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85) Charles Dickens
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A comprehensive research and study guide for several novels by Charles Dickens, including plot summaries, thematic analyses, lists of characters, and critical views.
88) Twelfth night
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Discusses the plot, characters, and historical background of the Shakespeare play.
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Presents a newly edited text of William Shakespeare's "King Lear," along with detailed notes and performance annotations, introduction by Harold Bloom, commentaries by various writers including Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, and John Keats, plot summary, biography, and literary criticism.
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Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful and often strange words of Jesus. He learned Greek in order to read the Gospels in their original language, and he vowed to set aside any preconceptions about what the Scriptures say. But it wasn't until he...
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This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Othello. Students will benefit from the abundant features included in this volume, such as an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, and more.
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"EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the 2022 AP English Literature & Composition Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. Includes 4 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every section, and access to online extras. Techniques That Actually Work." Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test " Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically " Essential...
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Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home--in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.
While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always...
While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always...
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"The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing. "The memory that we live with is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her...
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This guide assists in the development of a step-by-step study plan that caters to individual needs and timetable. It includes the basic information about the AP English Literature & Composition test, quick reviews of grammar and literary terms, review and strategies for answering the different kinds of multiple-choice questions on prose and on poetry, and numerous opportunities to take practice tests on the subject matter.
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Explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more. Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She writes about the half-dozen contrasting girl-girl plots that have been retold...
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