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Explore two lively classic tales of adventure on the high seas with CliffsNotes Billy Budd & Typee, the study guide that can raise your insight as well as your test scores! Meet Billy Budd, the sailor that everyone likes . . . or do they? And then set sail through the wild side of the South Seas in Typee. You'll be up to speed on all the plot details and more with in-depth character analysis, critical essays, and insight into the
...This short novel tells the story of a young man looking to find a life in the world of seafarers. Reality invades one's plans, though. By the end, cowardice and inadequacy haunt the protagonist. This is a classic of psychological fiction.
This classic tells a romantic tale of a Saxon knight who returns from the Crusades to be disinherited by the lady Rowena. A romantic tale of danger and chivalry, this is one of the first books in English to deal with issues of race.
This play completes the description of the reign of Henry IV, now ailing, whose son John is still fighting to quell a rebellion. Young Prince Hal, however, is growing up and learns to accept the responsibilities of being king when his father dies.
This novel puts colonialism under the microscope and examines racism in India during the period of English colonization. Forster gives us a tale of a rare friendship and the delicate threads that keep it alive - or allow it to fall apart.
This concise supplement to E.M. Forster's A Passage to India helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
CliffsNotes on The House of Seven Gables helps you explore this tale of a family curse and inherited sin. Once wealthy and now in a state of constant
Shooting arrows at American business and the ethic of self-advancement, Lewis gives us Babbitt, a social-climbing, hopelessly middle-class oaf. By skewering the borgeousie, Babbitt gives us social criticism and a new type of character that reappears in American arts and letters.
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In CliffsNotes on Shaw's Man and Superman & Caesar and Cleopatra you explore two of George Bernard Shaw's numerous plays. Man and Superman is a satirical comedy of ideas where the law of nature
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background -- all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure.
In CliffsNotes on Euripides' Electra & Medea, you explore two classic Greek tragedies by Euripides and discover how the playwright introduced many innovations into the drama of his time.
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CliffsNotes on Daisy Miller & Turn of the Screw takes you into two of Henry James' classic works, one that centers on a pretty, spontaneous American girl traveling abroad and the other about the haunting of a governess in charge of two orphans.
Following the stories of young travelers who venture
With rare honesty and acuity, James examines the mythologies of American life by putting Yanks in European society and letting them sink or swim. This tale of an innocent woman abroad adds to the wealth and richness of James's contribution to literature.
Paul Morel is a sensitive son of an English miner. He is devoted to his mother and torn between his love for Miriam and his bond with his mother. He rejects Miriam and turns to an older, married woman, but soon discovers that he cannot fully love a woman while his mother is alive.
Take a journey into the daily life of a small town with CliffsNotes Our Town. Meet Thornton Wilder's beloved characters Emily Webb and George Gibb and watch as they experience daily life, fall in love, and face tragedy.
What moments of your own life would you choose to live over again if given the chance? You can count on CliffsNotes to help open your eyes to the characters and themes in Our Town as you think about what
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