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Unlock the more straightforward side of Tropic of Cancer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, which is closely based on the author's time as a struggling writer in Paris, when he drifted from friend to friend, scraped together a living through borrowing and mundane jobs, and spent much of his time drinking and womanising. The novel's explicit sexual...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Uncle Tom's Cabin with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an anti-slavery novel which depicts the life of the title character as he works for a series of masters, as well as the daring escape attempt of a female slave, her husband and her son. Stowe wrote the novel in response to the 1850 Fugitive Slaves...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Underground Railroad with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, which follows Cora, a teenage runaway slave, as she travels through America after escaping a cruel owner and a brutal existence on a plantation, pursued all the while by the feared slave catcher Ridgeway. In her escape, she uses a subterranean...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Vegetarian with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, which traces the dramatic consequences of Yeong-hye's decision to stop eating meat. Her husband and most of her family react with incomprehension and even violence, while her brother-in-law, a struggling video artist, finds himself increasingly drawn to her because...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of A Visit from the Goon Squad with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, which centres around Bennie Salazar, a frustrated middle-aged record executive, and his assistant Sasha, a kleptomaniac with a troubled past. Their stories are interwoven with those of a host of other characters who are all given the...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Voyage Out with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, which tells the story of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman who has led an unfulfilling, sheltered life but begins to find her own voice and sense of identity on a trip to South America. It is Woolf's first novel, and in its use of dreamlike narrative and free indirect...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Waves with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Waves by Virginia Woolf, an experimental novel which is considered a key text of the Modernist literary movement. Interspersed with lyrical descriptions of waves breaking against the shoreline, the novel traces the intertwining lives of six friends from childhood to old age, with each character...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of What Maisie Knew with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of What Maisie Knew by Henry James, which follows a young girl called Maisie and the toll that her parents' divorce and remarriages take on her. Her parents are shown to care very little about her as a person, and simply use her as a weapon to hurt each other. Through Maisie's limited perceptions...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the most popular and enduring of the Canterbury Tales. It is narrated by the eponymous Wife of Bath, a serial widow who frankly discusses her enjoyment of sex and the control she exerted over her husbands, which would have been seen as scandalous at the time. In the story she tells, a knight who has raped a young maiden is sentenced to death, but granted...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Winter's Tale with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, a so-called 'problem play' that is believed to be one of the last works he ever wrote. It tells the story of Leontes, King of Sicily, who comes to (mistakenly) believe that his wife Hermione is having an affair with his friend Polixenes, King of Bohemia....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Wolf Hall with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, which follows Thomas Cromwell as he rises from humble beginnings as a blacksmith's son to a position of virtually unmatched influence at the court of Henry VIII. Intrigue and scheming abound as Henry struggles to secure an annulment to his marriage to Katharine of Aragon...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Woman in Black with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, which follows the ambitious young lawyer Arthur Kipps as he volunteers to travel to remote Eel Marsh House to organise the affairs of the deceased Alice Drablow. However, he quickly becomes aware that the house harbours a dark secret that seems to be linked...
593) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Woman in White with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, a mystery novel which is considered one of the forerunners of the genre of detective fiction. It tells the story of Laura Fairlie and Anne Catherick, two women with an extraordinary resemblance. However, when Laura's duplicitous husband becomes aware of...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of A Woman of No Importance with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde, which tells the story of Gerald Arbuthnot, who has just been offered a job by the renowned dandy Lord Illingworth. However, his mother, who presents herself as a respectable churchgoing widow, strongly objects when she discovers his intentions,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Years with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Years by Virginia Woolf, which follows the members of the same family, the Pargiters, over three generations. In this time, their lives and the world around them change drastically, and they struggle to grasp the meaning of life and connect with other people. The Years was both the last and the...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a haunting short story about a woman suffering from post-partum depression, whose doctor husband prescribes her a 'rest cure': she is to remain in the same room at the top of the house, to see no one, and to refrain from all reading, writing and thinking. However, as time goes by, with nothing to occupy her other than staring at the room's ugly yellow wallpaper,...