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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.
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.
Honor thy Father, which is also known as Con-Man, is a Filipino film that talks about tales of a Filipino family, where the father was forced to change his behavior after losing his savings in a law-pyramid scheme. The movie was directed by Erik...
The Poetry of Sarojini Naidu is a collection of poems authored by Indian author and the first woman to be President of the Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu. The collection was curated by L. N. Mishra and published by B. R. Publishing...
The Selection is a young-adult dystopian romance novel by #1 New York Times-Bestselling author Kiera Cass, originally published by HarperTeen on April 24, 2012. It is the first book in the pentalogy by the same name. The Selection is followed by ...
In his 2019 memoir/treatise How to Be an Antiracist, author and activist Ibram X. Kendi asks readers to think about what an antiracist society would look like and how people could help to build one. By telling his own story while also bringing in...
Written for children between seven and nine (Rowling remarked that the book is a "political fairytale for slightly younger children"), The Ickabog tells the story of a fantasy land called Cornucopia, which is plagued by an evil creature known as...
Playwright Miguel Pinero wrote the play Short Eyes during his time in prison. The term used as a title of the play is a slang used in connection to pedophiles, more precisely as a name for child molesters.
The play is set in prison and it follows...
On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, a luxury cruise liner thought to be “unsinkable,” collided with an iceberg and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic. More than 1,500 of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard lost their lives. Just nine days later,...
Detained in the Desert is a play that chronicles the parallel lives of two completely different people who are having the same experience at the same time. Sandi, a second generation Latin woman, and Lou, a Howard Stern-like talk show host with a...
The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century by Chicano author Maria Cristina Mena. The publication was undertaken by the US Hispanic Literary Heritage as an initiative to recover...
Described by the acclaimed twentieth-century poet and literary critic W.H. Auden as being "modern without being too modern," Thomas Hardy is one of the most influential and important writers in English literary history. Today, nearly a century...
Although it's not especially well-known, The Saga of Gosta Berling is an exceptional novel which tells the of the eponymous Gösta Berling. Berling is a defrocked priest (a person who has been stripped of the privileges associated with being a...
The Pillowman is a play by Martin McDonagh that premiered in 2003, and went on to receive the Olivier Award for Best Play as well as two Tony Awards. It tells the story of a morbid writer facing charges of enacting the murders depicted in his...
Educated is a memoir written by Tara Westover. The story recounts Tara's unusual upbringing as the daughter of extremist Mormon survivalists. Westover's father, referred to as "Gene" in the memoir, does not allow his seven children to go to school...
Hood Feminism is a collection of essays by Mikki Kendall, who takes issue with feminism in general because, she asserts, it only really works for some women. In fact, she feels that women actually oppress other women - which is an...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a non-fiction book published in 2012 and written by the American writer Katherine Boo. The full title of the book is Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity and it is set in the...
The Rise of Skywalker marks the end of an era which began with 1977's A New Hope and ended after nine films. To that end, The Rise of Skywalker is the last film in the legendary Skywalker Saga - but also the beginning of another story. Once again,...
Published in 1845, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" is a fairy tale about an impoverished girl who, afraid to return to her violent family after not having sold any matches, strikes matches which induce hallucinations of her...
Where the Wild Things Are is a children's book published in 1963 and written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. When it was initially released, it was met with mixed reviews for its honest portrayal of child anger. Some critics argued it would...
After a decade of reading, research, and writing, Donna Tartt published her highly-anticipated third novel, The Goldfinch. The 2013 novel tells the story of Theo Decker, and centers around loss, death and the titular painting, The Goldfinch.
The...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches is a collection of the feminist writer Audre Lorde’s prose works. While Lorde primarily published poetry, she was also an accomplished essayist. Some of her most famous essays—as well as her speeches and...
Conspiracy Theories, says political scientist and author Joseph E. Uscinski, will inevitably appear in "complex human societies," as he calls them. But conspiracy theories have never been as ubiquitous as they are now, partially fueled by people...
Despite it being critically acclaimed, Mikhail Red's Birdshot (2016) is not all that well-known. It tells the story of a young farm girl called Maya, who lives in the countryside and one day accidentally kills a Philippine eagle - a majestic...
Deceit and Other Possibilities is the debut collection of stories from award-winning author Vanessa Hua. It was published in 2016 by Willow Books. The collection is filled with powerful voices. From immigrants leaving their ancestral homelands to...
Eureka Street is a novel written by Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, and was published in 1996 by Secker & Warburg. The book was later republished in 1997 in the US, under Arcadia publishing house.The story revolves around the lives of two...