Detailed Summaries of Great Literature

Detailed Summaries of Great Literature

This book is not meant to demean, degrade, deride or any other “de” you can imagine. Instead, it’s meant to elicit a smile or maybe even a laugh. From time to time, it’s good to lighten up even about something as serious as the immigrants who have chosen America as their new country. Perhaps, if we can find humor in their attempts to use American expressions (idioms), we can become more light-hearted about the challenges they face in the process of adapting to a new language and customs in...

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A journey into the subconscious minds of three people searching for answers and peace through personal turmoil.This volume collects the complete run of Psychoanalysis, recolored digitally using the original palette, featuring art by legendary comics talent Jack Kamen and stories by Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)!Collects Psychoanalysis issues #1-#4.

A full-cast BBC drama of an epic family saga based on the novel by Maisie MoscoThis series follows one Jewish family as they set off to Manchester to escape persecution in Russia and to try to make a life elsewhere. It is a story told through a huge expanse of time, right up and through the World Wars. A story of change, of survival and success.From 1791 to 1917 thousands of Jews lived in 'The Pale of Settlement' in the west of the Russian Empire. Then afte...

A river pebble on a charm bracelet has an astonishing true story to tell, of one family’s bravery and survival in harsh colonial Australia . . .When artistic Millie visits a long-lost aunt, she learns the true story of her family’s tragic past. Could the mysterious ghost girl Millie has painted be her own ancestor?In 1839, Charlotte Atkinson lives at Oldbury, a gracious estate in the Australian bush, with her Mamma and her sisters and brother. But after the...

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Broken down in the middle of nowhere Mortimer Cleveland, a psychic researcher, seeks shelter in an isolated home. From the moment he steps foot into the house he is struck by a sense of tension. Finding ‘SOS’ scratched into the dust of a table he wonders who wrote it and is compelled to answer the call for help…

Charlotte. Emily. Anne. The Brontë sisters - the drama, the passion, and a story that lives for ever... Once upon a time there were three sisters, bound by love and suffering, growing up in wild isolation in a lonely house on the moor. Their story will astonish you: their passionate, dangerous closeness; their struggle against the world; their determination to rise above the fates of their parents and their other lost sisters, to become more than the world ever thought they could be. You d...

Young Pip is shocked when he meets an escaped convict in a lonely churchyard. Its a terrifying experience that changes his life forever. Helped by a mysterious benefactor, the orphan boy grows up to become a wealthy gentleman... yet memories of that day in the churchyard return to haunt him. The story of Pips life and loves, set against the violent nineteenth century underworld, introduces some of Charles Dickens most famous characters... the convict Magwitch, the tragic Miss Haversham, th...

Little Alfie of the Baker Street Irregulars seeks the help of Holmes and Watson as his cousin Flora has been arrested and accused of a double murder. The investigation gets underway with a trip to the scene of the crime.Holmes is suspicious and, together with Watson, he travels incognito to The Imperial Gasworks. Their visit is both informative and productive involving a little deception and some slight of hand by Watson to obtain some Rattle-Jacks.The postmortem confirms H...