Literature Study Guide

This audio study guide for Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the dark side of enduring love and nature’s resistance to cultivation. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.

"And nothing is, but what is not." Macbeth may be mystified by the Weird Sisters' words but this intense performance with incisive commentary cuts to the heart of Shakespeare's complex psychological tragedy.

The Course Hero audiobook of The Importance of Being Earnest includes: a chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis; an in-depth synopsis at the end of the audiobook that summarizes and analyzes the plot, themes, symbols, characters, and main points of the novel; and engaging narration and music.

This audio study guide for Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reinventing the familial unit, identity in times of war, and coming of age through trauma.

This audio study guide for Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as Isherwood’s invisible sexual identity, the apathy of the average citizen, and sudden character disappearances. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. The poetry of Shakespeare's star crossed lovers is poignantly performed and expertly explained in this unique production: "Passion lends them power."

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the impact of censorship on society, the triumph of knowledge over ignorance, and technology and the natural world.

This audio study guide of Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as joy, teaching and learning, and pride and humility. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling.

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This audio study guide for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the importance of proverbs and fathers and sons. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart portrays the collision between the traditions and beliefs of Nigerian Igbo culture with the forces of European colonialism.

This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis, enabling any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Judge for yourself whether Lear is "a man more sinned against than sinning" in this moral tale that pits wisdom and age against ambition and youth. Experience and examine the power of Shakespeare's most cruel and violent tragedy.

This audio study guide for Lord of the Flies by William Golding includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the human beast and survival of the fittest. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Lord of the Flies is a harrowing young adult novel about a group of preadolescent boys who must survive on a remote island after a wartime plane crash leaves them stranded.

This audio study guide for A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the play’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as dreams and dreams deferred, fatherhood, and Black masculinity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the danger and risk of supernatural powers, indigenous identity and culture, and addiction in dysfunctional families. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Story captures our hearts and feeds our imaginations. It reminds us who we are and where we came from. Story gives meaning and direction to our lives as we learn to see it as an affirmation of God’s love. Drawing upon her own experiences, well-known tales in literature, and selected narratives from Scripture, Madeleine L’Engle gently leads the way into the glorious world of story in The Rock That Is Higher. Here she acknowledges universal human longings and considers how literature, Scripture, personal stories, and life experiences all point us toward our true home.

The Course Hero audiobook of Death of a Salesman includes: a chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis; an in-depth synopsis at the end of the audiobook that summarizes and analyzes the plot, themes, symbols, characters, and main points of the play; and engaging narration and music.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the hollowing out of the American Dream, class tensions in the 1920s, and shifting gender roles in the Jazz Age.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as perseverance in the face of prejudice, the importance of words and communication, and self-acceptance versus inclusion.

Read by the author. Learn how to read the Bible as literature and fall in love with God's Word. We all want to read the Bible verse-by-verse, cover-to-cover, but what happens when you can't get past Leviticus or bog down and quit in Chronicles? How can you make the journey through the Bible...