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The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel set in a version of the US that has been overthrown by religious fundamentalists. In what was once most likely Massachusetts, under the militaristic regime of the Republic of Gilead, women no longer have civil rights or autonomy.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the most influential figures in America during the 19th century. This audiobook, Representative Men, gives an account of how he understood genius, its place in society, its mechanism, and the historical accounts that supported his views. It is fitting that a man of such influence be remembered through his account of greatness in others.

Actor and comedian Kevin O'Brien performs Mark Twain's classic—and delivers four lectures analyzing the brilliance of this great American novel.

Navigating the world of dating can be like wandering an enchanted forest, full of creatures with peculiar habits and baffling behavior. In Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur, Francesca Lia Block provides a guide to this often-treacherous terrain, classifying all those mystifying men and women into various types of mythical forest fauna - Fauns and Werewolves, Mermaids and Banshees. After answering questions to determine your own type, you can learn to identify others.

Unique to this title is: A Historical Introduction, an Overview, and an Analysis of The Main Characters. You may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. The story of The Clockwork Man takes place in 1920 when a strange man appears during a village cricket match. As one of the teams is a player short, the captain of the team recruits the stranger as a substitute for the missing man. The man looks very unusual.

In this audio study guide we will examine Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. In the first section we will examine the life and times of Daniel Defoe. In the next section we will examine the plot of Robinson Crusoe.

With Christ in the School of Prayer offers a structured series of 31 short, concise, practical, and powerful lessons on prayer to fill the listener's heart with a hunger for God's presence. While holding firmly to Andrew Murray's classic teaching and theology and retaining the elegance of his writing style, this edition has been updated to make Murray's writing more accessible to modern listeners.

Full of insight, The Prayer of Jabez is a timeless prayer classic by the prince of preachers that will fill the listener's heart with a hunger to seek God in prayer. If you thought that the prayer of Jabez was about asking God for more stuff, listening to this revealing and challenging audiobook by Charles H. Spurgeon that will give you a Gospel-centered view of this Old Testament man, and his prayer for God's blessing. In this audiobook, Spurgeon analyzes what it means to be blessed and the numerous sorts of blessings we might get, noting the benefits and drawbacks of each.

Un joven millonario con un pasado dudoso aparece en Nueva York. No tiene enlaces con la sociedad que le rodea y nadie sabe cómo consiguió su fortuna salvo él mismo. Pese a las múltiples personas que lo rodean, él es un hombre solitario, atrapado por el amor de una mujer que es casada y a la que quiere recuperar.

This CliffsNotes study guide on Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, and expanded glossaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

This CliffsNotes study guide on William Shakespeare's Othello supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work and critical commentaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

This audiobook contains condensed versions of 24 literary works intended for literature lessons in the fourth and fifth grades. Russian literature is represented by: Alexandr Volkov's "Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda", Alexandr Pushkin's "Baryshnya-krestyanka", Andrey Platonov's "Raznotsvetnaya babochka", Anton Chekhov's "Loshadinaya familiya", and many more. Also included are Russian folktales and numerous examples from world literature.

El pavoroso espectro de la desolación y el triunfo de la solidaridad narradas de manera fantástica en esta joya de la literatura. Albert Camus (1913-1960) narra los avatares del doctor Rieux y de toda una ciudad, Orán, contra una peste de dimensiones sobrecogedoras.

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.

Publicado en 1886 con su propio dinero, Nietzsche se convierte con el fragor de sus páginas en un hombre más frontal que nunca, atacando con fiereza lo que él consideraba la insipidez moral de los pensadores de su siglo, la falta de sentido crítico de los llamados -moralistas- y la pasiva aceptación de la moral heredada judeo-cristiana.

Toda la belleza y exquisitez de una literatura de filigrana, ganadora del Nóbel en 1929. En sus páginas, el lector asistirá a la historia de una admiración prohibida: La del destacado escritor alemán Gustav Von Aschenbach y un hombre polaco dotado de una belleza extraordinaria: Tadzio.

Ossman & Steel's Guide to Health or Household Instructor (its original title) is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms. The book draws from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German powwow healing practices that in turn helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, root work, and many folk healing traditions in America. Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil, puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day "backwoods" healers interested in using them today.

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.

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya, Russa, which inspired the main setting. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

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.