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This audio study guide for Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as confronting divisions in American education and the necessity of accessible theory. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the burden of misogyny, contemporary issues on the US-Mexico border, reframing female stereotypes.

This audio study guide for The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as myth and the unconscious, the enlightened hero and the oneness of all things, and the cyclical nature of stories.

This audio study guide of Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as joy, teaching and learning, and pride and humility. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such American totalitarianism and threats to liberal democracy. In his classic 1935 political novel, Sinclair Lewis imagines the rise, consolidation, and partial collapse of an American fascist dictatorship told from the perspective of a newspaper editor and resistance fighter, Doremus Jessup.

This audio study guide for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as ethics in scientific research, informed consent, and racism in medicine. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the division of labor and the invisible hand of the market. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for The City of God by Augustine of Hippo includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the failings of paganism, Platonism, and the consolations of Christianity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This guide for The Overstory by Richard Powers includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 12 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like environmentalism and the value of human sacrifice.

This audio study guide for The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the relationship between performers and their audience, communication, and the presentation of self. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a sociological study of the ways individuals encounter each other.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for When Breath Becomes Air by Dr. Paul Kalanithi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the meaning of death and the doctor-patient dichotomy.

This audio study guide for Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the redemption and transformative power of compassion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

The Inferno is the first part of Italian poet Alighieri’s medieval epic, The Divine Comedy: a monument of world literature. Written in the 14th century, the poem’s form - terza rima, a circling pattern of interweaving triple rhymes - reflects its major theme: the wisdom, power, and love of the trinitarian Christian God. Over the course of The Inferno, Dante’s encounters in Hell provide personal and political critiques, sending warnings to his warring enemies back on Earth and forcing him to grapple with his own shortcomings.

This audio study guide for Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as identity, obsessive love, and faith. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

This audio study guide for Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as imperialism and colonialism, the absurdity of morality, and horror and despondency. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the beauty and danger of love, dreams and illusions, and rivalry and feud. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the fragility of dreams and Depression-era loneliness and isolation.

A controversial best seller, American Dirt, combines elements of a commercial thriller, literary fiction, suspense, and romance. The title refers to the land comprising the geopolitical entity that is the United States of America, and to the contempt undocumented migrants face both before and after crossing the US-Mexico border.

This audio study guide for Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the advantages of difference, the power of words, speaking up for oneself, and the importance of friendship. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as white resistance to race and complicity in a systemic system. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.