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This audio study guide for Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the nature-human continuum and the dichotomy between White and indigenous life....

Told through the frame of a cross-country motorcycle journey, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance explores its characters' search for spiritual meaning and peace in a technological, automated age....

This audio study guide for Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as lacking meaning in one’s life, faith, and human decency....

This audio study guide for Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as over-consumption and the intersection of science and spirituality....

This audio study guide for Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as free will versus obedience, identity, consciousness, and the self....

This audio study guide for The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as childhood trauma as a lifelong problem....

This audio study guide for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the importance of proverbs and fathers and sons....

This audio study guide for Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and in-depth exploration of the book’s symbols, motifs, and themes such as oppression, class struggle, and the dialectical interpretation of history....

This audio study guide for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the hollowing out of the American Dream....

This audio study guide for Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reclaiming one's true nature and cycles of life and mind....

This audio study guide for Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as civilization as an exchange between host bodies and parasites....

This audio study guide for Goodbye to Berlin includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as Isherwood’s invisible sexual identity, the apathy of the average citizen, and more....

This audio study guide for Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the danger and risk of supernatural powers, indigenous identity and culture, and more....

This audio study guide for A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the nature of God, love, and loss....

This audio study guide for When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

This audio study guide for Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faëza Guène includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the restrictive nature of gender roles and negotiating cultural boundaries....

This audio study guide for A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as perseverance, identity and displacement, and the importance of family....

This audio study guide for The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes....

This audio study guide for Lord of the Flies by William Golding includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the human beast and survival of the fittest....

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This guide for The Overstory by Richard Powers includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 12 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis....