Literature Study Guide

The samurai are still remembered as some of the fiercest and most skilled warriors in human history. The name alone evokes an image of the grave and powerful swordsman, clad in lacquered armor and armed with a code of honor and clarity of mind that makes the soldiers of the modern era look like children new to the art. But what was it that allowed these men to hone their minds and bodies to such levels of skill and precision? They had no more and no less than any human alive today.

"Un jour, ils sont là. Un jour, sans aucun souci de l'heure. On ne sait pas d'où ils viennent, ni pourquoi ni comment ils sont entrés. Ils entrent toujours ainsi, à l'improviste et par effraction. Et cela sans faire de bruit, sans dégâts apparents. Ils ont une stupéfiante discrétion de passe-muraille. Ils : les personnages. On ignore tout d'eux, mais d'emblée on sent qu'ils vont durablement imposer leur présence." S. G. D'où viennent les personnages des romans et quel chemin suivent-ils dans l'esprit de l'écrivaine ?

Girl, Stop Apologizing is a motivational and self-help book that is narrated for a predominantly female audience. It covers day-to-day experiences that border on work, productivity, and personal life. The core message of this audiobook is for the listener to come to the understanding that they are unique and special. This audiobook contains a comprehensive, well-detailed summary and key takeaways of the original book by Rachel Hollis.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee, is a coming-of-age novel that traces young Scout Finch’s growing awareness of racism in her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. Watching her father, a lawyer, represent a Black man who has been falsely accused of rape, Scout comes to understand some difficult truths about her neighbors and, by extension, about the world. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

This is a summary/study guide of Don Quixote. Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. The story follows the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) named Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante), reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha.

With his book, Mark Hyman aims to erase all the harmful myths we’ve been sold about food and replace them with the right ones. This audiobook contains a comprehensive, well-detailed summary and key takeaways of the original book by Mark Hyman. It summarizes the book in detail to help people effectively understand, articulate, and imbibe the original work. This audiobook is not meant to replace the original book but to serve as a companion to it.

his FastReads summary offers supplementary material to The Nix to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, this FastReads summary is here to help. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

Edward Luce's in-depth analysis of the decline of democracy, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, explores the myriad factors affecting the shift away from a political system many readers will have taken for granted in their lifetimes. This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to The Retreat of Western Liberalism to help you distill the key takeaways and review the book's content.

Author and worry coach Dr. David Carbonell uses a combination of the evolutional concepts of acceptance and commitment therapy as well as cognitive behavioral therapy to teach you how to get hold of your worry trend by leaning and avoiding the trick that your brain uses to get you worried and anxious. This FastReads Analysis offers supplementary material to The Worry Trick to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style.

Don't miss out on the piercing observations and life-altering predictions made by Kevin Kelly in his jarring and thematic book, The Inevitable: Understand the 12 Technological Forces that Shape Our Future. Purchase your copy of this FastReads' Summary with Key Takeaways today! Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable is not a simple book to listen to. His vast ideas and dense prose could make each chapter its own book. Each of these 12 forces that are discussed are "inevitable" not in exactly how they are going to play out, but in that they will in some way over the next 30 years.

Steven Kotler and and Jamie Wheal provide decades of research along with centuries of human knowledge to make their case for the future of transcendent experiences in their book, Stealing Fire. This is a summary, analysis, and review of the book and not the original book

The CliffsNotes study guide on Hinton's The Outsiders supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more.

This is a summary and analysis of It Can't Happen Here and not the original book. With news of the dictatorship Adolph Hitler is building in Germany and the fascist regime taking root in Italy, Lewis Sinclair attacks the basic American precept that something of that magnitude cannot happen here.

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The CliffsNotes study guide on Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, and more.

David Hume's book tackling the subject of belief in God is among the most influential in Western philosophy. Published in 1779, three years after Hume's death, without featuring the author's name, the book was deeply controversial in its day. It is now considered a masterpiece and Hume is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers writing in English.

Communication to our Lord and Savior holds many facets. Poetry is one way of expressing your emotions, concerns and desires. It has a way of revealing those emotions that many of us have a hard time expressing.This book is designed to touch the heart of God through your daily devotion and meditation specified through poetry. It is conveniently constructed into categories so that you can go right to the poem that is fitting to your situation.

Sun Tzu was a Chinese general who is credited with The Art of War, a military strategy guide. Its principles are written broadly enough that many of them still apply to non-military struggles today. Below are some of Sun Tzu's timelessly relevant maxims, analyzed and modernized for today's strategic risk management battles.

Aware both of the excitement and uncertainty generated by The Shack, theologian Randal Rauser takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the pages of the story. In successive chapters he explores many of the books complex and controversial issues. Through these chapters Rauser offers an honest and illuminating discussion which opens up a new depth to the conversation while providing the reader with new opportunities for Finding God in The Shack.

This practical look at sexual purity is written directly to teens in a frank, accessible, and totally honest style to help them make decisions for sexual integrity. When Young Men Are Tempted discusses factors surrounding sexual temptation and presents a strategy to encourage and assist young men to lead morally pure lives. Author Bill Perkins offers success stories as well as testimonies of false solutions.