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A Study Guide for J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary News For Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical...

A Study Guide for Luiz Valdez's "Zoot Suit," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Zlateh the Goat," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Anne Sexton's "Young," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and...

A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical...

A Study Guide for Sook Nyul Choi's "Year of Impossible Goodbyes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "Women's Work," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "Women," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and...

A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "Woman Work," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for James Welch's "Winter in the Blood," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Nikki Giovanni's "Winter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A Study Guide for Al Purdy's "Wilderness Gothic," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Sarah Orne Jewett's "White Heron," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions;...

A Study Guide for Tess Uriza Holthe's "When the Elephants Dance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A Study Guide for Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Julianna Baggott 's "What the Poets Could Have Been," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Pearl Cleage's "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Rosellen Brown's "What Are Friends For," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Marie Howe's "What Belongs to Us," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim 's "West Side Story," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much...

A Study Guide for William Congreve's "Way of the World," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Liam O'Flaherty's "Wave," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Graham Swift's "Waterland," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "Wasp's Nest," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Walker Brothers Cowboy," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A Study Guide for Robert Heinlein's "Waldo," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Anna Akhmatova's "Voronezh," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for George Herbert's "Virtue," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "Vengeful Creditor," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Athol Fugard's "Valley Song," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidden Mourning," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...

A Study Guide for Mori Ogai's "Under Reconstruction," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Octavio Paz 's "Two Bodies," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further...

A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Shakespeare for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Sam Shepard's "True West," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Gary Snyder's "True Night," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...

A Study Guide for Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Jane Kenyon's "Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical...

A Study Guide for Padgett Powell's "Trick or Treat," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for...

A Study Guide for Walter Dean Myers's "Treasure of Lemon Brown," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading;...