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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, an autobiographical novel of a scandalous, thieving woman.
As a novel set in the early 1600s, Moll suffers a life of misfortune after her mother is sentenced to death, and her first husband dies. Moreover, she makes a way for herself and her children through lies and deceit as Defoe portrays an unconventional life in the 1600s for...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, widely considered to be the highest achievement of Fitzgerald's career and a contender for the title of the "Great American Novel."
As the quintessential novel of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's work serves as both an exquisite portrait of the Roaring Twenties in America and a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. Acclaimed...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams, an autobiography from a great-grandson of the second president of the United States John Adams.
As an autobiography of the late 19th-century, Adams' book gives readers interesting perspective on educational theory and practice and Aristocracy leading into the turn of the century. Moreover, his life gives a glimpse at the...
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Nisa: The Life and Works of a !Kung Woman (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Majorie Shostak
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:*Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible,...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, considered one of the most acclaimed achievements to date in the world of literature.
As a philosophical novel set against a modernizing, nineteenth-century Russia, Dostoyevsky's last work is a passionate exploration of the ethical debates surrounding God, free will, and morality. The narrative's primary conflict between...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, the internationally acclaimed novel of opposing forces.
As a tale of Greek's Great Famine during WWII, Zorba the Greek gives a fresh perspective on the duality between body and mind, beauty and pain, feeling and thinking. Moreover, Kazantzakis empowers readers to pursue life like Zorba. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by James Hilton, who wrote his first novel at seventeen. Titles in this study guide include Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
As works of 1930s fiction, Hilton's novels achieved wide, popularity and use, in high school classrooms and yet, have not received a large, amount of critical commentary. Moreover, the books received mixed reactions from early...
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Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done by Laura Vanderkam: Conversation Starters
In May 2018, I Know How She Does It author Laura Vanderkam published her newest book Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done. Most people feel that they are constantly behind. They are unsure how they can escape the feeling of being oppressed by busyness. Unlike other time-management gurus, Laura Vanderkam believes that to get more things...
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The High Tide Club: A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews: Conversation Starters
Josephine Warrick is an extremely wealthy 99-year-old woman dying of fourth stage cancer and wants to settle her will before time runs out on her. She chooses struggling lawyer and single mother Brooke Trappnell to carry out a will. But why would she choose Brooke who is not among the big-name law firms in Georgia? Brooke reluctantly agrees, not knowing that Mrs. Warrick has secrets...
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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 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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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution by David A. Kaplan: Conversation Starters
Both conservative and liberal justices have overreached their powers, and this is not a good development for American democracy. Author David A. Kaplan asks the critical question about the Court and the justices-- is this how democracy is supposed to be? Should the nine unelected justices hold the power to make decisions that...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James' Washington Square, a simple tragicomedy that is, based on a true story.
As a novel of the nineteenth-century, illustrates family conflict between a daughter and her unemotional father. Moreover, Washington Square's omniscient point of view and uncomplicated prose continues to entice readers. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
94) Summary of The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal B
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang: Conversation Starters
A "wave of automation and job loss" is currently taking over American industries. Experts in robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and software have warned that job losses will continue to happen in the coming years. "Normal people," who represent the 70 percent of the American population,...
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Alexander Hamilton (SparkNotes Biography Guide)
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SparkNotes Biography Guides examine the lives of historical luminaries, from Alexander the Great to Virginia Woolf. Each biography guide includes: An examination of the historical context in which the person lived
A summary of the person's life and achievements
A glossary of important terms, people, and events
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by J.K. Rowling
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis
explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
a review quiz and essay topics
Lively and accessible, these...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ron Powers's No One Cares About Crazy People and NOT the original book. Preview: No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America (2017) by Ron Powers is a memoir by the father of two schizophrenic sons, Dean and Kevin. Powers incorporates history about the treatment of mental illness into personal narrative about his family... Inside this companion to the book: • Overview...
98) Summary of Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fift
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic: Conversation Starters
Authors Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic team up to write the definitive true story of USS Indianapolis and its unfortunate fate. In Indianapolis, Vincent and Vladic take us back to the midnight of July 30, 1945. This was days after the Indianapolis delivered the atomic...
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The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson: Conversation Starters
The Challenger Sale opens with this question: What's the secret to sales success? Most business leaders would answer the question with relationships. While that is fundamentally true, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson argue that it is not enough to build relationships with customers. To be successful, business leaders need to challenge...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virgil, ancient Roman poet. Titles in this study guide include The Aeneid.
As a poet of the Augustan period, his poems are, regarded as one of the most important poems in Latin literature. Moreover, The Aeneid, captures the personal qualities of Romans and what life in Rome looked like. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history...
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