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Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 12.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism explores in depth,... more...
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost & The Two Gentlemen of Verona
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1982; US$ 4.95In this fast-paced farce, the plot and characters become tangled up in confusion until the grand unraveling in the last scene. Mistaken identities and misfortunes end on a note of joy, as wrongly condemned prisoners are freed and lovers are paired off. more...
Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1971; US$ 5.99This is the famous 19th-century play about a great swordsman and poet with the unseemly large nose. Although he is feared by opponents, he cannot court the woman of his dreams, except through anonymously sent poems, which makes for a romantic and adventurous tale. more...
Hardy's Jude The Obscure
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1966; US$ 5.99A sad tale of thwarted love, interrupted dreams, and life complications, Jude The Obscure is a chronicle of poverty and puts a focused eye on social conventions. The book caused such a shock when first published that Hardy gave up fiction entirely, writing only in poetry from that time on. more...
Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1970; US$ 5.99"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature.... more...
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997; US$ 5.99An odd book in that it mixes elements of science fiction with psychological analysis, Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a GI prisoner of war. He time-travels and wanders through a mysterious ether where spatial-temporal relationships are at odds with what we accept as reality. more...
Turgenev's Fathers and Sons
Wiley 1966; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.<p><i>CliffsNotes on Fathers and Sons</i> explores the social pressures and conflicts of mid-nineteenth-century <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.... more...
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1994; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on The Handmaid's Tale, you come to realize that for... more...
Twain's The Prince and the Pauper
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1980; US$ 4.95The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Take a journey into old London with CliffsNotes on The Prince and the... more...
Dumas' The Three Musketeers
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1989; US$ 5.99This is the classic adventure story of three musketeers who are joined by a younger member, D'Artagnan. Rollicking fun, high jinks, and amorous forays all go into the grand plot to foul up political machinations. more...









