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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Notes on Eliot's " Mill on the Floss"	William Holland	In this 19th-century novel, Maggie Tulliver breaks off her romance with the man she loves, after she discovers that it was he who ruined her family's small mill business. She runs off with her cousin…	OL10363750W
Sister Carrie	Frederick J. Balling	A groundbreaking book when it was first published, Sister Carrie is about a young woman who runs to the big city in search of adventure. She finds it aplenty, and her transgressions are numerous. Thi…	OL10363791W
Why read the classics?	Italo Calvino	Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection o…	OL10423748W
Otras inquisiciones	Jorge Luis Borges	Bundel met 35 korte essays door de auteur gepubliceerd in Argentijnse kranten en tijdschriften tussen 1937 en 1952. Deze door Borges zelf samengestelde bloemlezing verscheen in 1952 onder de titel 'O…	OL110917W
A history of reading	Alberto Manguel	At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole unive…	OL11277865W
Godard between identity and difference	John E. Drabinski	"Godard Between Identity and Difference reads a series of Godard films as interventions in contemporary debates about the language of difference. In those films, Godard wants to preserve singularity …	OL12512391W
Notes on Hardy's " Far from the Madding Crowd"	R.E Jonsson	This book focuses on farm owner Bathsheba and her three suitors and shows the many faces of love. Perhaps the luckiest outcome is for Gabriel Oak, a shepherd who ends up with the love that makes life…	OL13002719W
Cliffsnotes Rise of Silas Lapham	William Dean Howells	A greedy, unscrupulous man loses his business and lover. In his humility he begins to think of others and makes not a material, but spiritual and ethical rise. This is a book of tragicomedy, romantic…	OL14924552W
Essays and reviews	Edgar Allan Poe	This collection of Poe's writings includes his thoughts on poetry; reviews he wrote on many other authors, British, American, and Continental; his views of the literary world he moved in; essays, etc…	OL14937986W
Babbitt	G. K. Carey	Shooting arrows at American business and the ethic of self-advancement, Lewis gives us Babbitt, a social-climbing, hopelessly middle-class oaf. By skewering the borgeousie, Babbitt gives us social cr…	OL15133497W
Tender is the night	Carol H. Poston	In Tender Is The Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of…	OL15153883W
CliffsNotes on Maugham's Of Human Bondage	Frank B Huggins	This book is a chronicle of an Englishman tied to appetites that never sate his spirit. Several professional attempts and failures leave him with little but a desire for a woman low and coarse, who b…	OL15172973W
CliffsNotes on van Tilburg's The Ox-Bow Incident	Clyde Burkholder	The Initial response of the critics to The Ox-Bow Incident was that here, at last, was the classic western cowboy novel: His motive for writing The Ox-bow Incident was largely personal. He wanted to …	OL15184322W
CliffsNotes on Dante's Divine Comedy	Harold M Priest	Dante wrote three epic poems about heaven, purgatory, and hell. Paradiso is about the first and is encyclopedic in scope and information. From Dante's own world of politics, theology, and learning, h…	OL15186265W
T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration	Richard Badenhausen	Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role that collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot's works from the earliest poetry and unpublished prose to the late plays. …	OL15189112W
CliffsNotes on McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses	Jeanne Inness	The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. Run away with John and Lacey in CliffsNotes on All the…	OL15191929W
Faust	E.A. Bucchianeri	A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who dared to tell his tale. Volume I includes: Insights into the life and times of Dr. Faustus, the noto…	OL15749203W
Romantic dharma	Mark Lussier	"Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the 19th century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist an…	OL15901705W
Teaching the short story	Ailsa Cox	"The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender stu…	OL16214180W
Temporalities	Russell West-Pavlov	"Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art…	OL16607498W