Essential Student Texts: Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781382013680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Dreaming of a life of freedom and equality, the animals of Manor Farm stage an uprising against their negligent human master, Mr Jones. However, their dream rapidly turns sour and most of the animals don't realise that one form of tyranny has replaced another until it is too late. This edition comes with accessible and informative notes.

Animal Farm SparkNotes Literature Guide

Author: SparkNotes
Publisher: Spark Notes
ISBN: 9781411469426
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Author: Robert Newton Peck
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307574512
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.

Animal's People

Author: Indra Sinha
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141657879X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, "Animal's People" is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours.

Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9781784876258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost.

Wise Blood

Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.

The Road to Wigan Pier

Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180948650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

The Hate U Give

Author: Angie Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406387933
Category : Police shootings
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description
Read the book that inspired the movie! Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping novel about one girl's struggle for justice.

To Kill a Mockingbird SparkNotes Literature Guide

Author: SparkNotes
Publisher: Spark Notes
ISBN: 9781411469730
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket

The Crucible SparkNotes Literature Guide

Author: SparkNotes
Publisher: SparkNotes
ISBN: 9781411469501
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.