CliffsNotes on Vonnegut’s Major Works (Cliffs notes)
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Kurt Vonnegut takes on many aspects of life and America, science and fantasy. He points a camera at society and individuals, obscures certain elements of narrative device, and then reveals a twisted, yet recognizable picture.
Cliffsnotes Sons and Lovers (Cliffs notes)
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Paul Morel is a sensitive son of an English miner. He is devoted to his mother and torn between his love for Miriam and his bond with his mother. He rejects Miriam and turns to an older, married woman, but soon discovers that he cannot fully love a woman while his mother is alive.
Cliffsnotes on Kingsolvers the Bean Trees (Cliffs Notes)
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Ten years ago, Barbara Kingsolver published a first novel that is well on its way to becoming a classic work of American fiction. The Bean Trees is a book readers have taken to their hearts. It is now a standard in college literature classes across the nation and has been translated for a readership stretching from Japan to Romania.When it was firs[Read More]
Cliffsnotes Lord Jim (Cliffs notes)
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This short novel tells the story of a young man looking to find a life in the world of seafarers. Reality invades one's plans, though. By the end, cowardice and inadequacy haunt the protagonist. This is a classic of psychological fiction.
CliffsNotes On Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember, Teacher’s Guide (Cliff Notes)
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Help your students get the most from Nicholas Sparks' A Walk to Remember with CliffsNotes—the original study guides. Whether you've taught the novel countless times or are a newcomer to Sparks' work, this guide is the perfect companion to teaching the wildly popular A Walk to Remember. Your students will fall in love with the story of Jami[Read More]
CliffsNotes on Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (Cliffs Notes)
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This novel describes the lives of four Asian women who fled China in the 1940s and their contentious relationships with their four very Americanized daughters. It is a moving testament of the differences in generation and culture.
Cliffsnotes the Federalist Notes (Cliffs notes)
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The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloq[Read More]
CliffsNotes on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
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Each of these stories deals with the "dark side" of the human character. Heart of Darkness is a journey up a Congo river to where an ivory agent, Kurtz, mentally disintegrates into a grotesque creature. The Secret Sharer is about a murderous captain who is tragically alienated from other people.
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well & The Merry Wives of Windsor (Cliffs notes)
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Here is one of Shakespeare's problematic plays and his most farcical. The arc of love's victory in All's Well That Ends Well doesn't compel an audience's compassion, yet it is still a skillfully written play. The Merry Wives of Windsor has been criticized for having been written in 14 days, yet it brims with wit and features a new tale of Falstaff,[Read More]
CliffsNotes on Lewis’ Babbitt (Cliffs notes)
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Shooting arrows at American business and the ethic of self-advancement, Lewis gives us Babbitt, a social-climbing, hopelessly middle-class oaf. By skewering the borgeousie, Babbitt gives us social criticism and a new type of character that reappears in American arts and letters.
