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Poetry GuideThe Lost Leaderby Robert BrowningPublished in 1845 in the collection Dramatic Poems and Lyrics, Robert Browning"s "The Lost Leader" is a political poem about a writer who has betrayed his ideals. It was immediately understood as a...
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Lit GuideThe Third and Final Continentby Jhumpa LahiriIn 1964, the unnamed Indian narrator of the story moves to London to study. There, he lives with a group of Bengali bachelors in the house. In 1969, two significant events happen to change his life...
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Lit GuideThe Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameMole has been spring-cleaning his small underground home all morning. Suddenly, seemingly for no reason, Mole throws down his broom and whitewash and scrabbles his way to the surface. He trots alon...
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Poetry GuideThe Lost Leaderby Robert BrowningPublished in 1845 in the collection Dramatic Poems and Lyrics, Robert Browning"s "The Lost Leader" is a political poem about a writer who has betrayed his ideals. It was immediately understood as a...
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Lit GuideThe Third and Final Continentby Jhumpa LahiriIn 1964, the unnamed Indian narrator of the story moves to London to study. There, he lives with a group of Bengali bachelors in the house. In 1969, two significant events happen to change his life...
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Lit GuideThe Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameMole has been spring-cleaning his small underground home all morning. Suddenly, seemingly for no reason, Mole throws down his broom and whitewash and scrabbles his way to the surface. He trots alon...
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Poetry GuideThe Flowerby George HerbertFirst published in the 1633 collection The Temple, "The Flower" is George Herbert"s meditation on human pride and divine mercy. The poem"s speaker reflects with wonder that, though he"s been throu...
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Poetry GuideThe Lost Leaderby Robert BrowningPublished in 1845 in the collection Dramatic Poems and Lyrics, Robert Browning"s "The Lost Leader" is a political poem about a writer who has betrayed his ideals. It was immediately understood as a...
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Lit GuideThe Third and Final Continentby Jhumpa LahiriIn 1964, the unnamed Indian narrator of the story moves to London to study. There, he lives with a group of Bengali bachelors in the house. In 1969, two significant events happen to change his life...
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Lit GuideThe Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameMole has been spring-cleaning his small underground home all morning. Suddenly, seemingly for no reason, Mole throws down his broom and whitewash and scrabbles his way to the surface. He trots alon...
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Poetry GuideThe Flowerby George HerbertFirst published in the 1633 collection The Temple, "The Flower" is George Herbert"s meditation on human pride and divine mercy. The poem"s speaker reflects with wonder that, though he"s been throu...
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Poetry GuideThe Death Bedby Siegfried SassoonFirst published in Siegfried Sassoon"s 1917 book The Old Huntsman, "The Death Bed" depicts a young wounded soldier as he lies dying. As the soldier slips in and out of consciousness, it seems as if...
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Poetry GuideThe Century Quiltby Marilyn NelsonThe American poet Marilyn Nelson published "The Century Quilt" in her 1985 collection Mama"s Promises. The poem"s speaker reminisces about an "Indian blanket" she had hoped to inherit from her gran...
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Poetry GuideDejection: An Odeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Dejection: An Ode" is English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge"s exploration of despair, joy, and imagination. Lost in a terrible "dejection"—a kind of numb, colorless hopelessness—the poem"s...
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Lit GuideTradition and the Individual Talentby T. S. EliotEliot states that the word traditional is rarely talked about in terms of writing, except in a derogatory sense. At least, the word is seldom used to praise writers, either living or dead ones. Thi...
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Lit GuideChasing the Screamby Johann HariIn Chasing the Scream, journalist Johann Hari spends three years trying to understand the war on drugs by interviewing hundreds of people who have fought on its front lines. Some, like the cartel h...
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Lit GuideThe Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963by Christopher Paul CurtisTen-year-old Kenny Watson lives in Flint, Michigan with his parents Wilona and Daniel, his older brother Byron, and his younger sister Joey. It’s winter and extremely cold, so everyone huddles toge...
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Lit GuideCode Name Verityby Elizabeth WeinCode Name Verity is told in two parts: in the first, Julie, a British spy captured by the Nazis in 1943 in France, writes the story of her friendship with Maddie and how both women became involved ...
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Lit GuideSchindler’s Listby Thomas KeneallyIn the fall of 1943, Oskar Schindler, wearing an expensive suit with a swastika on it, leaves his apartment in Cracow, Poland, to take a limo to the villa of the Płaszów concentration camp commanda...
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Lit GuideThe Child by Tigerby Thomas WolfeTwenty-five years ago, the narrator and his friends Randy Shepperton, Nebraska Crane, and Augustus Potterham are throwing a football around. One of them misses the ball, and Dick Prosser, Mr. Shepp...
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Lit GuideThe Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickWorld War II has ended, but instead of emerging victorious, the Americans have lost—and the U.S. has been colonized by Germany and Japan. Robert Childan, a white American citizen of the Japanese-co...
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Lit GuideThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Seaby Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea begins in the sweltering Yokohama summer. Fusako starts locking her 13-year-old son Noboru in his room at night because he has been sneaking out to meet ...
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Poetry GuideThe Death Bedby Siegfried SassoonFirst published in Siegfried Sassoon"s 1917 book The Old Huntsman, "The Death Bed" depicts a young wounded soldier as he lies dying. As the soldier slips in and out of consciousness, it seems as if...
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Poetry GuideThe Century Quiltby Marilyn NelsonThe American poet Marilyn Nelson published "The Century Quilt" in her 1985 collection Mama"s Promises. The poem"s speaker reminisces about an "Indian blanket" she had hoped to inherit from her gran...
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Poetry GuideDejection: An Odeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Dejection: An Ode" is English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge"s exploration of despair, joy, and imagination. Lost in a terrible "dejection"—a kind of numb, colorless hopelessness—the poem"s...
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Lit GuideTradition and the Individual Talentby T. S. EliotEliot states that the word traditional is rarely talked about in terms of writing, except in a derogatory sense. At least, the word is seldom used to praise writers, either living or dead ones. Thi...
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Lit GuideChasing the Screamby Johann HariIn Chasing the Scream, journalist Johann Hari spends three years trying to understand the war on drugs by interviewing hundreds of people who have fought on its front lines. Some, like the cartel h...
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Lit GuideThe Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963by Christopher Paul CurtisTen-year-old Kenny Watson lives in Flint, Michigan with his parents Wilona and Daniel, his older brother Byron, and his younger sister Joey. It’s winter and extremely cold, so everyone huddles toge...
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Lit GuideCode Name Verityby Elizabeth WeinCode Name Verity is told in two parts: in the first, Julie, a British spy captured by the Nazis in 1943 in France, writes the story of her friendship with Maddie and how both women became involved ...
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Lit GuideSchindler’s Listby Thomas KeneallyIn the fall of 1943, Oskar Schindler, wearing an expensive suit with a swastika on it, leaves his apartment in Cracow, Poland, to take a limo to the villa of the Płaszów concentration camp commanda...
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Lit GuideThe Child by Tigerby Thomas WolfeTwenty-five years ago, the narrator and his friends Randy Shepperton, Nebraska Crane, and Augustus Potterham are throwing a football around. One of them misses the ball, and Dick Prosser, Mr. Shepp...
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Lit GuideThe Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickWorld War II has ended, but instead of emerging victorious, the Americans have lost—and the U.S. has been colonized by Germany and Japan. Robert Childan, a white American citizen of the Japanese-co...
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Lit GuideThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Seaby Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea begins in the sweltering Yokohama summer. Fusako starts locking her 13-year-old son Noboru in his room at night because he has been sneaking out to meet ...
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Poetry GuideThe Flowerby George HerbertFirst published in the 1633 collection The Temple, "The Flower" is George Herbert"s meditation on human pride and divine mercy. The poem"s speaker reflects with wonder that, though he"s been throu...
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Poetry GuideThe Death Bedby Siegfried SassoonFirst published in Siegfried Sassoon"s 1917 book The Old Huntsman, "The Death Bed" depicts a young wounded soldier as he lies dying. As the soldier slips in and out of consciousness, it seems as if...
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Poetry GuideThe Century Quiltby Marilyn NelsonThe American poet Marilyn Nelson published "The Century Quilt" in her 1985 collection Mama"s Promises. The poem"s speaker reminisces about an "Indian blanket" she had hoped to inherit from her gran...
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Poetry GuideDejection: An Odeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Dejection: An Ode" is English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge"s exploration of despair, joy, and imagination. Lost in a terrible "dejection"—a kind of numb, colorless hopelessness—the poem"s...
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Lit GuideTradition and the Individual Talentby T. S. EliotEliot states that the word traditional is rarely talked about in terms of writing, except in a derogatory sense. At least, the word is seldom used to praise writers, either living or dead ones. Thi...
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Lit GuideChasing the Screamby Johann HariIn Chasing the Scream, journalist Johann Hari spends three years trying to understand the war on drugs by interviewing hundreds of people who have fought on its front lines. Some, like the cartel h...
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Lit GuideThe Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963by Christopher Paul CurtisTen-year-old Kenny Watson lives in Flint, Michigan with his parents Wilona and Daniel, his older brother Byron, and his younger sister Joey. It’s winter and extremely cold, so everyone huddles toge...
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Lit GuideCode Name Verityby Elizabeth WeinCode Name Verity is told in two parts: in the first, Julie, a British spy captured by the Nazis in 1943 in France, writes the story of her friendship with Maddie and how both women became involved ...
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Lit GuideSchindler’s Listby Thomas KeneallyIn the fall of 1943, Oskar Schindler, wearing an expensive suit with a swastika on it, leaves his apartment in Cracow, Poland, to take a limo to the villa of the Płaszów concentration camp commanda...
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Lit GuideThe Child by Tigerby Thomas WolfeTwenty-five years ago, the narrator and his friends Randy Shepperton, Nebraska Crane, and Augustus Potterham are throwing a football around. One of them misses the ball, and Dick Prosser, Mr. Shepp...
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Lit GuideThe Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickWorld War II has ended, but instead of emerging victorious, the Americans have lost—and the U.S. has been colonized by Germany and Japan. Robert Childan, a white American citizen of the Japanese-co...
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Lit GuideThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Seaby Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea begins in the sweltering Yokohama summer. Fusako starts locking her 13-year-old son Noboru in his room at night because he has been sneaking out to meet ...
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