Understand Classic Books with Bright Notes Study Guides

Understand Classic Books with Bright Notes Study Guides
By Jenn Finley
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What are the most-read books in schools? If you’re a student, you probably know because you’ve been asked to explain the plot, themes, and character motivations of many of them. If your success has been so-so, Bright Notes Study Guides are what you need to succeed.

So, you’ve been asked to write a paper explaining the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. Or show you understand the background behind Beloved. Or detail the character motivations in Lord of the Flies.

Not going anywhere for a while? Bright Notes Study Guides can help you #MasterTheText!

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Bright Notes are proven study guides that help you make sense of classic books, epic novels, and life-changing literature. Chances are, a teacher or professor will assign you one of these notable reads at some point in your schooling. Bright Notes Study Guides can help you make the most of it.

AcademicInfluence.com is pleased to partner with Intelligent Education to bring this esteemed series of 220 study guides to you. Bright Notes Study Guides are available in both print and Kindle formats, and each edition contains:

  • Introductions to the author and the work
  • Character summaries
  • Plot guides
  • Section and chapter overviews
  • Test essay and study Q&As

Bright Notes Study Guides (alphabetical by title) currently featured on the AcademicInfluence.com site, with more to come, include:

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Anonymous

Study Guide to Beowulf

Study Guide to Greek and Roman Mythology

Study Guide to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Other Works

Various

Study Guide to How to Analyze Fiction

Study Guide to Marxist and Utopian Socialists

Study Guide to The Metaphysical Poets

Study Guide to The New Testament

Study Guide to The Old Testament

Study Guide to The Romantic Poets

Study Guide to The Victorian Poets

A

Study Guide to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Study Guide to The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Study Guide to the Plays of Aeschylus

Study Guide to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Other Works by Edward Albee

Study Guide to The Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Study Guide to The Plays of Aristophanes

Study Guide to an Introduction to Aristotle

Back to Author Index

B

Study Guide to The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett

Study Guide to The Poetry of William Blake

Study Guide to Tomorrow and Yesterday and Other Works by Heinrich Böll

Study Guide to Baal and Other Works by Bertolt Brecht

Study Guide to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Study Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Study Guide to The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Study Guide to The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer

C

Study Guide to The Stranger and Other Works by Albert Camus

Study Guide to My Antonia and Other Works by Willa Cather

Study Guide to Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Study Guide to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Study Guide to Ivanov and Other Works by Anton Chekhov

Study Guide to The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Study Guide to The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark

Study Guide to Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Study Guide to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Study Guide to The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly

Study Guide to Lord Jim and Other Works by Joseph Conrad

Study Guide to The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

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D

Study Guide to The Divine Comedy by Dante

Study Guide to Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Study Guide to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Study Guide to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Study Guide to Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Study Guide to David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Study Guide to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Study Guide to Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Study Guide to Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Study Guide to The Major Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Study Guide to Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Study Guide to Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Study Guide to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Study Guide to Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Study Guide to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Study Guide to The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Study Guide to Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Study Guide to Sister Carrie by Theodore Dresier

Study Guide to The Poetry of John Dryden

E

Study Guide to Silas Marner and Middlemarch by George Eliot

Study Guide to The Plays of Euripides

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F

Study Guide to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

Study Guide to Tender Is the Night and This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Study Guide to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Study Guide to Madame Bovary and Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert

Study Guide to Howards End and A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Study Guide to The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Study Guide to a General Overview of Sigmund Freud

Study Guide to the Introductory Lectures of Sigmund Freud

G

Study Guide to The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay

Study Guide to The Immoralist and Other Works by Andre Gide

Study Guide to Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Study Guide to Lord of the Flies and Other Works by William Golding

Study Guide to The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

Study Guide to The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Study Guide to Brighton Rock and Other Works by Graham Greene

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H

Study Guide to The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

Study Guide to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Study Guide to Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Study Guide to Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Study Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Study Guide to The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Study Guide to Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Study Guide to The Scarlet Letter and Other Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Study Guide to Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Study Guide to A Farewell to Arms and Other Works by Ernest Hemingway

Study Guide to The Histories by Herodotus

Study Guide to Demian by Hermann Hesse

Study Guide to Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

Study Guide to Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Study Guide to Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Study Guide to Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl

Study Guide to Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Study Guide to The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Study Guide to The Iliad by Homer

Study Guide to The Odyssey by Homer

Study Guide to The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

Study Guide to Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Study Guide to Brave New World and Other Works by Aldous Huxley

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I

Study Guide to the Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen

J

Study Guide to The American by Henry James

Study Guide to The Aspern Papers by Henry James

Study Guide to The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Study Guide to The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller by Henry James

Study Guide to Washington Square by Henry James

K

Study Guide to The Trial and Other Works by Franz Kafka

Study Guide to Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

Study Guide to Ode to a Grecian Urn and Other Works by John Keats

Study Guide to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Study Guide to A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Study Guide to Darkness at Noon and The Age of Longing by Arthur Koestler

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L

Study Guide to Sons and Lovers and Other Works by D. H. Lawrence

Study Guide to Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Study Guide to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

Study Guide to The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer

Study Guide to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Study Guide to The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

Study Guide to Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Study Guide to The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Study Guide to Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London

Study Guide to Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

M

Study Guide to The Prince and Other Works by Niccolò Machiavelli

Study Guide to the Theories of Herbert Marcuse

Study Guide to Faustus and Other Works by Christopher Marlowe

Study Guide to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Study Guide to Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Study Guide to Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Study Guide to Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Study Guide to The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith

Study Guide to The Crucible and Other Works by Arthur Miller

Study Guide to Paradise Lost and Other Works by John Milton

Study Guide to Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Study Guide to The School for Wives and Other Works by Molière

Study Guide to Utopia by Thomas More

Study Guide to Beloved by Toni Morrison

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N

Study Guide to The Birth of Tragedy and Other Works by Friedrich Nietzsche

Study Guide to The Octopus by Frank Norris

O

Study Guide to Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

Study Guide to Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill

Study Guide to The Major Plays of Eugene O’Neill

Study Guide to 1984 by George Orwell

Study Guide to Animal Farm by George Orwell

P

Study Guide to Cry, The Beloved Country and Other Works by Alan Paton

Study Guide to Satyricon by Petronius

Study Guide to The Homecoming and Other Works by Harold Pinter

Study Guide to The Bell Jar and Other Works by Sylvia Plath

Study Guide to The Republic and Other Works by Plato

Study Guide to the Major Works by Edgar Allan Poe

Study Guide to the Rape of the Lock and Other Works by Alexander Pope

Study Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

R

Study Guide to The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Study Guide to All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Study Guide to Giants in the Earth by Ole Rolvaag

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S

Study Guide to The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Study Guide to Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Study Guide to the Major Works by Jean-Paul Sartre

Study Guide to Ivanhoe and Other Works by Sir Walter Scott

Study Guide to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to The Comedies by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Henry V by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to King Lear by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Othello by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Richard II by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Richard III by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Study Guide to Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Study Guide to Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Study Guide to The Major Plays of George Bernard Shaw

Study Guide to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Study Guide to Walden Two by B. F. Skinner

Study Guide to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Study Guide to The Plays of Sophocles

Study Guide to The Faerie Queene and Other Works by Edmund Spenser

Study Guide to Of Mice and Men and Other Works by John Steinbeck

Study Guide to The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Study Guide to The Red Pony and The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Study Guide to Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Study Guide to an Introduction of Wallace Stevens

Study Guide to Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

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T

Study Guide to The Idylls of the King and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson

Study Guide to the Major Poems by Dylan Thomas

Study Guide to Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Study Guide to The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Study Guide to The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien

Study Guide to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Study Guide to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Study Guide to Fathers and Sons and Other Works by Ivan Turgenev

Study Guide to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Other Works by Mark Twain

Study Guide to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Study Guide to The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

U

Study Guide to Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux by John Updike

V

Study Guide to The Aeneid by Virgil

Study Guide to Candide by Voltaire

Study Guide to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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W

Study Guide to The Color Purple and Other Works by Alice Walker

Study Guide to Decline and Fall and Other Works by Evelyn Waugh

Study Guide to The Invisible Man and Other Works by H. G. Wells

Study Guide to The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

Study Guide to Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Study Guide to The Eye of the Storm and Other Works by Patrick White

Study Guide to The Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Study Guide to Our Town and Other Works by Thornton Wilder

Study Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Works by Oscar Wilde

Study Guide to The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Study Guide to the Major Plays of Tennessee Williams

Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen Wister

Study Guide to Look Homeward, Angel, and Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

Study Guide to The Web and the Rock and You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe

Study Guide to Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Study Guide to the Major Poetry of William Wordsworth

Z

Study Guide to Germinal by Émile Zola

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