I believe that the Color Purple is an amazing novel. I cried the first time I red it and now I can not seem to put it down. The Color Purple is about a black South American girl and her struggle to find her identity and also the constant battle of man verses women. She is faced with many problems but she only has a few solutions and not all her solutions are for the best.

The Color Purple is about a young, shy, balck woman named Celie. At the beginning of the novel she is has no self confidence but at the end she has loads. With the help of other characters in the novel, Celie becomes more aware of her feelings towards other people. I thought this was a very enjoyable book to read and i'm sure there will not be one person who has read this book and didn't enjoy it.

The notes did greatly help AFTER I read the Christopher Marlowe novel, in the capacity that I was able to choose a wonderful topic for a research paper from the further suggestions offered by the book. As with other Cliff Notes that I have purchased over the years, this one aided me in making heads and tails out of much of the language and historical content. I recommed this guide be used hand in hand along with the Novel itself, for both are an easy and enjoyable read.

Eva Fitzwater's Cliffs Notes for Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" begins with a short biography of the playwright and a look at the Faust Legend as it existed in the 16th-century. A brief synopsis and list of characters precedes the main section of the volume devoted to Summaries and Commentaries; one of the strengths of Fitzwater's notes is that she presents significantly more commentary than summary for each scene of the play. The collection of short analytical essays at the end of hte volume look at Faustus as a Medieval/Renaissance hero and dramatic character, the character of Mephistophilis and the concept of Hell, and the servant-master relationship in the play. After considering the motifs of the fall and the appetites, Fitzwater develops Marlowe's style. The final sections deal with the Renaissance theater of Marlowe's day and stage performances of "Doctor Faustus" (covering some of the concerns and people covered in the film "Shakespeare in Love"), and looks at the textual problems that have resulted from the lack of an authoritative text of the play. The strength of this particular little yellow book with the black stripes is on the analytical commentary of the play scene-by-scene and its historical background, more so than the analysis of the play as a whole. Some treatment of how the Faust legend changed after Marlowe's day, specifically in terms of Goerte's "Faust," would have been nice, but that's just a final nit-pick. This is an excellent study aid for those who have read Marlowe's play.

These Cliffsnotes have definitely helped me as a student to understand the book. It can get hard to read if you're a younger person who doesn't know much about the language Charles Dickens used.

I thought this was a great book. It was a really good summery on great expectations. I know how some people get really confused when reading books like this because it is sometimes hard to understand the language. So I highy reccomend this book.

In a word, I would say RESOURCFUL! I found this book to be very helpful. As a new interviewer, the material was easy to read and it has proven to be very beneficial.

I found this to be a good tool for new interviewers and veterans alike. I think anyone could benefit from this guide to better selection.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "How to Spot a Liar in a Job Interview" and "How to spot a Phony Resume" docwifford@msn.com

A young man must break away from his mother and her life before he can discover a life of his own.

I skipped over Lawrence for years. I had heard the tawdry tales of his work and felt a bodice ripper is a bodice ripper no matter what century you put it in. But I was wrong! He is a marvel. As soon as I finished Sons and Lover's I went out and got The Rainbow. S & L, reads very quickly, much like Maughm's On Human Bondage. They are both of the same period and are both loosly based on the perspective authors lives. Tantilizing, they allow us a glimpse into the emerging industrial era. The middle classes and lower middle classes are emerging into the plutocracy but slowly. All around them are the dredges of a past system. The coming of age of Lawrence as he throws off his childhood and his need to throw off his mother is engrossing, since you know it is based on real life and not a campy Sally Jessy Rapahel show. He struggles as we all struggle to make the right choices. What Lawrence does is let us in on the stuff that most novels don't let the reader know. The truth the character gives to the reader is unheard of today. Read this book and follow him from childhood of a mama's boy in a coal town in Norther England that love's, and love's, and looses only to truly love .

Robinson Crusoe is a great novel with great suspence. It was so good i was on my feet wanting to read more. I think everyone should read this book.

Thus Crusoe begins his journal in Daniel Defoes classical story- the vividly realistic account of a solitary castaway's triumph over natureitself-and overthe crippling fears,self-doubt,and loneliness the are and inescapable part of human nature. For about two centuries ROBINSON CRUSOE has remained one of the best-know and most read of english novels.A popularity owing as much to the enduring freshness and immediacy of it's style as to it's unchallenged stature as what MAXIM GORKY called the -

"the bible of the Unconquerable."

by now it's presumably common knowledge that the nazi's had very firm ideas on art. Other than pictures of heroic nazis, grandiose mountain views and happy peasants, all modern art was considered degenerate, especially if it was painted by a jew. It's not enough just to know this, however, one wants to see what the fuss was all about. This book brings the reader reproductions of the censured works in question and provides excellent essays that discuss the painters, their work and what happened to them under the nazis. This is a work which is essentially an excellent idea. It's a fascinating period for anyone interested in the role of the state in the production of art. What is perhaps even more fascinating is that the "modern" art which was the main target of the nazis, is so often the subject, to this day, of layperson's attacks on art. Think of the classic cliche remark, "oh, my three year old could have done that". This link raises many questions about the link between the fascist outlook and many commonly held views. We are appalled by the nazis and yet their views on art are not neccessarily radical in comparison to many commonly held views. What does that mean about our political leanings? what does that have to say about democracy? Can people truly handle freedom? Or at heart do they want somebody just to step in and take care of things for them? Why is it that people find it so hard to deal with the strange, disturbing and indeed, occasionally absurd images that artists come up with when they are truly are free to express their visions? I have nothing bad to say about this book on any technical level. The essays are uniformly brilliant and useful and the art speaks for itself. the book serves not only as an excellent resource for all those interested in art history, but as a beautiful and necessary tribute to the memory of so many persecuted artists. It reminds us of the importance of artistic freedom, particularly when the results are not to our liking, or are unsettling, or disturbing. It also happens to serve as a useful primer and introduction to a lot of the great art of that time period. I salute the authors and highly recommend this book.

If the Barron/Guenther book were only about the pictures, it would still rate five stars. It has to catalog "degenerate art" (a weak translation of "entartete Kunst", but the one that has become standard) better than most of its competitors.

But Barron and Guenther were not content to stop with a catalog. Even without the pictures, this book would rate five stars. Guenther for one writes about having viewed this exhibit as a 17-year-old, giving true historical context for the gallery.

From an essay on music (which tackles the sticky wicket of Wilhelm Furtwaengler) to an explanation of the structure of the Nazi art and culture hierarchy, "Degenerate Art" provides literate and precise insight to the cultural philosophy of the Third Reich. It remains as objective as you can be about that era, refusing to stoop to shouting "rabid Nazi idiots" -- Barron and Guenther allow their readers to come to that conclusion all on their own.

The unsolved riddle, however, is one we have yet to resolve for ourselves. Witness Rudy G., and the dung-laden Virgin. How can art and government live side by side? One is empty without the other, but how do we define fine lines?

Barron and Guenther's book does not answer that question, but it certainly gives both sides of the debate a ton of ammunition.

Good resource for all. Has detailed definitions and helpful, although simplistic, examples.

This book and previous editions have been an excellent resource for us in understanding real estate terms, especially in contracts and negotiations.

I purchased this book for a family member with an interest in the German Expressionist artist movement. He was delighted with this book and has spent countless hours enjoying the beautiful paintings and reading about the subject matter. A wonderful gift for the art appreciator.

This book may well have been titled: The Golden Age of German Culture. This book gives a very, very full view of early twentieth entury German culture. One pleasant surprise was a section on Nietzsche (You really must read Thus Spoke Zarathustra...)and his influence during that time. Munch did a painting of him and Otto Dix a bust. But anyway... If you love E. L. Kirchner or Otto Dix, this is your book. The plates cover Kirchner excellently (They include the famous 1913 Berlin Street Scene) despite the fact the they omit earlier works like Street (1907). Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter, however, were not covered so well, but Kandinsky's phenomenal Improvisation 30 (Cannons) is included. Otherwise there were only two other Kandinsky paintings. This book is supremely interesting and does not have eye-strained print. As a proof of this I read it with pink eye without a problem. Buy this book.

Why all this strange words? I have no problem what so ever with the English language, but this book, have a lot of slang that is not so easy to translate. I don't say it's a bad or anything but..My classmates did actually agree with me when I said it was too difficult to understand. Hey, I'm from Sweden, and the english we learn in school is NOT the same language that English people talk, or write for that matter. Well, Harper Lee is one of the better authors that I can think of and To kill a mockingbird is kind of a great book if you learn to understand all the slang that follows. Thank you!

I thought his book was extra-ordinary. The characters are so interesting and complex. Harper Lee is a brilliant writer and really brought this little southern town to life with her descriptions of the town and the people in the town. She has a vocabulary to die for. I have to say my favorite character is Scout because she is so innocent and really wants to know what is going on but can't quite get the clue. She is so adorable and she knows who she is and how she thinks she should act and she doesn't bother herself by responding to the snotty remarks of Miss Stephanie. This book is really amazing and I would recomend it to anyone that is looking for a good read.