Study Guide Classics

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 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 fragility of dreams and Depression-era loneliness and isolation.

Walt Whitman explores the freedom of the wanderer, the sorrow of the pallbearer, and the spirit of the adventurer in his remarkable collection of poems, Leaves Of Grass. Both an explorer of cultural thought and a lover of sensual pleasure, Whitman champions the cause of common men, and revels in emotional and physical love. In plain and beautiful language, Whitman redefined the world of poetry.

F. Scott Fitzgerald studies the reverse side of the glamorous Roaring Twenties. Glittering wealth and determined decadence are contrasted with a backdrop of betrayal, illegal deals, and ironically mistaken murder.

Navigating the world of dating can be like wandering an enchanted forest, full of creatures with peculiar habits and baffling behavior. In Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur, Francesca Lia Block provides a guide to this often-treacherous terrain, classifying all those mystifying men and women into various types of mythical forest fauna - Fauns and Werewolves, Mermaids and Banshees. After answering questions to determine your own type, you can learn to identify others.

Everything You Need to Know About The Divine Comedy is a comprehensive guide that provides a synopsis, a description of the characters, and a summary and analysis of every chapter. You can use this as a guide while you listen, or as a way to brush up on everything you once knew and since forgot.

Actor and comedian Kevin O'Brien performs Mark Twain's classic—and delivers four lectures analyzing the brilliance of this great American novel.

This is a summary of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Meditations is essentially a scrapbook of thoughts written over a 19-year period; it’s not ordered and it repeats itself frequently as ideas reoccurred to the author at different times. For this reason, it can be hard for a casual reader to extract the myriad messages contained within. This summary helps in that by interpreting Meditations and reducing it from around 50,000 words down to 4,400. While it has been interpreted, the author has done his best not to embellish it.

The multi-award winning SmartPass full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.

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You've read the short story, but you don't understand the symbolism. You've been to every class, but it's 2 a.m., and your essay is due at 9:00. Your midterm is Friday, and you need a boost. We've been there. We know what it's like to study, work, have a life, do your best, and still need help. Course Hero study guides untie the knots. You do the work, and we give you the tools to make every minute count.

Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel.

Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. Dickens' tale of Pip, a young man "removed from his present sphere of life" and cast into a Victorian nightmare, is a powerful audio drama to be enjoyed and appreciated as an important piece of social criticism.

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.

With Christ in the School of Prayer offers a structured series of 31 short, concise, practical, and powerful lessons on prayer to fill the listener's heart with a hunger for God's presence. While holding firmly to Andrew Murray's classic teaching and theology and retaining the elegance of his writing style, this edition has been updated to make Murray's writing more accessible to modern listeners.

In this audio study guide we will examine Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. In the first section we will examine the life and times of Daniel Defoe. In the next section we will examine the plot of Robinson Crusoe.

Ossman & Steel's Guide to Health or Household Instructor (its original title) is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms. The book draws from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German powwow healing practices that in turn helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, root work, and many folk healing traditions in America. Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil, puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day "backwoods" healers interested in using them today.

In this interactive, informative book, Lewis scholar Majorie Lamp Mead and literary expert Leland Ryken unlock the door to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardobe, inviting you to step inside - deeper and deeper, past the musty fur coats - and gaze in wide-eyed wonder once again at the magical, wintery world Lucy first found.

Full of insight, The Prayer of Jabez is a timeless prayer classic by the prince of preachers that will fill the listener's heart with a hunger to seek God in prayer. If you thought that the prayer of Jabez was about asking God for more stuff, listening to this revealing and challenging audiobook by Charles H. Spurgeon that will give you a Gospel-centered view of this Old Testament man, and his prayer for God's blessing. In this audiobook, Spurgeon analyzes what it means to be blessed and the numerous sorts of blessings we might get, noting the benefits and drawbacks of each.

This audiobook contains condensed versions of 24 literary works intended for literature lessons in the fourth and fifth grades. Russian literature is represented by: Alexandr Volkov's "Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda", Alexandr Pushkin's "Baryshnya-krestyanka", Andrey Platonov's "Raznotsvetnaya babochka", Anton Chekhov's "Loshadinaya familiya", and many more. Also included are Russian folktales and numerous examples from world literature.