CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: James L Roberts
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1999-03-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0544181298

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the double life of a man whose persona swings from honorable and distinguished to repugnant and repulsive. Following a fascinating character study, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries for each chapter within the nineteenth-century novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include A look into the life of the author, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Character list and expanded analysis Plot summary that shares an overview of the novel Review questions and suggested essay topics Selected bibliography Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: James L. Roberts
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1984-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780822004080

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the double life of a man whose persona swings from honorable and distinguished to repugnant and repulsive. Following a fascinating character study, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries for each chapter within the nineteenth-century novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include A look into the life of the author, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Character list and expanded analysis Plot summary that shares an overview of the novel Review questions and suggested essay topics Selected bibliography Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Treasure Island & Kidnapped

CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Treasure Island & Kidnapped
Author: Gary K Carey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2007-08-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0544184297

These novels of pirates on the high seas and intrigue in the Scottish highlands were written on a challenge by Stevenson's teenage stepson to "write something really interesting." The results are these fast-moving and adventurous books, simple and entertaining.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Author: Francis Gilbert
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781494767914

“Clearly Francis Gilbert is a gifted and charismatic teacher,” Philip Pullman, author of 'Northern Lights'.Are you struggling to understand Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'? Or are you an English teacher wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this difficult text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book? This brilliant edition of Stevenson's novel may be the answer to your prayers. Written by an experienced teacher and best-selling author, this version is aimed at students who must analyse the text in depth or teachers wanting to deliver outstanding lessons on it. This book contains an annotated complete text, numerous essays on the novel, including detailed accounts of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, relevant contexts and discussion of vital themes and imagery. The complex vocabulary of the book is analysed throughout, and simple explanations of what is happening punctuate each chapter. Furthermore, there are academic explorations of the issues as well as comprehensive question and answer sections at the end of each chapter, including a “fill-in-the-blanks” summary to check understanding. At the end of the guide, there is advice on how to write successful essays and assignments. There are also plenty of pointers to help students develop their own personal responses, including thought-provoking thematic questions, links to the author's YouTube readings and explanations, and creative response tasks.

Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly
Author: Valerie Martin
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307833879

From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever and award-winning Property, comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid. "Part psychological novel, part social history, part eerie horror tale ... dark and moving and powerful." —The Washington Post Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivor—scarred but still strong—familiar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible.

The Land of Counterpane

The Land of Counterpane
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN: 9781609731526

Presents an illustrated poem from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses."

CliffsNotes Praxis II English Subject Area Assessments, Second Edition

CliffsNotes Praxis II English Subject Area Assessments, Second Edition
Author: Diane E Kern
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-02-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0544183436

Your guide to a higher score on Praxis II: English Subject Areas The Praxis II English Subject Area Assessment tests are designed to assess whether an examinee has the broad base of knowledge and competencies necessary to be licensed as a beginning English teacher in a variety of school settings. The various exams, some multiple-choice questions and some essay format, cover reading and understanding text, language and linguistics, and composition and rhetoric. CliffsNotes Praxis II: English Subject Area Assessments includes question-type reviews, subject reviews, and six model practice tests for each of the Praxis II English tests that a variety of would-be English teachers need to pass to be certified. Includes subject reviews of all test topics 6 practice tests, one for each Praxis II English test Proven strategies from the experts at CliffsNotes If you're an aspiring teacher looking to take the Praxis II English test, CliffsNotes is your ticket to scoring high at exam time.

The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor
Author: John Barth
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972009

This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine