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	How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines By: Foster, Thomas, C. What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched ... more
	Aspects of the Novel By: Forster, E. M. Certain people pretend to tell us what birth and death are like: a mother, for instance, has her point of view about birth; a doctor, a religious, have their poin ... more
	CliffsNotes Death of a Salesman By: Scheidt, Jennifer L. Miller's most famous play, it is the story of the American Dream gone awry when a small man is destroyed by society's false values.
	Shedding Light on His Dark Materials: Exploring Hidden Spiritual Themes in Philip Pullman's Popular Series By: Bruner, Kurt, Ware, Jim Best selling authors of Finding God in the Lord of the Rings Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware team ... more
	CliffsNotes To Kill a Mockingbird By: Castleman, Tamara A coming-of-age story set in the South, the novel narrated by Scout, a young girl on the brink of a life-changing event. rich with subjects for conve ... more
	Unauthorized Half-Blood Prince(tm) Update: Harry Potter Book Six by J. K. Rowling By: Zimmerman, W. , Frederick This is a work of news reporting and analysis which describes what is currently known and speculated about " ... more
	The Unofficial Guide to Harry Potter By: Down, Ellie The world of Harry Potter is richly populated with incredible creatures, dark villains, best friends and countless mysteries. This little guide is cra ... more
	CliffsNotes Atlas Shrugged By: Bernstein, Andrew Who is John Galt? This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair ... more
	CliffsNotes All Quiet on the Western Front By: Van Kirk, Susan, Tubach, G. This war novel is actually an anti-war novel, tracing the lives and losses of a young group of soldiers caught in the brutality of Worl ... more
	The Apology - PLATO By: Plato There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to ... more
	Shakespeare on Love & Lust By: Charney, Maurice A leading Shakespearean authority untangles the legendary writer's witty, bawdy, and ambiguous treatment of sex, love, and desire. Delves deeply into Shake ... more
	Art, Culture, and the Semiotics of Meaning By: Barry, Jackson Do the arts mean? Do all the arts mean? Do they all mean in the same way? Does an art work mean in the same way in which a street sign means? Mor ... more
	The Aeneid of Virgil By: Virgil Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world -- as literature as well. Virgil' ... more

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	Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece By: Van Steen, Gonda A. H. Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first crit ... more

	The Erotic Bird: Phenomenology in Literature By: Natanson, Maurice How does literature illuminate the way we live? Maurice Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's unique powe ... more

	Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume I By: Furth, Robin ""I found this overview of In-World, Mid-World, and end-World both entertaining and invaluable. So, I am convinced, will you." -- from t ... more

	CliffsNotes As I Lay Dying By: Roberts, James, Roberts, PhD James By telling the story through the voices of several narrators, Faulkner provided deep observations of a Southern family's move to a new town an ... more

	Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History By: Rubin, Harriet "In the vein of Brunelleschi's Dome, Galileo's Daughter, and Wittgenstein's Poker, Dante in Love is a geographic and spiritual re ... more

	Areopagitica By: Milton, John In 1644 the english poet and man of letters, John Milton, published the Areopagitica as an appeal to Parliament to rescind their Licensing Order of June 16th, 1643. This ... more

	On Memory and Reminiscence - ARISTOTLE By: Aristotle Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thou ... more

	Literary Theory - The Pocket Essential Guide By: Carter, David It sounds daunting: all those '-isms', long technical words, weird French thinkers and incomprehensible Germans. You can't read a book nowadays, ... more

	The Confederation Handbook By: Hamilton, Peter F. The Night's Dawn trilogy has been one of the most triumphant works of science fiction to appear in decades. Swiftly gathering a worldwide readership, th ... more

	Charles Dickens By: Smiley, Jane With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally find ... more