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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, which tells the tale of Mikael Blomkvist who is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young girl that happened 37 years earlier. In his search to uncover the shocking truth, he discovers horrifying secrets about rape, murder...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Giver with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Giver by Lois Lowry, which follows a young boy in a futuristic society who is called on to become his community's "Receiver of Memory". As he shoulders the burden of his society's collective memory, he soon realizes that the apparently idyllic world he lives in is based on a shocking lie. As he...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Go Set a Watchman with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, the sequel to the globally renowned To Kill a Mockingbird, which forces readers and characters alike to accept some difficult truths when the narrator, Scout, returns to her hometown and becomes infuriated with the stagnation, lack of ambition and backwards...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Grey with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Grey by E. L. James, which tells the tale of submissive and naive Ana who receives her sexual education from a very dominating man, Christian Grey. Following on from the enormous success of the Fifty Shades trilogy, Grey retells the story but from Christian's perspective, allowing the reader to understand...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, which tells the story of Juliet Ashton, a writer who one day is contacted by a man living in Guernsey. Through a series of letters exchanged with him and other residents...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Help with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Help by Kathryn Stockett, which is set in the United States of the 1960s when segregation and racism were rife. It centers around a white woman who decides to collect the testimonies of black maids to illustrate segregation, and of the two maids who risk their lives to help her with her project....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Hound of the Baskervilles with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, which tells the tale of the Baskerville family who have been cursed by an evil spirit. Following the death of a member of this family, Sherlock Holmes comes on the case to try and find the truth behind this evil spirit and put...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of House of Cards with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of House of Cards by Michael Dobbs, which tells the exciting tale of Francis Urquhart, a politician who is determined to get to the top and will stop at nothing to get there. Both the novel and its television adaptations have won countless awards, from Political Book of the Year to multiple Golden...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, the tragic tale of a deformed bell-ringer, a beautiful Roma girl and the complicated love affair in which they become entangled. While many people have seen the Disney adaptation, the original novel is much more complex and intricate, providing...
110) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Hunger Games with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the bestselling dystopian trilogy about Katniss Everdeen, a girl who voluntarily takes her sister's place in her totalitarian society's deadly annual games and, in her determination to survive and to save Peeta, her on and off lover, unwittingly becomes the...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. The book tells the story of Malala's childhood, which was marked by the increasing control of the...
112) The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Ice Princess with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg, which centres around the murder of woman and the desperate attempts of her childhood friends to unravel the mystery and discover the dark truth lurking in the past. Packed with suspense and intrigue, The Ice Princess will keep you hooked from beginning...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Idiot with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a masterpiece of Russian literature. This novel, in which topics such as the meaning of life and the representation of Christ are tackled, tells the story of an innocent and naïve man who loves two women and gets caught in a tragic love quartet, trapped in a merciless...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Iliad with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Iliad by Homer, a classic epos which has inspired countless other artistic works in the Western world, and which narrates the feats of glorious heroes. At the center of the story is Achilles, an invincible hero, whose anger influences the course of a war, and whose fight against the brave Hector...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of In Praise of Folly with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of In Praise of Folly by Erasmus, an entertaining yet thought-provoking essay written from the perspective of Folly herself. The essay focuses on social and religious issues and superstitions, raising interesting questions while still managing to remain amusing and light-hearted. In Praise of...
116) The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Infernal Machine with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau, which is a sometimes comical, often tragic play. The author revisits the Ancient myth of Oedipus, parodying some parts, including references to psychoanalysis and Shakespeare's Hamlet, and highlighting the inescapable quality of the bitter fate awaiting...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Inferno with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Inferno by Dante Alighieri, a classic of Italian and global literature, in which the poet explores the nine Circles of Hell with Virgil as guide, in order to learn how to save his soul. This work has inspired many artists throughout the ages who have created sculptures, architecture, films and animations...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell, which tells the story of a former surgeon who has retired to live in almost total isolation on a remote island. However, one day his world is turned upside down when he meets the former lover he abandoned thirty years earlier. This forces him to confront his past and make amends for his previous actions, ultimately drawing him out of his self-imposed solitude. The novel...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, which tells the story of a learned professor who decides to venture into the centre of the Earth, accompanied by his nephew and a guide. Inside, they encounter many adventures and discover incredible fossils, animals and...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Journey to the End of the Night with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, which centres around a man who relentlessly chases joy from Africa to New York, before discovering the truth about his pursuit of happiness. Despite controversy due to the novel's unapologetic condemnation of post-war...