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Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
By J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling. CONTEXT Through the Ages and Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them ) , and a major motion picture produced by Warner Brothers . Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone draws on a long tradition of English fantasy works ...
Henry IV Part I: William Shakespeare
By William Shakespeare
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The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
By William Faulkner, SparkNotes
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text.
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
By Kate Chopin
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes books contain complete plot summaries and analyses, key facts about the featured work, analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde, Ross Douthat, David Hopson
CONTEXT CONTEXT SCAR WILDE WAS BORN on October 16 , 1854 , in Dublin , Ireland . He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and at Magdalen College , Oxford , and settled in London , where he married Constance Lloyd in 1884.
King Lear, William Shakespeare
By Brian Phillips
the knight answers , “ One minded like the weather , most unquietly ” ( III.i.1-2 ) . Here the knight's state of mind is shown to be as turbulent as the winds and clouds surrounding him . This is true of Lear as well : when Kent asks ...
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
By Emily Brontë
Emily Bronte. POINT OF VIEW Most of the events of the novel are narrated in Nelly's voice , from Nelly's point of view , focusing only on what Nelly can see and hear , or what she can find out about indirectly .
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
By Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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The Art of War
By Sun-Tzu
In recent years, business leaders across the world have rediscovered Sun-tzu's military classic The Art of War, using it as a handbook for survival in today's cutthroat business climate.
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
By Jonathan Franzen, Laban Carrick Hill
... Maya Angelou THE JOY LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant WE WERE THE MULVANEYS by Joyce Carol Oates WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith NONFICTION THE ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe, Amanda David
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING ADAMS , JOHN R. Harriet Beecher Stowe . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1989 . BLOOM , HAROLD . Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin . New York : Chelsea House Publishers , 1999 .
Catch-22: Joseph Heller
By Joseph Heller
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World History
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SparkNotes Ultimate Style: How to Write Poetry
By Diane Mehta
From THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST edited by Edward Connery Lathem . Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company , LLC . 3 lines from “ HOWL ” FROM COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1980 by ALLEN GINSBERG . Copyright © 1955 by Allen Ginsberg .
The Bean Trees
By SparkNotes, Barbara Kingsolver
SUMMARY & ANALYSIS SUMMARY - CHAPTER THIRTEEN : NIGHT - BLOOMING CEREUS Taylor and Turtle meet twice a week with Cynthia , a social worker whose prim professionalism sometimes irks Taylor . Eventually , Cynthia finds out about Turtle's ...
When in Madrid: The Ultimate Study-abroad Guide
By Michael Raphan
... Hospital del Lavapiés Artilleros Batán Lucero Atocha Puerta de Toledo Atocha Renfe Henares Colonia Jardín 10 Acacias Laguna Embajadores Valdebernardo Conde de Casal San MenéndezCipriano Campamento Pirámides Palos de la Pelayo Puerta ...
The Fountainhead
By Ayn Rand, SparkNotes LLC.
CONTEXT A CONTEXT YN RAND WAS BORN to an affluent upper - middle - class family on February 2 , 1905 , in St. Petersburg , Russia . Rand formulated many of her strongly held beliefs early in life . Although her family was nominally ...