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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Miser with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Miser by Molière, which tells the story of Harpagon, a wealthy bourgeois whose main priority in life is money, and how he gets in the way of his children's search for love. The work is one of the Molière's most famous plays and presents a comedic criticism of one the vices of mankind. The author's...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Little Prince with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a treasured tale among children and adults alike. It tells the story of a pilot who crashes his plane in the Sahara desert and meets a mysterious child who claims to have travelled from a faraway planet. Saint-Exupéry first achieved fame as...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Leopard with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, the story of a failing aristocratic family in Sicily following the start of the unification of Italy, as they come to terms with changes in their social circles, relationships and the political landscape, as well as their own loss of power and relevance....
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, which details the author's experiences in Buna-Monowitz, one of the subcamps of the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. Levi was captured in 1944 while fighting with the Italian Resistance and deported to Buna-Monowitz, where he remained until the camp was liberated by the Red Army the following year. As well as a harrowing account of the horrors of the concentration...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Metamorphosis with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, a modernist short story which tells of a mundane employee who wakes up one morning to discover that he has turned into a giant insect overnight and how his relatives react to this metamorphosis. The story continues to bemuse readers and has been turned into...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Ladies' Paradise with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola, which tells the story of Denise, a young woman who begins working at the new department store that is gradually taking over the area and putting the local shops out of business. As this fight for survival between the shops ensues, Denise finds herself...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Plague with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Plague by Albert Camus, an existentialist classic in which he continues to question the absurdity of life and applies the notion of rebellion. It is the story of a plague epidemic in the city of Oran in the 1940's and tells of the individual destinies of some of its inhabitants, who all react...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Leopard with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, which tells the story of the Salina family and their changing place in Sicilian society. The novel presents a sharply critical view of 19th century Sicilian society and, with the help of historical events and figures, charts the fall of the aristocracy...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Red and the Black by Stendhal, which ells the tale of Julien Sorel, a young seminarian sent to tutor the children of a bourgeoisie family in a small village. He is caught up in this new lifestyle and learns to seduce these rich women, particularly his employer's wife. But can he keep up his act of seduction or will he be caught? Stendhal was a French writer, and his works often include in-depth analyses...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, a grandiose and poetic novel, in which a man who has been terribly disfigured as a child represents the fate of the people. Torn between carnal passion and pure love, struggling for his survival, hindered by his laughable face, the hero's destiny is rich in tragedies and unexpected twists. Hugo wrote the novel while living on the Channel Islands, after he had been exiled...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker, an admirable novel with an intoxicating plot mixing shady past and shifting present. It recounts the investigation of Marcus Goldman, a successful novelist, who attempts to clear the name of his former professor, accused of having murdered a young girl. Dicker's work has been translated into over 39 languages and he has received many awards for his...
12) Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Hunting and Gathering with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda, which centers on the lives of four very different individuals who nonetheless have a profound impact on each other's lives: a penniless artist struggling with anorexia; an aristocrat with acute social anxiety; a chef who has buried his vulnerable...
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In this clear and detailed reading guide, we've done all the hard work for you!
Blindness tells the story of a group of people who, for some unknown reason, suddenly lose their sight. They are all sent to an asylum where the inmates quickly turn to violence and force to get what they want. As tensions grow and people become increasingly dehumanized, everybody wants to escape. But without knowing what caused the blindness epidemic, how can anybody...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Grey with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Grey by E. L. James, which tells the tale of submissive and naive Ana who receives her sexual education from a very dominating man, Christian Grey. Following on from the enormous success of the Fifty Shades trilogy, Grey retells the story but from Christian's perspective, allowing the reader to understand...
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What should we learn from Thoughts, the author's posthumous theological work? Find out everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report.
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- A complete summary
- Insights such as the birth of faith, the birth of the work and Augustinism
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: a theological work, the greatness and misery of man as well as the reasoning
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What should we learn from A Simple Heart, the moving short story with an almost mystical dimension? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.
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- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Félicité, Madame Aubain and Loulou
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: the narrative scheme, the actantial scheme and between tale and short story...
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What should we learn from 2084, this anticipation novel successor of 1984? Find out everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report.
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- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Ati and Toz
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: the relationship with 1984, the political system of Abistan, totalitarianism based on religion and a criticism of...
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What should we learn from In the Shadow of the Flowering Maidens, this novel of first love and literary recognition? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.
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- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Marcel, Charles Swann and Gilberte
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: Proust and biography; The satire of the bourgeoisie...
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What should we learn from The Unknown Masterpiece, the philosophical short story about the powers of art? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed reading sheet.
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- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Frenhofer, Nicolas Poussin, Gillette and Porbus
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: a two-faceted novel, a romantic conception of art,...
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What should we learn from The Human Beast, the naturalist novel mixing the criminal world and the railway world? Find out everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed book report.
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- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Jacques Lantier, Séverine Roubaud and Roubaud
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: naturalism and heredity, men and machines,...
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