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Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which centres on the great warrior and champion wrestler Okonkwo as he deals with the challenges resulting from disagreements in his clan, the arrival of white missionaries in his village and the mounting tension between tradition and modernity. The engaging...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a captivating tale about the perils faced by pilots in the years when commercial aviation was just starting to emerge as a viable transportation option. Saint-Exupéry uses lyrical prose rich in imagery to capture both the wonder and the terror experienced by the individuals who risked their lives every time they took to the sky, in a narrative that revolves around...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Years with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Years by Virginia Woolf, which follows the members of the same family, the Pargiters, over three generations. In this time, their lives and the world around them change drastically, and they struggle to grasp the meaning of life and connect with other people. The Years was both the last and the...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Interview with the Vampire with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, which tells the story of Louis de Pointe du Lac, a 200-year-old vampire. After being turned into a vampire by the handsome but utterly amoral Lestat, Louis lived on a planatation and grew close to Claudia, a five-year-old girl who was also turned...
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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 Far from the Madding Crowd with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, which follows the unconventional, headstrong Bathsheba Everdene as she carves a place for herself in the masculine world of agriculture and fends of the attentions of two suitors, before marrying the unprincipled Sergeant Troy. However,...
7) Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville, in which the narrator, a "ghost of the future", sets out to find out more about Alexandre Yersin, a scientist and explorer who invented the cure for the plague but who has sadly been largely forgotten throughout history. The novel was a great success, awarded the Prix du roman Fnac, a French literary award, in the year of its publication, and shortlisted for four...
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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 Road with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the story of a father and son travelling south to escape the harsh winter in a post-apocalyptic world. On the way, they must contend with food shortages, hordes of vicious cannibals and the existential problem of what there is left to live for in a world devoid of humanity....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, which tells the tale of Mikael Blomkvist who is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young girl that happened 37 years earlier. In his search to uncover the shocking truth, he discovers horrifying secrets about rape, murder...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which tells the story of young Huck Finn as he escapes "civilisation" by fleeing down the Mississippi River on a raft. On his way, he meets Jim, a young escaped slave, and the two boys become firm friends. Even though he knows...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Misanthrope with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Misanthrope by Molière, a comedy of manners which satirises the hypocrisy and falseness of 17th-century aristocratic society in France. Alceste, the misanthrope of the title, prides himself on his total honesty and frankness, but this puts him at odds with the play's other characters and...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Carrie with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Carrie by Stephen King, a cult horror novel about a young girl who is bullied and isolated by her peers, while also being psychologically abused and neglected by her mother. However, Carrie also has a secret: she has powerful telekinetic powers, and when her tormentors take one of their pranks too far,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Man in the High Castle with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, a work of speculative fiction which imagines what the world would be like if the Allies had lost the Second World War. In this alternate history, America is occupied by Nazis and the Japanese, who have divided the continent between them...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet, in which the author draws on his own fading memories of his youth to create a rather singular autobiography. The result is an unembellished account of his days as a thief, beggar, smuggler, wanderer, prison inmate and prostitute, written in a lyrical style that finds the beauty in the misfortunes he experienced. Genet himself described the book as an ode to his own holy...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, the tragic tale of a deformed bell-ringer, a beautiful Roma girl and the complicated love affair in which they become entangled. While many people have seen the Disney adaptation, the original novel is much more complex and intricate, providing...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Memoirs of Hadrian with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, a stunning fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Written in the form of a letter from the dying Hadrian to his young successor Marcus Aurelius, it is both a chronicle of the emperor's rise to power and his efforts to bring peace to...
18) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Brideshead Revisited with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which chronicles the time that the protagonist, Charles Ryder, spends at the Flyte family estate of Brideshead. After befriending the hedonistic Sebastian Flyte during their university days, Charles becomes acquainted with the rest of the family, and...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Carmen with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, which tells the story of a notorious brigand called don José as he falls in love with the beautiful Gypsy of the title and abandons his promising career as a soldier to become a thief and murderer in a desperate attempt to win her affections. However, don José gradually...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, a highly complex novel which brings together a wide range of characters and seemingly random, jumbled episodes in a non-linear timeline. However, the plot is anchored in the character of Yossarian, a bombardier in the Air Forces who spends the novel constantly searching for a way to be dismissed from the military, usually on grounds of insanity, only to be perpetually rebuffed...
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