I recommend this book for Sophmores in High School, I read it in the 7th grade

Achebe comes across as a prolofic and impartial writer who meticulously documents the Igbo lifestyle in a western traditional realist genre. His sketches evoke a sense of pride yet displeasure at the Igbo 'rituals' and values which we seet through Okonkwo's and Nwoye's eyes, respectively. People who have lost their identity and are in search of their roots will find this book enlightening. The lesson I have gleaned from 'Things Fall Apart' is nothing in life is permanent and therefore whilst I try to cling on to what I have now, I must be open to new ideas and influences which I could learn to adapt to.

a book for anyone. things fall apart needs to be read by an open minded person...seeking to learn, share and understand. those who aren't open cannot hope to grasp its depth.

yep. uh huh. you bet. this book was nice. i red it.

Victor Frankenstein's creation had murdered members of his family and strangled to death his fiance on their wedding night fulfilling his threat to "be with you on your wedding night" and warned Victor, "You are my creator but I am your master." As Victor centered his life around creating the monster, he would later center it around hunting down and killing his creation. This manhunt would expend Victor's life and prove his efforts futile to catch an untouchable and nameless monster. This novel is full of enduring themes of ambition, friendship, and the conflict between the two, psychology, oppression and rebellion, the dangers of scientific and intellectual advancement, and societal injustice. The writing itself isn't great but it's the story and the themes that make this a great classic.

Shelley wrote this book influenced by the period of time in which she lived, the Romantic Period. This was the response to the previous time, the Age of Enlightenment. In the Age of Enlightenment, reasoning was deemed of utmost importance and people thought that there were natural laws and that reason plus these natural laws would equal progress. By progress, they meant not only advancement, but unlimited advancement, that society would continue to move closer and closer to perfection. In Frankenstein, we see the result of so much logic and reason- the creation of a monster. In the story there seems to be no natural laws governing the world.

When I think of what natural laws would govern the world, Justice comes to mind as the most important. Throughout this whole story, justice is so dearly lacking. Injustice leads to more injustice. The monster is born into unforgiving circumstances that were not his fault. His creator rejects him immediately. Throughout his life, the monster found himself rejected by everyone for the repulsive looks his creator gave him. The monster even suffered rejection of the impoverished family he ardently and sacrificially helped. When he saved a girl from drowning, her father shot him. The monster yearned desperately for a mate of his kind, which Victor denied him for fear the two would breed an entire race of fiends or that she, too would reject him and there would be two fiends. Decide this debate between the monster and Victor for yourself. Even if Victor was right to deny him a mate, it was still an injustice for the monster. After all, the monster could not help the disadvantages he was born into and he strove mightily to be virtuous. He exercised his will and responsibility strongly, but to no avail. The poor thing begs for just one friend and he is denied this. The innocent Justine (a play on the word "Justice") is executed for the monster's crime; the monster eventually slays several innocent people he doesn't even know. Injustice is what moves the plot of this book.

Shelley's novel disputes the importance and promise of natural laws, reasoning, and the idea of progress. It introduces emotion and intuition. Frankenstein studied laboriously but failed because he left the monster emotionally neglected and rejected. When Victor first learns of the murder of an innocent member of his family, he intuitively knows it was the doing of the monster- he offers no reasoning or deduction as to how he knows. The monster hounds Victor and seems to supernatually know where he is at all times.

One of the many interpretations of Frankenstein is that it was a product of the Romantic Period, which was a response to the Age of Enlightenment.

Seeing as how I didn't like Frakenstein very much at all, this book kept me at least fairly interested in the novel.

The novel is very long, repetitive, and extremely slow at times, and the book helps make it a lot faster, and reviews the main plot so the complicated sentence structure of the book is easier to decode.

Also, Cliffs notes tells about the literary messages of the novel, hard to figure out unless you know about romanticism, and explains most of the olden-style vocabulary.

Finally, there is an excellent character web that explains all the relationships.

All in all, helped me a lot with the novel.

If you require cliff's notes, then you ought not to be reading Le Morte D'Arthur. It isn't even that difficult a book. Reading the notes makes you a chimpanzee.

The Cliff Notes for Le Morte D'Arthur were very helpful. I must say that using Cliff Notes does not make you a chimp! Although Le Morte D'Arthur is not the most difficult reading it is not the easiest. For those who utilize Cliff Notes it may just be to supplement the book to get a better understanding. I feel bad for the reviewer who felt the need to place judgement on all who use Cliff Notes without knowing the reason why. For those of you who are having difficulty with this book the Cliff Notes will help and don't be ashamed, it doesn't make you an evil or stupid person!

IT'S AWESOME:p SIR THOMAS MALORY IS HARD TO READ IF YOU REALLY LIKE HIS VERSION OF EVENTS, THEN READ T.H.WHITE'S "THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING" WHICH IS HEAVILY BASED ON SIR THOMAS MALORY'S STORY. IT'S A WHOLE LOT EASIER!:p

Cliffnotes are Cliffnotes but who you buy them from is what counts. This seller charges more for shipping than the cost of the book. Shop around guys, highway robbery here!!

I was sugested to read the book the once and future king. I did not know if I wanted to spend that much time on a book so I purchased the cliff's notes. After reading them I had to read the book and it was fabulas. The fact that I already knew what the book was about also helped me understand the book.

A few weeks ago I recieved my school reading list. I was happy that the Once and Future King was on it because I had already read it. I purchased the Cliff Notes. The refreshed my memory with out taking to much time. I also liked how they list the characters and what they did in the beginning of the book. That way if you forget you can always look it up. The comments that are contained also help widen my perspective on what the book means. I think that everyone who has read the book should purchase these cliff notes.

This is a deeply disappointing collection that I am not sure I would even recommend to the serious student of the Iliad. And one can be forgiven for being disappointed, after all Harold Bloom is the editor. When I was a University student in the seventies, Bloom was revered, in particular by students of the Romantic poets. Bloom had written what was (and still is) a vital text on Shelley (Shelley's Mythmaking") and had followed that up with a magnificent survey of the Romantics in, "The Visionary Company". When my interests turned to Blake, Bloom was there with Blake's Apocalypse".

And so, when later in life I developed a keen interest in the Iliad, I was overjoyed to see that Bloom had pulled together a collection of essays to help me understand this complicated yet surprisingly readable poem.

WRONG! Of all the thousands of commentaries on the Iliad, Bloom somehow managed, with a notable exception or two, to pull together some of the most arcane, obtuse writings I can imagine. Even the specialists will be challenged by some of the subject matter here. And the presentation? Well, for the most part the prose is turgid, representing the worst of academic stylism. The exception is the lucid and beautifully written excerpt from E.R. Dodds', "The Greeks and the Irrational." But this is to be expected, as this is justly one of the most famous and important books ever written on the subject of ancient Geek culture. I found the rest of the essays to be overly technical and narrow in scope and compass. If you have read Victor Davis Hanson's "Who Killed Homer", you will find most of the sins he enumerates present in this collection.

But the MOST disappointing part of this entire collection is the introduction itself. In which we see Bloom at his worst - preachy, tendentious, over weaning. He takes the opportunity to take a few pot shots at the authors represented in the collection and to advance his own, in my view eccentric, conception of the poem. You know you are in for a rough ride when from the very outset we are treated to a comparison of the Iliad with the Hebrew Bible - a comparison in which the Iliad does not come off on top. At the end of the introduction, we read that while Homer himself is the "best of the poets", unfortunately, he lacks a "quality of trust in the transcendent memory of a covenant fulfilled, a lack of the sublime hope that moves the Hebrew poet Deborah." Geez, I'm sorry but, umm, who cares? This is a bit like complaining that apples don't have the citrus acidity of oranges.

Clearly, Bloom had an axe to grind - and grind it he did. It is as though he was determined to make the case for the Bible's superiority to the Iliad. As an introduction to a collection of essays, Bloom's is, in a word, "lacking"!

So where does that leave the interested reader. Well, it's not easy. I can think of no good general introduction that is separately published. That said, Bernard Knox wrote an introduction to Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad that is almost transcendent. It puts to poem in context, describes the central action and delves into the poem's main cultural foundations. I would recommend that a first time reader of the Iliad equip him or herself first with this and second with Stanley's Lombardo's brilliant modern translation - oh, and stay away from this collection.

Barron's book notes for the Iliad are, believe it or not, better than Cliff's. The chapter summaries are longer and more detailed, but not too long. And, it helps one to understand the complexities of Homer.

Iliad is harder to read than Odyssey, but it is as rich as this one, and the person who attents, without contemporary prejudices, to the details of this work, to this person will be revealed one of the few, really few jewels that humanity wrote in its adventure. May you admire the star calle Homer.

I bought this book and took the test but it wasnt what the book said. I found out that the test changed but the book didn't.

Great book, guys. I aced the test

I used that book and I go a hundred percent on everything

I found this to be one of the worst books i have ever read in my life. It is almost impossible to follow the storyline as the main characters perspective is amazingly introverted and scenes are sometime fragmented causing confusion. This story is nothing new and has been written since the invention of words a million times over, and i really have no comprehension of why this book is considered good literature

I truly believe that Ellison's condensed prose is one of the best novels I have ever written. If a person says that they do not enjoy this book, it is because they are bad readers who completely missed all the motifs, foils, and statements that Ellison says with this book. This book takes a serious, easily cliched, topic and works it so well that I felt the need to read this book multiple times. And even after all that, I still feel that I need to read it more, just as to sink into every line. It is a must read, for those who read to the fullest!

oh baby it was good, i liked it so much that i bought it for my baby brother.

It's a very low class book, not clear enough and I just didn't like it

This is a very simple, step-by-stop 'how-to' guide for getting started working with FrontPage. The publisher provides a free down-load of student exercises that follows the text line by line. The text provides lot of illustrations/figures that follow the steps outlined in the text. This is a very basic beginner text that leads you by the hand through FrontPage to more complex capabilities. For those who need a 'lead-me-by-the-hand' approach to understanding programs this text does the trick quite nicely.

I got Front Page 98 a few months ago, and I could not even start to understand it! Then I found this book, and it helped me so much. Now I know how to use Front Page 98 like the back of my hand!

A Doll's House is an easy-to-read, interesting play but I was not particularly drawn to it. The dialogue and characters lacked excitement. However, the static setting did showcase an interesting plot. Despite the lackluster personalities and conversations, I was drawn to the conflict Ibsen presented: the state of confusedness Nora slipped into in considering whether it was right to listen to the blatantly biased society she lived in, which revolved around men or to follow her own natural instincts. She had forged with good intentions, but the reality of her action caught up with her. In Nora's world, a world driven by her husband's needs, desires, and commands, she believes she is helping him by taking out a loan. The laws, accusation, judgings are all man made, preventing her from ever getting away with her well-meant deeds. I was thoroughly impressed by Ibsen's underlying themes, especially in his time of reservedness and anti-feminism. He accurately depicted the lifestyle of so many women in his time: as mere playthings, objects of desire, moved about in a cookie-cutter dollhouse by manipulative husbands. A Doll's House can be regarded not only as an accurate portrayal of life for women but also as a social commentary on the wrongs of it.

Isben's choice of subject matter, theatrical style and characterisation caused much controversy amoungst audiences at the time, but is an intereting topic to observe now, considering the rapid change that women are experiencing, concerning independence.
When reflecting on the time it was written, women were considered merely an 'accessory' for their husbands, a sculpture that they would mould to perfection. It is interesting, when realizing how much society has changed, the fact that women have more freedom, in many aspects, in this case who they want to spend the rest of their lives with, and for what reason. To be more than just a 'featherbrain' to their husbands, and to partake in a mutal relationship, where equal input is evident.Revealing these issues at the time, and over-coming them now, is thought provoking, and indeed a controversial topic.
You don't hear many cases nowadays about a woman marrying someone against her own will, and being dis-satisfied for most of her life, as women are slowly gaining more independence.
The theme is very thoughtfully depicted, and sustains interest amoungst all audiences.

I have aleardy read it more than 6 times ,and Im still feeling that I would like to read it again.Because it makes you release how Ibsen had extraordenary sensetivly.And it learns you how to deal with your wife.

Im very bored and decided since practically no one has cared to write a review for this wonderful book, I would put my two cents worth in and hopefully help other students out like myself. "An Enemy of the People" is one of Ibsen's greatest 5 act plays. After being assigned "A Doll's House"~ (BEWARE BORING! ) and "Hedda Gabler"~ (Um, WEIRD!) I decided to try to find a play by Ibsen that didn't deal with a woman against society and authority. I came up with the play "An Enemy of the People" which proved to be a lot more interesting and entralling than some of Ibsen's other dramas. If your looking for a report with literary elements that are very easy to identify and that actually has a fairly interesting storyline you should definetely give this play a try! Hope this helps!

I guess I am the only person who ever read this book because I am here writing the first on-line review of it, and usually there are hundreds of reviews already posted. It is truly a shame that potentially no one else has ever read this play ( An Enemyof the People ) by Henrik Isben because it is truly a solid piece. More of a socio-political comentary than anything else, An Enemy of the People is very enjoyable. The play is about Dr. Thomas Stockmann, a townsman in Norway who discovers that something is teribbly wrong wrong with the towns water supply. From here on out the play becomes a battle between brothers for power, people for freedom, civilians versus government, the town against Thomas, and most basiaclly: justice versus repression. Because this play is so rich and universal its themes are reflected in many contemparary workers. Enemy of the State starring Will Smith for instance is basically the same idea. Also the book A Civil Action deals with on man fighting a larger power over a tainted water supply. Finally, and my favorite, Tupac's '95 release Me Against the World in which the rapper raps about how "Politicians are hippocrites, they don't want to listen". So, If you have the two hours, and I am sure that you do, you might as well read this play because afterall, I did.

This is a review of the Cliffs Notes by Marianne Sturman of three of Ibsen's classic plays: "Ghosts," "An Enemy of the People," and "The Wild Duck." Sturman offers a fairly detailed Brief Biography of Ibsen and then provides summaries of five of his plays (adding "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabler," which are treated in a companion Cliffs Notes volume). In terms of summary and commentary, Sturman breaks down each of the three plays into its respective acts, which means you are dealing with much bigger sections than you will usually find in these little yellow books with the black stripes. With my copy I have gone back and broken the plays into more discrete scenes and then made corresponding notations, which I find more useful in teaching/reading these plays. In terms of General Analysis Sturman looks at structure and technique as well as character analysis for all three plays, with additional analysis on theme and symbolism for "Ghosts" and "The Wild Duck." The concluding sections provide a concise evaluation of the Drama of Ibsen and his Contributions to the Theater.

Despite the cumbersome way she structures the play and a tendency to provide too much analysis, Sturman does provide insights into each of these Ibsen plays. One of the nice things about these particular plays is that they represent three consecutive dramas written from 1881 to 1884. "A Doll's House" precedes this trio, and all four plays are available in a paperback collection. This gives teachers of drama/literature a great opportunity to look at four consecutive plays by one of the more important dramatists in history and see how Ibsen struggled to find his voice. The path from "A Doll's House" to "The Wild Duck" is certainly worth pursuing and these Cliffs Notes help chart his growth as a writer.