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A Study Guide for Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain," 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 Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War," 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 Ernest Gaines's "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman," 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 Toni Morrison's "Beloved," 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 William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," 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 Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John," 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 W. H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts," 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 Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead," 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 Pat Frank's "Alas," 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; and much...

A Study Guide for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," 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 Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice," 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 J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," 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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)," 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 Octavio Paz's "Sunstone," 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 William Butler Yeats' "Easter 1916," 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 Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died-," 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 Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for "Thomas Paine's Common Sense," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," 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 Thomas Clayton Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel," 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 Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News," 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 Isabel Allende's "Zorro," 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 Willa Cather's "The Song of the Lark," 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 Hersey's "A Bell For Adano," 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 Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of Avalon," 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 Peter Brook's "Lord of the Flies (film entry)," 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 Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons," 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 Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," 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 Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," 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 William Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale," 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 Charles Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers," 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 Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Who Understands Me But Me," 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 Stephen Colbert's "White House Correspondents' Association Dinner 2006 Speech," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author...

A Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes's "Where the Air Is Clear," 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...

A Study Guide for Harold Glen Borland's "When the Legends Die," 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 Walter Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale," 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 Sheila Gordon's "Waiting for the Rain," 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 Charlotte Bronte's "Villette," 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 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical...

A Study Guide for Christina Rosetti's "Uphill," 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 Gish Jen's "Typical American," 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 Eve Merriam's "Two People I Want to Be Like," 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 Shmuel ha-Nagid's "Two Eclipses," 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 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Tuesday Siesta," 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 Virginia Woolf 's "The Widow and the Parrot," 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 Anna Deavere Smith's "Twilight: Los Angeles,1992," 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 Robert Olen Butler's "Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle," 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 Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions...