale of pastoral romance, As You Like It examines the cruelties and corruption of court life and love. Moreover, Shakespeare amusingly weaves a tale of love manifested in varied forms but targets the main theme of "love at first sight" through his playful imagery...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Bertolt Bretcht, the creator of epic theatre. Titles in this study guide include The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Good Woman Of Setzuan, Galileo, Mother Courage, The Measures Taken, St. Joan Of The Stockyards, The Threepenny Opera, A Man's A Man, In The Swamp, and Baal.
As a playwright, theatre director, and poet of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries,...
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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 Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earliest stage in the development of oral poetry.
As one of the most well-known works of early Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is one of the earliest records of standard Old English. Moreover, this epic is, studied for its use of fusing pagan and Christian elements through the lens of a hero's struggles. This...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Billy Budd, his final novel.
As a book of the twentieth-century, Melville focused on society's limiting forces on people's individuality. Moreover, Billy Budd has two versions as it was, completed by different authors after Melville's death. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Herman Melville's classic work, helping...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Bleak House, said to be one of Dickens's most powerful novels due to the way it challenged Britain's court system and caused legal reform in the 1870s.
As an 1830 novel set in London, Bleak House unveils a different way of life where the court system is corrupt and ruled by the affluent. Moreover, the struggles throughout the story highlight...
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