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Cliffs Notes: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, The Choephori & The Eumenides
By: Milch, Robert J.
Published by: Cliffs Notes
One of the most successful playwrights of ancient Greece, Aeschylus wrote nearly 90 plays, but today only 7 survive. Credited with introducing a second actor onstage, his plays retell the battles, victories, and social ramifications of life in the golden days of Athens. These plays are 2,500 years old and still performed, for they speak directly to the human psyche.
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Cliffs Notes: Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio
By: Morris, Ann R.
Published by: Cliffs Notes
A moving narrative about the lives of inarticulate men and women in small-town America, Winesburg, Ohio is an exposé ¯f that town's moral decay in the face of industrialization, isolation, and frustration.
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Cliffs Notes: Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
By: Willison, George F.
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
This 350-year-old story tells about the adventures that a devout Christian might meet in trying to save the soul by setting out on a pilgrimage to heaven. The central character encounters such temptations in meeting Mr. Talkative, Lord Hate-good, Miss Much-afraid, and others. A sermon giver and writer, Bunyan can keep the attention of most any reader and address theological issues with great simplicity.
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Cliffs Notes: Camus' The Stranger
By: Carey, Gary
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
The meaninglessness and randomness of life was a constant theme in Camus's writing. This story is absurd, yet touches a chord within the reader that surely will resonate for years to come. A man is condemned to beheading because he was indifferent at his mother's funeral. In prison he finds freedom and happiness. Death becomes his greatest moment of life.
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Cliffs Notes: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
By: Roberts, James L.
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Master this multi-layered masterpiece of Middle English literature: CliffsNotes on The Canterbury Tales can guide you step by step along Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval storytelling pilgrimage. As they entertain one another on the road to Canterbury with tall tales and fairy tales both moral and immoral, the pilgrims reveal their true natures.
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Cliffs Notes: Chopin's The Awakening
By: Kelly, Maureen
Published by: Hungry Minds
A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from the turn-of-the-century presses. With a heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and motherhood to be bondage, this revolutionary book is still relevant to many.
This concise supplement to Chopin's The Awakening helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and culutral perspectives of the author.
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Cliffs Notes: Elie Wiesel's Night
By: Riess, Maryam
Published by: Cliffs Notes
With the encouragement and support of French writer Francois Mauriac, Wiesel wrote this humanistic first-person account of his incarceration by the Nazi Secret Service in World War II. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wiesel leads a trail for future freedom fighters, not with might, but with humility and courage.
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Cliffs Notes: Ellison's Invisible Man
By: Washington, Durthy A.
Published by: Hungry Minds
This novel about a young black man in Harlem reveals the process of self-discovery and emphasizes individuality. Through a difficult passage into manhood, Ellison writes of the alienation of humans in everyday life, yet he remains whole and optimistic.
This concise supplement to Ellison's Invisible Man helps students understand the overall structure of the novel, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
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Cliffs Notes: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
By: Posten, Carol H.
Published by: Hungry Minds
This story of the Jazz Age is Fitzgerald's 'confession of faith.' Closely parallel to his own life, it tells the story of American expatriates in France. The book is a powerful text about the frailties of humans on any social strata.
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Cliffs Notes: Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman
By: Bellman, James F.; Bellman, Kathryn
Published by: Cliffs Notes
Fowles tells a brilliant love story about the effects of Victorian English society on an individual's self-awareness and how that awareness dominates and distorts one's life, including relationships with other people.
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