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Cliffs Notes: Malcolm X's Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Shepard, Ray
Published by: Cliffs Notes
This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim movement, his life story is provocative and engrossing.
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Cliffs Notes: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
By: Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Published by: Hungry Minds
For every utopia, there's a corresponding dystopia. This tale of a bleak future depicts a time where women are valued only for their reproductive capacities. While the novel is horrifying, there are moments of poetic warmth and humor. It is a brilliant satire.
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Cliffs Notes: Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper
By: Allen, L. David; Roberts, James L.
Published by: Cliffs Notes
Satirizing the adage that 'the grass is always greener on the other side,' Twain gives us two characters who switch social place and status. Oddly, the changes only bring confusion and unhappiness for both of them.
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Cliffs Notes: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
By: Fitzwater, Eva
Published by: Cliffs Notes
While the legend of Faustus has been around in some form or another since the New Testament, Marlowe's drama is the first to give it a place in the pantheon of Western literature. The famous deal Faustus makes with the Devil is a theme repeated since time immemorial and continues to provide a meaningful moral lesson.
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Cliffs Notes: McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
By: Inness, Jeanne
Published by: Cliffs Notes
All the Pretty Horses is the first novel in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. The young John Grady Cole and his two companions journey from Texas through Mexico as orphans of sorts, and through their struggles for their horses, with the law, and with a landowning Mexican family, they travel toward maturity. As the first in a series, it begins to reveal John Grady Cole's character and presents the loss of the West, for Cole ultimately loses love and takes his place as a lone figure, on a horse, on the American landscape. The book was adapted for the screen in 2000.
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Cliffs Notes: Melville's Billy Budd & Typee
By: Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Published by: Cliffs Notes
Forty years separate the writing of these books, and Melville's moral concerns are highly visible in Billy Budd, in which a young sailor willingly accepts his punishment after accidentally killing an evil man.
In Typee, Melville romanticized his own adventures as a merchant seaman on a Polynesian island. Typee is generally considered nothing more than adventure and travel writing, whereas Billy Budd is open to interpretation and is considered a much more literary work.
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Cliffs Notes: Melville's Moby Dick
By: Baldwin, Stanley P.
Published by: Hungry Minds
While the plot of this Great American Novel, the story of a sea captain's obsession with a white whale, is fairly straightforward, the possible interpretations and meanings of it are immense and unknowable in scope. With its myriad of metaphors, symbols, and characters, Moby Dick is as immense as the world itself.
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Cliffs Notes: Miller's The Crucible
By: Scheidt, Jennifer L.; Calandra, Denis M.
Published by: Cliffs Notes
Explore Arthur Miller's superior play about good and evil, self-identity and morality by looking into Boost your insight (and impress your teachers as a result!) by using this study guide to gain understanding about the play's central story, set during the Salem witch hunts in the 1600s.
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Cliffs Notes: Milton's Paradise Lost
By: Linn, Bob
Published by: Hungry Minds
Retelling the Judeo-Christian story of creation, Milton provides an otherworldly look into the dialogue of God, Satan, and human beings. His subject is Adam's first disobedience to God and the loss of Eden. This dense classic has permeated and influenced thought for centuries.
This concise supplement to Milton's Paradise Lost helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
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