Thứ Sáu, 7 tháng 4, 2017

Shakespeares Henry V (Cliffs Notes)

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. 
 
 
In CliffsNotes on Henry V (the final play in Shakespeare's political tetralogy), you once again meet young Prince Hal who is now the ideal Christian monarch, King Henry V. To retain power and increase revenue, he finds he must lead his soldiers in battle against France to reclaim land and titles. 
 
 
A character study on King Henry V and a close look at sixteenth century politics shed light on the Bard's intentions for the play. You'll also explore synopses of the three related history plays that lead up to Henry V. Count on CliffsNotes on Henry V for detailed summaries and commentaries on every scene to help you appreciate the complexity of the play.

Romeo and Juliet (Cliffs Notes) by Annaliese F Connolly

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.
 
 
In CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, you explore Shakespeare's greatest tragedy — the heartbreaking love story of Romeo and Juliet amid the conflict between their two feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets.
 
 
This study guide carefully walks you through every twist and turn of Shakespeare's classic by providing chapter summaries and critical analyses of each act and scene of the play. You'll also explore the life and background of the "Bard" himself — William Shakespeare. Other features that help you study include
 
    * Character analyses of major players
    * A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
    * Critical essays
    * The history of the play's development, as well as its first performance
    * A review section that tests your knowledge
    * A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

Poes Short Stories (Cliffs Notes)

Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated as the genius of the gothic horror story. Emphasizing the grotesque, the mysterious, the desolate, and the horrible, he arouses fear in readers.

He is the champion of storytelling that gives us a nervous sense of the ghostly and the supernatural.


Orwells 1984 (Cliffs Notes)

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 features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. 
 
 
CliffsNotes on 1984 introduces you to the modern world as imagined by George Orwell, a place where humans have no control over their own lives, where nearly every positive feeling is squelched, and where people live in misery, fear, and repression. 
 
 
Orwell’s vision of the future may be grim, but your understanding of his novel can be bright thanks to detailed summaries and commentaries for every 


One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Cliffs Notes)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Cliffs Notes) by Franz G. Blaha
 
 
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.
 
 
In CliffsNotes on One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, you explore the short book that established Alexander Solzhenitsyn's reputation and instantly placed him on the master list of human rights advocates. It describes a typical day in the life of an inmate in the Siberian prison camps of Stalinist Soviet Union.
 
 
This study guide carefully documents the ordeal of prisoner S-854 through his ten-year sentence in the Gulag. You'll find a summary and critical analyses of each section of the novel, and explore the life and background of the author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and gain insight into how he came to write the novel.
 
 
 
Other features that help you study include:
  - Character analyses of major and minor players
  - A history of the Gulag prison system and what crimes could get people sentenced to them
  - Critical essays on levels of meaning in the novel and narrative perspective
  - A review section that tests your knowledge
  - Suggested theme topics and a selected bibliography
  - Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
 

On Goldings Lord of the Flies (Cliffs Notes)

CliffsNotes on Lord of the Flies takes you on an exploration of William Golding's novel to the dark side of humanity, the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings.

Follow Golding's group of young boys from hope to disaster and watch as they attempt to survive their uncivilized, unsupervised, and isolated environment.


Omnibus Cliffs Notes Collection (Cliffs Notes)

Cliffs Notes included in the collection:
Achebe-Things Fall Apart
Aeschylus-Agamemnon, etc
Albee-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
American Poets 20th Century
Anaya-Bless Me, Ultima
Anderson-Winesburg, Ohio
Angelou-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Aristophanes-Plays
Aristotle-Ethics
Asimov-Foundation Trilogy
Atwood-The Handmaid's Tale
Austen-Emma
Austen-Pride and Prejudice
Austen-Sense and Sensibility
Baldwin-Go Tell It on the Mountain
Balzac-Pere Goriot
Beckett-Waiting for Godot
Bellow-Herzog
Beowulf
Berkeley-Major Philosophical Works
Bradbury-Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury-Works
Bronte-Jane Eyre
Bronte-Wuthering Heights
Brown-Manchild in the Promised Land
Buck-The Good Earth
Butler-The Way of All Flesh
Byron-Don Juan
Camus-The Plague
Camus-The Stranger
Carroll-Alice in Wonderland
Cather-Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather-My Antonia
Cervantes-Don Quixote
Chaucer-The Canterbury Tales
Chopin-The Awakening
Cisneros-The House on Mango Street, etc
Conrad-Heart of Darkness-The Secret Sharer
Conrad-Lord Jim
Conrad-Victory
Cooper-The Deerslayer
Cooper-The Last of the Mohicans
Crane-The Red Badge of Courage
Dante-Divine Comedy-Inferno
Defoe-Moll Flanders
Defoe-Robinson Crusoe
Detective In Fiction
Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens-Bleak House
Dickens-David Copperfield
Dickens-Great Expectations
Dickens-Oliver Twist
Dickens-The Pickwick Papers
Dorris-A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dostoevsky-Crime And Punishment
Dostoyevsky-The Brothers Karmazov
Dostoyevsky-The Idiot
Douglass-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser-An American Tragedy
Dreiser-Sister Carrie
Dumas-The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas-The Three Musketeers
Eliot-Adam Bede
Eliot-Silas Marner
Eliot-The Mill on the Floss
Ellison-Invisible Man
Emerson-Essays
Emily Dickinson-Selected Poems
Faulkner-Go Down Moses
Faulkner-Short Stories
Faulkner-The Bear
Faulkner-The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner-The Unvanquished
Fielding-Joseph Andrews
Fielding-Tom Jones
Fitzgerald-The Great Gatsby
Flaubert-Madame Bovary
Forster-A Passage to India
Fowles-The French Lieutenant's Woman
Franklin-The Autobiography
Frank-The Diary of Anne Frank
Gaines-A Lesson Before Dying
Garcia Marquez-100 Years of Solitude
Golding-Lord of the Flies
Goldsmith-The Vicar of Wakefield
Greek Classics
Greene-The Power and the Glory
Griffin-Black Like Me
Guterson-Snow Falling on Cedars
Hansberry-A Raisin in the Sun
Hardy-Return of the Native
Hardy-Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hardy-The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hawthorne-The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter
Heinlein-Works
Heller-Catch-22
Hemingway-A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway-Short Stories
Hemingway-The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway-The Sun Also Rises
Herbert-Dune & Other Works
Hesse-Demian
Hesse-Steppenwolf-Siddhartha
Homer-The Iliad
Homer-The Odyssey
Houston-Farewell to Manzanar
Howells-The Rise of SIlas Lapham
Hudson-Green Mansions
Hugo-Les Miserables
Hurston-Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley-Brave New World
Ibsen-A Doll's House-Hedda Gabler
Ibsen-Ghosts-Enemy of the People-Wild Duck
Jacobs-Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James-The Ambassadors
Joyce-Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Joyce-Ulysses
Kafka-The Metamorphosis & Other Stories
Kafka-The Trial
Keats and Shelley-Poems
Kelley-A Different Drummer
Kesey-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kingsolver-The Bean Trees
Kingston-The Woman Warrior
Knowles-A Separate Peace
Lawrence-Sons and Lovers
Lewis-Arrowsmith
Lewis-Babbitt
Lipsyte-The Contender
Locke-Concerning Human Understanding
London-Call of the Wild-White Fang
Lowry-The Giver
Machiavelli-The Prince
Malamud-The Assistant
Mallory-Le Morte d'Arthur
Mann-The Magic Mountain
Maugham-Of Human Bondage
McCarthy-All the Pretty Horses
Melville-Bartleby-Benito Cereno
Melville-Billy Budd-Typee
Melville-Moby Dick
Miller-Death of a Salesman
Miller-The Crucible
Milton-Paradise Lost
Moli?re-Tartuffe-The Misanthrope-The Bourgeois Gentleman
Momaday-House Made Of Dawn
More-Utopia and Utopian Literature
Morrison-Beloved
Morrison-Song of Solomon
Morrison-The Bluest Eye & Sula
Mythology
Nordhoff-Mutiny on the Bounty
O'Brien-The Things They Carried
O'Connor-Short Stories
O'Neil-Emperor Jones-The Hairy Ape-Mourning Becomes Electra
Orwell-1984
Orwell-Animal Farm
Paton-Cry, the Beloved Country
Plath-The Bell Jar
Plato-Euthyphro, Apology, Crito & Phaedo
Plato-Republic
Poe-Short Stories
Potok-The Chosen
Rand-Anthem
Rand-Atlas Shrugged
Rand-The Fountainhead
Remarque-All Quiet on the Western Front
Richter-The Light in the Forest
Rolvagg-Giants in the Earth
Roman Classics
Rostand-Cyrano de Bergerac
Salinger-The Catcher in the Rye
Science Fiction
Shaara-The Killer Angels
Shakespeare-A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare-Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare-As You Like It
Shakespeare-Comedy of Errors-etc
Shakespeare-Hamlet
Shakespeare-Henry IV Part 1
Shakespeare-Henry IV Part 2
Shakespeare-Henry V
Shakespeare-Histories
Shakespeare-Julius Caesar
Shakespeare-King Lear
Shakespeare-Macbeth
Shakespeare-Measure for Measure
Shakespeare-Minor Plays
Shakespeare-Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare-Othello
Shakespeare-Richard II
Shakespeare-Richard III
Shakespeare-Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare-Sonnets
Shakespeare-The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare-The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare-The Tempest
Shakespeare-The Winter's Tale
Shakespeare-Tragedies
Shakespeare-Twelfth Night
Shaw-Major Barbara-Saint Joan
Shaw-Man and Superman-Caesar and Cleopatra
Shaw-Pygmalion-Arms & the Man
Shelley-Frankenstein
Sinclair-The Jungle
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Skinner-Walden Two
Solzhenitsyn- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Sophocles-Oedipus Triology
Spencer-The Faerie Queene
St. Augustine-Confessions
Steinbeck-Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck-The Grapes Of Wrath
Steinbeck-The Pearl
Steinbeck-The Red Pony
Stendhal-The Red and the Black
Sterne-Tristram Shandy
Stevenson-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stoker-Dracula
Stowe-Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift-Gulliver's Travels
Tan-The Joy Luck Club
Tan-The Kitchen God's Wife
Thackery-Vanity Fair
The Bible
The Old Testament
Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism
Thoreau-Walden
Tolkien-The Lord of the Rings-The Hobbit
Tolstoy-Anna Karenina
Tolstoy-War and Peace
Twain-A Connecticut Yankee
Twain-Hucklebery Finn
Twain-The Prince and the Pauper
Twain-Tom Sawyer
Virgil-The Aeneid
Voltaire-Candide
Vonnegut-Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker-The Color Purple
Warren-All the King's Men
West-Miss Lonelyhearts-Day of the Locust
Wharton-Ethan Frome
White-The Once and Future King
Whitman-Leaves of Grass
Wiesel-Night
Wilder-Our Town
Wilde-The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams-The Glass Menagerie-Streetcar Named Desire
Woolf-Mrs. Dalloway
Wordsworth-The Prelude
Zola-Nana

Morrisons Beloved (Cliffs Notes)

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony.

The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution.


Millers Death of a Salesman (Cliffs Notes)

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
 
 
CliffsNotes on Death of a Salesman shares an intimate glimpse into the dreams and disappointments of an American family.


Math Review for Standardized Tests 2nd Edition (Cliffs Notes)

Go with the name you know and trust. Get the information you need fast! About the Contents: Introduction; How to use this book; Overview of the exams;
 
 
Part I - Basic Skills Review Arithmetic and Data Analysis Algebra;
 
 
Part II - Strategies and Practice Mathematical Ability; Quantitative Comparison; and, Data Sufficiency. Each section includes a diagnostic test, explanations of rules, concepts with examples, practice problems with complete explanations, a review test, and a glossary! Test-Prep Essentials from the Experts are available at "CliffsNotes".
 

Kafkas The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Cliffs Notes)

The stories of this turn-of-the-century writer concern the disillusionment of modern man. To Kafka and to the people in his stories, life is often absurd and meaningless, with only a faint ray of fleeting hope. 
 
 
This concise supplement to Kafka's The Metamorphosis and other stories helps students understand the overall structure of the works, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. 
 
 
This volume also covers The Judgment, A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony, The Hunter Gracchus, The Burrow, Investigations of a Dog, A Report to an Academy, The Great Wall of China, and Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk.

Joyces Ulysses (Cliffs Notes)

Called the greatest novel of the 20th century, this stream-of-consciousness epic tells a modern version of the ancient Ulysses, only this one takes place in one day in turn-of-the-century Dublin. 
 
 
It is difficult, funny, witty, and one of the most revolutionary novels of all time.

Joseph Andrews (Cliffs Notes)

Ordinarily a moralist writer, in this novel Fielding creates a comedy of romance, by superimposing the positive act of the imagination on the raw material of the real world.

It is ultimately both instructive and entertaining. Here Fielding parodies his own previous novels in this story of a young man resisting the many attempts to seduce him.


Jane Eyre (CliffsNotes)

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.
 
 
Question Victorian and present-day society as you study Charlotte Bronte’s popular novel with CliffsNotes on Jane Eyre. What is women’s position in society? What is the relationship of dreams and fantasy to reality? What is the basis of an effective marriage? Bronte tackles all these questions and more through the story of her heroine Jane Eyre.
 
 
CliffsNotes provides detailed plot summaries, critical commentaries, and a helpful character map to help you uncover all the insight this novel has to offer. Make your study of this timeless novel a success with CliffsNotes on Jane Eyre. Other features that help you study include
 
Character analyses of major players
 
Critical essays
 
A review section that tests your knowledge
 
Background on the author, including career highlights
 
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
 

Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment (Cliffs Notes)

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. 
 
 
CliffsNotes on Crime and Punishment takes you into a masterpiece of Russian literature, a work published during the time the western world was moving away from romanticism and into a new realistic approach to writing. 
 
 
Following the story of an impoverished young man who expects to enrich humanity by rising to a level above the law, this study guide provides a character list, character map, and character analyses to explore the personalities within Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece.