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SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other subjects ...
Current status. Active. 60second Recap is an educational video project launched in September 2009 to provide 60-second video summaries and analysis of classic literature. The site provides one-minute video commentaries on plot, themes, characters, symbols, motifs, and other aspects of books commonly studied in secondary schools in North America.
CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides. The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. The company claims to promote the reading of the original work and does not view the study guides as a substitute for ...
The Gods Themselves. The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov, and his first original work in the science fiction genre in fifteen years (not counting his 1966 novelization of Fantastic Voyage ). It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972, [ 2] and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. [ 3][ 4]
Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. [ 1] She described the theme of Atlas Shrugged as "the role of man's mind in existence" and it includes elements of science ...
PS3553.L365 S5 1975. Followed by. Tai-Pan. James Clavell’s 1975 novel Shōgun is based on events and figures from 1600 Japan when Azuchi–Momoyama period was ending and the Edo period was about to begin. Of Clavell's six-volume Asian Saga series, Shōgun was the third published though it’s historical setting is the oldest of all the books.
Gilead. (novel) Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is Robinson's second novel, following Housekeeping (1980). Gilead is an epistolary novel, as the entire narrative is a single, continuing, albeit episodic, document, written ...
House of Leaves. House of Leaves is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books. A bestseller, it has been translated into a number of languages, and is followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters . The novel is written as a work of epistolary fiction and metafiction focusing on a ...