In this series you will find the treatises to help the students and teachers of English literature. Almost all the classic novels and plays have been summarized and analyzed.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Thirteen Reasons Why by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 17,890. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
It was also the winner of the California Book Award in 2008. The book’s popularity is still on the rise and millions of copies of the novel have been sold across the globe.
Ready Reference Treatise: Gone Girl by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,510. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Nick Dunne is the central character. The entire suspense of the novel comes from Nick and whether he has his hand in the disappearance of his wife.
Ready Reference Treatise: The View from Saturday by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,850. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Children’s books » Classics
There are four students and quiz teammates who narrate one chapter each in the first person. The preface is very skilfully presented and it introduces the respective teammates.
Ready Reference Treatise: A Day No Pigs Would Die by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,260. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Biographical
It follows the life of Rob Peck, the central character, who is coming-of-age in rural Vermont. He lives on an impoverished farm there.
Ready Reference Treatise: Persepolis by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,020. Language: English. Published: September 4, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Biographical
The story is set in the Islamic Republic of Iran after the Islamic Revolution. The title of the book refers to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis. The book was originally published in French. It has been translated into several languages including English.
Ready Reference Treatise: Reading Lolita In Tehran by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,890. Language: English. Published: August 30, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
The book describes the time period when the author happened to be a female professor of Western Literature at the University of Tehran.
Ready Reference Treatise: Never Let Me Go by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,550. Language: English. Published: August 27, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
The novel was nominated for the Booker Prize in the same year of its publication, although the author had already received that award for his book “The Remains of the Day” in 1989.
Ready Reference Treatise: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,010. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Children’s books » Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
The author, E. L. Konigsburg, used to leave her children at the galleries of the Met while she would be taking a painting class in the museum during the 1960s.
Ready Reference Treatise: I am Malala by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,620. Language: English. Published: August 22, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
The author, Malala Yousafzai, was born on 12th July 1997 in the Swat District of Pakistan. The district is in the North-Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Ready Reference Treatise: Doctor Zhivago by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,740. Language: English. Published: August 20, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Historical » General
The story of the novel revolves around the titular character and protagonist, Yuri Zhivago. He is a doctor and poet.
Ready Reference Treatise: Girl With a Pearl Earring by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,200. Language: English. Published: August 16, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
The book was made into a movie in 2003 and then in the year 2008 it was adapted into a play.
Ready Reference Treatise: Between the World and Me by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,840. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » Urban life
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates was first published in 2015. The book is in the form of a letter that the author happens to have written to his teenage son.
Ready Reference Treatise: Brideshead Revisited by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 25,960. Language: English. Published: June 14, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Christian » Contemporary
The author once mentioned that the novel is primarily about the operation of Grace in theological term.
Ready Reference Treatise: Norwegian Wood by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,010. Language: English. Published: May 1, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Toru Watanabe is the narrator of the story. The story is told from the first person perspective. The narrator goes back to his past and describes the days while he had been living as a college student in Tokyo, Japan.
Ready Reference Treatise: Bronx Masquerade by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,320. Language: English. Published: March 24, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » Urban life
As the story opens, all of these characters are or will be enrolled in the same English class. Having joined that English class, all of them believe that they are unique and they have their special thoughts and ideas with them, but it does not prove to be so.
Ready Reference Treatise: The Breadwinner by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,430. Language: English. Published: March 19, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides
The titular character Parvana is the protagonist of the novel. She is only an eleven years old girl, but the adverse circumstances faced by the family compel her to become the breadwinner for the family in a war-torn region, dominated by the Taliban, in Afghanistan.
Ready Reference Treatise: That Was Then, This Is Now by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,640. Language: English. Published: March 12, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides
The book has also been adapted into a very successful movie. The title of the novel is highly noticeable. It has been derived from one of the most significant lines of the novel.
Ready Reference Treatise: A Little Less Girl by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 16,230. Language: English. Published: March 10, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Romance and mystery genres of literature have been very skilfully merged in the story, but at the same time it deals with several major issues of the time.
Ready Reference Treatise: Middlesex by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 18,390. Language: English. Published: March 6, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
“Middlesex” is primarily a coming-of-age novel and a family saga. It chronicles the effect of a mutated gene on the three generations of a Greek family.
Ready Reference Treatise: The Painted Veil by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,310. Language: English. Published: March 2, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Before being published in the form of a novel, “The Painted Veil” was published in serialized form in five issues of Cosmopolitan, between November 1924 and March 1925.
Ready Reference Treatise: And Then There Were None by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,540. Language: English. Published: February 28, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
According the author, “And Then There Were None” was the most difficult book for her to write. When the book was first published in Britain, it was titled “Ten Little Niggers.”
Ready Reference Treatise: Childhood's End by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 12,070. Language: English. Published: February 26, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
With the arrival of the aliens, utopia begins on Earth and it continues for several decades. The Earth is indirectly ruled by the aliens. However, the utopia comes at the cost of human identity and culture.
Ready Reference Treatise: Go Tell It On the Mountain by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,820. Language: English. Published: February 22, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
When the book was first published, it was very well received both by critics and readers across the country. Baldwin’s eloquent and lyrical writing was particularly admired by the critics and scholars.
Ready Reference Treatise: Untouchable by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,140. Language: English. Published: February 21, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Once, Mulk Raj Anand’s aunt had a meal with a Muslim woman. Consequently, she was declared an outcaste by his family. The incident highly inspired Mulk Raj Anand for writing this novel.
Ready Reference Treatise: The Boxcar Children by
Series: Ready Reference Treatises · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,170. Language: English. Published: February 18, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Children’s books » Action & Adventure / Survival Stories
The book’s revised edition was published in 1942. The story revolves around four orphan children named Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. These children make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest.