One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—n…
One kind of negative book review is exceptionally painful – the one made by another author. See also: [ef-archive number=2 tag=”lists” ] Claire Fallon from Huffington Post has jus…
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We’ve had a lot of fun---and some debate---lately with reading lists from people like Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and even Marilyn Monroe (via her library). And we’ve featured undergraduate syllabi from the teaching days of David Foster Wallace and W.H. Auden.
Use this page to help you understand the “tone” for any article or story that we read in class. If you understand the author’s tone, you will most likely understand the main idea …
A brief history of female authors with male pen names
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This study guide and infographic for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
This study guide and infographic for Joseph Heller's Catch-22 offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
Bibliotaph (n.) A person who hides away or hoards books.
This is a great freebie: 7 free study guides, about 40 pages each, on the Shakespeare plays of MacBeth, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, MidSummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello,&…
This smart comic by Grant Snider, which is available in his shop as a poster, breaks down the archetypal conflicts in literature… although he did leave out man vs. computerized wolf god.
Source for Comic: Book Riot
This study guide and infographic for George Eliot's Middlemarch offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
Today the National Theatre is live-broadcasting their current production of King Lear , starring Simon Russel Beale, to cinemas all over the world. For any of my readers who haven't seen or read King Lear yet, I have attempted to summarize all the important parts here
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Sylvia Plath Nationality: American Profession: Author Why Famous: Credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections: “Other Poems and Ariel” and “The Colossus”. She won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Collected Poems. Also well known for the semi-autobiographical work “The Bell Jar”. She suffered […]
Test your knowledge of fiction's bad guys, from Hannibal Lecter to Nurse Ratched.This quiz on fictional villains is tough.____________________Since then, the game has gotten bigger, spread
Beautiful Minds Which Character Strengths are Most Predictive of Well-Being? By Scott Barry Kaufman | August 2, 2015 In 2004, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman came out with Character Streng…
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This study guide and infographic for Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
There’s something I like about that “Most Interesting Man in the World” ad campaign for Dos Equis. Firstly, I like it for the shot where we see the man saving a fox from a fox hunt, a mob of hounds and people on his trail while he carries the would-be victim to safety. I have...
