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A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Shakespeare for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context;...

A Study Guide for Aphra Behn's "The Rover," 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 Saki's "The Storyteller," 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 Joseph A. Walker's "The River Niger," 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 Gao Xingjian's "The Other Shore," 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 James Martin Fenton's "The Milk Fish Gatherers," 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 Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "The Martyr," 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 Jean Giraudoux's "The Madwoman of Chaillot," 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 Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake," 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 Isaac Asimov's "The Machine that Won the War," 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 Manuel Puig's "The Kiss of the Spider Woman," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions;...

A Study Guide for Joseph Kramm's "The Shrike," 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 Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II's "The King and I," 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 Christina Stead's "The Man Who Loved Children," 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 Andre Gide's "The Immoralist," 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 Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," 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 Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," 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 Carson McCullers's "The Haunted Boy," 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 Tomas Rivera's "The Harvest," 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 Walter Dean Myers's "The Glory Field," 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 Gina Ochsner's "The Necessary Grace to Fall," 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 Carolyn Forche's "The Garden Shukkei-En," 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 Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things," 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 Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Time of the Hero," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions;...

A Study Guide for Ben Hecht's "The Front Page," 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 Larry Shue's "The Foreigner," 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 Bernard Malamud's "The Fixer," 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 Henrik Ibsen's "The Wild Duck," 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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," 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 Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," 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 Amy Lowell's "The Taxi," 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 Russell Banks's "The Sweet Hereafter," 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 Frank D. Gilroy's "The Subject Was Roses," 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 Josefina Niggli's "The Street of the Canon," 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 Ann Petry's "The Street," 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 Kate Chopin's "The Storm," 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 Carson McCullers's "The Square Root of Wonderful," 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 David Henry Hwang's "The Sound of a Voice," 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 Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier," 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 Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth," 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 Anthony Doerr's "The Shell Collector," 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 Michael Cristofer's "The Shadow Box," 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 Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "The Satyr's Heart," 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 Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses," 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 Gail Tsukiyama's "The Samurai's Garden," 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 Peter Barnes's "The Ruling Class," 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 Conrad Aiken's "The Room," 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 Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife," 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...