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Blindness tells the story of a group of people who, for some unknown reason, suddenly lose their sight. They are all sent to an asylum where the inmates quickly turn to violence and force to get what they want. As tensions grow and people become increasingly dehumanized, everybody wants to escape. But without knowing what caused the blindness epidemic, how can anybody...
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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 Interview with the Vampire with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, which tells the story of Louis de Pointe du Lac, a 200-year-old vampire. After being turned into a vampire by the handsome but utterly amoral Lestat, Louis lived on a planatation and grew close to Claudia, a five-year-old girl who was also turned...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Flowers of Evil with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire, who is now considered to be a pioneer of the symbolist and modernist movements. In this collection of controversial poetry, he defies traditional conventions and seeks a new form of poetic expression. Upon its release, the work was very controversial...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Howards End with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Howards End by E. M. Forster, which tells the story of the idealistic Schlegel sisters and their turbulent relationship with the Wilcoxes, who care only about money and have no qualms about trampling others to get it. Meanwhile, the sisters seek to help the destitute clerk Leonard Bast, but their...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Wave with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Wave by Todd Strasser, a novel based on real events in an American high school in the 1960s. When Ben Ross, an ambitious young history teacher, is teaching his class about life in Nazi Germany, he is at a loss to explain how so many ordinary Germans stood by while their government committed atrocities....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Matilda with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Matilda by Roald Dahl, the story of a young girl with a passion for reading, something which her parents simply cannot understand. She discovers that she has incredible powers and decides to use them to save her favourite teacher, and the whole school, from their terrifying head teacher, Miss Trunchbull....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of For Whom the Bell Tolls with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, one of the author's most famous and widely acclaimed novels. It draws on the author's own experience as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a demolitions specialist who is sent to blow up...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Life and Times of Michael K with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee, which tells the story of the titular protagonist's journey to the farm where his mother grew up. Although his mother dies on the way, Michael continues to the farm alone, where he takes refuge from the civil war raging throughout the country,...
10) Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Jacques the Fatalist with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot, which follows the eponymous protagonist as he travels with his master towards an unknown destination. Along the way, they find themselves in a series of comical situations, meet a colourful cast of characters and debate a range of philosophical subjects....
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which tells the story of young Huck Finn as he escapes "civilisation" by fleeing down the Mississippi River on a raft. On his way, he meets Jim, a young escaped slave, and the two boys become firm friends. Even though he knows...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Man in the High Castle with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, a work of speculative fiction which imagines what the world would be like if the Allies had lost the Second World War. In this alternate history, America is occupied by Nazis and the Japanese, who have divided the continent between them...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Carrie with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Carrie by Stephen King, a cult horror novel about a young girl who is bullied and isolated by her peers, while also being psychologically abused and neglected by her mother. However, Carrie also has a secret: she has powerful telekinetic powers, and when her tormentors take one of their pranks too far,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Misanthrope with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Misanthrope by Molière, a comedy of manners which satirises the hypocrisy and falseness of 17th-century aristocratic society in France. Alceste, the misanthrope of the title, prides himself on his total honesty and frankness, but this puts him at odds with the play's other characters and...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Go Tell It on the Mountain with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, a lyrical novel about familial and racial tensions in 20th-century America. It centres on 14-year-old John Grimes and the older members of his family, most of whom have moved North to escape the more violent forms of racism they faced in...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet, in which the author draws on his own fading memories of his youth to create a rather singular autobiography. The result is an unembellished account of his days as a thief, beggar, smuggler, wanderer, prison inmate and prostitute, written in a lyrical style that finds the beauty in the misfortunes he experienced. Genet himself described the book as an ode to his own holy...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, which tells the story of a charismatic, unconventional schoolteacher and the students who are in thrall to her. Miss Brodie captivates the girls who make up her "set", but her charm conceals a worrying penchant for fascism and a manipulate...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Bel Ami with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant, a realist novel depicting the bourgeois society of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Georges Duroy and his quest to achieve social status using his charm and intelligence and with the help of wealthy mistresses. De Maupassant was a disillusioned writer, and his...
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, a highly complex novel which brings together a wide range of characters and seemingly random, jumbled episodes in a non-linear timeline. However, the plot is anchored in the character of Yossarian, a bombardier in the Air Forces who spends the novel constantly searching for a way to be dismissed from the military, usually on grounds of insanity, only to be perpetually rebuffed...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Carmen with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, which tells the story of a notorious brigand called don José as he falls in love with the beautiful Gypsy of the title and abandons his promising career as a soldier to become a thief and murderer in a desperate attempt to win her affections. However, don José gradually...
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