George Eliot takes the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it creates a portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people - their labors and loves, their beliefs, their speech. This concise supplement to George Eliot's Adam Bede…
Ernest Pontifex, protagonist in The Way of All Flesh, battles his father's iron will in a personal struggle to fully realize the potential of the self. While taking the position of an intellectual gadfly determined to attack the shams of society, Pontifex also assumes the de fac…
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background - all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Austen's Sense an…
A large book of much variety, it combines romance and realism and resembles more than one fictional genre. The story is partly an adolescent's initiation into the adult world, partly a romance, and partly a murder mystery. It is also a novel of social criticism and the inhumanit…
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background - all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Asimov's Foundati…
This concise supplement to the work of Isaac Asimov helps students understand the overall structure of the works, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.