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Literature Help: Into the Wild by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 8,830. Language: English. Published: November 8, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Adventure » Men’s adventure
This highly successful book was also adapted into a movie in the year 2007. The movie was directed by Sean Penn and the leading star in the film was Emile Hirsch.
Literature Help: The Jew of Malta by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 7,590. Language: English. Published: November 12, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
“The Jew of Malta” by Christopher Marlow is assumed to have been written either in 1589 or 1590. The plot of the play is based on religious conflict, intrigue, and vengeance.
Literature Help: The Kite Runner by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 14,680. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American
According to the author, “The Kite Runner” is basically a father-son story. Even in his later works, he uses this subject matter.Although the author explores several themes in the novel, guilt and redemption come out as the most significant themes.
"The Five People You Meet In Heaven" Summarized and Analyzed by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 10,250. Language: English. Published: November 23, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Adventure » Men’s adventure
“The Five People You Meet In Heaven” by Mitch Albom was first published in 2003. The story revolves around the life and death of Eddie, a maintenance man.
Literature Help: Love In the Time of Cholera by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 8,850. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
The story revolves around the major characters Florentino Ariza, Fermina, Daza, and Dr. Juvenal Urbino. There are several flashback scenes and numerous repetitions, which with the element of foreshadowing makes the narrative highly unconventional yet very emphatic.
Literature Help: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,450. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » Romance
“Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” by Stephen Crane was first published in 1893. This novella by this famous American novelist was not very well received when it was first published. It did not win literary acclaim and public attention.
"Main Street" Summarized and Analyzed by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 13,210. Language: English. Published: December 4, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
The author very skillfully uses the local speech, and presents the local customs. He criticizes the small town locale. The satire in the novel is double-edged: it is aimed at the simple townspeople and at the same time it satires the superficial intellectuals who look down on them.
"The Man Who was Almost a Man" Summarized and Analyzed by
Series: Study Guides: English Literature · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,350. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » General
On the surface it appears to be a very simple story about a young boy who wants to have a gun, but the story very intelligently and descriptively explores the underlying themes of racism and the struggles of an individual in America that was divided on the basis of color, caste, ethnicity, and religion.
Literature Help: The Member of the Wedding by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,680. Language: English. Published: December 6, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » Contemporary woman
It is said that Carson McCullers had initially planned to write a story about a girl who happens to be in love with her piano teacher, but she suddenly found something which compelled her to change it into a full length novel.
Literature Companion: My Name is Asher Lev by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,810. Language: English. Published: December 12, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Jewish
The novel is set in a Hasidic Jewish Community in the 1950s, in Brooklyn, New York. The protagonist lives in that community but he also studies art outside in New York, Massachusetts, and Europe. As the story progresses he grows into an artist and a good Jew.
"The Namesake" Summarized and Analyzed by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.50 USD. Words: 8,260. Language: English. Published: December 14, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
As a teenager, Gogol rejects his name because he finds it strange-sounding. In his college, he begins to use his public name Nikhil that becomes his permanent name.
"Native Son" Summarized and Analyzed by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,510. Language: English. Published: December 19, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » Urban life
“Native Son” by Richard Wright was first published in 1940. It was originally the title of Nelson Algren’s first novel, “Somebody in Boots.” The story of that novel was based on a piece of doggerel about the first Texan.
Literature Companion: One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.50 USD. Words: 10,340. Language: English. Published: December 24, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Historical » General
“One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn was first published in 1962. It was first published in the form of a story in the Soviet literary magazine “Novy Mir” (New World).
Literature Companion: The Quiet American by
Series: A Quick Guide · Study Guides: English Literature. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,300. Language: English. Published: December 30, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides
It is an anti-war novel that describes the events drawn on the author’s own experiences as a war correspondent. The author was the war correspondent for ‘The Times’ and ‘Le Figaro’ in French Indochina 1951 to 1954.
Place of Women In China by
Series: Study Guides: English Literature, Book 167 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,060. Language: English. Published: November 19, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Customs & Traditions, Nonfiction » Social Science » Social classes
In ancient China, the place of women in the Chinese society was not commendable, for they were compelled to spend their lives under the dominance of the males. There was no gender equality before the Cultural Revolution in China.
Place of Women In Iran by
Series: Study Guides: English Literature, Book 232 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,660. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Public affairs
Iranian women have always enjoyed better rights than the women in any other Islamic country in the Arabian world. Since ancient times, the participation of Iranian women in politics, arts, culture, and education has been almost equal to the men in the society. After the Islamic Revolution, some of the women's rights were repealed in Iran.
Place of Women In Japan by
Series: Study Guides: English Literature, Book 233 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,700. Language: English. Published: March 24, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Current affairs
The entire Japanese history shows that the role of gender has been very important principle of stratification, but the modern historians or social scientists have begun to raise questions on it.
Place of Women In Pakistan by
Series: Study Guides: English Literature, Book 170 · A Quick Guide. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,880. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Public affairs
It is generally said that the women in Pakistan do not enjoy the rights and status which they deserve like the women in most of the countries in the other parts of the world, but it is not so. The modern Pakistani women enjoy a better status than most Muslim women in any other part of the world.
Place of Women In Saudi Arabia by
Series: Study Guides: English Literature, Book 231 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,840. Language: English. Published: December 8, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Nonfiction » Politics & Current Affairs » Public affairs
Up to this day, the women in Saudi Arabia do not have voting rights. They are forbidden from voting or being elected to political office, however, King Abdullah, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, recently declared that Saudi women will be able to vote and run in the local elections in the year 2015.
Quick Guide: Adam Bede by
Series: Quick Guides to Novels and Plays, Book 2 · Study Guides: English Literature, Book 6 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,170. Language: English. Published: July 6, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Classics
“Adam Bede” was the first novel written by George Eliot. Actually, George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. The book was first published in 1859. The first edition of the book was published pseudonymously, although Mary Ann Evans was already well published author and an extremely respected scholar of her time.
Quick Guide: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by
Series: Quick Guides to Novels and Plays, Book 34 · Study Guides: English Literature, Book 244 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,790. Language: English. Published: May 31, 2014 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Literary
It is said to be the author’s most successful novel. The significant point is that the book was written just after she had begun her literary career. During that period, her children were at preschool.
Quick Guide: Black Like Me by
Series: Quick Guides to Novels and Plays, Book 9 · Study Guides: English Literature, Book 13 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 7,780. Language: English. Published: August 16, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » African American fiction » Historical
The protagonist and the narrator of the book, John Howard Griffin, is a middle aged white man. He lives in Mansfield, Texas in 1959.
Quick Guide: Blade Runner by
Series: Quick Guides to Novels and Plays, Book 21 · Study Guides: English Literature, Book 164 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,730. Language: English. Published: November 11, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Screenplays » Sci-Fi
The story is loosely based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” which was written by Philip K. Dick. The screenplay of the film was written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
Quick Guide: Casino Royale by
Series: Quick Guides to Novels and Plays, Book 4 · Study Guides: English Literature, Book 8 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.50 USD. Words: 2,830. Language: English. Published: July 15, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Fiction » Adventure » Men’s adventure
Ian Fleming is known for his James Bond novels. He is one of the most widely read novelists in the young world. “Casino Royale” was the first novel written by Ian Fleming. With the success of this novel, he went on to write further eleven novels and two short story collections.
Quick Guide: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by
Series: Quick Guides to Novels and Plays, Book 19 · Study Guides: English Literature, Book 157 · A Quick Guide. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,760. Language: English. Published: October 7, 2013 by Raja Sharma. Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Study guides, Plays » American / African American
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams is a Four Act play. It was first enacted in 1955. The play was produced by the Playwrights’ Company. It is known as one of the best known plays written by Tennessee Williams, and it is also said to be the author’s favourite.