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This book recounts one of the most exciting sociological experiments of the 20th century. The Caucasian author undergoes chemical and physical changes to appear as an African American, to document the bias and social injustices of the white American society from personal experience.
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In CliffsNotes on Night, you follow the humanistic first-person account of a teenage boy's incarceration by the Nazi Secret Service in World War II; his experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps; and his struggle to find meaning among the horror.
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CliffsNotes on Don Quixote looks into the story of a man who seeks truth and justice with an internal vision so strong as to see through the illusion of external appearances.
Shooting arrows at American business and the ethic of self-advancement, Lewis gives us Babbitt, a social-climbing, hopelessly middle-class oaf. By skewering the borgeousie, Babbitt gives us social criticism and a new type of character that reappears in American arts and letters.
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In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau -- his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize
Join the journey through Middle-earth in the study guide of these two epic fantasies suggestive of life in medieval days, a classical battle between good and evil and the quest for a magical ring. This guide covers all four volumes of this unforgettable fantasy.
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In CliffsNotes on Mann's Magic Mountain, you follow the journey of Hans Castorp in his search for self-education in what is considered to be one of German novelist Thomas Mann's earliest
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Run away with John and Lacey in CliffsNotes on All the Pretty Horses. McCarthy's adventure novel brings you along on a journey through
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In CliffsNotes on Oliver Twist, you'll meet a dear, grateful, gentle orphan who, "instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much."
36931) CliffsNotes on Austen's Emma
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CliffsNotes on Emma explores a satiric novel that stabs at manners and social classes, all the while delivering entertainment in a mild comic tone and sharing a lesson for the moralist.
Following the heroine's slow and bumpy growth from self-deception to self-knowledge, this study guide provides summaries
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CliffsNotes on Black Boy chronicles the alienation of the author -- not only from white society, but from his own people. Richard Wright's novel is a cry of anguish in the face of the human condition and the tragedy that comes when an individual struggles to overcome it.
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Not often is a black man the protagonist in American literature, but in Native Son, there is fiery, dramatic conflict in the story of Bigger Thomas, the man who wages a war between himself and the outside white world. Wright has given us a dramatic and impassioned look at life in the oppressed Black America.
George Eliot takes the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it creates a portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people -- their labors and loves, their beliefs, their speech.
This concise supplement to George Eliot's Adam Bede helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural
This satirical novel of manners will fascinate the careful reader. The story of the various fortunes of two women in 19th-century England is filled with sly irony and tongue-in-cheek humor, yet it offers the leisurely reader a chance to find subtle meanings.
This is the famous 19th-century play about a great swordsman and poet with the unseemly large nose. Although he is feared by opponents, he cannot court the woman of his dreams, except through anonymously sent poems, which makes for a romantic and adventurous tale.
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With CliffsNotes on The Killer Angels, you gain insight into the novel, which tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the points of view of
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CliffsNotes on The Last of the Mohicans is a fanciful and romantic tale of the Mohicans, a disappearing tribe of Native Americans in the frontier. The
Hardy's story dramatizes the human condition as a struggle between powerful men and against fate. (Fate usually wins!) In this tale, violent natural and social forces toss the characters about like rag dolls as the mayor is destroyed by his protege.
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CliffsNotes on Beloved sheds light on Toni Morrison's skill in penetrating the unconstrained, unapologetic inner motivations of numerous characters
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