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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.
Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a biographical book based around the notable legal career of the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book was edited by Corey Brettschneider and published by Penguin Liberty on...
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a biography of the renowned political and feminist leader, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose role as the second female Supreme Court of the United States cemented her name in history. The title...
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, is a biographical account of two leading figures in the US political and legal division, Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
Jeffrey Rosen’s Conversations with RBG is a biographical book on the life of the second female on the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The book takes the form of eight private and public interviews with Ginsburg and sheds light on her...
It took twenty-three years on the bench before Ruth Bader Ginsburg published her first book in 2016; the book, a collection of her speeches and writings, included her earliest opinions formulated in the eighth grade. Although the works contained...
On the Basis of Sex is a biographical drama film based on the legal life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to ever retain the position. The movie stars Felicity Jones as Ginsburg, and was directed by Mimi...
RBG, abbreviated for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a 2018 documentary film based on the titular character, Ginsburg who was the second female Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice. The film was produced by Betsy West and produced by CNN....
Swami and Friends is an Indian book written in English published in 1935. The work was the first novel ever published by the famous Indian author R. K. Narayan. Narayan's friend, Graham Greene, recommended his manuscript to a publisher, and it was...
Guyanese-British author Fred D'Aguiar's 1994 novel The Longest Memory is about Whitechapel, an elderly slave whose mixed-race son is whipped to death after he tries to escape a Virginia plantation to live in the North with the slave master's white...
David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, published in 1996, was written over a period of several years beginning in the late 1980s. Upon publication, the sprawling novel was almost immediately hailed as a postmodern masterpiece. However,...
The Swan Book is a post-apocalyptical novel based on the suffering of Indigenous Australians throughout history. The author, Alexis Wright – an indigenous Australian herself – based the story on her own experiences and mistreatments.
The story...
Heart of a Dog is one of the best examples of Bulgakov's criticisms of life in the Soviet Union. Written when Bulgakov was 33 years old, it was first introduced to the public in March 1925 in a Moscow apartment with a gathering of approximately 50...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You is a "remixed" version of Ibram X. Kendi's award-winning history book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016). Kendi's 2016 Stamped, which won the National Book...
First published in 1680, “The Disappointment” is a poem about an unfortunate sexual encounter between Lisander and Cloris, a shepherd and shepherdess in the countryside. When Lisander is unable to maintain an erection, Cloris runs away in...
The Federalist Papers is a treatise on free government in peace and security. It is the outstanding American contribution to the literature on constitutional democracy and federalism, and a classic of Western political thought.
The Federalist...
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is a novel by Wilkie Collins. It was originally published in 1879 and since then there have been other editions published by Borgo Press in 2002 in London, England. Set in Venice, Italy, The Haunted...
Crome Yellow is Aldous Huxley’s very first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1921. The book is partly autobiographic. Its central character is inspired from the author himself, while its events sum, to a certain extent, his own...
Patrick Ness's 2011 fantasy novel A Monster Calls is about a thirteen-year-old boy who learns to overcome his denial about his mother's terminal cancer. Haunted by a nightmare in which his dying mother slips from his grasp as she falls off a...
Fifteen Dogs is the second novel in André Alexis' planned five-book series, The Quincunx Cycle—each work of which is centered around the philosophical themes of faith, love, place, power, and hatred. Specifically, Fifteen Dogs tells the story of a...
Along with the world famous Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote had given life to many other novels and short novels. A Tree of Night and other stories is Capote’s most famous collection of short stories published in 1949. The collection is...
We the Animals is author Justin Torres' debut novel. Released in 2011, the novel tells the story of three brothers of mixed race as they live their rough lives rural upstate New York throughout the 1980s. Although it primarily focuses on one of...
"To Build a Fire" is a prime example of the literary movement of naturalism. Naturalism was an offshoot of Charles Darwin's and Herbert Spencer's theories on evolution. In his monumental 1859 work Origin of the Species, Darwin theorized that...
Mary Shelley is no doubt best known for her novel called Frankenstein. However, she wrote countless novels and long-form stories. Among those short stories is "Mathilda," which tells the provocative story of a father's incestuous love for her...
Published in 2010, Sharon M. Draper’s novel Out of My Mind stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for two years. Written from the perspective of Melody Brooks, an eleven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, Out of My Mind gives a window onto...